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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (7 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021 specifically in relation to the issuing of driver licences to applicants for international protection that is, asylum seekers which is currently not permitted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60362/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (7 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 607. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to employ additional homecare staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60363/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (3 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Minister and I congratulate him, the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, and the Minister of State, Deputy Browne on the work here. It is a very important piece of work and is a credit to all of them. I wish to raise an issue on which I have spoken to a number of asylum seekers and I know that this is not a universal one but is about the plans on housing. Many have told me...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (3 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Minister for taking the question relating to the status of the National Action Plan for Childminding 2021-2028, published in April of this year. This is a seven-year plan for giving better support to childminding in the home. Can I have an update on that please?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (3 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Minister is correct to identify the amount of work that has had to be done in the childcare sector over the past ten years, where, ten years ago the Government spent nearly nothing on this sector. We are now spending, I believe, €716 million, with a doubling of the early childhood care and education, ECCE, scheme of childcare places and a real focus, that has had to be there, on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (3 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I have a few practical questions on that. When the Minister is doing this, can he make it easier for parents to formally set childminders up as employees, or whatever mechanism is appropriate? People are not used to doing that and to creating businesses. It is relatively straightforward but is not easy. People want to be compliant and to ensure that everything is done correctly, so I ask...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (3 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 74. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the ongoing work taking place within his Department to dismantle direct provision, as detailed in the White Paper; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59204/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (3 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: This series of questions is to find out from the Minister the status of the ongoing work within his Department to dismantle direct provision, as detailed in the White Paper. Will he make a statement on the matter and update us on the details?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (3 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Minister for the update. It is important today to acknowledge the work of both the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, and the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth on undocumented migrants. It will have an important effect on asylum seekers. Undocumented migrants who have been here for four years are being given today a once-in-a-generation...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (3 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: A substantial increase in the budget of the Minister's Department of €183 million brings funding up to €2.1 billion. It is great to see such support for the Department and I congratulate him on securing that in the budget. Will the Minister outline to the House the plans of how he will use that and the progress in that regard?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (3 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is great. I have another question on childcare and I will leave until then. On international protection, the Minister is doing an awful lot of work in trying to end the direct provision system. Will he give us an outline of how the additional €41 million will expedite that process? There is also €3 million specifically for refugee and migrant integration and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (3 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The €3 million for refugee and migrant integration.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (3 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I believe there is also extra money for Traveller and Roma integration and support. There is an extra €5.6 million. I know it is not under the direct remit of the Department, but the national Traveller education strategy is overdue and necessary. It is the central plank for supporting the Traveller community. It is always the first ask when one speaks to representatives from the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 12 - Controls over the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Management of Suspicious Transactions Reports (2 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Mr. Cody and his colleagues for being here. On the collection of Brexit duties, everybody has experienced new duties having been applied to packages, which they may or may not have been expecting. Will the witnesses give us a sense of the scale of the changes at work here? What scale of increase is being seen and how quickly can it be tracked? Can Mr. Cody give us that information?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 12 - Controls over the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Management of Suspicious Transactions Reports (2 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I understand.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 12 - Controls over the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Management of Suspicious Transactions Reports (2 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Mr. Harrahill may be able to answer a more specific question for me. A 60-fold increase is an astonishing expansion in any walk of life, for the public sector or for private enterprise. How is Revenue managing that as an organisation? To get some more detail on what Mr. Cody outlined, are these customs entries the result of people ordering things online and having large numbers of small...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 12 - Controls over the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Management of Suspicious Transactions Reports (2 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Undoubtedly. It is sometimes a surprise and, if Mr. Harrahill does not mind me saying it, sometimes a nasty surprise, encountered when people have ordered gifts. As Mr. Harrahill said, the Revenue is coming into people's lives in a day-to-day way that it had not before. May I just turn to-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 12 - Controls over the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Management of Suspicious Transactions Reports (2 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am sorry, I asked a question about the organisation and I should have given Mr. Cody an opportunity to respond.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 12 - Controls over the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Management of Suspicious Transactions Reports (2 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Sure. I will just check those figures with Mr. Cody again. It was €485 million this year-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 12 - Controls over the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Management of Suspicious Transactions Reports (2 Dec 2021)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Excuse me. It was €458 million this year, and the figure for the comparative period last year was-----