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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Application Numbers (16 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: 623. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of persons in receipt of the diet and heating supplements in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the current number in receipt broken down by county; the total costs of the payment in 2010, 2011, 2012 and estimated total costs in 2013; her plans for the future of the payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (16 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: 624. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of persons in receipt of the humanitarian assistance scheme in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the current number in receipt broken down by county; the total costs of the payment in 2010, 2011, 2012 and estimated total costs in 2013; her plans for the future of the payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: What has this got to do with last night's debate?

Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister should stick to the question he was asked.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: The Government will not change anything.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: Dictatorial.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: The jackboot.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: It is not normal to sit until 5 a.m.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (11 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: 136. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of defined benefit pension schemes which failed to submit proposals to meet the required funding standard by 30 June deadline; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34131/13]

Order of Business (10 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: I seek further clarification on a matter raised by one of the Taoiseach's backbenchers, namely, the consumer and competition Bill. It is a very important Bill, as the Taoiseach has often acknowledged, dealing as it does, among other issues, with media monopolies. The Taoiseach has indicated on several occasions that it would be dealt with in this session. With only five sitting days...

Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: That has nothing to do with the Waterford case.

Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: The Government is dragging it out.

Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: How many of them will have gone under by then?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Diabetes Strategy (10 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: 241. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 220 of 23 May 2013, the reason the Health Service Executive has not contacted me to outline the specific locations of staff recruited under the national integrated care diabetes programme in the mid-west region; if the HSE will do so as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33675/13]

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: It does not make any difference.

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: Nothing is going to be done.

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister's response, which is obviously a script from the Department of Social Protection, is not unfamiliar because we have heard it here several times previously. I could quote it by heart. It will give no comfort whatsoever to people who will be affected by this. Everybody knows, including the Minister and her colleagues, that a number of defined benefit pension schemes will close...

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: They are unlucky not to be retired already. The Minister knows what I meant. He should address the subject

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: The Government has been promising to address it for two and a half years. When is it going to do something?

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: Stick to the subject and answer the question. The Minister should not be here at all on this.