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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: It is approximately two thirds in education to one third working.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: Mr. Duggan is saying that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: -----this does not stop those 100,000 people aged 16 to 23 who are in full-time work from opting in to automatic enrolment. However, will there be pressure on them not to opt in because of the potential cost to their employers? If there are two employees, one of whom has not opted voluntarily for automatic enrolment and another who wishes to opt in, could the latter be discouraged from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: Deputy Ó Cathasaigh is next. Does anyone else have a supplementary question before we wrap up? No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Deputy. Perhaps Mr. Duggan would address those comments and make any final comments before we finish the session.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Scheme Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: I thank Mr. Duggan and his colleagues for their assistance in considering the heads of the Bill, and for their constructive and positive engagement with the committee. We will discuss these matters further in a later private session. I thank them for their assistance to date to the committee and to the secretariat. I am sure we will engage again with Mr. Duggan and the Department early in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Welfare Service: Department of Social Protection (14 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: The second session has been convened to discuss the community welfare service. I welcome Mr. Rónán Hession, assistant secretary with responsibility for working age and family policy, Mr. Des Henry, principal officer with responsibility for supplementary welfare allowance policy, and Mr. Noel Hand, principal officer with responsibility for the community welfare service. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Welfare Service: Department of Social Protection (14 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: We can come back to it with a comparable data set across a couple of work units within the Department or within the witness's own division to give us an example of the variation over a period of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Welfare Service: Department of Social Protection (14 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: We all accept the community welfare officer service plays a valuable role and, as colleagues have said, provides a key point of contact with the health service initially and now the Department of Social Protection since it moved across. I recall individuals such as Eddie Bourke in Strokestown and previously in south Roscommon, who knew not only the family, but also the previous generation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Welfare Service: Department of Social Protection (14 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: In that particular case I submitted the supplementary evidence by email one month ago. The Department has had it for a month from me directly, where I explained the whole circumstance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Welfare Service: Department of Social Protection (14 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: Deputy Kerrane wants to come in so I will leave this final point with Mr. Hand. The difficulty is that probably a lot of those staff are coming from other sections within the Department, where there is a culture of control, naturally enough, in respect all schemes where they tick the boxes as regards to whether people are eligible. Maybe the culture needs to change in that engagement...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Welfare Service: Department of Social Protection (14 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: Mr. Hession might respond and wrap up also as we are close to our time limit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Community Welfare Service: Department of Social Protection (14 Dec 2022)

Denis Naughten: I thank Mr. Hession, Mr. Hand and Mr. Henry for their engagement with the committee and for answering the questions and the issues raised by the members. I am sure we will be back in touch with them again on this. Ultimately, we are all at one on where we need to get to and it is a matter of trying to bed down the huge transition and change that has taken place, particularly with the staff...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2023)

Denis Naughten: At the start of this year, 76-year-old Mary Hughes was in Roscommon hospital and was transferred to Portiuncula after suffering a seizure. Mary passed away on 4 January at Portiuncula hospital after waiting more than seven hours for a bed before finally being admitted to a ward. Mary had been forced to leave a bed in Roscommon hospital to go onto a trolley in Portiuncula hospital. Her...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2023)

Denis Naughten: What will need to see is pressure taken off the emergency department and we need that modular building. I am asking the Taoiseach for his intervention on this. He is correct that the second modular building at the hospital was to facilitate the relocation of the outpatient department and provide those ten additional single beds to replace some of the beds lost to Covid reconfiguration....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)

Denis Naughten: A collection might be made for that flight.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)

Denis Naughten: I want to raise an important issue which has been spoken about in every community across the country. It is the deal between Coillte and Gresham House, the venture capital fund, on the acquisition of 100,000 ha of forestry across this country. It is raising huge concerns among members of the public. They want to know what is going on, what has been agreed, what the Government was aware of,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

Denis Naughten: I have received apologies from Senator Garvey. Members participating in the meeting remotely are required to do so from within the precincts of the Leinster House complex only. I ask that members and witnesses turn off their mobile phones or ensure they remain in silent mode. I ask members of the committee who are participating remotely to use the raise-hand icon on Microsoft Teams if they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

Denis Naughten: I thank Mr. Bolger. Deputy Ó Cathasaigh is the first member who has indicated.