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:
We have done 160-odd out of the 695, which leaves roughly 540. I would be optimistic that we will conclude those. I originally hoped that would take us three years, not 15 years. We met RTÉ, which is an organisation that has been through a bit of turmoil. I met it myself. My sense is that we will be able to make substantially faster progress in the next year or two.