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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: This question arises out of the review conducted by the Department of eligibility for domiciliary care allowance and a decision by the High Court on 1 April which overruled a decision of the Department to refuse domiciliary care allowance.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: This decision was on medical eligibility. The Minister will be aware that the High Court was scathing about what it referred to as the Department's disdainful mindset to the evidence of long-term experts, all of whom had seen the child in question, and condemned the fact that despite this evidence, the Department insisted on making its decision based on the desk top review done by its...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister for answering a question I did not ask. I am aware of the review in regard to domiciliary care allowance but I asked her about other health-related entitlements where the decision on medical eligibility is taken in exactly the same flawed way which the High Court condemned in its decision on 1 April. As the Minister said, a review has taken place, parents are more...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Activation Measures (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 11. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to address the increasing numbers of long-term unemployed here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17732/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Placements (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 12. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is concerned at the failure of 40% of those who take an internship through JobBridge to secure full-time employment on completing that internship; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17733/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pensions Reform (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 18. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of defined benefit pension schemes that closed in 2013 and to date in 2014; her plans to further reform the pensions industry here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17734/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 23. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to transfer payments from her Department to an electronic system; if she has discussed this proposed change with the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17736/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Guarantee (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 41. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of training or education places that have been set aside this year for young persons who are out of work as part of the Youth Guarantee; the current number of young persons who qualify for the Youth Guarantee scheme at this time; the ratio of her Department case officers to the number of unemployed persons currently; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Live Register Data (15 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 133. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons who signed off the live register in 2013; the number of persons who signed off the live register in the first three months of 2014; if he will provide a breakdown of the reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17871/14]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Unemployment Data (15 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 139. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a regional break down, as per the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, of the number of persons aged 16 to 25 years who are not currently engaged in employment, education or training; the percentage of the population between 16 and 25 years that this represents; if he will provide in tabular form the primary status education,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Mortgage Arrears Information and Advice Service (15 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 361. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will set out in tabular form the total number of persons in financial difficulty who have benefited from the Mortgage Arrears Information and Advice Service in each month since it was established; the total number of practitioners who have signed up to the scheme to provide advice under the scheme; her views on whether the €250...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Procurement Regulations (15 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 362. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the public procurement criteria used when tenders are issued by her Department; if there is a restriction on the turnover of companies who can submit to tender for her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17873/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Motorised Transport Grant Scheme Closure (15 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 602. To ask the Minister for Health the scheme that has been put in place to support those who previously depended upon the motorised transport grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17619/14]

Order of Business (9 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: There is a commitment in the programme for Government to review the provision for people with disabilities. It states specifically that as part of the review the Government will move a proportion of public spending to a personal budget model in order that people with disabilities and their families will have the flexibility to make choices that best suit their needs. I agree with the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (9 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 99. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will reconsider the method by which casual workers are means assessed for receipt of jobseeker's payments, that is, where a person can lose social welfare entitlement for a full day when working only for one or two hours of that day, thus acting as a deterrent to those wishing to return to work; if she will consider permitting a jobseeker...

Order of Business (8 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: When is it proposed to introduce an amendment to the Medical Practitioners Act? In that context, will the Minister comment on the status of the contract the HSE has offered to doctors to provide free health care for children under six years of age? I note that the Minister of State at the Department of Health said this morning that it was an opening offer. Is that the position?

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Employment Data (8 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 44. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons aged 16 to 25 who are not currently engaged in employment, education or training; the percentage of the population between 16 and 25 this represents; if he will provide in tabular form the primary status education, unemployed, training, employed, none of the above of those under 25 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16704/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (8 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 303. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will detail the progress of the Gateway initiative scheme; her views on the progress; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16479/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Court Recommendations (8 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 317. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review her response to Parliamentary Question No. 297 of 15 November 2011 in view of the fact that the Labour Court did in fact consider submissions made to it by FÁS; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16705/14]

Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: There is a commitment in the programme for Government to introduce a petitions system in this Parliament along the lines of what happens in the European Parliament. What is the position in that regard? There is a proposal in the programme for Government to have at least a fortnight's delay between different Stages of legislation. What is the latest status of that given it will require a...