Results 1-20 of 37 for revert speaker:Willie O'Dea

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (23 Mar 2023)

Willie O'Dea: 361. To ask the Minister for Health if he will revert to this Deputy with a response to an issue (details supplied) which was raised recently during questions on priority legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14559/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2022)

Willie O'Dea: ...to meet the needs of the population. I want to find out whether there has been any discussion on this and when there will be a decision on it. Could the Taoiseach contact the Minister for Health and revert to me in writing? The crisis at University Hospital Limerick continues unabated and is causing a great deal of suffering and misery in the area. It is also generating a huge amount...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pension Provisions (6 Sep 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a mechanism or his plans to introduce a mechanism to enable teachers to revert to their original pension status later in their career in view of the fact that under circular 07-2013 the status of a second level teacher's pension will change if the teacher ceases teaching for more than 26 weeks; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Secondment (31 May 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a member of his inspectorate that is seconded as a director of an education centre on a calendar year basis will now have to revert to a school year basis in view of the regulations introduced in September 2017; if so, if the director's secondment tenure will not be reduced as a result of this regulation; and if he will make a statement on...

Other Questions: Poverty Data (17 Jan 2018)

Willie O'Dea: ...introduced is bringing in incremental measures here and there to alleviate the consequences of what was done in 2012. Would it not be simpler and more efficient, and I suggest just as cheap, to revert to the 2012 situation? Has the Minister any figures regarding what it would cost to revert to the 2012 situation?

Social Welfare Bill: Second Stage (23 Nov 2017)

Willie O'Dea: ..., most to the very end of March. That is a very retrograde step. That is the danger when the date is moved. The practice used to be to have social welfare increases from 1 January and I hope that system can be reverted to. I welcome the provision of invalidity pensions for the first time for the self-employed but several things remain to be done. The question of jobseeker's benefit...

Order of Business (4 Jul 2017)

Willie O'Dea: ...the House but, amazingly, Committee Stage to be taken by the joint committee is scheduled for this day week. I always thought the practice was to have Second Stage before Committee Stage. Have we reverted to having Committee Stage before Second Stage? Is this new politics?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2017: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)

Willie O'Dea: ...on that issue? On head 5, in cases where people who are already paying off an overpayment are convicted, will they receive up to 75% of their full social welfare rate for nine weeks before reverting to the overpayment, in other words, will this be an additional payment which will not in any way impinge on the amount of the overpayment people will ultimately have to pay? I am not sure...

Social Welfare Bill 2016: Report Stage (24 Nov 2016)

Willie O'Dea: ...trying to emphasise there is a certain urgency about this matter. There is the additional factor that the organisations representing lone parents will be advising a large swathe of lone parents to revert from family income supplement, an employment-related payment, to jobseeker's transition, a social welfare payment, when the back to work family dividend runs out. If this report is not...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

Willie O'Dea: ...are entitled to assume that an increase in their social welfare will be an increase for the year beginning 1 January. I call on the Minister to give an indication that it is his intention to revert to the logical system whereby changes in an October budget will come into effect from 1 January rather than six months later.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment (6 Oct 2016)

Willie O'Dea: ...that represent single parents are going to run a campaign to encourage people who are in receipt of the one-parent family payment or family income supplement, FIS, and who are also working to revert from FIS to the jobseeker's transition payment when the family income dividend runs out next year? The latter will put people who are at work back into welfare dependency.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Lone Parents: Department of Social Protection (6 Oct 2016)

Willie O'Dea: I would like a specific answer to that question. SPARK and other organisations will advise people who are in receipt of maintenance as well as FIS to revert from FIS to the JST next year and have supplied figures showing that they would be better off. Is that not deactivation rather than an activation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (27 Sep 2016)

Willie O'Dea: ...in Wonderland. It seems to me that many of those anomalies have come in as a result of the changes made in reducing the age to seven. How many of those anomalies would be sorted out if, for example, we were to revert to when the age threshold was 14? What would need to be done in addition to that? The organisations recommended an increase in rent supplement or HAP, housing assistance...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2011: Report Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Willie O'Dea: ...bona fides of the particular Minister opposite. Nevertheless, if this is the advice of the Attorney General, I would seriously question that advice on foot of my own reading of the case. If one reverts to the High Court case, that court was presented with a scenario whereby these committees, which were set up to provide pay and conditions for particular workers, had a lot of powers....

Employment Rights (25 Jan 2012)

Willie O'Dea: ...what bondholders are being paid. A Department is liable for this €80,000 but the State is refusing to honour a recommendation of the Labour Court. Will the Minister investigate that and revert to me?

Written Answers — Regeneration Programmes: Regeneration Programmes (27 Sep 2011)

Willie O'Dea: ...Environment, Community and Local Government if he has received proposals from Limerick City Council concerning alterations to the regeneration master plan; when he expects to be in a position to revert to the council on this matter; and if he is treating this as urgent. [26163/11]

Planning Issues (6 Apr 2011)

Willie O'Dea: ...This legislation was specifically drawn up and designed to deal in part with the problem relating to ghost estates. I seek the assurance of the Minister of State that there will be no changes to revert to the status quo ante.

Defence Forces Review. (20 Jan 2010)

Willie O'Dea: I will investigate the matter involving the chemist and revert to the Deputy on it. It has been widely accepted for years that the medical corps is in an unsatisfactory state for a number of reasons but we have lacked a roadmap for the solution. I decided to jump-start the process by appointing consultants and I have now received a report. I previously advised Deputy Deenihan that some of...

Written Answers — Reserve Defence Force: Reserve Defence Force (19 Jan 2010)

Willie O'Dea: ...15,668 1995 15,285 354 15,639 The figures for 2000 could not be collated in the time available but I have requested my officials to follow up with Records & Data Management to ascertain these and revert to you in writing in due course. The total strength of the Reserve includes personnel who are categorised as non-effective. As provided for in Defence Forces Regulation R5, personnel are...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Property: Defence Forces Property (13 Oct 2009)

Willie O'Dea: The former military detention centre in the Curragh was used as a civilian prison by the Irish Prison Service from 1996 to 2008. At the end of that period responsibility for the facility reverted to my Department. I have no immediate plans for any refurbishment of the prison. The provision of civilian prison accommodation is, in the first instance, a matter for the Irish Prison Service and...