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Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015 (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: I will conclude on this. The question we must look at here is this €800 million. Is this system the best one to do this job? Does Ms O'Donoghue know what I am getting at?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015 (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: Please do.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015 (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: It requires a different approach.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015 (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: Ms O'Donoghue might be able to answer my last question. To what date is the Secretary General working in respect of paying out the increases in social protection payments in 2017?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015 (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: Do we have an exclusive here this morning?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015 (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: Across March. Okay, that is the answer I expected. I call Deputy Connolly.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015 (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: What page is that on?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015 (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: Is it the briefing from our liaison officer?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015 (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: I would ask Ms O'Donoghue to forward whatever information she can to the committee.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015 (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: I thank Ms O'Donoghue. We will now conclude. Could she provide information to us on the payment plans that are in place for individuals who are in receipt of payment? Some people will have payment plans which are by way of deduction from their future payments-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015 (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: ----- and other people might have agreed to make payments by instalment to the Department or by other means. Could she provide a comprehensive note of the amounts and numbers broken down by scheme if the information is available? The figures are shown for what has been recovered and the Department has plans in place that will bring in money next year and the following year. If Ms...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015 (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: On behalf of the Committee of Public Accounts I thank all the witnesses from the Department of Social Protection and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, even though they got off lightly today, for participating in today's meeting. I also thank the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff. Could we agree to dispose of the 2015 Appropriation Accounts, Vote 37, and the 2015...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Household Benefits Scheme (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: 143. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the means test for the household benefits package with a view to excluding those on the youth social welfare payment of circa €100 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31248/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Eligibility (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: 144. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) cannot receive the fuel allowance; if he will grant the fuel allowance to the person based on the history; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31249/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Ireland (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: 244. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine considering where public bodies advertise to open procedure - non-OJEU - on the e-tenders website (details supplied), his views on the circumstances whereby registered e-tender users logged on to find neither the invitation to tender nor any other document for the advertised competition had been uploaded to the system, thereby...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: Apologies have been received from Deputies Peter Burke, Alan Farrell and Josepha Madigan. Today the committee will continue its examination of the Comptroller and Attorney General's special report No. 94 on the National Asset Management Agency, or NAMA as it is better known, and its sale of Project Eagle, the code name given to the sale of its Northern Ireland loan portfolio. To date,...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: Fine. We will do that and it has been noted by the secretariat. Standard procedure from now on will be that after every meeting, we will send NAMA a letter regarding any documentation we need to obtain from it because I am sure something will come up today that will require clarification. It will be routine that at the conclusion of each meeting, the secretariat will send a letter, on the...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. Soffe.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Fleming: I thank Mr Soffe. I now invite Deputy Catherine Murphy to commence the questioning of our witnesses. She will be followed by Deputies Cullinane, Connolly, Kelly and McDonald.