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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (6 Oct 2016)

Willie O'Dea: One of the systems the Government has announced a few times in this area is the new working family payment. It will be one of the tools the Government will use to combat child poverty. Can we expect that to be announced in the budget?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (6 Oct 2016)

Willie O'Dea: Only some of them.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment (6 Oct 2016)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister for his reply. We are dealing with a cohort of people, 11% of whom are living in consistent poverty. The figure for the population as a whole is 8%. We are dealing, therefore, with a particularly poor section of the electorate. The Minister will be aware of the views of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, to which I referred in the question. He will also be aware of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment (6 Oct 2016)

Willie O'Dea: I appreciate what the Minister said. One makes a choice as to which system suits one better. However, if one makes the choice of jobseeker's transition payment as opposed to FIS, it means that one is going back from work into welfare dependency, which is the exact opposite of what the policy is supposed to be about. The Minister is aware that single parents in receipt of rent supplement...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment (6 Oct 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 1. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the assertion by an organisation (details supplied) that the main impacts of the reform of the one-parent family payment have been to reduce the income of lone parents in employment and to reduce the likelihood of lone parents who are not in employment, education or training take up work or education in the near future; and if he will...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment (6 Oct 2016)

Willie O'Dea: This question relates to the views given to the Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul on the effect of the changes in relation to lone parents and I would like the Minister's observations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Lone Parents: Department of Social Protection (6 Oct 2016)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the witness for her presentation. I am conscious of the fact that her job is to administer the scheme as it stands. Policy is a matter for the Government and administration is a matter for the public service. I have a question for the Minister on lone parents later on this afternoon so I will have a chance to discuss the policy there. The witness stated that there was regular...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Lone Parents: Department of Social Protection (6 Oct 2016)

Willie O'Dea: I would like a specific answer to that question. SPARK and other organisations will advise people who are in receipt of maintenance as well as FIS to revert from FIS to the JST next year and have supplied figures showing that they would be better off. Is that not deactivation rather than an activation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Lone Parents: Department of Social Protection (6 Oct 2016)

Willie O'Dea: As we are up against the clock I will make some brief points. First, I was interested to hear that the Department did not commission the Millar report. I am at a loss to know what difference that makes but the fact is that the Millar report is very critical of the system as it currently operates and states specifically that it requires revision. Second, I believe it was Mr. Egan, in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Lone Parents: Department of Social Protection (6 Oct 2016)

Willie O'Dea: Sorry, Chairman. I forgot to thank the officials for coming in.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Payments (6 Oct 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 21. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to change the legislation in relation to liable relatives who have moved from the one parent family payment to jobseeker's transition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28749/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (6 Oct 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 30. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the national pensions framework, which commits to sustain the value of the State pension at 35% of average weekly earnings to prevent poverty among older persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28746/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Review (6 Oct 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 44. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to replace the JobBridge scheme; the procedures in place to ensure the mistakes made with respect to the JobBridge scheme will not be repeated and that participants are not forced into unsuitable and inappropriate employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28745/16]

Questions on Proposed Legislation (5 Oct 2016)

Willie O'Dea: I wish to clarify a point raised by Deputy Howlin earlier. Did the Taoiseach say in reply to Deputy Howlin that the Government intends not to fill any vacancies on the Bench until such time as he gets an agreement on the new system of appointing judges? Is that the position?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (4 Oct 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 259. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application for disability allowance by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28063/16]

Questions on Proposed Legislation (28 Sep 2016)

Willie O'Dea: On promised legislation, the first item on page 24 of the legislative programme is the Public Health (Sale of Tobacco) Bill. It states the heads of the Bill are being drafted. What is the timescale for publication? Second-----

Questions on Proposed Legislation (28 Sep 2016)

Willie O'Dea: It is a continuum. There is a commitment in the programme for Government to set up a special court to deal with cases of mortgage arrears. When will it be established? The link is tenuous.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (28 Sep 2016)

Willie O'Dea: What about my first question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (27 Sep 2016)

Willie O'Dea: I thank Ms Feely and Ms Fahey for attending and for their excellent presentations. It is very difficult to disagree with anything they said. I also thank them for the work they are doing to promote the interests of the elderly and to keep those interests to the forefront. I thank the Society of St. Vincent de Paul for the wonderful work is doing on the ground, which I see at first hand in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (27 Sep 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will extend the SUSI grant scheme to students (details supplied) in view of the fact that the college they attend can be designated as an outreach college of UCD; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26469/16]