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:
There are two strings to our inspection bow, for want of a better term. Our general inspectorate has just under 300 inspectors, as well as the 12 who are specifically focused on employment status investigations. Those other inspectors conduct approximately 6,600 employer investigations per year. They keep an eye out for any cases of false self-employment.