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Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Pat Deering: Why are two processes needed to do the same thing?

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Pat Deering: How much money was spent on JobPath in the past year?

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Pat Deering: What is the breakdown in funding between the two contracting companies, Turas Nua and Seetec Ireland?

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Pat Deering: Does the Secretary General know how many employment placements the two providers have facilitated?

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Pat Deering: These are supposed to be job activation measures, but the information I have suggests they are, in fact, job-blocking measures. I read an interesting article in recent days which outlined how JobPath is preventing people from getting jobs. That is something which resonates throughout the country.

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Pat Deering: Once somebody goes into the process of JobPath, whether under Turas Nua or Seetec Ireland, he or she is prevented from accessing other services. For example, the article to which I referred mentions a person who was deemed ineligible to do a Safe Pass course because he was in JobPath. We also have cases where older JobPath participants, of 60 years old or thereabouts, cannot avail of a...

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Pat Deering: It is a fact.

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Pat Deering: It is one of many cases.

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Pat Deering: Would the Department not be better off-----

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Pat Deering: These people want to work. They do not want to have to go into an office-----

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Pat Deering: -----and be interrogated. To cite the article again, "intensive" meant that she had to go to three sessions over six weeks. People were asked the sorts of question a probation officer would ask about addiction, deaths and family dynamics. These people want to go to work.

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Pat Deering: Being locked into JobPath for 12 months is a major disincentive.

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Pat Deering: That is a bit unfair, with the greatest respect.

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Pat Deering: For individuals in the latter stages of their working careers at 60 years of age, for example, community employment may be their only option.

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Pat Deering: I take Mr. McKeon's point about CE schemes being State employment, but would we not be better off with people in CE schemes working in the community and providing a valuable service instead of going into an office to be interrogated in a probation officer-type inquiry? Given that they must go through a 12-month process at some cost, would that money not be better spent in the community?

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Pat Deering: I am comparing it with the JobPath process.

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2017: All Stages (12 Dec 2017)

Pat Deering: I know my time is brief.

Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2017: All Stages (12 Dec 2017)

Pat Deering: One big minute, I am told. I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak on the Bill. I have the distinction of being possibly the only Member of the Dáil who could not vote for myself in the past two general elections. Five years ago I stood here disappointed with the outcome of the Constituency Commission's report. Today I stand here welcoming the report as the part of County...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (12 Dec 2017)

Pat Deering: 468. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason for removing the over age exemption from the early childhood care and education scheme from September 2018; the reason for the assessment that was made in advance of this decision with respect to the impact this decision will have on children with special needs (details supplied); if consideration will be given to reversing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Business of Joint Committee (12 Dec 2017)

Pat Deering: Before we begin, I remind members to make sure their mobile phones are turned off. I propose that we go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters before we return to public session. Is that agreed? Agreed.