Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 June 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

General Scheme of Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2017: Discussion

10:00 am

Ms Kathleen Stack:

We refer to the average figure.

On the question of publishing addresses, to which Senator Alice-Mary Higgins referred, our difficulty with being that non-specific is not wanting to cause confusion about whose name we are publishing. There might be six persons with the name of Kathleen Stack living in north Kerry and I would not want the wrong person to be identified. We are trying to be specific in the people being identified. That is why we are going down that road.

On the issue raised by Deputy John Brady of control of publication, we can control what is contained on our website. As I said, we intend to have safeguards to ensure that once names come down after three months, they will no longer be accessible. We have less control over what happens in the general public domain.

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