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Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: Deputy Fleming asked for a significant amount of information on the debts and other aspects of the Department's spend. I suggest that most of the information requested should be at the ready. I would like to see it within the next week to ten days. In regard to the services procured by the Department, at what level does it go out to tender?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: If the tender is awarded for an ongoing rolling service transacted by the Department each year, how often is it revisited?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: Is Ms O'Donoghue satisfied that all those tenders have been reviewed at the end of the appropriate period, be it one year or three years?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: To take, for example, the distribution of leaflets, is a contract in place if somebody asks for a particular leaflet on benefits and it is sent out from a call centre?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: There is a call-centre operated by Rehab on behalf of the Department. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: I ask Ms O'Donoghue to do that and to let us know her findings. That is an example of a contract and we need to know the value of it, when it was last put out to tender and so forth.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: Would that be part of the duties of the financial officer?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: I am asking about the risk officer and the financial officer because other Departments do not have such officers. In fact, when we were reviewing spending with one particular Department, officials acknowledged that the absence of a risk officer to deal with risk management was a weakness within the Department. Separate to that, a further weakness was the absence of someone to deal with...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: I ask Mr. Moloney to comment on the CIE figures.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: What does Mr. Moloney think of the payments under the free travel scheme and the lack of serious data on same?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: Is Mr. Moloney surprised by the lack of analysis in this area, going back over the last number of years? Payment seems to have been made without any proper calculation of the numbers using the scheme, as opposed to the numbers simply eligible for free travel.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: That brings us to the end of our hearing. I thank the witnesses for attending. Is it agreed that the Committee disposes of Vote 38 and Chapters 21, 22 and 23 and the Social Insurance Fund? Agreed.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance Decision (20 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Health when a replacement for the mobility allowance will be put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13847/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Regional Service Plans (20 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Health the way the recently published Health Service Executive regional plans will help older persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13864/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (20 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if resource hours will be made available to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny in view of the fact that they have dyspraxia; if he will expedite this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13950/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Delays (20 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will expedite approval of two grant applications to Student Universal Support Ireland in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Wexford based on the up to date information provided. [13952/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Law Society Complaints Mechanisms (20 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on correspondence sent to him by a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if further regulation or legislation is required to deal with the issue raised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13949/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance Applications (20 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Health in view of his recent decision, if he will confirm the status of an application for mobility allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow [13893/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Appeals (20 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card application will be reviewed as a matter of urgency in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if he will expedite the matter [13948/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Quinn Insurance Limited (21 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Finance when he will be in a position to provide an update regarding the cost of the collapse of Quinn Insurance; if he is reviewing the operation of the insurance compensation fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14047/13]