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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2023: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: What happens if a person does not pass away in hospital? Unfortunately, there are people in this country who do not have a GP because they cannot get one. What happens in those circumstances?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2023: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: When what is proposed is enacted, we be able to register the death, but just not the cause of death. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2023: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: I thank Mr. Daly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2023: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: That concludes our first session today. Go raibh maith agaibh go léir. I thank Mr. Daly, Mr. Dillon and Mr. O'Loughlin for their time and positive engagement with the committee. We will be engaging with them further. We will furnish them with copies of the submissions we have received.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: The committee will now consider the public service performance report with officials from the Department of Social Protection, who are welcome. In 2016, the OECD Review of budget oversight by parliament: Ireland highlighted the requirement to provide enhanced performance information to support the Oireachtas in assessing the outputs and outcomes from public expenditure. A challenge...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: I thank Mr. Egan for the submission and evidence. Deputy Ó Laoghaire is first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: Will Mr. Egan clarify one comment? He said the numbers of processed applications in 2018 were comparable with the current years except there was an anomaly during Covid. We are only back at comparable levels.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: Could Deputy Ó Cuív pause for one second? I will bring him in. I am not bad with figures but I am getting my head around all that. Will Mr. Egan provide the committee with a note fleshing that out? It would be useful in getting our heads around this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: One or two of those aspects might be outside Mr. Egan's remit but I think the issues the Deputy has raised are very valid so I ask him to address them please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: I thank Mr. Egan for his submissions. From a logistical point of view, it would be useful if we got them either in Word format or as PDFs rather than scanned documents. It is just easier for us to work with. From a logistical point of view, it would make it easier. I have a number of questions about the documentation that is before us and I would like to go through those with Mr. Egan....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: The point I am making is that the statistics are there. It is not that we are asking the Department to do something it is not doing already, but I think what has been presented to us is not reflective. For example, some of the statistics that would probably be extremely useful to us as a committee would be those relating to supplementary welfare allowance. That would be a level of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: I accept that this is a juggling measure the Department has to do in respect of the limit. The point I am making and made at the start is that the Department does have the statistics. Ultimately, however, this is supposed to ensure we are satisfied that the money being spent is being spent in an appropriate manner. The committee does believe that that is the case but we do not believe that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: These increases would not be reflected in these data and will probably be reflected in next year’s report.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: Winter is when we have the real problem with heat.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: We had a relatively mild spring last year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: Mr. Corcoran wanted to make a contribution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: Just to clarify, the Department systems can technically break these down by eircode but the difficulty is that the Department does not have the eircodes of 40% of claimants. The technology can do it but it is just that the data are not available at the moment in the Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2023: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: Correct me if I am wrong. My recollection about the legislation for the registration of a marriage is that both parties have to present in person. That is a safety provision regarding some references to technical elements here. Maybe Mr. Daly might want to clarify that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: Those are claims.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: Perhaps that issue could be dealt as part of the agenda for later meetings. I thank Mr. Egan, Mr. Flynn and Mr. Corcoran for their time this morning. It would be useful for the committee to have a further bilateral engagement on the targets. It would be beneficial in benchmarking what is going on. We might schedule a further meeting in the autumn to do that in advance of the management...