Results 22,401-22,420 of 26,272 for speaker:Seán Ó Fearghaíl

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (6 May 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: That is not true.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (6 May 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 4. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to alleviate food poverty; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17373/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (6 May 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: It is frightening to think that in the Ireland of today 10% of the population is experiencing food poverty. A recent study by the Vincentian Partnership for Social Justice acknowledged that after housing and child care costs, one of the biggest challenges facing the family budget is to provide food. We know that one in five children in Ireland go to bed hungry and one in six children go to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (6 May 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Does the Tánaiste accept that food poverty has a particularly negative effect on children? It affects their health, educational attainment and their behaviour in school. I welcome the increase in the budget for the school meals programme in the current year. That needs to be continued. Does the Tánaiste also accept that there perhaps needs to be a restructuring of the school...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (6 May 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: In alluding to the means test, does the Tánaiste accept that, even as things are, there needs to be a communications campaign to make people's entitlements clear? Often, people do not distinguish between jobseeker's benefit and jobseeker's allowance. For some time, the Fianna Fáil position has been that we would favour the introduction on a voluntary basis of a phased scheme...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (6 May 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Any of us in responding to this issue accepts that for the system to work a realistic contribution has to be made. As we look to the future and to the sort of economy we want to develop, we find we are all committed to developing indigenous small and medium sized enterprises. We all accept that in order to do that successfully the safety net of a social welfare benefit system does two...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (6 May 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 1. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to provide the self-employed with greater access to social welfare benefits; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17372/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (6 May 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I have the unenviable task of standing in for the inimitable Deputy O'Dea. This question seeks to explore with the Tánaiste what plans, if any, she has to extend access to social welfare benefits to the self-employed. The question is posed against the background of all of us in this House wishing to see the indigenous sector develop. We see access to welfare benefits as part of that...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Maintenance Payments (6 May 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 14. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of determination orders issued by the maintenance recovery unit of her Department that will be invalid after 2 July 2015; the financial loss to her Department; the reason this was not catered for in the legislation for jobseeker's transitional payment; in view of financial cuts to working lone parents, the reason her Department is now...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (6 May 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 26. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current level of rent supplement to take account of rent increases; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17332/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Activation Projects (6 May 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 27. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way she will ensure that persons with disabilities will not be inappropriately activated under the proposed JobPath measures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17333/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payments (6 May 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 43. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients of one-parent family payments who are subjected to low-hour contracts and are therefore not in a position to increase their hours to avail of family income supplement; the average income loss to workers in this category from transferring to the jobseeker's allowance transitional payment; the number of lone parents who will...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payments (6 May 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 46. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of stark evidence from the European Union's Survey on Income and Living Conditions 2013, which showed that consistent poverty rates for one-parent family households increased by 32%, from 17.7% to 23%, while there was no statistically significant increase in the general population, if she will suspend any further reform, until a proper...

Topical Issue Debate: Credit Unions (30 Apr 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I support the objective of protecting savings but the issue of death benefit or insurance is a different matter. The Minister of State revealed that responsibility for this has been passed to Permanent TSB but agents of the State entered into an agreement with that bank before the credit union had been subsumed. The issue of death benefit should have been considered as part of this...

Topical Issue Debate: Credit Unions (30 Apr 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I do.

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (30 Apr 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Deputy should not hold his breath.

Topical Issue Debate: Credit Unions (30 Apr 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for having accepted this particularly important Topical Issue matter. I also thank the Minister of State, Deputy Harris, for coming in to deal with it. I hope he will take seriously the issues I am raising. The Minister of State will know from his party colleagues the huge controversy that has surrounded the closure of Newbridge Credit Union, both locally and...

Order of Business (30 Apr 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Government promised to introduce a planning and development Bill and a housing Bill. When are these Bills likely to come before the House and if they are not imminent will the Government provide time in the near future for a debate on housing? I ask this question in the context of a statement released today by the Dublin Simon Community which asserts that the Government's emergency...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Labour Party would have won an Oscar for being angry when it was in opposition.

Other Questions: Comóradh 1916 (30 Apr 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Is mór an trua é sin.