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- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017) Pat Deering: -----and be interrogated. To cite the article again, "intensive" meant that she had to go to three sessions over six weeks. People were asked the sorts of question a probation officer would ask about addiction, deaths and family dynamics. These people want to go to work.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017) Pat Deering: Being locked into JobPath for 12 months is a major disincentive.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017) Pat Deering: That is a bit unfair, with the greatest respect.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017) Pat Deering: For individuals in the latter stages of their working careers at 60 years of age, for example, community employment may be their only option.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017) Pat Deering: I take Mr. McKeon's point about CE schemes being State employment, but would we not be better off with people in CE schemes working in the community and providing a valuable service instead of going into an office to be interrogated in a probation officer-type inquiry? Given that they must go through a 12-month process at some cost, would that money not be better spent in the community?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017) Pat Deering: I am comparing it with the JobPath process.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 Nov 2017)
Pat Deering: 158. To ask the Minister for Health when an operation for a person (details supplied) in St James's hospital will be scheduled. [51286/17]
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2017) Pat Deering: Apologies have been received from Deputy Thomas Pringle. I ask those present to ensure that all mobile phones are turned off. The meeting has been convened to consider a Supplementary Estimate for Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine, which was referred by the Dáil to the committee on 21 November 2017 with an instruction to report back to the Dáil no later than 6 December...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2017) Pat Deering: Is there a timeline for the introduction or roll-out of the new scheme apart from the industry one? Is there a timeline for farmers waiting for the follow-on from last year's €25 million extra?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2017) Pat Deering: I am going off-topic to a certain extent. Is it possible in that scheme to reinvent a certain amount of funding for a particular sector?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2017) Pat Deering: Would the Minister like to address those questions before we move on?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2017) Pat Deering: It is on our agenda.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2017) Pat Deering: I thank members and the Minister. That concludes our consideration of the Supplementary Estimate.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Message to Dáil (28 Nov 2017)
Pat Deering: In accordance with Standing Order 90 the following message will be sent to the Dáil:The Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2017: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Business of Joint Committee (28 Nov 2017)
Pat Deering: Apologies have been received from Deputy Thomas Pringle and Senator Tim Lombard. Before we go into private session, I remind members to ensure that mobile phones are completely turned off. I propose to go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (28 Nov 2017)
Pat Deering: It is proposed that the proposals listed in schedule A - COM (2017) 424 and COM (2017) 619 - do not warrant further scrutiny. Is that agreed? Agreed. It is also proposed that the proposals listed in schedule B - COM (2017) 483, COM (2017) 484, COM (2017) 486, COM (2017) 556, COM (2017) 595 and COM (2017) 596 - do not warrant further scrutiny. Is that agreed? Agreed. We will suspend for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 Nov 2017)
Pat Deering: I remind members, witnesses and those in the Gallery to make sure that their mobile phones are turned off. The purpose of the meeting is in keeping with the committee's examination of EU matters in relevant policy areas. The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Creed, is here to brief the committee in advance of the next agriculture and fisheries, AGRIFISH, Council meeting...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 Nov 2017)
Pat Deering: Does the Minister wish to take questions on that issue or does he wish to move to the other fisheries related topic?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 Nov 2017)
Pat Deering: We will also hear that opening statement. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 Nov 2017)
Pat Deering: I will now take questions from Senator Pádraig Mac Lochlainn who was the first to indicate and he will be followed by Deputy Charlie McConalogue.