Results 4,921-4,940 of 12,637 for speaker:Willie O'Dea
- Topical Issue Debate: Flood Relief Schemes Funding (4 Feb 2014)
Willie O'Dea: I have some brief questions for the Minister of State. First, is it the Government's intention to introduce legislation along the lines of what has been done in the United Kingdom to make it compulsory for insurance companies to insure against flooding for reasonable cost? Second, can the Minister give me an assurance that funds will not be diverted from the regeneration project in...
- Topical Issue Debate: Flood Relief Schemes Funding (4 Feb 2014)
Willie O'Dea: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this very important topic. With all due respect to the rules of the House, I do not believe two minutes is adequate to properly deal with the devastation and disaster visited on the city of Limerick over the weekend, or with the destitution, misery, hopelessness and despair which followed in its wake. My constituents in Kings Island in...
- Order of Business (4 Feb 2014)
Willie O'Dea: In regard to an earlier response, is it the intention of the Government to include in the forthcoming insurance Bill, whenever it is produced, a provision along the lines of legislation which is going through the British House of Commons currently, to compel insurance companies to insure against flooding? Also, will the Taoiseach confirm or deny that the Government has signed or intends to...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (4 Feb 2014)
Willie O'Dea: 305. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of community welfare service clinics that have closed in 2013 or will be closed in 2014 on a county basis; the number of community welfare service clinics that existed in January 2013 on a county basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4877/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (4 Feb 2014)
Willie O'Dea: 306. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the policy reasons for the closure of community welfare service clinics in rural Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4878/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (4 Feb 2014)
Willie O'Dea: 307. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Limerick has not received payment from her Department in view of the fact that they are casually employed and submitting dockets to the local office; when the payment will issue; the amount of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4884/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Data Protection (4 Feb 2014)
Willie O'Dea: 335. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will respond to recent criticisms of her Department by the Data Protection Commissioner when he stated that he is entirely unsatisfied with her Department's handling of citizens' personal data; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5229/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Redundancy Payments (4 Feb 2014)
Willie O'Dea: 356. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the expected level of redundancy payments the State will have to make as a result of the closure of Mount Carmel hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5535/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Administration (4 Feb 2014)
Willie O'Dea: 422. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons who have transferred from the rent supplement scheme to the rental accommodation scheme in 2012 and 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5385/14]
- Other Questions: Respite Care Grant Payments (28 Jan 2014)
Willie O'Dea: It used to be more.
- Other Questions: Respite Care Grant Payments (28 Jan 2014)
Willie O'Dea: Let her answer the question.
- Other Questions: Respite Care Grant Payments (28 Jan 2014)
Willie O'Dea: Why did the Government not restore it?
- Other Questions: Respite Care Grant Payments (28 Jan 2014)
Willie O'Dea: We were not here yesterday.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (28 Jan 2014)
Willie O'Dea: The rent supplement was initially supposed to be a short-term panacea to address short-term homelessness. However, it would now appear to be the cornerstone of the Government's policy on social housing given that some 55,000 people have been on rent supplement for more than 18 months. The Minister stated that the Government had provided for just under €400 million and it cost...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (28 Jan 2014)
Willie O'Dea: The problem now is that there are no houses.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (28 Jan 2014)
Willie O'Dea: 108. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to reform the rent supplement scheme; if her attention has been drawn to reports that many tenants are being asked to pay top-up payments to landlords for rent that is above the maximum allowance limit under the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3957/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (28 Jan 2014)
Willie O'Dea: The purpose of this question is to ascertain the current position regarding the transfer from rent allowance to housing assistance payments
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (28 Jan 2014)
Willie O'Dea: A commitment to provide for the transfer from the rent supplement scheme to the housing assistance payment scheme was included in the programme for Government. Three years on, the Government has announced that the new scheme will be piloted initially in Limerick. When I spoke to officials from Limerick City Council yesterday, they were unable to tell me when the pilot will start. I want...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Unemployment Data (28 Jan 2014)
Willie O'Dea: The one statistic the Minister did not give me is the one in which I am most interested, namely, the number of long-term unemployed people who have been taken out of the system as a direct result of the measures to which she referred. In regard to JobBridge, the Minister indicated recently in reply to a parliamentary question I submitted that 61% of JobBridge participants leave the scheme...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Unemployment Data (28 Jan 2014)
Willie O'Dea: How much of that reduction is accounted for by participation in the various departmental schemes?