Results 5,601-5,620 of 12,637 for speaker:Willie O'Dea
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Allowance Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Willie O'Dea: The reasoning underlying the report's primary suggestion is that the receipt of disability allowance at the age of 16 would encourage people to leave school and become full-time participants of the social welfare system. There is not a shred of evidence to support that. All the anecdotal evidence available to me points in the opposite direction. What sort of committee would come up with a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Allowance Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Willie O'Dea: We never proposed a change in this regard.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Allowance Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Willie O'Dea: How will this proposal bring that about? That has nothing to do with my question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Allowance Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Willie O'Dea: I am talking on behalf of parents.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Allowance Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Willie O'Dea: How does the Minister's proposal do that? She cannot give any reassurance in that regard.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Allowance Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Willie O'Dea: 4. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans for the future of the domiciliary care allowance and the disability allowance in view of the Advisory Group on social welfare and taxation;; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19153/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Willie O'Dea: A situation in which the Minister was more than willing to take over.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister has slashed special needs payments.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister is a joke. She has some neck.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Willie O'Dea: Protect child benefit - vote Labour.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Willie O'Dea: I understand that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister was not too worried about spending hard-working taxpayers’ money when she was on this side of the House.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Willie O'Dea: Did the Government target the rich? Why did it not target those earning over €100,000?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Willie O'Dea: The Government’s solution is to crush the poor. Is that Labour Party policy?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Willie O'Dea: Get off the stage.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Willie O'Dea: On a point of order, how many people has the Government got back to work?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister is a bluffer. The unemployment rate is the same.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Willie O'Dea: How many are back in employment?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Willie O'Dea: Tell that to the Minister's friends in the media.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)
Willie O'Dea: Labour Party members might be fooled into believing that, but no one else does.