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 am familiar with that letter because obviously I read it. It goes back 24 years. The important part is that it established the criteria. That is what I have always said. It established the criteria. It did not establish the outcome. Those criteria have been generally accepted by the industry and the Revenue Commissioners. Subsequent to that, the partnership agreement took that criteria and put them into the code of practice so it was used to establish the criteria. People skip that word as if it is not in the sentence. It involves the criteria - not the outcome.