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Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

...reflecting mainly the tailing off of Covid-19 supports for workers. The reduction in that area was offset by significantly increased spending on State pensions, which was up 5.7%; on illness, disability and carers, which was up 10.6%; and on supports for children, which was up 10.6%. Fuel allowance payments in 2022 amounted to €576 million, which was up 82% from 2021. The...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

...service values. The second, and perhaps most important, point I make, and I try to say it every year, is that, as a Department, we are conscious that we must protect the welfare of pensioners, carers, lone parents, people with disabilities and others who are reliant on welfare payments. That is both in their interests and in the interest of wider society. A key determinant of economic...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...ones are the increase for a qualifying adult for people who are retired, whereby their partner might not have made PRSI contributions and they get their increase for a qualifying adult, and the carer's payment. Many people believe the carer's payment is not means-tested. There might be a ten-year period during which their own or their partner's economic circumstances change and there has...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

Mr. John McKeon: There are a couple of things there. First, when we do award carer's claims or disability allowance claims, we make it clear to people: "It is a means-tested payment, and if your circumstances change, please tell us." There is a balance to be struck after that because, while we do need to contact people and say, "Have your means changed? Please tell us because otherwise...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: ...the witnesses in policy formation, but is the Department involved in any review or reporting process to inform the Government as to whether or not we should host a means test for things like the carer's allowance? It must take up a significant amount of the Department's time.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

Mr. John McKeon: -----but I think everyone was calling for them. We increased the capital on income disregards for the carer's allowance. The increase is to €450 for a single person and €900 for a couple. When I started looking at this it was approximately €500. That is now approximately €900 for a couple. It is a significant disregard. The changes for fuel...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: That is really where I am at. Will Mr. McKeon tell me the number of people who are in receipt of carer's allowance?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

Mr. John McKeon: Carer's allowance recipients total 95,000.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

Mr. John McKeon: Approximately half of those would be what is called the half-rate carer's allowance.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: ...I am getting at here is not encroaching on policy. Can we ascertain, as a committee, through a review by the Department, that the manpower involved in the means testing of 95,000 is worthwhile? Carers are, in effect, saving billions of euro for the State. Carers Ireland estimates that it is €20 billion per year. If it is €20 billion per year, are we saying it is...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

...have to be in my review. It is, first and foremost, a policy decision, so I do not want to get into that policy domain. If we were to take away the means test and to make a universal payment for carers, you would be at looking at adding at least 40,000 to 50,000 to that. That is 40,000 to 50,000 multiplied by approximately €14,000 per year. It is a significant cost.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

Mr. John McKeon: We know the number of people in receipt of the carer's support grant. That is a payment to people. If you take the difference and say everyone on the carer's support grant were to get the carer's allowance as well, you are looking at a significant increase in expenditure, which would be orders of magnitude more than the number of staff we have.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

Verona Murphy: ...of their tether, and not being financially supported means that the system will come under pressure, not on the social protection side, but on the actual care side. What we are not giving them in carer's allowance we will end up paying out, as an Exchequer, through hospitalisation, fair deal or nursing home. It is basically that people are not prepared to do this any longer. For...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

...supports for people who cannot work. Their income supports are not payment for work, if she gets my point. What the Deputy is talking about is a payment for the performance of the work of a carer. Whether that is appropriate to this Department or not is an issue, to be honest. We provide income support. There is challenge and inequity perspective from a policy perspective. If...