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Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Mr. McKeon provided the amount of the PRSI arrears bill since the unit was established in 2019, which now stands at just over €2.83 million compared with €1.13 million. It is beyond cost neutral in those particular cases. Mr. McKeon said in the construction and beef sectors, it did not find the kind of numbers expected. I understand that but, as Mr. McKeon qualified, it may...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

Catherine Murphy: There are two other matters I wish to ask Mr. McKeon about regarding the same subject matter. I quoted from the judgment earlier, which mentioned about if they were to be "... penalised by one arm of the State for conducting its business in accordance with the law as [it was] interpreted and applied by another department of government". Another section states, "Whether that can or cannot be...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I know.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

Catherine Murphy: The reason I said that is because, very definitely, the judge stated in section 278 that the assessment of costs goes back to social welfare. I said from the outset this case was Revenue. I understand that.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I do.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Mr. McKeon spoke about home schooling. It is offered in my constituency to pupils who do not get a school place. It is not about a child with a difficulty going to school but where they do not get a school place. It is daft that there is a planning unit that cannot count. Revenue says the parent is the employer and the Department of Education uses the PAYE system, which Mr. McKeon said...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

Catherine Murphy: We will have Revenue in pretty soon. If Revenue treats the parents as the employer, that becomes a whole other issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

Catherine Murphy: By way of example, one of the offices my constituency office deals with is Newbridge, and it can often be difficult to get through to it. Is the phone answering capacity monitored? It may well be that there are times that are busier than others.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I remember previously the issues of working from home were the cost of energy, that staff could not take computers home, security and so on. How was that overcome with staff working from home?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

Catherine Murphy: That was not the point but I thank Mr. McKeon for that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2024)

Catherine Murphy: They are agreed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2024)

Catherine Murphy: No.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2024)

Catherine Murphy: They are agreed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2024)

Catherine Murphy: That is agreed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2024)

Catherine Murphy: There is a bit of an irony in that the committee was told that Irish Water would dispense with all of these local authorities. In fact, they are central to the work of Irish Water.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I am happy to leave it until the work programme but I think Ms Healy makes a very fair point.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Obviously, people signed up to this scheme with the expectation they were going to be covered when they retired, and the fact this is a public body would have given them an additional assurance. We are talking about the case of CIÉ but I have engaged also with people from the likes of the ESB, which is a semi-State company. Issues such as inflation and, in this case, potentially full...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Yes, the CIÉ pension scheme has gone backwards.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Can we ask the authority for some additional information? The correspondence states that since the individual energy upgrade scheme was launched in 2009, 22,747 homes built pre-1940 have received grants for 31,287 upgrades thereunder. Very often, they fall into a different category because of the nature of how they are built. Can we ask specifically about, for example, protected structures...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jan 2024)

Catherine Murphy: There are obvious things. It is always useful to say that the Committee of Public Accounts can invite people in. For example, when we look for the Secretary General of a Department to come in, he or she is required to do so. We should acknowledge again that the FAI is not audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General. It falls into the category of organisations that we invite in. I...