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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (22 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 36. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she expects the backdated pandemic unemployment payment to be paid to all recipients who incorrectly had their pandemic unemployment payment reduced. [25006/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (22 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: When can we expect that those who had their PUP incorrectly reduced might receive the payment? Many of them include taxi drivers who incorrectly had their car repayments included in the assessment and this has been corrected on appeal. Some of them are being told they will not receive it for some time.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (22 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: I thank the Minister for clarifying today that the payments will be made this week. Initially, one taxi driver who spoke to me had been told he would not receive it until April next year, which would have been completely unacceptable. I appreciate there is a major workload for the staff in the Department. I also appreciate the huge frustration and sense of loss that many taxi drivers and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes (22 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: While the service is used to provide much-needed community facilities, the real problem is that the CE scheme is funded by the Minister's Department to provide a training opportunity for people exiting long-term unemployment with the hope they would progress into the job market. I have supervised some of the people involved in these schemes and there is no doubt they benefit greatly from the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes (22 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: On a wider point than just the CE pensions, the real problem with the CE schemes is the nature of them being independent limited companies. In many ways, it is a little bit of a corporate governance black hole. The Department is effectively the shadow director, the funder and the real decision maker and CE supervisors are often one-man or one-woman shows. They have little support and the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes (22 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 28. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered the long-term sustainability of services provided by community employment schemes (details supplied). [24342/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes (22 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: Community employment is used by organisations across the country to support communities, deliver services and maximise community facilities. Is the Minister's Department committed to reforming the community employment scheme to ensure the long-term sustainability of these services, bearing in mind the people who work in them?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Data (22 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 211. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the advice given by the National Transport Authority to his Department or other Departments on the issue of taxi drivers and the impact of Covid-19 on their work practices and income and their need to return to work; and the date the advice was received. [25160/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (22 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 523. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason 2018 PAYE and self-employed income cannot be combined for the purpose of calculating the pandemic unemployment rate of a person; the reason it is the case for 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25135/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (18 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: Has the Chairman been informed of when the Joint Committee on Health will convene? The reason I ask is that circumstances in Dublin are changing and I would not like there to be a hiatus between this committee concluding and the health committee convening.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (18 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: Perhaps the clerk to the committee will get some clarification on that for us before we conclude our work. I too am anxious to conclude it, but I think that when the lockdowns in Kildare, Laois and Offaly occurred, this forum provided a valuable platform for us to discuss that. As we head into more restrictions in Dublin, I would not like to see us not have that same type of forum.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (18 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: The clerk might confirm that for the committee before we conclude.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Team Sport in Ireland (18 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: Ten.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Team Sport in Ireland (18 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: Yes. I thank each of the organisations for being with us today. There are very few people in this House who needed a pandemic to outline to them the importance of sport to society, our mental health and many other aspects. It would be wrong of us, however, not to acknowledge formally the huge level of contribution sport, particularly the structure of sport, played during the early stages...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Team Sport in Ireland (18 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: The figures are stark. I imagine if the risk at local level is included, those figures are compounded. I have dealt locally with one soccer club, Tolka Rovers, which I would say is at the point of closing its gates. It is dealing with banks. Some clubs will have an events facility or a pub on the site; others do not. How has each organisation assisted those local clubs? Has it been in...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Team Sport in Ireland (18 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: The initiative Mr. Horan mentioned about dealing with the banks is a really crucial one. Given that much of the land, sports clubs are is State-owned or leased through the local authority, liens on any mortgages would often be against that. There is not the same capacity to realise a debt if a club runs into trouble. I am happy to try to facilitate this with the Minister with...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Team Sport in Ireland (18 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: I should have prefaced my remarks by specifying at level 3.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Team Sport in Ireland (18 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: Chairman, could I have a short answer from the FAI as well?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Team Sport in Ireland (18 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: There is only one rugby club in my area, but I would not like not to hear from the IRFU.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Sport in Ireland (18 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: I welcome the representatives from the Department and Sport Ireland. Earlier, I outlined the benefits of sport and acknowledged the huge contribution that organised sporting bodies played locally in the early days of the pandemic. They demonstrated the substantial community resource that they are. I echo John Treacy's comments on the availability of sports outside the traditional ones. I...