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:
The Deputy might give us the details. If someone is doing that for tax purposes, it would be a matter for Revenue, not us. We are not aware of anyone being displaced from rental accommodation in order for a landlord to take on someone and receive the accommodation recognition payment. It is payable to the host. We operate this scheme as the payment agency on behalf of the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, but we are not aware of-----