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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: This Government has been cutting since it came in.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: The Government has taken more from social welfare than it has put back in.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: This Government has cut consistently in a sneaky, underhand way, and everybody now sees through it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Answer the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: A Cheann Comhairle, on a point of order. Is there not-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I understand and I agree with the Ceann Comhairle.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: It is the Minister's job to answer questions.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I have asked a direct question so could I get a direct answer without the gobbledegook?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I am not asking the Minister about that.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Will she answer the question?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: That has nothing to do with the question I asked.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: In the same way that six other countries have done.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Even though other countries can do it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I have given the Minister six precedents for doing it on a voluntary basis.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Activation Projects (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I was not being overly critical of the Minister. My problem is that there is now a lacuna. For instance, 119 young people took part in one of the projects I am aware of, the WALK PEER programme, and some of those ended up back on the live register. The problem is the gap. If the project had been extended until such time as a replacement model was ready to be triggered, it would not have...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 1. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her plans to expand social welfare entitlements for self-employed persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33329/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I raise this question again to ascertain if there have been any developments in this matter since it was last raised with the Minister in May. As the House will be aware, we are trying to develop the indigenous sector and the extension of benefits to the self-employed is central to that project.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I do not detect from the Minister's response any developments since this matter was raised five months ago. It seems that the Minister is using the report to avoid making any decision that would assist the self-employed while, at the same time, the Taoiseach said it is central to Government policy to develop the indigenous sector. Reports report, Ministers decide. The Minister will be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: The people will cast their judgment shortly on the Minister's management of the system. I look forward to it eagerly. The Minister made a statement which is patently false. She said there was no example anywhere of a voluntary contribution providing for extra benefits. I have named six OECD countries which operate just such a system on either the jobseeker's benefit side or the illness...