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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Fraud Investigations (28 Nov 2013)

Willie O'Dea: I am asking about the new initiative, not the multi-agency checkpoints.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Fraud Investigations (28 Nov 2013)

Willie O'Dea: I refer to the Minister's own words. She said nothing about industrial estates. She stated that the Department will be looking at areas, such as checkpoints, in estates - nothing about industrial - and on roads, early in the morning. Is the Minister telling us that this will be part of the present multi-agency system or will it be a separate initiative by the gardaí, on behalf of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Fraud Investigations (28 Nov 2013)

Willie O'Dea: We know all that. Will the Minister answer the question?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Fraud Investigations (28 Nov 2013)

Willie O'Dea: Will the gardaí be able to stop persons on their own?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Fraud Investigations (28 Nov 2013)

Willie O'Dea: Will the gardaí be able to have these checkpoints on their own, not as part of a multi-agency system?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Fraud Investigations (28 Nov 2013)

Willie O'Dea: So they will be stopping persons on their own.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Fraud Investigations (28 Nov 2013)

Willie O'Dea: To clarify, the Minister is saying the gardaí will now be able to operate on their own at checkpoints in estates, etc.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Youth Guarantee (28 Nov 2013)

Willie O'Dea: So they are all being reallocated from within the Department.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Youth Guarantee (28 Nov 2013)

Willie O'Dea: 1. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of training or education places that will be set aside next year as part of the youth guarantee for young persons who are out of work; the number of young persons who will 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 make a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Youth Guarantee (28 Nov 2013)

Willie O'Dea: I am trying to ascertain whether the Government is committed to introducing a full blown youth guarantee scheme in this country whereby everybody who is not more than four months unemployed will be entitled to either a job or a place in training or education and when will the scheme be in place. I am also trying to ascertain whether the ratio of caseworkers to unemployed people has changed...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Youth Guarantee (28 Nov 2013)

Willie O'Dea: On the previous occasion the Minister answered questions in the House she indicated the ratio of caseworkers to unemployed people would change and I would like an update.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Youth Guarantee (28 Nov 2013)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister for the reply but I do not know whether I am any the wiser. Perhaps when I read the record and see what has not been said, I will know. As the Minister well knows, the pledge of €6 billion by the European Union, welcome though it may be, is regarded as totally inadequate. Taking a pledge of €6 billion over a period of seven years, Ireland will receive a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Youth Guarantee (28 Nov 2013)

Willie O'Dea: When will the youth guarantee scheme be in place? Answer the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Youth Guarantee (28 Nov 2013)

Willie O'Dea: The total of €64 million over two years is €32 million per year, and the Government has committed €14 million for the first year which, added to the €32 million amounts to €46 million. This is way short of what is required. Will the Minister indicate when a properly functioning youth guarantee scheme will be in place? On the previous occasion we had...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Anti-Poverty Strategy (28 Nov 2013)

Willie O'Dea: 17. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is concerned by recent reports of food shortages from charities in Dublin; if she is concerned by rising food poverty here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50828/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Illness Benefit Reform (28 Nov 2013)

Willie O'Dea: 18. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons that will be affected by the budgetary changes to illness/injury benefit; if she will outline the future of PRSI based benefits and her strategy to retain or improve them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50830/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Live Register Numbers (28 Nov 2013)

Willie O'Dea: 19. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the fact that the Central Statistics Office figures relating to the live register have been published in national daily newspapers in advance of their official publication by the CSO; her views on whether this is acceptable; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50827/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Projects (28 Nov 2013)

Willie O'Dea: 26. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way in which she has responded to the criticism from the OECD, European Commission and IMF regarding the lack of action relating to labour activation measures here; the number of persons that have been placed in full-time employment as a result of these measures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50829/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Employment Services (28 Nov 2013)

Willie O'Dea: 74. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her Department’s strategy relating to the advertising of jobs in foreign jurisdictions to jobseekers here; the number of persons that have been targeted by this strategy; if she will provide figures on those who have taken up employment as a result of this strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50877/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (28 Nov 2013)

Willie O'Dea: 100. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will make emergency funding available to North Tipperary County Council to purchase housing in the Ashbury development in Roscrea which is urgently required for the provision of social housing in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51209/13]