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- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister is going back again.
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister would not have what it takes to make me cross.
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: I find it extraordinary. This system has been in place for many years and people are suddenly starting to produce inadequate applications. When did this start? The Minister stated that in the last year of the previous Government - 2010 - there was a jump in refusals. Her letter dated 23 August states that in 2010, some 21,409 applications were received. The number of applications...
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: I can read.
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Not according to the Minister's letter. I will cite it again.
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: That is incorrect.
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: No, that is a lie. That is incorrect.
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Yes.
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: No, the fall was in 2011.
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Will the Minister undertake to publish the advisory group's report on the disability and domiciliary care allowances when she receives it? In a reply to me, dated 23 August 2012, the Minister gave me statistics on the disability allowance. In 2009, there were 20,794 applications received and the number disallowed was 9,677, indicating a success rate of 55% or refusal rate of 45%. In 2010,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: May I ask a brief question?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: The Government also leaks the reports.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: We also presided over increases.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Just like the Minister has forgotten her promises.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister was reprehensible in her approach in that she supported nothing.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister supported more expenditure and less tax.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: When the Minister was in opposition the whole approach of the Labour Party was to seek less tax and more expenditure.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister is in Government.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister has made a couple of extraordinary statements since the start of Question Time. I am overwhelmed by her boasting about last year's budget when, according to Social Justice Ireland, an organisation with no axe to grind, it was the most socially regressive budget in the last ten years. The Minister said her Department had not been flying kites but there are so many kites coming...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Insurance Rates (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: I am glad the Minister has confirmed that she regards pensioners are more important than others. That is some progress. Do I take the Minister's reply to mean that jobseeker's allowance, jobseeker's benefit, carer's allowance, family income supplement and disability allowance come within the ambit of core rates? The Minister was widely quoted in the media at the weekend as giving an...