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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 105. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the number of vacancies in the CDNT in CHO 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55840/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: 117. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider increasing the NCS subsidy for after-school care to correct the anomaly whereby some parents are paying more for part-time care than they were for full-time care due to the difference in the subsidy rate. [55841/23]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I do not know if the clerk can bring us to question No. 4, which related to the guarantee and the meeting of 7 May. It appears the response to that question indicates that an agreement was made at that Teams meeting that the guarantee was in place and also that in the advance of the sponsor not being in place, RTÉ would be liable. Having had the opportunity to privately read both the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Yes, but I am also referring to my understanding of the private document I read. I say that because I want people to believe that in all the sources available to me, I can find no corroborating evidence for the answer that is clearly given in question No. 4. In fact, it is troubling that this reply would be given in the documents provided to us by RTÉ. Of all the different answers,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I think all members would have hoped there would be no requirement for any further public meetings. It is disappointing, as we approach the end of 2023, that the decision was made not to make those reports available to us before the end of this calendar year when our specific remit to hold public hearings allows us to do that. It is problematic for us that a decision was made by RTÉ...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: On the point on the answers to questions Nos. 4 and 39a regarding the provision of a guarantee at the meeting of 7 May, the principal argument of RTÉ is that the guarantee was given at the meeting of 7 May. It has been its position from the very beginning. I cannot recall any primary evidence from anybody before the committee, given that Dee Forbes was not here and many of the people...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I cannot reflect on Mr. Kelly's evidence because I do not have all of it and I do not know whether he referenced it or whether he was asked about it. He is the only other person who could provide the information. From RTÉ's perspective, I do not recall any evidence it provided for its principal defence.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: The Peter McVerry Trust issue warrants discussion with regard to the answers provided by the Secretary General, which indicated the Department and the wider public will be in possession of a larger number of facts following the conclusion of the reports. Depending on the content of the reports, we should consider inviting the Department to come back to discuss this specific topic. I do not...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Some of them were more colourful.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: Hear, hear.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2023)

Paul McAuliffe: I want to thank the clerk and all the staff. I hope they get a little bit of respite from us over the couple of days at Christmas. I look forward to working with them again in 2024.

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Like the other Deputies who served on the committee, we should acknowledge that, with the date now set and the legislation before us, we have a historic opportunity to recognise those families who do not fit within the tight constitutional framework that the current version of the Constitution permits. That is important because, no matter how we get there, the House is united in ensuring...

An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: In the debate on the last amendment, we talked about red herrings representing a real challenge to the making of amendments. One of the other challenges will be getting people excited about this referendum. Many people, when discussing it with them, will ask what difference it will really make. They often say that what the existing language implies is not what happens in Ireland now and...

Social Welfare (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Second Stage (18 Jan 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: When I saw the attendance I suspected my slot would come earlier so I took the opportunity to avoid the debate falling. I mention the phrase "success can have many mothers and fathers". It is not often I get the opportunity to congratulate both the Government and Opposition on good examples of a practical and pragmatic issue being brought forward, listened to in the Department and...

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)

Paul McAuliffe: I was called a little earlier than expected.

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)

Paul McAuliffe: Not at all. I am trying to decide which question to come to first. I will start with the Domino's Pizza case and the misclassification. There have been a lot of accusations made at this committee with regard to the use of test cases. Both the Comptroller and Auditor General and Mr. McKeon have said very clearly at this meeting that test cases are not used to assess social welfare...

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)

Paul McAuliffe: I am conscious of time but I thought it was important to ask Mr. McKeon to respond to a consistent suggestion that is made. The Karshan case was a significant departure. Employment law is a very established body of law. The Karshan case was a departure, particularly with regard to obligations. It would be important for the Department to assess the implications of that as quickly as...

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)

Paul McAuliffe: The question that arises from it is whether it will also lead to a proactive review of all employment statuses or, other than those that come before the Department or are subject to investigation, whether there is also an obligation or an onus on the Department to review employment contracts that do not necessarily come before the Department in a proactive way.

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)

Paul McAuliffe: I appreciate that, and Mr. McKeon raised correctly the fact that often the concern is about employment rights rather than status, but, of course, there is also an employer contribution in the case of an employment contract and a loss to the State as a result, so there is a separate issue. May I turn to the PUP payments and overpayments? Mr. McKeon gave a good outline as to what is...