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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2023: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Paddy Burke: They might decide to go online.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2023: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Paddy Burke: Is there a charge for all those services? When people are online, is there a charge?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2023: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Paddy Burke: Can people give that indication online, but not complete it online? Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2023: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Paddy Burke: This Bill does not cover marriages at all?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2023: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Paddy Burke: It is only births.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2023: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Paddy Burke: There is no charge for registering a birth.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2023: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Paddy Burke: Are the deceased categorised as national, foreign national, European or, let us say, tourists? If a tourist dies in the country, what is the position? If a tourist is involved in an accident, I suppose the authorities are involved. Does everybody comply with the registration requirements? How do they apply?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2023: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Paddy Burke: Are the deceased categorised as nationals, foreign nationals, Europeans or tourists, for example?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Paddy Burke: Is the burial grant a stand-alone element in the report or can it be part of other programmes also?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Paddy Burke: It is not registered on its own.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Paddy Burke: In other words, we do not know how many people nationally have availed of the burial grant.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Paddy Burke: These figures are not broken down individually in order to show how many people availed of the burial grant, the household-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Paddy Burke: How many families or individual funerals does that figure cover? Is there an average or specific amount paid?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Paddy Burke: Are those individuals?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Paddy Burke: Is a specific amount paid? Is there a lower or higher amount?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Paddy Burke: That is the average.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Paddy Burke: The figure was €6 million.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jun 2023)

Paddy Burke: I want to raise the issue of active travel funding. I ask for a debate in the House on funding for local authorities through the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. Last year, I received a letter from members of Mayo County Council. Indeed, I was also contacted by members of other local authorities. They are looking for further funding for active travel and they...

Seanad: Local Government Matters: Statements (28 Jun 2023)

Paddy Burke: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. It is a timely time to have a debate on local government as we face into local elections in May or June of 2024. There are many aspects to local government and there have been many changes in local government in the past 20 or 30 years. As someone who was a member of a local authority for 25 years, until the dual mandate came in, I have seen a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Paddy Burke: I welcome all the groups and thank them for their submissions. I am not going to be going over the same questions that have been raised by my colleagues. The international poverty line was considered to be $1.15 per day. The World Bank put that up to $2.15 per day. What would the Irish line be? How much would it be per day?