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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: We know why they are not public servants,. It is because they do not have the pension entitlement that many public servants have. Is that fair?

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: Does Mr. McKeon accept that they are employed by private limited companies?

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: Is it not the case that those private limited companies were established specifically to absolve the Department of its responsibility to have them as employees?

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: They absolved the Department of any responsibility towards these people.

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 difficulty is that limited companies often have two, three or four volunteers on their boards. They have no mechanism to fund schemes other than by means of the provision of the CE scheme. If they paid their employees more, the Department would step in and stop them trading recklessly. The Department effectively acts as a shadow director for many CE schemes.

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 governance is so poor in many CE schemes that the CE supervisor is the one who largely runs the scheme, with the assistance of people who are willing to put their names to a board.

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 problem is that the very people who are responsible for seeking that are the people who will receive it. The people who received the notification about the employer obligation and so on is the CE supervisor-----

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: But boards in large numbers of CE schemes comprise a small number of people, and the Department knows this governance issue is there.

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 Department used the law to absolve itself of responsibility.

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 accept that, but for many schemes, such as meals on wheels, which is a very simple one, the Department should not provide the funding. It should be provided by the HSE. It is a resource for people that we often employ to keep them out of hospital. Why are we directly funding meals on wheels services through a job activation measure? Why is it not provided by the HSE? Why is Mr. McKeon...

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 to do with funding from this Department.

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: Catering staff in hospitals are not on CE schemes.

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 are different sides to the CE schemes. I appreciate that too. They do not all have those governance issue.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (1 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 82. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to provide cost rental accommodation in Dublin 9 and 11; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59833/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (1 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase the number of apprenticeships; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59696/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (1 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase on-campus accommodation for students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59697/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (1 Dec 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 238. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport will be expedited given that the issue date is three days after the applicant (details supplied) is due to travel to a European football tournament with their team. [59909/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (29 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 72. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to reform illness benefit entitlements for self-employed persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58968/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 79. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current wait time for a supplementary welfare allowance to be decided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59201/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (29 Nov 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: 305. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on a foreign birth register application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58815/22]