Results 2,101-2,120 of 12,033 for speaker:Regina Doherty

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: I thank the Deputy for his compliments, I am not sure if I deserve them even if I give a good impression. My apologies to Deputy O'Dea as I did not answer his question about staffing. We have a headcount for the end of the year 5,900, which is a reduction of 200 people from the year before.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: I do. The most recent review we did indicates that CIB does not need to draw down €59.26 million. It calculates that it will have savings of approximately €1.2 million, €500,000 of which is due to less than anticipated demand on vouchers. This is the direct reason CIB intend to take on board their own in-house help as opposed to using voucher schemes. That will...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: We do not have the internal services yet. They were getting the vouchers, but not redeeming them. There was a gap between leaving-----

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: It is €500,000.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: I will try to get that number for the committee. I will probably be able to do that today. I will find out and come back to the committee later on.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: I can find out.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: The hundred €400,000 due to the reduction in the allocation to MABS in the national development was due to less than anticipated spend on a number of projects that it had. It was not over and above the day-to-day business that it does. It had specific projects that did not cost as much as it had anticipated at the beginning of the year. Approximately €100,000 of the...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: The planned and budgeted amount was €128.5 million. The amount actually spent was €132.050 million. The extra is €3.5 million. It is not 100% allocated but the vast majority of it went to the renegotiating of our GP contracts. That probably does not pop into the Chairman's head as an agency but we classify all of the doctors who do all of the certifications for us as...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: The breakdown of the original estimates was: An Post agency fees, €31 million; the medical certificates, as originally anticipated, €23.7 million; JobPath, €57.5 million; our nurses, €270,000; and our branch managers, €16 million. The actual outturns were as follows. An Post agency fees, as opposed to €31.03 million, were €30.1 million. Our...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: I thank the committee for its input, its help and, most important, its co-operation for what I hope has been a successful year.

Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (27 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: I thank the gentlemen for their contributions. I had suggested on Committee Stage that the only issue I had with the amendment then was that it required public consultation costing tens of thousands of euro that I do not have. I asked for the public consultation element to be taken away but for us to do the comparative research, engage with the stakeholders and look at examples throughout...

Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (27 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: I move amendment No. 8: In page 15, to delete lines 3 to 26 and substitute the following: “Amendment of section 10D of National Minimum Wage Act 2000 23. (1) The National Minimum Wage Act 2000 is amended, in section 10D (inserted by section 8 of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Act 2015)— (a) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (1):...

Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (27 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: The difficulty is that although the Deputy may expect a Conservative Party majority, I do not know what the electorate will choose. The Deputy believes that if the Conservatives do not get a majority, there may be a referendum. All I can base my decision on is the fact that we are three years down the line from the British public first deciding it wished to leave the European Union and...

Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (27 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: I move amendment No. 3: In page 5, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: “Entitlement to benefit or allowance 4.The Principal Act is amended— (a) in section 40, by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (1): “(1) Subject to this Act, a person shall only be entitled to illness benefit in respect of any day of incapacity for work...

Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (27 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: The amendment arises from two amendments separately tabled by Deputies O'Dea and Brady on Committee Stage. The only suggestion I made on that Stage was that six months rather than three months should be allowed for the preparation of the report in order to give the officials in my Department some space. Certain other amendments also call for reports to be compiled. I am grateful that the...

Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (27 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: There will be no change in that regard.

Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (27 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: No.

Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (27 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: I move amendment No. 2: In page 5, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: “Employment contributions 3.(1) Section 13(2) of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following paragraphs after paragraph (db): “(dc) Subject to paragraphs (dd) and (de), where the Minister has made an order under subsection (1A) of section 10D of the National Minimum...

Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (27 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: To answer Deputy O'Dea's question, it is a difficult issue. I appreciate that the Deputy may think he knows what the outcome of the UK election will be on 13 December. I am not as confident as the Deputy regarding the outcome of the election and the choice of the British people. When I know what is the result and am in a position to be able to make a decision-----

Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2018: Order for Report Stage (27 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: I move: "That Report Stage be taken now."