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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister is giving a history lesson. She did not say much about that during the election campaign when she promised the sun, moon and stars.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: Among the poorest of the poor.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: Is that Labour Party policy?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: The community welfare officers advised the Minister how to spend scarce money. She was not too worried about scarce money while on this side of the House when she could find money for everything under sun. It is a mean cut and it should be reversed. Why did the Minister wait until the eve of First Holy Communion and Confirmation, with the result that people did not have the chance to plan...

Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: Last week the Taoiseach assured the House that the legislation to provide for a referendum for the abolition of the Seanad would appear during this session. When is that legislation likely to be passed and does the Taoiseach envisage it taking place this year?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Unemployment Levels (24 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: 9. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on addressing the problem of under-employment across the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18954/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Guarantee (24 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: 26. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress she has made on implementing a youth guarantee scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18946/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Issues (24 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: 109. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there will be an assurance given that no further cuts will be made to the pensions of retired Gardaí; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19327/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Policy (24 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: 120. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans for the future of child benefit;; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19154/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Mortgage Resolution Processes (24 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: 126. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider widening the pool of reference related to social welfare recipients in mortgage arrears to include experienced financial brokers and not solely accountants as currently proposed by her; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19194/13]

Order of Business (23 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: I wish to ask the Taoiseach about two items of legislation. When can we expect the legislation to provide for the dissolution of the County Enterprise Boards and transfer of their functions to Enterprise Ireland? On the question asked by Deputy Humphreys, can the Taoiseach say precisely when the legislation, promised often by the Minister for Social Protection, the purpose of which is to...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (23 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: Do they exist?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (23 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: We could have prevented the problems in the UK, Greece and Portugal as well.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (23 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: Nothing has happened in two years.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (23 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: Spoof.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (23 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: I doubt that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (23 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: It is the sort of thing one says to the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Croke Park Agreement Issues (18 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has had discussions with representatives of retired public sector workers concerning the impact on them of the Croke Park 2 agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17868/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (18 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 338 of 29 January 2013, if he will outline the reason that no progress has been made whatsoever in providing ASD units to mainstream schools by the NCSE at Primary Level in Limerick City, where SNO's are doing everything possible to work with limited resources, the reason the regular reply in this regard to...

Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: It is absolutely the case.