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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (7 Nov 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I am happy with the Minister's reply. I am glad she has moved so quickly to meet her commitment and that the study has been done. I am glad she is almost in a position to make a report to the Cabinet. Can she confirm to me again, for the record, that it is her intention to do something about this issue in the short term and that we will not be waiting until next year's budget?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (7 Nov 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I am glad the Minister has not closed her mind to the possibility of doing something in advance of the next budget. The Minister referred to the total contributions system the Government is preparing to introduce. Is she aware of a report by KPMG, produced at the instance of the Department, that a total contributions system would mean even fewer people, women in particular, would get at...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (7 Nov 2017)

Willie O'Dea: How did KPMG come to its conclusion?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Agencies Reports (7 Nov 2017)

Willie O'Dea: Nobody agrees with that apart from paid consultants.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Agencies Reports (7 Nov 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister for her response. My recollection is that when we discussed this matter with the Minister at the committee, she confirmed that the board had signed off on the report. I am open to correction, but the information available to me is that when the final report was produced, the consultants had not engaged with anyone other than the executive of the board. It is also my...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Agencies Reports (7 Nov 2017)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister says it is not our business to interfere with how the board does its business but I disagree. It is very much our business. We are talking about two organisations which have done and continue to do great work for a section of the public. If that organisation is to be undermined or interfered with or if its capacity to help the type of people it helps is to be undermined or...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Agencies Reports (7 Nov 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 49. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if all members of the Citizens Information Board unanimously signed off on the cost-benefit analysis report on the restructuring of MABS and the CIS; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46918/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Agencies Reports (7 Nov 2017)

Willie O'Dea: My question is self-explanatory. Did the Citizens Information Board unanimously sign off on the cost-benefit analysis of the restructuring of the Money Advice and Budgeting Service, MABS, and the Citizens Information service, CIS? I want to know if the Citizens Information Board unanimously signed off on the cost-benefit analysis on the restructuring of MABS and CIS.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment (7 Nov 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 69. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on an independent review (details supplied) on the amendments to the one-parent family payment since 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46858/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Payments (7 Nov 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 1224. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in respect of a carer's benefit application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46190/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Advertising Expenditure (7 Nov 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 1266. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of all advertisements taken out in print media, online, television and radio highlighting the new PRSI benefits that came into effect on 28 October 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46876/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (7 Nov 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 1327. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to extend modular housing as a response to the housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46421/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (7 Nov 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 1353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has sanctioned funding to an association (details supplied) to fund the purchase of houses yet to be built at Rhebogue, Limerick city; the amount of funding that was sought; the amount that was approved; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the number of houses will be less than the amount for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (26 Oct 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 254. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the expected publication date of the report on pension inequities agreed to by the former Minister for Social Protection during the passing of the Social Welfare Bill 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45393/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (26 Oct 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 255. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actions she will take if the report on pension inequities agreed to by the former Minister for Social Protection finds that the changes introduced to bands in 2012 had an adverse effect on pensioners and women pensioners in particular; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45394/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (26 Oct 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 256. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address the anomalies in the calculation of the contributory pension before 2020 in view of the fact that the system is scheduled to move from an averaging approach to a total contributions approach; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45395/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (25 Oct 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 106. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason pensioners who were formerly civil servants, gardaí and members of the Defence Forces are excluded from NHR tax exemption in Portugal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45111/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Data (24 Oct 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teaching principals in DEIS schools in the Limerick city and county catchment area; the supports and resources that are available to free them up to attend external meetings such as child protection case conferences or Meitheal meetings in which their contribution is vital to enhancing an inter agency response to a vulnerable...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (24 Oct 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 384. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) dealing with Turas Nua cannot accept an offer of employment from north Tipperary Leader partnership in view of the fact they are on a job programme with Turas Nua; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44618/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (24 Oct 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 394. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) signed up with Turas Nua cannot avail of funding to undertake a course that will help him or her to establish his or her own business; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44808/17]