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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (6 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 266. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a foreign birth registration by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60982/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (6 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 267. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a foreign birth registration by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60983/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (6 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 268. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a foreign birth registration by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60984/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (6 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department will finalise an agreement for the provision of car parking for teachers and staff of a school (details supplied). [60701/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Peace Commissioners (6 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 473. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will expand the responsibility of the role of Peace Commissioner and grant permission to sign and witness affidavits for social housing applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60703/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authorities (1 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I met the team from Dublin City Council last week, along with all Dublin Deputies, and I met with the finance subcommittee. Many good councillors from across parties want to see more done for their county with more resources. I welcome the Minister of State's commitment, and I thank the Minister, both Ministers of State and their party colleagues for working with us on this to deliver this...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authorities (1 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I ask the Minister to engage with councillors as part of the review process.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: It was not scripted.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authorities (1 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 10. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to review the baseline of self-funding property tax for local authorities like Dublin City and Fingal, in order that they can hold onto 100% of local property tax collected without losing other funds of streaming. [59834/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authorities (1 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Last week Dublin City Council passed a €1.2 billion budget. It is one of largest budgets it has ever passed. Over recent years the Government has supported many local authorities throughout the country. However, there are challenges with regard to local government funding. We want local authorities to hold onto 100% of the local property tax in their area. When might we review the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Authorities (1 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I welcome the commitment to review the baselines. If I heard correctly this will be done in advance of the 2024 budget process. Local government funding is a bit of a dark art. I spent ten years in local government and I still cannot get my head around a lot of it. It is about retaining the local property tax in that locality, because if people pay the tax, they expect those services in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection - Social Insurance Fund 2021
Chapter 10: Regularity of social welfare payments
Chapter 11: The recovery of benefit and assistance payments following compensation awards
Chapter 14: Classification of workers for PRSI purposes (1 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: On the cybersecurity attack initiated on the HSE, Mr. McKeon said there was an attempted attack on the Department at the same time. Did that give rise to a similar level of damage as the attack on the HSE?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection - Social Insurance Fund 2021
Chapter 10: Regularity of social welfare payments
Chapter 11: The recovery of benefit and assistance payments following compensation awards
Chapter 14: Classification of workers for PRSI purposes (1 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: As a result of that attack, has the Department increased spending in that in that area?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection - Social Insurance Fund 2021
Chapter 10: Regularity of social welfare payments
Chapter 11: The recovery of benefit and assistance payments following compensation awards
Chapter 14: Classification of workers for PRSI purposes (1 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: With the learnings from the HSE, for example, in the context of data recovery and the vulnerability of the network across multiple sites, has the Department examined these issues?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection - Social Insurance Fund 2021
Chapter 10: Regularity of social welfare payments
Chapter 11: The recovery of benefit and assistance payments following compensation awards
Chapter 14: Classification of workers for PRSI purposes (1 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: It is the far greater threat from Putin than a few politicians not being able to travel to Russia. The far greater level of threat is cybercrime.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection - Social Insurance Fund 2021
Chapter 10: Regularity of social welfare payments
Chapter 11: The recovery of benefit and assistance payments following compensation awards
Chapter 14: Classification of workers for PRSI purposes (1 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I will move back to the issue of classification for PRSI. Based on Mr. McKeon's answer, is he saying it is possible, for employment rights purposes, that a person can be deemed to have a contract of service but for Revenue purposes to have a contract for service? In other words, a person could be self-employed for one set of rights but could be employed for a different set of obligations....

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection - Social Insurance Fund 2021
Chapter 10: Regularity of social welfare payments
Chapter 11: The recovery of benefit and assistance payments following compensation awards
Chapter 14: Classification of workers for PRSI purposes (1 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I appreciate that Mr. McKeon can only speak for the Department. In both cases, one is not actually determining if a person is employed or self-employed, one is actually determining what are the implications of the nature of the employment or non-employment with regard to the functions the Department carries out.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection - Social Insurance Fund 2021
Chapter 10: Regularity of social welfare payments
Chapter 11: The recovery of benefit and assistance payments following compensation awards
Chapter 14: Classification of workers for PRSI purposes (1 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: There is some confusion about the word "test". Case law was mentioned. A number of tests - mixed tests, control tests and so on - have been referenced by various members of our Judiciary and the UK's. Those tests are derivatives of the Department's five categories. However, they are different from test cases. In test cases, one scenario is analysed and then automatically applied to an...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection - Social Insurance Fund 2021
Chapter 10: Regularity of social welfare payments
Chapter 11: The recovery of benefit and assistance payments following compensation awards
Chapter 14: Classification of workers for PRSI purposes (1 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: The type of employment they have or the area in which they work is not a limiter. Rather, the circumstances of their individual employment decides their treatment.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection - Social Insurance Fund 2021
Chapter 10: Regularity of social welfare payments
Chapter 11: The recovery of benefit and assistance payments following compensation awards
Chapter 14: Classification of workers for PRSI purposes (1 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I apologise for putting the Comptroller and Auditor General on the back foot, but we referenced correspondence a number of weeks ago regarding a sample analysis of classifications. He might elaborate on it.