Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 January 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund
9:30 am
Mr. John McKeon:
I will talk about numbers generally and then about RTÉ if I can. Last year, the number grew from 12 to 18. The unit looked at 1,000 different employments across 300 different employers. We are looking at 695 cases from RTÉ at present. Some 160-odd decisions have been reached. Two thirds of those found that the worker was an employee rather than self-employed. One third have found that the worker was in fact self-employed. Of those appeals, RTÉ has appealed 48 of them but subsequently withdrew 13 appeals. One of the workers has appealed the determination that they are self-employed.