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- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (5 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: Different countries have different payments. The Tánaiste is misleading the House.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (5 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: It has a lower level of child poverty than Ireland.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (5 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: Has the Tánaiste read the UNICEF report?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (5 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: Yet we have more children living in poverty.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (5 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: 1. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to address the increasing deprivation rate here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5029/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (5 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: My question asks the Minister to respond to the recent CSO report that showed levels of poverty at the end of 2013 had risen appreciably over the previous period.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (5 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister seems to indicate that trends since the end of 2013 would show a different result if these figures were taken up now.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (5 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: My apologies. The Minister seems to indicate that the position has improved appreciably since the end of 2013 to which these figures relate. The Department of Social Protection in its assessment of the 2015 budget admits, more or less, that it is regressive, like all the four budgets that preceded it. I refer to the Minister's own document which states that the distributive effect of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (5 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: Is the Minister claiming that the situation has improved appreciably since the end of 2013? The Government's target is to reduce consistent poverty to 4% by 2016. In view of the fact that consistent poverty increased from 7.7% to 8.2% between 2012 and 2013, does she think she will achieve that target?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (5 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: Surely the Minister will agree with me that the recent ESRI survey took into account USC changes and it also took into account projected increases in prices and in living standards. It concluded that almost half the population were worse off as a result of budget 2015.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Payments (5 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: 21. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on recent IMF commentary on the issues surrounding child benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4913/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (5 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: 31. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the caps currently in place on the rent supplement scheme; if she will provide an update on the HAP scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4912/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Unemployment Data (5 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: 42. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide the latest statistics for the long-term unemployed here; if she is satisfied with the current impact of labour activation matters in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4914/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: 51. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to reverse the proposed changes to the one-parent family payment which will take effect in July 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4915/15]
- Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: It should be deleted.
- Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: I remind the Taoiseach about the section in the programme for Government on homelessness. What, if any, progress has been made on the specific proposals laid out? The Taoiseach is aware that numerous people, whole families in some cases, are crammed into hotel rooms, hostels and bed and breakfast accommodation from one end of this country to the other at horrendous cost to the State. These...
- Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: How many are in hotel rooms, hostels and bed and breakfast accommodation?
- Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: There are more people in emergency accommodation than ever before in the history of the State.
- Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: That is not true. We see them in Limerick.
- Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: I will take the Taoiseach on a tour of my constituency where he will see the reality on the ground.