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Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This is the section under which people are required to present their social welfare cards in specified circumstances. Such circumstances have been legislated for but the Bill outlines further when people will be obliged to present their cards and indicates the service providers that can demand sight of them. I do not have a major difficulty with that, I am merely seeking to discover what...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This is the third change over a series of Bills relating to arrangements for the repayment of moneys supposedly owed in respect of cases of fraud arising from the provision of misleading information or the concealment of facts. FLAC has, once again, outlined the dangers associated with these provisions in its submission on the Bill. What we must bear in mind is that an allegation is not...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Believe it or not, it is relevant to the section because this section was introduced to recover at a level over the €2 to 15%. At every stage that we have tried to deal with this issue we have been cut short, so I am not-----

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I could speak for as long again.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This is Committee Stage. The reason we are ending up with problems such as this is because we have not had the ability to tease out where there are complications such as this. I am not argumentative, I am merely asking in a positive way, because the Department gets its money, that the Minister of State approach the issue. FLAC and others have said that in the past the supplementary welfare...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The key part of all this is the Statute of Limitations. We cannot have a situation where a person is continually going back. If a person is guilty of fraud and if the Department goes back 30 years, it will charge the person with fraud, but if not, a line needs to be drawn in the sand.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The transaction also costs the banks whether one lives in rural Ireland or not.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I presume it is the practice rather than the specific cases. I can forward details of the specific cases but the practice is when-----

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have a query on section 9, to which I am not opposed. I raised this question on Labour Court findings on a number of occasions and I did not submit an amendment on this occasion. Where findings are made against employers, the applicant is often on some type of social welfare payment while waiting on such an award being made but the Department of Social Protection cannot recover the money...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (31 Mar 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 204. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason participants in the Tús work placement initiative must have a bank account in their names when other social welfare payments can be processed through An Post or post office accounts. [12902/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Guardian Status (31 Mar 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 207. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the delay in reinstating guardian’s allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10 in view of the fact that it has been more than six months since the payment was wrongly suspended. [12916/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Photographic Identification (31 Mar 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 252. To ask the Minister for Finance if the social welfare card is acceptable proof of identity when opening post office or bank accounts for the purposes of receiving social welfare payments. [12903/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (31 Mar 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 367. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the options available to drivers who have had penalty points levied against them and who cannot afford to be legally represented when challenging them; if it is possible to set up a lay litigant system which persons could avail of; if it is possible to allow any consequential fines if they lose to be paid in instalments; and the position...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Exemptions (31 Mar 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 628. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10 will be exempt from paying water charges. [12869/15]

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (1 Apr 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I tabled two of these amendments, which are consequential on the proposed change. I do not have a major problem with the definition of "medical assessor" but my problem is that this change will facilitate the use of employment agencies instead of hiring medical practitioners directly. On Committee Stage, I reflected the practice in Britain when agency staff were introduced and the health...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (1 Apr 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: "Panorama" and The Guardian.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (1 Apr 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have listened and I welcome the progress that has been made in ensuring we will achieve the maximum number of medical assessors. The population is aging. Is the Minister of State confident that putting the full complement of 25 in place and addressing the backlog would be sufficient to deal with future needs, or will there be a continuous need for agency staff? This is my concern. I have...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (1 Apr 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. 2:In page 5, to delete lines 23 and 24.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (1 Apr 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. 3:In page 6, lines 5 to 8, to delete all words from and including "or" in line 5 down to and including line 8.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report Stage (1 Apr 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Like the other Deputies who have spoken, I find this change in the legislation odd because it is changing the presumption. As the Free Legal Advice Centres have indicated in their submission, this is negative legislation. I would like to remind people of exactly what is provided for in the relevant legislation at present. In respect of carer's allowance, section 179(4) of the Social Welfare...