Results 5,121-5,140 of 12,590 for speaker:Willie O'Dea

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Issues (22 Oct 2013)

Willie O'Dea: 291. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if financial institutions will be obliged to retain details of individuals' PPS numbers to facilitate the deduction of PRSI from interest on deposit accounts from 1 January 2014. [44655/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Issues (22 Oct 2013)

Willie O'Dea: 292. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the yield that is expected in 2014 from collection of PRSI on unearned income; and the breakdown of the total by category of unearned income. [44656/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Eligibility (22 Oct 2013)

Willie O'Dea: 293. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the criteria that will be applied for the awarding of an exceptional needs payments in respect of funeral or burial costs; and the sum of money provided for such purpose. [44657/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Maternity Benefit Issues (22 Oct 2013)

Willie O'Dea: 294. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the number of recipients of the maximum payment of maternity benefit in each year from 2007 to 2012; and the expected number of recipients who will receive a lower payment in 2014 as a result of the recently announced changes to the payment. [44658/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Eligibility (22 Oct 2013)

Willie O'Dea: 295. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will publish the revised guidelines for exceptional needs payments. [44659/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme Payments (22 Oct 2013)

Willie O'Dea: 296. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons aged 19 to 22 years in respect of whom the back to school clothing and footwear allowance is currently paid. [44660/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (22 Oct 2013)

Willie O'Dea: 297. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the current recipients of rent supplement will transfer to the proposed housing assistance payment; and the benefits she believes this will bring. [44661/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Mortgage Interest Supplement Abolition (22 Oct 2013)

Willie O'Dea: 298. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the abolition of the mortgage interest supplement will leave the State without an assistance mechanism for persons experiencing short-term difficulty paying their mortgage and for whom the lengthy and cumbersome mortgage arrears resolution process may not be suitable. [44662/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadcasting Service Provision (22 Oct 2013)

Willie O'Dea: 331. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the mechanism that will be in place for future decisions by his Department in relation to the annual transfer to RTÉ in respect of the TV licence. [44653/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (17 Oct 2013)

Willie O'Dea: There is no doubt that the live register will continue to fall owing to the fact that one person leaves the country every six minutes to seek employment abroad. There has been significant talk recently about Dáil reform. When we submit questions, we are entitled to an answer. I asked the Minister specifically how many case workers were employed in this area and with how many clients...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (17 Oct 2013)

Willie O'Dea: 4. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress made on implementing Pathways to Work; the number of caseworkers currently working with long-term jobseekers to help them back to full employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43771/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (17 Oct 2013)

Willie O'Dea: I am aware that Pathways to Work is one of the centrepieces of Government policy. A European Commission report on the working of the system has been damning. It states:Progress has not been sufficiently fast in light of the urgency and scale of the situation, however, and much more needs to be done...The pace of reforms and the resources mobilised, however, are at times insufficient given...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Overpayments (17 Oct 2013)

Willie O'Dea: I want to stress that I am not talking here about cases involving fraud. As far as I am concerned, people who have defrauded the Department should be pursued to the ends of the earth. I posed this question because I have had a large volume of queries on this recently, as have other Deputies from all sides of the House, who have brought them to my attention. People on social welfare,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Overpayments (17 Oct 2013)

Willie O'Dea: The person in question is not exactly in a very good position to dispute what happened 26 years ago. Is there a legal basis for this? Normally, when one is trying to recover debt, there is a six-year statutory limit. One cannot pursue the debt after a period of six years has elapsed. What is the legal basis for the Department's decision to go after debt that arose more than six years ago?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Overpayments (17 Oct 2013)

Willie O'Dea: I am not suggesting that the Department write off debt. I am simply asking, in the case of my constituent, what the Department was doing for the past 26 years. Why come forward 26 years later? Second, is there a legal basis for doing that? I came across a case recently in which a person was told that he had an overpayment of €133 from several years ago and the Department has...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Overpayments (17 Oct 2013)

Willie O'Dea: 1. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the fact that her Department has been pursuing some social welfare recipients to repay overpayments that occurred as far back as the 1980s where there was no question of fraud; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43514/13]

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Willie O'Dea: Does the Tánaiste agree the extension-----

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Willie O'Dea: -----of a lesser rate to young people is a cut? The extension of a lower rate to more people is a cut and those affected by this extension of the lower rate will suffer. Does the Tánaiste agree that since the Government took office contrary to the commitments made there has been a substantial reduction in provision for the elderly through the slashing of the household benefits package-----

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Willie O'Dea: -----and for carers, the vulnerable and the unemployed? Will the Tánaiste give the House a categoric assurance the cut of €5 million in the subvention to RTE with regard to those who receive free television licences will not result in any diminution of the benefits given to these people from the Department of Social Protection at present?

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Willie O'Dea: Is this the Tánaiste's defence? Is this the best the Tánaiste can do?