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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)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I appreciate it and thank Mr. McKeon. I turn to some of the issues raised by the Comptroller and Auditor General. One of the matters that sticks out in his analysis is the evidence that payments and excessive claims to entitlements occur on a scale that he feels he needs to bring to the attention of the committee, so it is important that the committee examines and addresses that. He said...

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)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Comptroller and Auditor General identifies a downwards trend. Why does Mr. McKeon think those fraud cases are trending downwards?

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)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Was the Department less careful in the past?

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)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The overpayment is flagged in the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General, so I think it is important to go into it.

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)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: One has to interrogate it. One could not possibly not ask the question about overpayments. I refer now to scheme-specific risks. There is a good report about the review and the different schemes. When we inevitably turn to the review of the pandemic unemployment payment and how that has worked, that is an unusual payment in that it is simply put out on a blanket basis and of necessity....

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)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Of course.

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)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Of necessity, in fairness, and I do not think anybody would criticise that. It is about the follow-up and review. When will the Department be publishing anything on this?

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)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Mr. McKeon for his engagement.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Bodies (17 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if companies that report to him such as the Irish Aviation Authority, have a compulsory retirement age of 65 years of age; if not, if they are included under the Public Service Superannuation (Age of Retirement) Act 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36963/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Aviation Authority (17 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Irish Aviation Authority is considered a semi-State body as it reports to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36964/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (17 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 388. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the legislation for an affordable housing scheme; when it will come before Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36835/20]

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

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 862. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a residential placement considering they have been on the waiting list for three years and have been deemed a high priority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37109/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (18 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 156. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline for an application for a visa by a person (details supplied) whose partner is an Irish national; when a decision will be made on the application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37268/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (18 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 174. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical appointment can be secured for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37238/20]

Combating Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am confident I am not the only Deputy who has seen the reports and been contacted with great concern about the sharing of online images of women and girls. More and more information is emerging about that. We have not seen it to verify it yet. However, the practice of publishing intimate images without consent is a major problem in Ireland today. The effect on the victim is one of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 301. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the roll out of a potential vaccine against Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37469/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 309. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reopen gay men's health services as a priority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37506/20]

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 – Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Central Fund Related Accounts - Revenue Account 2019 (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the witnesses for coming today. I want to raise two issues. First, the temporary wage subsidy scheme and how it applied to people who employed childminders in their homes. I had two queries this week about people who employed a childminder in their home. During the first period of restrictions from March to June, the childminder was not able to come to work and they wanted to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 – Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Central Fund Related Accounts - Revenue Account 2019 (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I can see that. That is the reason that came back to them but from their perspective they were hearing that it is to maintain a link with an employee and to make sure that nobody is put out by the fact that there have been changes in circumstances. When those mistakes are made in good faith, particularly where there is an obvious alternative in that they could have put them on the pandemic...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 – Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Central Fund Related Accounts - Revenue Account 2019 (19 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I would think it is a very small number.