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:
Regarding the status, I mentioned the branch offices go back to 1909. They are family and they are entitled under their agreements going back to that date. Generally speaking, we have a very good branch office in Laois, so I am not too sure whether the difference between branch office and Intreo centre really matters in that context. If that family ever gives it up, we will do what we did in Enniscorthy and other places and put in an Intreo centre.