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:
I will answer that quickly. The idea, as we said at the beginning, of the CE schemes is to give people who are very distant from the labour market occupational activity serving their local community. Meals on wheels is a service that serves the local community. It could be argued both ways. It could be argued it is a good thing for a CE scheme to be involved in. There are a lot of things CE-----