Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 October 2024
Select Committee on Social Protection
Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary)
9:30 am
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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The Department was able to pay that out of the Social Insurance Fund and still have an increasing surplus at the end of the year in that. That is now a €17 million rainy day fund. If unemployment was to go up, those finances are there in the Social Insurance Fund.