Results 7,601-7,620 of 8,039 for speaker:John Brady
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Report Stage (24 Nov 2016)
John Brady: When we tabled our amendment, there was no mention of the phrase "independent report". It is preferable to have an independent report. However, even if it is done internally, surely there can be independent scrutiny of it by a committee, for example. We can examine its content and take the issue from there. I do not know why the three-month window is necessary. The Minister has stated...
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Report Stage (24 Nov 2016)
John Brady: I am surprised by the Minister's amendment because he agreed to the amendment I and my colleague, Deputy Denise Mitchell, put forward last week on Committee Stage. That amendment proposed the report would be commissioned, produced and presented to the Oireachtas committee within a six-month timeframe. There are significant difficulties facing lone parents. We all know the poverty rates and...
- Topical Issue Debate: Waste Management (22 Nov 2016)
John Brady: I thank the Minister for reading that, but it did not answer even one of my questions. There are legitimate concerns. I outlined the number of official complaints made to the EPA. The Minister stated he did not sign off on this, but I asked him whether he was aware of the pending emergency. Will he consider the matter? The volume of concerns facing the people of County Wicklow is...
- Topical Issue Debate: Waste Management (22 Nov 2016)
John Brady: Deal with this issue, please.
- Topical Issue Debate: Waste Management (22 Nov 2016)
John Brady: What about the concerns of the-----
- Topical Issue Debate: Waste Management (22 Nov 2016)
John Brady: What about the immediate problem? There was no consultation.
- Topical Issue Debate: Waste Management (22 Nov 2016)
John Brady: Last Friday evening an email was circulated by the chief executive officer of Wicklow County Council to county councillors and the five Deputies for County Wicklow informing them of a decision that had already been made and signed off on. It will mean that the waste intake at the Ballynagran landfill site in County Wicklow will be increased to 190,000 tonnes. That represents an additional...
- Other Questions: Jobs Initiative (22 Nov 2016)
John Brady: The Minister gave the number of 86 companies and we know that the Indecon report raised serious concerns which were not acted on at that stage. I imagine the number is far higher than 86. When we look at the type of jobs being advertised, a well known company which I will not name advertised for a sandwich artist. A deli assistant position was advertised as a sandwich artist position. The...
- Other Questions: Jobs Initiative (22 Nov 2016)
John Brady: And the employers.
- Other Questions: Jobs Initiative (22 Nov 2016)
John Brady: What work experience does someone need to have to make a sandwich - a half an hour's training?
- Other Questions: Jobs Initiative (22 Nov 2016)
John Brady: It certainly is not beneath them, but they should be paid.
- Other Questions: Jobs Initiative (22 Nov 2016)
John Brady: 49. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide a full list of the companies that were removed from, or initially prevented from participating on, the JobBridge scheme when it was in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36023/16]
- Other Questions: Jobs Initiative (22 Nov 2016)
John Brady: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. There is no doubt that the JobBridge scheme was a disaster. If one was not of this opinion initially then the report conducted by the Minister's own Department would quickly change it. I welcomed the end to the JobBridge scheme when it was announced. At the time there were a number of companies that were removed from the scheme. Will the Minister...
- Other Questions: Jobs Initiative (22 Nov 2016)
John Brady: The Minister's own Department internal report on the JobBridge scheme highlighted high risk concerns. These were the same concerns that Sinn Féin Deputies, and especially my colleague Deputy Ó Snodaigh, had raised continually from the outset of the JobBridge scheme being introduced in 2011. The Department's own auditors had expressed concerns over a lack of initial validation of...
- Other Questions: Jobs Initiative (22 Nov 2016)
John Brady: The Minister, Deputy Varadkar likes to refer to the Indecon report when I raise questions about JobBridge.
- Other Questions: Jobs Initiative (22 Nov 2016)
John Brady: One of Indecon's key findings in that survey was that nearly 30% of employers using the JobBridge scheme said that they could have taken on a person in fully paid employment.
- Other Questions: Jobs Initiative (22 Nov 2016)
John Brady: I urge the Minister to release the details. He said there are 86 companies that had been removed.
- Other Questions: Jobs Initiative (22 Nov 2016)
John Brady: I urge him to release-----
- Other Questions: Jobs Initiative (22 Nov 2016)
John Brady: -----those details.
- 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...