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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: 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 (12 Jul 2023)
Paddy Burke: Like Senator Cummins, I welcome the sports capital and equipment grants and advise clubs and community groups to avail of the opportunity to apply for them. I will raise the issue of occupational pensions this morning and how they have fallen far below the State pension. Occupational pensions, for example with An Post, Coillte, the Irish Aviation Authority and even Eircom, are only...
- Seanad: Care Payments: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)
Paddy Burke: I welcome the Minister to the House. I congratulate the Labour Party for bringing forward this motion. This is a great motion in my view. I thank the Minister for accepting this motion on behalf of the Government. The Minister needs to be congratulated for the reforms she has implemented. I would say she has delivered more than any other Minister in the Department of Social Protection,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Rural and Community Development (12 Jul 2023)
Paddy Burke: I have a question for Mr. Mulherin on the local authority community recreational officer post. What is the brief for this? Will it be a full-time local authority employee or a part-time job? There are four municipal districts in County Mayo, each of them with large towns and large geographical areas as well. Will it be one community recreational officer for the whole county or would there...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Rural and Community Development (12 Jul 2023)
Paddy Burke: Yes, the ones that the Department funds. They are new positions. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Rural and Community Development (12 Jul 2023)
Paddy Burke: They have a fairly wide brief in that case. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Rural and Community Development (12 Jul 2023)
Paddy Burke: The Department only funds the ones that are employed by IRDs, not the ones funded by the local authorities. Is that correct?