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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (24 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Where is the Scandinavian child care?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (24 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: She is codding herself.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (24 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 1. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the social impact assessment her Department has undertaken of her changes to the one-parent family payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24850/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (24 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister will be aware that next Thursday is D-Day, where the D stands for "devastation" for the many lone parents who will suffer a substantial drop in income because of the change in the criteria for payment that she will implement on Wednesday. Has the Department carried out a social impact assessment, or an assessment of the possible effects on those who will lose out thereby?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (24 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Obviously the Department has not done an assessment of the specific impact of this measure on lone parents, many thousands of whom will lose out. Apparently an impact assessment was done on the budget measures and, according to the Minister, this showed that all lone parents, working or not working, would be better off as a result of the changes being introduced by the Government. It is a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (24 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: They are still losing out.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (24 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 12. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is in favour of extending social welfare entitlements to the self-employed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24674/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (24 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 30. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the measures she has introduced to provide greater clarity and transparency on pension charges; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24675/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Respite Care Grant Expenditure (24 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 35. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if it is her intention to restore the level of the respite grant to what it was in 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24677/15]

Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Then they will be a lot poorer.

Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: They should demand that their employers give them more hours.

Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: It is just about choice, is it?

Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: They should be thrilled.

Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: The Government is preventing them from doing that.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Payments (23 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 176. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when arrears of an invalidity pension will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24859/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Licences (23 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 381. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the matters of concern and proposals submitted in regard to firearms licensing by the Sports Coalition will be decided upon; when the review will conclude in view of the impending renewal process commencement at the end of July 2015; if she will respond to the Sports Coalition’s proposal and allay the suspicion that absence of...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I also seek clarification. Section 1 states the Bill will come into operation on such day or days as may be appointed by the Minister. Different sections and Parts can commence on different days. Will the Minister of State give us some indication as to when the Government's intends to bring the Bill into operation?

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Will it be commenced this year?

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I move amendment No. 1:In page 5, to delete line 20. It was agreed that when we were dealing with a part of the Bill where the Government was making a substantive amendment, the Minister of State would lead with his amendment and that we would discuss our variations. In the circumstances, does the Minister of State want to move amendment No. 9a?

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: If the Minister of State tells us what he is proposing, we will respond to it.