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:
Certainly, that is something we are very conscious of. We have taken a view that, as a minimum, we need a full-time presence of community welfare service staff in our 58 Intreo centres. I will use the example of the county I am most familiar with. Everyone in Longford knows that if they go into Longford Intreo centre, there will be a community welfare officer.