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 put it this way. The average payment from self-employed contributors is approximately €2,000. If they were employed at class A, it would be approximately €7,000. Therefore, we are looking at €5,000 of a difference. If we apply that to the numbers who are self-employed in own-account self-employment, even if we take 10%, the money is not as great as people think. Having said that, there are a whole range of reasons we want to do it-----