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

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9:30 am

Mr. John McKeon:

Some of the payments are absolutely urgent and need to be paid that day, and we do our best to get them paid that day. Many payments are to deal with things like utility bills, where the utility bill is not due for three or four weeks anyway. One has to differentiate.

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