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- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Management of Social Welfare Appeals
Chapter 11 - Controls Over the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Dec 2021) Brian Stanley: Has Mr. McKeon looked at other European countries to see if they have followed this to the letter?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Management of Social Welfare Appeals
Chapter 11 - Controls Over the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Dec 2021) Brian Stanley: Deputy Munster-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Management of Social Welfare Appeals
Chapter 11 - Controls Over the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Dec 2021) Brian Stanley: Deputy Munster and Mr. McKeon should stop talking over each other.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Management of Social Welfare Appeals
Chapter 11 - Controls Over the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Dec 2021) Brian Stanley: Could Deputy Munster stop talking over the witness?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Management of Social Welfare Appeals
Chapter 11 - Controls Over the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Dec 2021) Brian Stanley: Deputy Munster has asked the question.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Management of Social Welfare Appeals
Chapter 11 - Controls Over the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Dec 2021) Brian Stanley: Could Deputy Munster stop talking over the witness and allow him to answer the question? It is getting lost in the noise.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Management of Social Welfare Appeals
Chapter 11 - Controls Over the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Dec 2021) Brian Stanley: Could Mr. McKeon make a brief reply? Some of us did not catch what he said earlier.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Management of Social Welfare Appeals
Chapter 11 - Controls Over the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Dec 2021) Brian Stanley: I will go back to the issue of misclassification of workers and the test case issue and whether there was a test case or not. Correspondence from the Secretary General of the Department in 2000 shows that there was a test case. In that correspondence, the Secretary General of the Department of Social Welfare, as it was then called in 2000, said that in order to resolve the matter, a number...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Management of Social Welfare Appeals
Chapter 11 - Controls Over the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Dec 2021) Brian Stanley: The facts are that there are direct quotations from senior officials, including the head of Revenue and Mr. McKeon’s predecessor in the Department of Social Protection, that there was a deal in operation and that, for the 20-year period, many workers in that sector may have been misclassified, or to use the term “bogus self-employment”, may have been employed as bogus...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Management of Social Welfare Appeals
Chapter 11 - Controls Over the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Dec 2021) Brian Stanley: It was one case that was used subsequently to reclassify.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Management of Social Welfare Appeals
Chapter 11 - Controls Over the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Dec 2021) Brian Stanley: The workers in these sectors - in the gig economy or whatever we like to call it - if they are employed on a self-employment basis, have an imbalance of power between themselves and the employer and they are in a very weak position. If they say “Boo”, there is somebody else waiting to take their position. There is a vulnerability there for workers. I make the point that the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Management of Social Welfare Appeals
Chapter 11 - Controls Over the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Dec 2021) Brian Stanley: Thank you. To conclude, I thank the witnesses for attending. As I said, I wish Mr. McKeon a speedy recovery. I thank the staff of the Department for the work they were involved in to prepare for the meeting and also for their work over the past two years. They have had a fairly hectic two years and the staff stepped up to the mark and carried a huge burden, and I want to acknowledge that....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Dec 2021)
Brian Stanley: The business of this afternoon's meeting includes minutes, accounts and financial statements, correspondence, work programme and any other business. We will then go into private session before adjourning. The minutes of our meeting on 2 December have been circulated to members. Do they wish to raise any issues relating to them? Okay. Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. As usual, the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Dec 2021)
Brian Stanley: What sum of money are we talking about in respect of the Waterford and Wexford Education and Training Board, ETB?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Dec 2021)
Brian Stanley: Can we agree to note the accounts and statements? Agreed. I suggest that the secretariat follows up with the ETB regarding its plan to rectify the procurement issues relating to the €2.7 million figure to ensure that, in future, measures are taken to try to counteract non-compliance.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Dec 2021)
Brian Stanley: As usual, the listing of accounts and financial statements will be published as part of our minutes. The next item is correspondence. As previously agreed, items that have not been flagged for discussion for this meeting will continue to be dealt with in accordance with the proposed actions that have been circulated and decisions taken by the committee in relation to correspondence will...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Dec 2021)
Brian Stanley: I ask Mr. McCarthy to come in on that question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Dec 2021)
Brian Stanley: I thank the Deputy. Before we move on, I wish to note an oversight on my part. No. 927B from the Department of Social Protection was provided in confidence. I stated incorrectly that we would note and publish it. I should have said that we would note it but not publish it because of the nature of its contents. I ask members to respect that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Dec 2021)
Brian Stanley: No. 941B, from Mr. Ray Mitchell, assistant national director of the HSE, is dated 30 November 2021. It provides information requested by the committee regarding non-compliant procurement. The scale of the expenditure here is significant. In its 2020 accounts, the HSE declared 91% of expenditure that was subject to procurement rules to be compliant, representing a value of over €1.7...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Dec 2021)
Brian Stanley: We have them in the work programme. That issue, which has arisen this week, can be flagged as a matter for the representatives to address when they are in.