Results 6,601-6,620 of 6,728 for speaker:John Curran
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) John Curran: On that point can the Minister clarify the numbers please? The Department made a saving of €4 million. As Deputy O'Dea said 70 schools participated. There were delays in submitting applications. Some 71 were eligible to participate but have not availed of the programme, and 80 applications were received, where further information is required. Some €53 million is being...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) John Curran: What are some of the other groups, other than DEIS schools, that are in receipt of the school meals?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) John Curran: In total, how many schools does that come to?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) John Curran: My apologies to Deputy O'Dea.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) John Curran: Could the Minister continue, please?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) John Curran: Deputy O'Dea is happy for the moment. I call Deputy Carey.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) John Curran: I have one or two further questions. The figures are not significant but I am curious as to what is going on behind them than the actual numbers. There is a grant of €841,000 for the Citizens Information Board, CIB, and a saving of €0.5 million on Abhaile due to the volume of vouchers not being redeemed as predicted. Can the Minister put that in context? How many vouchers...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) John Curran: Can the Minister clarify if people were getting the vouchers and were not using them or were they not being given vouchers and told to use internal services?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) John Curran: How many? Does the Minister know what that €0.5 million represents in numbers?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) John Curran: I know that.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) John Curran: What I am trying to get at here with the Minister is how many vouchers were redeemed and how many were unredeemed? We do not know what the scope of it is.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) John Curran: There is a similar trend on the MABS side.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) John Curran: I thank the Minister. I have one final question. On a different subhead, subhead A2, administration - non-pay, there was a variation but it was off-set by higher expenditure on agency services of €3.55 million. What was the total expenditure on agency services? I could not exactly work it out easily. What was planned and budgeted and what was the extra €3.55 million?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) John Curran: Will the Minister provide a breakdown of what was included in the €128.5 million which was the planned amount? What were those agency services?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) John Curran: Are there any further questions? Would the Minister like to make any concluding remarks?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) John Curran: That concludes consideration of the Supplementary Estimate for Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection for the year ended 31 December 2019. I thank the Minister and her officials for their attendance here today, and particularly the clear and effective manner in which the material was presented to us which makes it easy to work our way through it.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Message to Dáil (28 Nov 2019)
John Curran: In accordance with Standing Order 90, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for public services for the year ended 31 December 2019: Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2019)
John Curran: The Taoiseach will recall that he launched the national drugs strategy some years ago, which is effectively a partnership approach between the voluntary, statutory and community sectors. More recently, the community sector is concerned that it is not having meaningful input into the strategy and its implementation. It wrote to the Taoiseach about four weeks ago requesting a meeting, which...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Fraud (4 Dec 2019)
John Curran: 42. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the investigations and reviews undertaken by the scope section of her Department either solely or in cooperation with the Revenue Commissioners to address the issue of bogus self-employment to date in 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50283/19]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Fraud (4 Dec 2019)
John Curran: Can the Minister set out the reviews and investigations undertaken by the scope section in the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection either alone or with the Revenue Commissioners on bogus self-employment, and their outcomes? How many cases were determined to be bogus self-employment?