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Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands

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Last updated - 15 Mar 2024, 12:37

20 Mar 2024, 09:30, CR3, LH 2000

Social Welfare (Consolidated Claims, Payments and Control) (Amendment)(No.1) (Income Disregard) S.I. No. 37 of 2024

  • Heather Humphreys, Minister for Rural and Community Development; and Social Protection

Social Welfare (Consolidated Supplementary Welfare Allowance) (Amendment) (No. 1) (Calculation of Means) S.I. 38 of 2024

  • Heather Humphreys, Minister for Rural and Community Development; and Social Protection

Operation of Means Testing in the Social Welfare System

  • Heather Humphreys, Minister for Rural and Community Development; and Social Protection

The Committee scrutinises the work of the Department of Social Protection and Department of Rural and Community Development and their respective agencies, and examines expenditure, policy related aspects and EU matters.

Date established: 30 Jul 2020

House: 33rd Dáil, 26th Seanad

scrutiny

Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker's Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill

In considering the proposed legislation, the Committee recommends using bands to set the payment rates and that the Department should publish a poverty and gender impact analysis of the proposal to individualise payment.

Latest Report

Safe Deposit Boxes and Related Deposits Bill 2022

In examining this legislation, which seeks to crate a register of property deposits in banks, the Committee welcomes the objective of creating a framework to allow for the identification and retention of unclaimed property in safe deposit boxes of historical, archaeological or historic importance and to make such property available to the State.

Press releases

6 Mar 2024, 12:37

Social Protection Committee publishes report on the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024

13 Feb 2024, 14:46

Social Protection Committee to discuss energy poverty and retrofitting with officials from the Department of Social Protection and the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications

9 Feb 2024, 11:43

Work programme for 2024 published by Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands

Recent videos

Wed, 28 Feb 2024

Wed, 28 Feb 2024

Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands

Topic: Engagement on energy poverty, specifically in reference to the retrofitting of homes and suitability of fuel allowance to...

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Wed, 21 Feb 2024

Wed, 21 Feb 2024

Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands

Topics: Engagement on energy poverty, specifically in reference to the retrofitting of homes and suitability of fuel allowance t...

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Wed, 14 Feb 2024

Wed, 14 Feb 2024

Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands

Topic: Engagement on energy poverty, specifically in reference to the retrofitting of homes and suitability of fuel allowance to...

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Recent documents

Thu, 7 Mar 2024

Correspondence, Roderic O’Gorman T.D., Minister, Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth

Correspondence, Roderic O’Gorman T.D., Minister, Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth ()

Tue, 5 Mar 2024

Submission, Irish Congress of Trade Unions

Submission, Irish Congress of Trade Unions ()

Tue, 5 Mar 2024

Submission, Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed

Submission, Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed ()

Recent reports

Wed, 6 Mar 2024

Report on the Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024
Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands, Report on the pre-legislative scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024, March 2024

Fri, 9 Feb 2024

Work Programme 2024
Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands Work Programme 2024, February 2024

Fri, 9 Feb 2024

Annual Report 2022
Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands Annual Report 2022, January 2024

Select committee

The select committee comprises only Dáil Members. It meets to consider legislation and Estimates relating to the Committee's remit.

EU scrutiny

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EU scrutiny

All proposed EU legislation in the areas of agriculture, food and the marine is scrutinized by the committee and decisions are made regarding such proposals.

Committee contact details

Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands

Leinster House

Kildare Street

Dublin

D02 XR20

Clerk to the Committee

Caoimhe O'Rourke

(01) 618 4281

spcri@oireachtas.ie

 

Press officer

Áine McMahon

(01) 618 3437

(085) 8007312

aine.mcmahon@oireachtas.ie

 

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