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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: Surely it must adjust the charges depending on how much the State could afford to subvent them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: We have to know what the net cost was. We are discussing the impact on the public finances.

Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: Before Christmas, the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government undertook to get the Residential Tenancies Board to carry out some research to ascertain whether rent control would be extended to Limerick, Galway and Waterford. What stage is this research at and will the Minister be able to meet his commitment that the decision will be made towards the end of this month...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (17 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 257. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to change the terms of the tax concession for disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme 1994, in respect of a person (details supplied); when he plans to do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41749/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (17 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline his plans to enable teachers in appropriate special education settings, resource and special class, to have their probation completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1449/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Data (17 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 651. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of social welfare appeals lodged in each of the years 2012 to 2016 in tabular form; the percentage of appeals which were successful; the average waiting time in these years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1516/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (17 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 662. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of putting the social welfare appeals office on a statutory footing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1686/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (17 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 1723. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Army Ranger Wing applied for a pay rise in 2006 which went to arbitration which stated the minimum pay rise was to be €50 per week backdated to 2006 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41358/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (16 Dec 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 228. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of households by county currently in receipt of the rent supplement payment in tabular form; the number of households by county that have had their rent increased above the prescribed rent supplement limit for their area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40609/16]

Employment Equality (Amendment) Bill 2016: First Stage (14 Dec 2016)

Willie O'Dea: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Employment Equality Act 1998 to allow for the abolition of mandatory retirement where an employee can provide evidence of full fitness to work as required in their contract of employment. This Bill arises from a policy document issued by Fianna Fáil in 2012. That policy document gave rise to a Bill, published...

Employment Equality (Amendment) Bill 2016: First Stage (14 Dec 2016)

Willie O'Dea: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Questions on Proposed Legislation (14 Dec 2016)

Willie O'Dea: I think the Leas-Cheann Comhairle is very fair.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (14 Dec 2016)

Willie O'Dea: I remind the Taoiseach about the reply he gave to this House two weeks ago regarding defined benefit pension schemes. He said that the Minister for Social Protection was meeting the chairman of the Pensions Authority with a view to taking action in this regard. I presume the meeting has taken place and I want to know what is the follow-up.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (14 Dec 2016)

Willie O'Dea: Has the meeting taken place?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times (14 Dec 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 122. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the average waiting time for a decision on appeal for social protection payments paid on a weekly basis in cases where there is no oral hearing and in cases where there is an oral hearing in 2016, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40221/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Reports (14 Dec 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 123. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the external consultant reports commissioned by his Department since he came into office, in tabular form; the cost per report; the company involved; the title of the report; the publication date or estimated publication date if not already published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40222/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Data (14 Dec 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 124. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of young persons not in education, training or employment; the current percentage of youth unemployment; the way this number compares to the EU average; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40223/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Programme for Government Implementation (14 Dec 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 125. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of commitments made in the programme for partnership Government that fall within the remit of his Department; the commitments which specified an action to be taken by the end of 2016; if this target date has been met in respect of such commitments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40224/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Poverty Data (14 Dec 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 126. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the rate of severe material deprivation for lone parent households here as measured by EUROSTAT, in tabular form; the way in which this rate compares to the EU average; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40225/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Data (14 Dec 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 127. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of exceptional needs payments paid in 2016 to date; the cost of such payments; the reason, if available, such payments are made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40226/16]