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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Services Card (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 32. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the scope of the public services card; the measures currently in place to ensure data protection and confidentiality; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39693/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Services Card (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I am aware that there are 2.7 million public services cards in circulation but as the Minister is aware, concerns have been expressed recently about plans to extend the scope of the public service card and about how confidentiality of the information contained on the card can be maintained.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Services Card (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister is saying there are no plans to extend the range of services which will require production of the public services card from now.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Services Card (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: By her Department, for now.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Services Card (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: Does the Minister accept that concerns have been raised and that they are legitimate? They have been raised by ordinary citizens, by the Data Protection Commissioner and her predecessor, by distinguished information technology lawyers who say that clear information is needed on what data has been collected, the purpose of the data and who exactly will have access to it. Is the Minister...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Services Card (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: When does the Minister envisage that this information will be published? The Department has got the questions from the Data Protection Commissioner and I presume it envisages issuing answers to those questions. What is the approximate timescale within which that will be done?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes Administration (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister for that assurance. There could be a separate debate on insurance and the extent to which premiums are decreasing. I have encountered many people in my clinics and so on and not yet met anybody who has told me his or her insurance premium has gone down, nor has mine decreased. The Minister is saying that if a similar problem arises elsewhere and a particular community...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes Administration (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 30. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the community employment scheme known as Pathways to Employment at Southill, Limerick, has been threatened with closure due to the failure of its insurance company to renew its insurance; her plans to rectify this issue; the implications for CE schemes nationally; and if she...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes Administration (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: This refers to a matter brought to my attention in my constituency but it may have wider ramifications. That is the reason I am seeking clarification on the matter.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes Administration (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister for confirming that the matter at Southill has been resolved and my constituents will be delighted with the official confirmation. The Minister stated in her reply that the Department does not propose to become an insurance agent and nor am I suggesting it should. At the same time she states that it provides a sum as part of the capitation grant to cover insurance. How...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 44. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to reform the pension system; her further plans to address the anomaly in the calculation of the contributory pension whereby those that took time out of the workforce for caring duties are being denied a full State pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39442/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Programme for Government Initiatives (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 45. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the working family payment that the Government is committed to introducing as outlined in the programme for partnership Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39443/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 71. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the concerns raised regrading the impact that JobPath is having on community employment schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39441/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Poverty (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 72. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether Ireland will reach the child specific poverty target that is set out in Better Outcomes, Brighter Futures - the National Policy Framework for Children and Young People 2014-2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39440/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding his Department allocates to Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board on an annual basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39155/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the building unit within his Department will consider buying a permanent site in the city of Limerick as a matter of urgency to house Limerick education centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39205/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Superannuation Schemes (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 582. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to concerns raised regarding the funding proposal submitted to the pensions authority regarding the CIÉ superannuation 1951 pension scheme; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that there was no consultation with the trade union group or the active membership of the pension scheme; if...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Superannuation Schemes (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 583. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a committee (details supplied) has declined the request of approximately 450 active employees for funding for an independent legal opinion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39552/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Superannuation Schemes (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 584. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a person (details supplied) has sought to retrospectively impose financial restrictions on funding for an independent actuary for the CIÉ superannuation pension scheme 1951, in view of the unrestricted independent actuarial advice made available to the TUG to facilitate the 1994 CIÉ pensions rationalisation...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 683. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actions she has taken on foot on the motion opposing the restructuring of MABS and CIS being passed by Dáil Éireann and a report from the Joint Committee on Social Protection which also called for the restructuring process to be halted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39130/17]