Results 3,061-3,080 of 12,590 for speaker:Willie O'Dea

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Comprehensive Employment Strategy for People with Disabilities (1 Mar 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 209. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full-year cost in 2018 of extending the wage subsidy scheme to those persons in receipt of partial capacity benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10543/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Comprehensive Employment Strategy for People with Disabilities (1 Mar 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 214. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total expenditure in 2016 on the reasonable accommodation fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10548/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Brexit Issues (28 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 419. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the areas under his remit which may be affected by Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9801/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Programme for Government Implementation (28 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 420. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of the implementation of policies specified in the programme for partnership Government under his remit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9802/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pensions Reform (28 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 421. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of reinstating the State transition pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9803/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Homemakers Scheme (28 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 422. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of backdating the homemaker scheme prior to 1994; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9804/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes Data (28 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 423. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing all working age payments by €3, €4, €5, €6, €7, €8, €9 and €10, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9806/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes Data (28 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 424. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full year cost of increasing child benefit by €3, €4, €5, €6, €7, €8, €9 and €10, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9807/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Direct Provision Data (28 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 425. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full year cost of increasing the weekly direct provision allowance for adults from €19.10 to €25, €30, €35 and €40; the cost of increasing the allowance paid in respect of children from €15.60 to €20, €25 and €30 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service Restructuring: Discussion (23 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I thank both groups for their presentations. At the outset, I note that both my party and I are concerned about these proposals and what I have heard today does nothing to allay my concerns. One thing that jumps out at me from the Money Advice & Budgeting Service, MABS, presentation is that in 2009, when the then Department of Social and Family Affairs was running the show instead...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service Restructuring: Discussion (23 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I apologise because I must leave for the Chamber after this. I neglected to make a point in my initial contribution about citizens information centres. A similar argument applies. I want to make it clear, despite insinuations to the contrary, that I am not suggesting for one moment that there is any bad faith on the part of anybody or that it is the intention of anybody, on the board of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service Restructuring: Discussion (23 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: She implied it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service Restructuring: Discussion (23 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I heard what Ms Mangan said.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service Restructuring: Discussion (23 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I am sorry to be accused of having made a ridiculous analogy. Specifically, how many people are now dealing with MABS in the CIB?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service Restructuring: Discussion (23 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: "None" is the answer. I get the point. Ms Mangan has mentioned that the board's staff number has decreased from 92 to 74. I offer congratulations but I notice the board has access to consultants. In addition to the other information we have requested, could we have an account of how much the CIB has spent on consultants over the past five years? If CIB and MABS were to be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (23 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 304. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made by the HSE in making the drug Orkambi available to cystic fibrosis sufferers through having it included on the medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9197/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (23 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 305. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide for the libre testing device (details supplied) for sufferers of diabetes on the medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9200/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Administration (22 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that SOLAS has granted a cleaning contract for its Limerick offices to a company (details supplied) and that this company is in violation of the terms of their contract with staff that they are not paying on a regular basis; if he will instruct SOLAS to withdraw the contract in these circumstances;...

Other Questions: Poverty Data (21 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: We have not been in government for the past six years.

Other Questions: Poverty Data (21 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: Like what?