Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 17 October 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills
General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion
Mr. Patrick Rodgers:
Yes, essentially to look at requesting clarification at first and explaining what the scheme is about and how it came about, and then asking how they take this into account. Under what would be regarded as income there is a long list of what can be disregarded and what can be regarded as income. Obviously, this scheme is not really alluded to. There are specific payment schemes that can be disregarded but they are all pretty much to do with emergencies that happened in Britain such as the 7/7 bombers or the Grenfell Tower fire. There is no specific mention of anything from outside the country. The only income that is disregarded from outside the country would be foreign pensions or income such as that.