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Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Then they give permission for their personal data within the contract they sign. It is a personal progression plan but they give permission for things in it. I have seen some of these and they give permissions. In terms of protecting the Department and the process into the future, is their information held here or in the UK?

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: In terms of value for money, I understand from talking to people who have experience with this that the person sits in front of a computer, and they are supervised or there is somebody in the room, and they must go throughjobs.ie. It is nothing more than that. Is the Department looking at this from the point of view of how it is interacting with the individual or is it just looking at the...

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: It is not what I am hearing.

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I will refer back to the witness on it because I am hearing about very different experiences from what the witness is saying today.

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I will refer back to the witness with some details.

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I received replies to parliamentary questions relating to the number of people on a welfare payment who had a penalty applied in each of the years from 2012 to 2016. It has been growing. In 2012, when a much larger number of people were getting a welfare payment, it was 1,500 and in 2016 it was 10,000. Does JobPath play a role in that? In the first number of weeks there is a 44% reduction-----

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: -----and there can be a nine weeks scenario where there is a full loss of social welfare payment. How does the witness account for that? Is that counted in the Department's figures for claims that are fraud, administrative error or whatever?

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Who prompts the decision?

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Is there any financial advantage for either of these companies in prompting a discontinuance?

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: On disability payments and medical evidence based claims, I agree with Deputy Marc MacSharry that a lot is done well in that regard, but there are exceptions which generally are the cases brought to our offices. When I am approached by a person seeking a domiciliary care payment, my first response is that he or she should expect to be refused in the first instance and then receive it on...

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Am I correct in saying they are not always constant?

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I have a question concerning this area. Ms Stack talks about reactivating. Is that on foot of the new legislation in 2015 which allowed the Department to go back further? Were there debts-----

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Is that the aspect at which the Ombudsman is looking?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Suicide Prevention (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 171. To ask the Minister for Health the services available and the way in which they are accessed for a person (details supplied) presenting as a suicide risk who cannot be seen by child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, due to budget constraints and cannot access adult services; the way in which their risk will be managed in the absence of such services; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 272. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the outcome of the review of HAP rates and maximum rent levels undertaken in summer 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52470/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment Data (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has systematically collated data in order to understand the current barriers facing a single person household securing a tenancy in a one bedroomed apartment within the proscribed HAP limits for renting a property on the private rented market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52472/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 273. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a statistical analysis has been carried out on the number of occasions adults are presenting to support organisations (details supplied); the number of these persons noted as accessing or needing wrap around services; the way in which this is recorded; the strategic planning undertaken to deal with identified growing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Issues (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 275. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has undertaken to assess the inter-county movement barriers between counties assessed as being in tier 1, 2 and 3; the changes he plans to make; the collation of data that has been undertaken in his Department to assess the impact of previously implemented amendments to permit some inter-county changes within certain...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (7 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress that has been made since 2014 to implement a fully functioning homeless persons unit in counties Kildare, Wicklow and Meath; the strategic planning that has been undertaken to deal with the identified demand for such a unit; the way in which the data is being collated; the other stakeholders involved; and if he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements by Committee Members on Recommendations oif Citizens' Assembly (6 Dec 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I thank the Citizens' Assembly and the experts. We would do them a disservice to start categorising them. We had people in who were experts in their field. They would find it odd if they were categorised in the way that some people at this committee have done, which is unfair. One of the things I have been asked on several occasions is whether I have changed my mind as a consequence of...