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:
We currently have, in full-time equivalents, about 6,300 staff. Over the past two years, we received sanction from the Department of public expenditure and reform for an additional 400 staff members - there or thereabouts. Regarding staff actually working, given that some staff members work shorter working years and part-time and so on, the number is just under 7,000.