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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (14 Nov 2012)

Willie O'Dea: To ask the Minister for Health the date on which he intends to submit the paper proposing a package of supports for those children and adolescents suffering with narcolepsy and additional medical complications following vaccination with Pandemrix which was to be submitted prior to the Summer recess of Dáil Éireann and again in September and October; if the paper has been prepared;...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (13 Nov 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I wish to follow up on the comments of Deputy Boyd Barrett. I am unsure from where the Minister is getting her information. I can submit several concrete examples from my city in which the rent allowance cap has led to homelessness. I can provide actual instances. Despite the information the Minister received from her Department to the effect that it is not causing homelessness,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes (13 Nov 2012)

Willie O'Dea: We should have Question Time on social protection more often because we have achieved much today. We have discovered that child benefit is increasing rather than reducing. We have learned that community employment schemes are thriving despite their funding being slashed. We have learned that delays in social welfare payments are reducing rather than increasing every day. We even learned...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes (13 Nov 2012)

Willie O'Dea: There is a commitment in the programme for Government for the Pathways to Work proposals to target realigning one third of community employment schemes towards labour market activation measures. What is the position on this? There is also a commitment, incidentally, in the Fine Gael election manifesto - a historic document which will no doubt be preserved in the archives in Dublin Castle or...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes (13 Nov 2012)

Willie O'Dea: The question to which we want to know the answer is whether the funding for CE schemes will be maintained this year. It was slashed last year, as the Minister is aware, and she is telling us that has not made any difference. A good deal of money must have been wasted on CE schemes in the preceding years because, as I recall, the cut last year was significant, yet she is telling us it made...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Free Travel Scheme (13 Nov 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Unlike the Minister, I am not irredeemably wedded to the notion of universality, whereby people obtain benefits regardless of their circumstances. Nevertheless, the Minister will agree with me that the free travel scheme has been an outstanding success and played a huge role in combating social isolation. Recently, my attention was drawn to a heavyweight report produced by the Imperial...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Free Travel Scheme (13 Nov 2012)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister referred to the previous Government as having frozen the amount payable to the Department of Social Protection, which is true. However, under freedom of information regulations, the writer of the article in The Sunday Business Post had obtained a letter from the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Leo Varadkar, to the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Free Travel Scheme (13 Nov 2012)

Willie O'Dea: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the free travel pass scheme will be fully maintained in Budget 2013; her future plans for the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49975/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Lie after lie after lie.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)

Willie O'Dea: They will be scared when child benefit is cut again.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Are they getting more?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)

Willie O'Dea: The Government cut child benefit.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Who does the Minister think she is fooling?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)

Willie O'Dea: We have not seen the report.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)

Willie O'Dea: When is the Minister going to publish the report? It is the people's report; they paid for it. Is that her concept of transparency?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)

Willie O'Dea: The situation has not got any better in the last two years.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister stated that the spend is €3 billion, but it was also €3 billion two years ago - when one takes account of the change in the value of money - when Deputy Burton said that enough was enough and there should be no more child care cuts. The Minister spoke about what she said, but what she said does not have any meaning. I am reporting what she said, as opposed to what...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I asked the Minister about tomorrow, not yesterday.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister's figures are as false as her statements in opposition.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)

Willie O'Dea: She said there was no room for further cuts.