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Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: I know that. I do not have the time now.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: What about outstanding claims?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: What of complaints, such as Deputy Munster said?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: But going back over the past four years.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: And prior to that?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: Could Ms Downes get the figures for 2016, please?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: It is important to take it into account in the overall context of the number of complaints.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: Can I deal with the issue in relation to salaries for 2019? What level of decrease would there have been between the workload, say, in 2016, and in 2019?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: Were there 26 staff at the end of 2019?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: As for the members of staff who have left since then, have they left under redundancy?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: Has there been provision in Caranua's budget for that?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: In relation to someone who was there for five or six years, for example, what redundancy is being paid?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: Plus one week?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: Was adequate provision made in 2019 in relation to the staff number?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: The workload has decreased substantially by this stage.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: Could cost savings in respect of salaries have been made at an earlier date?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: To go back to the earlier issue relating to the assessment of claims and coming to a decision on payments, there was a detailed mechanism in place for dealing with assessments. Of the 6,181 people who claimed, how many actually filed appeals over the years with regard to applications that were made?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: Does Ms Downes have details for each year?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: I thank Ms Downes.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: National Volunteering Strategy (17 Dec 2020)

Colm Burke: 13. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the steps her Department will take to implement the National Volunteering Strategy and the measures to support volunteering given its importance to communities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43687/20]