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Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have problems with the section but given the time constraints I am willing to put them on hold because they relate to positive discrimination. We must be careful about going down that route. I will table an amendment to that effect.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am opposed to the change and will oppose it on Report Stage.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am conscious of the time and I will not delay the debate other than to say that I will return to this matter on Report Stage. I am concerned to ensure that we do not end up with a duplication of roles. For example, with regard to the role of the CAB, we were promised many years ago that it would not only concentrate on high level crime but that its focus would start to filter down. I am...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I argue that it should not have been ruled out of order because it is the existing practice. It has been ruled out of order perhaps because it is contrary to the future recovery of money in this instance.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I would cite an example, which will back up what Deputy O'Dea said, of a person who was in receipt of a Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland grant bearing in mind that such a grant is not paid until the person has spent the money. People apply to their bank or credit union on the basis that they will get the money back by way of the grant in six months time. If in the meantime the State,...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have no major issue with this amendment as it is in line with changes in recent years such as multi-agency task forces. I do have an issue with the deletion of subsection 16 on the fact that a Garda must be in uniform. Why is this a requirement? Social welfare inspectors do not wear a uniform so they can act undercover. The same applies to the Revenue Commissioners, though they have a...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. 13: In page 14, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following:"(1A) The Minister shall produce regulations governing the method by which the requirement in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) to remain habitually resident in order for any entitlement to subsist may be controlled or verified by the Department and these regulations must ensure that any such control method or...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: My amendment does not run contrary to the proposal, but rather it deals with the regulation. We are happy enough that at least progress is being made and I will not oppose the section.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: When is it intended to publish the regulation if this Bill is passed in July?

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Can the Minister provide a draft of that regulation which would be helpful in our deliberations?

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The difficulty is that we are dealing with a new definition of family.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thank the Minister.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will probably resubmit my amendment on Report Stage. While the ruling is that it would impose a charge on the Exchequer, it would do if this Bill had passed. It would not do so because it leaves thestatus quoas it is. It is difficult for us in opposition to argue to leave thestatus quoin these instances. This is a change and I am not opposed to the change. I am seeking recognition of...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I can envisage cases where somebody, a qualified adult, is referred to a mental institution who has commitments to pay bills in the family home. Removal of a payment in such an instance may cause additional hardship. The Minister needs to be careful not to make this black and white, to rule out all such instances. The intention behind my amendment was positive. It recognises that if...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. 11: In page 12, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following:“(3) Section 232 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting the following subsection after subsection (3):“(4) The Minister shall provide a copy of any regulation or variation to a regulation that she proposes to make under this section to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Obviously, it was challenged. If it still went ahead, it meant that the procurement process was resilient.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: In 2007.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Obviously, it failed.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That may be the technical nature of the Bill, but I still believe that prepared bidder status should be granted to An Post or others in such contracts. The movement in European thinking away from the concept of a social Europe and towards a commercial Europe is a danger. It is not just a danger in terms of An Post but a danger in the approach to the delivery of social welfare services as a...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This is what underlies the thinking.