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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have two brief questions. One concerns the Children's Rights Alliance which made a specific appeal about the habitual residency condition concerning child benefit. The CRA said the State was out of touch with Article 2 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which deals with non-discriminatory aspects. I ask the Minister to examine that matter. Has any consideration been given...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is not exactly the same as community employment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: If the Minister even read her own documentation on the conditions tied to it, she would see that it is not exactly the same as community employment schemes across the country. If it was, I would support it. The difference is that the training budget is not included.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have no problem with that. I would encourage it if it was a proper scheme. It is not a proper scheme, it is a scam.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is not an employment scheme.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: What is the training budget?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am aware of it and I know exactly where they are coming from. They are not additional staff; they are diverted from other work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is not available for these schemes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: By the time they come around there will have been the six-month gap that the Tánaiste mentioned earlier.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not want to stop them. I want to encourage them by making sure they have proper jobs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: No, I want them to have proper jobs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The submission contained a number of practical suggestions, some of which would not cost much. Some of them would even save money for the Department in the long term.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I had already indicated. I can assure the Chairman that my question will be very brief as the Minister knows my position on JobBridge and other initiatives. What is next year's target for JobsPlus in terms of numbers? It has been a successful programme and is one of the schemes that we should encourage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That is my question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There is no specific training budget so it is not the same.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have a number of questions. The figures for farm assist are significantly reduced. Can the Minister indicate the reason for that? Are farmers doing a good deal better this year than other years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Some farms are doing better but other farms will not have done as well. That is the nature of farming but it is a substantial drop in a year in terms of farm assist. On the redundancy and insolvency section, which I believe falls under the working age income supports, RTE ran a story about the recovery of redundancy debt and suggested that in 2011, for instance, only a very small portion...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The big challenge for the State, as Deputy O’Dea said, is to ensure the Social Insurance Fund is large enough to deal with an increasingly ageing population. Yesterday, I attended an Age Action conference at which representatives of all parties were questioned on various issues by an audience of pensioners. The Minister would do well to speak with her party colleague, Councillor Mary...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Cessation (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 73. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 460 of 27 May 2014 the reason FÁS are not paying the Enhanced Redundancy in accordance with the agreement signed up to by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment and the Trade Unions SIPTU and IMPACT in 2002 and amended in 2005. [33324/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Drugs (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 1014. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reinstate Edecrin on the list of drugs covered under the medical card. [33925/14]