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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (18 Sep 2014)
Willie O'Dea: 215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provision that will be made for children in County Limerick who have not yet been placed in secondary school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34904/14]
- Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
Willie O'Dea: I think the Taoiseach was trying to explain to the House-----
- Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
Willie O'Dea: The Fine Gael and Labour Party programme for Government states that a system of universal health insurance will be introduced by 2016. It could not be more definitive. The health reform Bill was an essential part of the process to put that system in place. That Bill was on the A list of the legislative programme in the last session, but it has now been removed from that list. When does...
- Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
Willie O'Dea: Waffle.
- Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
Willie O'Dea: The Taoiseach is engaged in unreconstructed waffle.
- Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
Willie O'Dea: How does the Taoiseach know the Government will get a second term?
- Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
Willie O'Dea: Deputy Kehoe might not be either. He should not count his chickens.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Sep 2014)
Willie O'Dea: The Taoiseach is the biggest comedian around here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)
Willie O'Dea: I have three brief outstanding questions. The report of the child and family income supplement advisory group recommended dramatic changes in child benefit. Where are we with that? Second, has the Minister taken any decision on the rent supplement caps? Third, would the Minister consider a suggestion that the names of people who receive rent supplement from the State, that is landlords,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)
Willie O'Dea: I asked a specific question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)
Willie O'Dea: I refer to the question I asked initially. I do not doubt that a number of people who are unemployed want to get on the scheme but my understanding is that people are selected for and sent on the scheme by the Department and that sanctions are imposed if a person refuses to go on a scheme.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)
Willie O'Dea: Have there been instances of refusals or sanctions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)
Willie O'Dea: Did the Minister receive the submission prepared recently by the Carers Association and how does she intend to respond to it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)
Willie O'Dea: We have only half an hour left anyway, despite events in the House-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)
Willie O'Dea: My understanding is that we must be out of here by 3.30pm in any event. We will have to adjourn then and come back another day. The wage subsidy scheme is part of the working age employment supports. This scheme is designed to increase employment for people with disabilities. Some €10.9 million has been allocated to it. The rate of unemployment among people with disabilities is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)
Willie O'Dea: There are 620 people on this scheme at the moment. Were there many refusals to take part in the scheme and what sanctions, if any, were imposed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)
Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister. There are a few cases I will bring to her attention.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)
Willie O'Dea: I have some brief questions. One of the items we are dealing with is lone parents allowance. The Minister has said, and I agree with her, that her objective is an active system where people are activated to go out to work, when the work is available, rather than staying at home and relying on welfare. One of the means by which savings have been got in regard to lone parents is the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)
Willie O'Dea: Thankfully it is a bit cheaper to die in Limerick but it is still quite expensive. With regard to the burial grant, the Minister stated that in certain circumstances there is a direct cash grant of €6,000 and a continuous payment for six weeks to the surviving pensioner. My point is both of these benefits existed previously in conjunction with the bereavement grant The Minister...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)
Willie O'Dea: If I read these figures correctly, the exceptional needs payment provision has actually been reduced by €2.5 million, despite the abolition of the bereavement grant.