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:
That is what we are looking at. I do not want to overstate the issue and I do not want to give the impression that there are hundreds of people in the education sector but when one looks at the numbers in the Centre Statistics Office, CSO, where I believe it has identified 11 sectors; one of the only sectors where the level of self-employment is increasing is the education sector. That is why we are looking at-----