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:
It is nearly impossible to argue and it is all opinion and supposition. I am not familiar with the data mentioned by the Deputy. If I am correct, and I stand to be corrected on this, the share of the Ukrainian refugees Ireland has taken is about 2.3% of the population. The average across Europe is about 2% so we are slightly ahead of Europe in terms of population share. Some countries have a much lower figure while others have a much higher figure. They are in Sweden, Germany-----