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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Aviation Authority (17 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Irish Aviation Authority is considered a semi-State body as it reports to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36964/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (17 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 388. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the legislation for an affordable housing scheme; when it will come before Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36835/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (17 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 862. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a residential placement considering they have been on the waiting list for three years and have been deemed a high priority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37109/20]

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Mr. McKeon for coming this morning. I should say how grateful everybody is for the simply extraordinary work carried out by his Department and officials in Intreo offices all around the country and at the end of the phone. The work that has been done is without parallel and it was a huge commitment. I am sure every Deputy here has seen the benefit of it. Where minor issues have...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: One matter that arose with the Minister at an early stage related to someone who had a baby in February or March of this year and is returning from maternity leave. Due to the circumstances that we are in, that person has difficulties with coming back to work. Quite a number of people would hope they could get the benefit of parental leave at that stage before coming back to work. There...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What about circumstances where they agree to it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Department will pay it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: A related issue arose for, I suspect, many Deputies about the link to the pandemic unemployment payment where people between 65 and 66, before pension age, who were not eligible for the pandemic unemployment payment for the technical and legislative reasons that we understand. The Minister said at the time that one of the options available was exceptional needs payments or supplementary...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We can come back to it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: In instances where it has worked, it has worked really well. I am curious about the number and distribution of those for each area.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Mr. McKeon has every number in his head.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I appreciate it and thank Mr. McKeon. I turn to some of the issues raised by the Comptroller and Auditor General. One of the matters that sticks out in his analysis is the evidence that payments and excessive claims to entitlements occur on a scale that he feels he needs to bring to the attention of the committee, so it is important that the committee examines and addresses that. He said...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Comptroller and Auditor General identifies a downwards trend. Why does Mr. McKeon think those fraud cases are trending downwards?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Was the Department less careful in the past?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The overpayment is flagged in the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General, so I think it is important to go into it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: One has to interrogate it. One could not possibly not ask the question about overpayments. I refer now to scheme-specific risks. There is a good report about the review and the different schemes. When we inevitably turn to the review of the pandemic unemployment payment and how that has worked, that is an unusual payment in that it is simply put out on a blanket basis and of necessity....

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Of course.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Of necessity, in fairness, and I do not think anybody would criticise that. It is about the follow-up and review. When will the Department be publishing anything on this?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Mr. McKeon for his engagement.

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Motion (10 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am here to state confidence in the Tánaiste and express confidence in the Government and all of the Ministers working hard to recover our country and society during this dreadful pandemic. It is preposterous that this Parliament is spending its time today on this political stunt by Sinn Féin instead of on the major issues of the day. The Tánaiste made himself immediately...