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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (24 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average, median, maximum and minimum primary school class sizes for the Cork city and Cork County Council area from 2019 to date in 2024, in tabular form. [3312/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (24 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 150. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the proposed auto enrolment scheme. [3306/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 151. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actual number and the percentage of working family payment claimants, respectively who are also claiming the one parent family payment. [3307/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 152. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the percentage of claimants over each of the past five years of claimants who lose the working family payment due to the claimant moving from the one parent family payment to the jobseeker’s transitional payment when their youngest child reaches seven years of age. [3308/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (24 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 153. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for a breakdown of the average wait time for a decision on an appeal, for each social welfare payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3309/24]

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That was going to be my question about Part 3. It is worth saying this Bill is now effectively two Bills in one. I am in favour of both but if I brought forward amendments like this to the Bill they would be ruled out of order three times from Sunday. That being said, I do not necessarily disagree with it. That is the answer to the question I was going to ask. Part 3 is related to a...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I agree with the general point it is better to have a clear commencement date. The commencement date is not necessarily dependent on how quickly we are doing our business. It can happen within two months of the passing of the Bill or within a month of it. It is just a general point.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I have many questions on this. I have read the amendments and from some discussions with the Department, it very much reads as though if people are in a designated centre then they are on the rate set by the Department of children. That would not have been my understanding from the press reports up to now, but maybe that is something the Minister can clarify. Again, this to an extent...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I have multiple questions. I do not see the bit in these amendments or in Chapter 3 where it states this will be particular to new arrivals. It would be useful if that could be pointed out to me.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I think-----

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I do not know how that will work in practice, especially when a centre cannot be part designated. If the person who is managing a place that 20 Ukrainians are currently in, finds capacity for 15 more beds, will that be a designated centre? It cannot be a part designated centre.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Just one second. If there are 15 more beds there and the provider says he or she can accommodate 15 more Ukrainians, do they then stay on the increased rate because they are in a centre in which things might be provided for them but it is not an officially designated centre?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Even though these people might arrive in May, for example, they will continue to get the full rate.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That seems hard to achieve for a number of reasons. There are a couple of issues. I have given that example. If a provider of accommodation offers 15 more places and comes to the Department of children, given the fact that it is not a designated centre, what does the Department then do? Does it turn down those 15 places? Similarly, if somebody left accommodation and maybe stayed with a...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It is not provided for.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I know the Department of children officials cannot speak here but if they can speak through the Minister, can they give any examples of where these designated centres will be? We are talking about hundreds or perhaps thousands of people. Based on what the Minister is saying, this will effectively be a completely new system and stratum of accommodation that is completely unrelated to the...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I know this goes beyond the Minister, but this does not seem to be a fully thought-through plan.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: As I said, this does not seem to be coherent. We do not make legislation usually on the basis of "It is not the expectation" or "It is not our intention".

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I know.