Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 1 December 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection - Social Insurance Fund 2021
Chapter 10: Regularity of social welfare payments
Chapter 11: The recovery of benefit and assistance payments following compensation awards
Chapter 14: Classification of workers for PRSI purposes
9:30 am
Mr. John McKeon:
The estimate is that approximately 200 people in the Department are involved in this work. We have received sanction from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to increase our staffing by approximately 280 for next year. This is partly in response to this work and the pressure it is putting on us. I hate to use the word "pressure" because it is valuable and important work. We are proud and pleased to do it. I am conscious of people making mischief with numbers such as this.