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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, but Mr. Egan is not saying that a 100% means test is fair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: He is not saying to us that the discrimination between self-employed and employed is fair, surely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is not proportionate, therefore.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Output.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: One problem about the modern world is that you get so much information but how much is useful? I find the statistics very useful but it does not break it down to the granular level to make the policy changes we need. On this side of the table, we do not get the outputs. We know how many people are on a State pension and we know how much a €1 increase costs. That is easy enough for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is if the statistics were included in the report. That is what I am getting at.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is very academic stuff. That is not the way the people in my office see it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will leave it at that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can I make a very quick point, please? The data are very useful. There is an absolute binge going on at the moment about the increase for a qualified adult, IQA. The Department is writing out to many people and I understand the way the data are got because it knows who to write to, where data matching is going on between certain accounts. Arising from that, many people are being caught...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Of course, because I am trying to show the Department the social implications of following the policy it has. Somebody, somewhere decided to start chasing all of these IQAs down recently and the only people not getting caught are either skinflints or people who knew the rules, read every minor document and understood fully the implications of what they were doing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This reminds me of an insurance company which will not pay out on under clause 57(b), or whatever it is, as written in legalese.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: For people who are on the increase for qualified adult, IQA, and who are long-standing pensioners, the Department is not writing to them and asking them. That is something I always check when they come in under the IQA, whether they had stamps of their own and could get the carer's credit. That is not what the Department is writing out to people about. It is doing an update, a needs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It can be seen how hurtful it is. How does one explain to an 80-year-old who has been parsimonious all their life, part of a couple who are sharing it all, that what they should have done was put everything in the man's name and then there would be no way of the Department touching it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The problem with this change is, if the Department had warned them it would have been really tricky.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If the Department had warned people about what it should have warned them to do, there would then have been a whole other cohort of society saying the Department is encouraging - because it was 90% men - men not to share with their wives. That of course is wrong if they had that split in the labour between the two of them, the paid part and the unpaid part of the huge job of rearing a family...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Caiteachas Ranna (19 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 34. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén méadú atá i meastacháin a Roinne do 2024 ar an gcaiteachas reatha agus caipitil don Ghaeilge agus don Ghaeltacht; cé mhéad de sin a bhaineann le soláthar caiteachais breise do phá agus tuarastail in Údarás na Gaeltachta agus Foras na Gaeilge; agus an ndéanfaidh...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (19 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 49. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the increase provided for in the estimates for 2025 in funding for TG4 and RTÉ respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45689/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (19 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 73. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the interaction his Department has had to date with the statutory committee set up under the Official Languages Act 2021 to plan for the requirement under the Act that 20% of public servants being recruited from 2030 will have competency to do business with the public in Irish; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (19 Oct 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether post-graduate students studying medicine on dedicated courses in third level institutions to become medical practitioners are or will be able to avail of SUSI grant-aid while attending university on these courses, in view of the need to urgently increase the supply of doctors in the country; and if he will make a statement on the...