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- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Sep 2019)
John Brady: Paul Graham, a survivor of the Bethany Home, has challenged the Government to explain why it has refused to pay redress to the home's former residents. The wrongs of Ireland's mother and baby homes are accepted by all in this House. Many of those who survived horrific treatment during their younger years are now elderly and in ill health. Sadly, in the case of the Bethany Home, they are...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Sep 2019)
John Brady: It is difficult to disagree with him. Understandably, the exclusion of Protestant-run homes-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Sep 2019)
John Brady: -----from redress has left the survivors of the Bethany Home and the Westbank Home with a sectarian aftertaste. The blame for this lies squarely at the Government's door.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Sep 2019)
John Brady: Will the Taoiseach provide Paul Graham with the explanation he needs?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2019)
John Brady: The Data Protection Commissioner's 172 page report into the public services card provides us with much more than just the findings of her lengthy investigation, which has been ongoing since 2017. It tells us of the flawed arguments put forward by the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection that in some instances are totally nonsensical. It also gives us a very clear insight...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2019)
John Brady: That advice should be published by the Government in the public interest. Will the Taoiseach publish it? Is he concerned by the clarification given by the Department to the commissioner-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2019)
John Brady: -----that not everyone who was issued with a public services card went through the SAFE 2 process. Some did and some did not. How was the differentiation made and how does that combat fraud?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2019)
John Brady: What we just had was a rehashing of all the Taoiseach's arguments on the perceived benefits of the public services card. The Data Protection Commissioner accepts those points, but she says the process is totally illegal. The collection and retention of individuals' data is completely illegal. I again urge the Taoiseach to issue the third party legal advice. I accept it is the practice...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2019)
John Brady: In terms of the continuation of the roll-out of the public services card, from October it will be required for the national childcare scheme. There are also plans to require the public services card for school transport cases that are being appealed. Under the current system, no ID is needed-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2019)
John Brady: -----for that process. Rather than selling the benefits of the card, which is illegal, the Taoiseach should fully implement the findings of the Data Protection Commissioner and desist from his continuous undermining of the commissioner and her good office.
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Disposal Charges (18 Sep 2019)
John Brady: 175. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of those identified in work regarding the bin waiver as needing State assistance as a result of medical incontinence. [37822/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Maintenance Payments (18 Sep 2019)
John Brady: 205. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of cases examined by the liable relatives unit; and the number of these cases which resulted in payments being commenced from said liable relative in 2018 and to date in 2019. [37780/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Maintenance Payments (18 Sep 2019)
John Brady: 208. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the running costs of the liable relatives unit in 2018. [37805/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Maintenance Payments (18 Sep 2019)
John Brady: 209. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost involved in examining a case by the liable relatives unit. [37806/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Maintenance Payments (18 Sep 2019)
John Brady: 210. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount collected directly by her Department from liable relatives as a result of work by the liable relatives unit in 2018. [37807/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Maintenance Payments (18 Sep 2019)
John Brady: 211. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the procedures in place in circumstances in which a determination order is made by the liable relatives unit and not complied with by the liable relative; the enforcement powers the unit has; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37808/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Maintenance Payments (18 Sep 2019)
John Brady: 212. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the content of the letters issued to liable relatives when the child with respect to whom the one parent family payment is being made turns seven years of age . [37809/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Maintenance Payments (18 Sep 2019)
John Brady: 213. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that more than half of lone parents in receipt of either the one-parent family payment or jobseeker's transition do not receive maintenance payments; her views on same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37810/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Maintenance Payments (18 Sep 2019)
John Brady: 214. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the fact that lone parents with a maintenance order from the courts in which payment is taken by her Department as household means against other social welfare supports may not be actually paid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37811/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Data (18 Sep 2019)
John Brady: 215. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the one-parent family payment. [37820/19]