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Other Questions: Jobs Initiative (22 Nov 2016)

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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Maintenance Payments (22 Nov 2016)

John Brady: I think the Minister would agree that the current situation for lone parents when it comes to child maintenance is bizarre but he is doing nothing to address it. A condition of receiving the one-parent family payment is that the recipient is obliged to seek maintenance from the other parent. After the changes to the one-parent family payment back in July 2015, the Department wrote to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Maintenance Payments (22 Nov 2016)

John Brady: They are worse off seeking it as it is taken into account as means regardless of whether the maintenance is paid or not.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Maintenance Payments (22 Nov 2016)

John Brady: Could I just ask the Minister this question?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Maintenance Payments (22 Nov 2016)

John Brady: Will the Minister stop leaving it up to the lone parents and seek to set up a child maintenance system?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Maintenance Payments (22 Nov 2016)

John Brady: I have also seen the letter that was sent out. I wish to give the Minister a couple of examples. I know he loves to use examples from the North as a means to attack Sinn Féin so I wish to give him one example of how child maintenance works there and perhaps he could look at that and use it in the future. The Child Maintenance Service in the North sorts out child maintenance for lone...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Maintenance Payments (22 Nov 2016)

John Brady: The service will initiate court action as a very last resort.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Maintenance Payments (22 Nov 2016)

John Brady: The Minister needs to look at this issue. It is not enough to say it is a civil matter between two parents.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Maintenance Payments (22 Nov 2016)

John Brady: Why did the Department send out a letter saying that the non-custodial parent has no responsibility for the child once he or she reaches the age of seven?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Maintenance Payments (22 Nov 2016)

John Brady: The Minister needs to tackle this issue instead of cutting lone parents means.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Maintenance Payments (22 Nov 2016)

John Brady: Why was the letter sent out in the first place?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Maintenance Payments (22 Nov 2016)

John Brady: 44. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason his Department places the responsibility for seeking child maintenance payments on lone parents on the termination of the one-parent family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36229/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Maintenance Payments (22 Nov 2016)

John Brady: This is one of the few countries that does not have statutory maintenance agencies. Custodial parents are forced to seek maintenance payments through a combative court system. They are also responsible for pursuing the non-payment of maintenance payments.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (22 Nov 2016)

John Brady: 59. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he has examined the Millar report entitled Lone Parents and Activation, What Works and Why: A Review of the International Evidence in the Irish Context; his views on the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36022/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (22 Nov 2016)

John Brady: 102. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to review the procedures used by Turas Nua and Seetec under JobPath in view of ongoing concerns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36019/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Fuel Poverty (22 Nov 2016)

John Brady: 70. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the actions he is taking to tackle fuel poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36020/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (22 Nov 2016)

John Brady: 80. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the measures he will put in place to ensure the survival of the post office network, including the roll-out of further social protection services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36021/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (22 Nov 2016)

John Brady: 287. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will be in receipt of a carer's allowance payment and reimbursed all moneys owed following their successful appeal on 11 October 2016 to the refusal of their original application for carer's allowance in October 2015; and his views on the length of time it has taken his Department to process this person's...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Commission on Domestic Public Water Services (17 Nov 2016)

John Brady: 6. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the funding being made available by Government for the expert commission on water; and if he will provide a breakdown as to the way in which this funding is to be used. [35437/16]

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

John Brady: I broadly welcome the changes the Minister is proposing in section 4. They are long overdue, particularly for councillors who will finally be brought under the scheme. As a former councillor, like many other members, I know the long hours that are put and the work that goes into the job. The changes introduced a number of years ago for all local authorities resulted in increased demands on...