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Order of Business (31 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: The Deputy is some example of transparency.

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: Give us a hint.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme Eligibility (31 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 505. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he is aware that under the partial capacity benefit scheme, persons are automatically discontinued for a period of 13 weeks; his proposals to change this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13443/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Delays (31 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 509. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) will be processed; when a decision will be issued; the reason for delay in processing the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13476/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pension Provisions (31 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 630. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that a number of employees of the Central Remedial Clinic were informed that their pension plan was dissolved as of 18 May 2016 and that this was only communicated to the affected employees after the pension was dissolved; his plans to address the concerns of the affected employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12613/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (26 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 117. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when he will issue a decision on an application by a person (details supplied) under the disability allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12243/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (26 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 120. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to change the position whereby an adult who is dependent on a spouse's invalidity pension is precluded from partaking in a community employment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12263/16]

Other Questions: One-Parent Family Payment (25 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 33. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to publish the report by a person (details supplied) on the impact on one-parent families of the changes to the one-parent family payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11768/16]

Other Questions: One-Parent Family Payment (25 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: I want to remind the House of what the Minister's predecessor, Deputy Joan Burton, said in the Dáil on 18 April 2012 on changes to the lone parent allowance:[S]even is too young for anyone to seriously contemplate any of these things without there being a system of safe, affordable and accessible child care in place, similar to what is found in the Scandinavian countries whose systems of...

Other Questions: One-Parent Family Payment (25 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: The statistics that Deputy Smith adverted to are very simple. The latest figures show that 22%, which is more than one in five, of children of lone parents are living in permanent poverty. It also shows that almost 60% of children of lone parents, which is three out of five, are suffering deprivation. They are deprived of some of the things that make up a decent standard of living. All...

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: Social Insurance (25 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 30. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to change the PRSI system to extend benefits to the self-employed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11905/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: Social Insurance (25 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: I take it from the Minister's reply that he is endeavouring to introduce a safety net for self-employed who fall ill or whose businesses collapse in the same way as employees have the jobseeker's benefit or illness benefit. The tenor of the reply appears to indicate that he will do this on a compulsory basis. I acknowledge that is what the advisory group recommended but I disagree...

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: Social Insurance (25 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: I am aware of that. I am also aware of the position as it pertains to employees. On the basis of conversations I have had with a number of self-employed business people and their representatives, they would love the option if the contributions were reasonable. We have produced figures on this. The report the Minister mentioned estimated that to bring in a scheme for illness benefit and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Review (25 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 29. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to reform the JobBridge Scheme given the number of criticisms that have been levelled at it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11888/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Review (25 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: I must apologise as I forgot to congratulate the Minister on his new appointment. I would be the first to concede that JobBridge has done a lot of good. Will the Minister agree, however, that interns have been exploited? For example, is he aware of a newspaper study which reached the following conclusions and threw up the following statistics? The largest user of the scheme over its...

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Review (25 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: Two wrongs do not make a right. The Minister will be aware that 86 companies were struck off the JobBridge scheme because, quite frankly, they were abusing it. Nevertheless, they were restored because it was found that the procedures adopted to strike them off were unfair. In other words, they were restored on a technicality. Does the Minister regard it as reasonable that five years into...

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Review (25 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: They were restored.

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Review (25 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: Yes, and they are back.

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Review (25 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister refers to people going to court because their good names are impugned. If somebody is disqualified from being involved in the JobBridge scheme because they have been found to be exploiting young people who want to get into employment and those who are long-term unemployed, surely they deserve to have their names published. The Minister is using a different excuse than his...

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Review (25 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: On a point of order, what does the Minister mean exactly by that statement?