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:
To be fair, I would never have shared that thought. We have argued this point at this committee and other committees. We always quote the evidence from the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI. When people have an opportunity to work, they overwhelmingly take the opportunity to work. The main concern we had really was whether there would be an opportunity of work because we did not know how employers would recover. Employers have recovered much more strongly than was anticipated.