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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: There is one other issue. We have all come across it. When dealing with these at constituency level, we give people advice on how to proceed. There are many people who will not present and lose out on an education. This also needs to be pointed out to the Department. Irrespective of what comes back to us, there has to be some public understanding that if there is a difficulty, applicants...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: It is also a matter of what the legislation states. There is legislation guiding this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: The correspondence was very useful. It is quite interesting that this is coming from the Data Protection Commission. There is quite a sizeable amount of information naming people. It jumped out.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Page 2. It has the names of the people.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I know, but my point is that they are individuals. It is just interesting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: We will be back here in a short enough time in respect of this. When the representatives were in front of us, we asked them whether they have the resources. They have lead responsibility in regard to the technology sector in particular. It has a European dimension. They got a fraction of what they looked for in terms of the budget they anticipated. If they are not able to do the job,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: There are a number of issues I wish to raise. We have talked about this particular issue previously and I agree with what has been said. These organisations are losing clinical staff because they cannot pay the same rates as the HSE. In many cases, the services being provided should be public services but often the charities are more flexible and are being paid less by the State for...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Yes, there are.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: There must be entirely different Chinese walls in existence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Last week, or the week before, we requested permission to publish some of the material provided to us.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: We need to keep an eye on that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: It is public information in respect of understanding how this works.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: That final question is important. The county development plan interrogates a wider scenario than an individual development. It is a wider framework and not just about the development of an individual site. It takes into account whether there are water and public transport services and similar aspects. I refer to a breach of the county development plan. New wording has gone into county...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: This is important in respect of strategic decisions.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Not backdating is another issue that was raised by some of the staff. When they changed contracts an issue arose about not backdating contracts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Catherine Murphy: The correspondence came to me and given that the Committee of Public Accounts was already dealing with the matter, I forwarded it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 12 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 13 - Timeliness of Income Support Claim Processing
Chapter 14 - Customer Service - Development of Income Support Application Forms (7 Nov 2019) Catherine Murphy: I apologise for having to leave earlier. We do not do the bilocation very well here. I apologise if I have missed something where Mr. McKeon has given an answer. I note the point about some of the online payments and the need for an identifier. I will come back to the public services card after I have asked a few other questions. I acknowledge that some of the payments made online, such...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 12 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 13 - Timeliness of Income Support Claim Processing
Chapter 14 - Customer Service - Development of Income Support Application Forms (7 Nov 2019) Catherine Murphy: To how many people or tenancies does that figure relate?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 12 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 13 - Timeliness of Income Support Claim Processing
Chapter 14 - Customer Service - Development of Income Support Application Forms (7 Nov 2019) Catherine Murphy: Okay. That is the figure for 2019.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 12 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 13 - Timeliness of Income Support Claim Processing
Chapter 14 - Customer Service - Development of Income Support Application Forms (7 Nov 2019) Catherine Murphy: There are much fewer community welfare officers than there used to be. Obviously Intreo centres-----