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Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (14 Jan 2016)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 245. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the expenditure, the training and evaluations that have taken place, and the number of persons engaged to work on the training and evaluation of competence in Irish in the Civil Service within and outside her Department since the transfer of responsibility for from Gaeleagras to her Department in 2013, and her plans for the future....

Other Questions: Labour Activation Measures (13 Jan 2016)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 9. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection what amounts to a progression plan under the new Intreo system for applicants for jobseeker's allowance. [1211/16]

Other Questions: Labour Activation Measures (13 Jan 2016)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: My question concerns what is contained, or should be contained, within the progression plans that are being offered to jobseeker's allowance applicants by Intreo offices.

Other Questions: Labour Activation Measures (13 Jan 2016)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Tánaiste and I are often at loggerheads on social welfare issues but moving towards an integrated service is one of the logical steps her Department has taken which should have been done many years ago. There are problems, however, with some of the progression plans being given to jobseekers. In some cases, for instance, they are unhelpful or unrealistic for the applicants for whom...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Community Services Programme (13 Jan 2016)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I heard the earlier statement. I welcome the fact that there is a stopgap measure. That is all it should be in order to buy the Minister of State and the Department time until after the election. It does not address the fact that many of the companies are dangerously near financial breaking point. I realise the Minister of State knows about the equine project in Cherry Orchard. There was...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Community Services Programme (13 Jan 2016)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am not talking about social welfare.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Community Services Programme (13 Jan 2016)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Regarding wages on the CSP, the companies have to pay wages for 53 weeks.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Community Services Programme (13 Jan 2016)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is a stopgap.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Community Services Programme (13 Jan 2016)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 5. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will increase funding to CSP schemes to take account of the increase in the minimum wage by 50 cent per hour from 1 January 2016. [1251/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Community Services Programme (13 Jan 2016)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This question relates to the same issue, namely, the problem that has arisen because of the increase in the minimum wage without a tandem increase in the grant to CSP schemes. Will the Minister of State address this issue?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Community Services Programme (13 Jan 2016)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I heard the Minister of State's preceding answer and am not asking him to go over all of that ground again, but he mentioned that there were 398 CSP schemes throughout the country. They have been told that, as of last December, the 2016 financial plan will need to incorporate any additional cost necessary to implement the minimum wage requirement. That is why we are discussing the issue....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Community Services Programme (13 Jan 2016)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The problem with this is that, because CSP schemes must find funds at short notice to meet the additional cost imposed by the increase in the minimum wage, it threatens the viability of many such programmes. Previously, the contribution to CSP schemes was reduced by €1 per hour when the minimum wage was cut, but the Minister of State and his Department suggest that the grant is only a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pension Provisions (13 Jan 2016)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: While I welcome the Tánaiste's statement, I do not think it is entirely accurate. The homemakers credit system gives grossly insufficient protections to women, in particular. It does not go back far enough. As far as I know, it allows for or takes account of just one break. The Tánaiste mentioned that the jobseeker's credit is available to those who are looking for work. As I...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pension Provisions (13 Jan 2016)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Government made the pensioners pay for that.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pension Provisions (13 Jan 2016)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Some pensioners are down €1,100 a year and the Government has not made that up.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pension Provisions (13 Jan 2016)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Is the Tánaiste blaming the pensioners for that?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pension Provisions (13 Jan 2016)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Sinn Féin has not been in government. We are debating the response of the Government, which was to attack the pensioners.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pension Provisions (13 Jan 2016)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Government made the poor pensioners poorer. We did not do that.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pension Provisions (13 Jan 2016)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We are talking about the crazy economics of those who are in government.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pension Provisions (13 Jan 2016)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Tánaiste should stand up for the Government's decisions.