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Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Verona Murphy: That is very good. I thank Mr. McKeon. On the European Social Fund, is it correct that there was an under-claim of €5 million? Am I reading that correctly?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Verona Murphy: What is the reason for it? Why was there a lapse? Basically, €0.7 million was claimed but the figure should have been in excess of €5.5 million.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Verona Murphy: Will it be fully recovered?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Verona Murphy: Good. It has not yet been received.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Verona Murphy: Mr. Lawler is in no doubt that it will be made.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Verona Murphy: At local level in my constituency, I am a little concerned about the way the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, is working for those who are self-isolating or who have been told they must self-isolate because they are a close contact. The initial claim, if one is working, is the two weeks' PUP. If there is a positive test at the end of that period and a further isolation period, the worker...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Verona Murphy: I understand that. It is enhanced in that it allows for children who are dependent, but my point is that the applicant has to reapply. Would it not be more appropriate if the applicant could stay on the same payment?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Verona Murphy: I will not argue with Mr. McKeon on that but the arrangement is not as straightforward as it might appear.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Verona Murphy: Mr. McKeon's local offices are fantastic and very helpful so I thank him.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Verona Murphy: I refer to the pandemic unemployment payment. When will all payments due be paid out in full? Will there continue to be outstanding payments at the end of the year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Verona Murphy: Very good.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Verona Murphy: Very good. I refer to the social welfare checks carried out in airports. Were many of those cases appealed? Were the appeals successful?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Verona Murphy: Okay. I am aware of one appeal that has been submitted. I can discuss it with Mr. McKeon at a later stage.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (17 Nov 2020)

Verona Murphy: 284. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the eligibility criteria for the Covid restrictions support scheme do not extend to secondary supply businesses such as fish suppliers, florists and food producers whose businesses have been decimated by the level 5 closures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37017/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (17 Nov 2020)

Verona Murphy: 550. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the secondary school places available by school in each local electoral area in County Wexford in tabular form. [37019/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Sector (17 Nov 2020)

Verona Murphy: 604. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the provisions being made to provide early years education workers with an hourly rate equivalent to the living wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37020/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Sector (17 Nov 2020)

Verona Murphy: 605. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the provisions being made to provide a sick pay scheme to early years education workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37021/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (17 Nov 2020)

Verona Murphy: 848. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists who have dropped out of the dental treatment services scheme during 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37022/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (17 Nov 2020)

Verona Murphy: 849. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists by local electoral area in County Wexford at present contracted to provide dental services under the dental treatment services scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37023/20]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2020)

Verona Murphy: I move amendment No. 139: In page 55, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: “35.The Minister shall, within three months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before the Oireachtas a report on the suitability and operability of a diesel rebate scheme and whether it is sufficient in compensation for the increase in carbon tax.”. The Minister will be familiar...