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Other Questions: Social Welfare Rates (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I was not expecting a discussion on budget 2015 which we will have in October, but many changes can be made by ministerial order. Some of what we are discussing is Voted expenditure, but in many instances savings have been made, for example, through increases in employment or because so many unemployed persons have emigrated. I asked the Minister a question when we discussed the Social...

Other Questions: Social Welfare Rates (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 88. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will raise the possibility of restoring any of the cuts made by the current or previous Governments to social welfare payments in the context of the upcoming budgetary process or in advance of same; and her views on whether the PRSI yield, which is significantly ahead of profile in the year to date, gives her some scope to do so. [24120/14]

Other Questions: Social Welfare Rates (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I mentioned this matter last week. I am not asking the Minister to give information about budget 2015.

Other Questions: Social Welfare Rates (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am not asking the Minister about that because at issue is money the Minister will have that will remain unspent. This is voted expenditure and it could be reassigned within the Department without having recourse to a budgetary measure. I am calling on the Minister to consider the €138 million she has gained so far this year and use it to help those whom she has punished in recent...

Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Applications (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I acknowledge that the changes made in recent years have been beneficial, in the main, in that people are not waiting as long as in the past. However, it is still very frustrating for those who make an application for carer's allowance or another allowance and who, on inquiring about their application, are told that processing has not even begun and or that it will take a number of months....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Funding (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Paid for their work.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Funding (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The figure is 29%.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Funding (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Look at the figure in the report - 29%.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Funding (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Indecon report has a figure of 29%. The Minister is wrong. She has not read it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Funding (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Twenty-nine percent of the companies have written people off.

Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Applications (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 123. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current waiting times for carers' allowance applications; the reason for the delays; if she is concerned by the distress and hardship these delays give rise to; and the further steps she will take to speed up processing times. [24119/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Funding (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Michael Taft is not my economist and hopefully he is nobody's economists. I think he is an independent economist and was probably closer to the Minister's party in the past than mine. The Minister mentioned independent research but she has never quoted the following fact from her Indecon report. One of the questions to the employers was whether they would employ someone if JobBridge was...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Funding (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: And multinationals.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Funding (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Companies should pay these people.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Funding (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister is not at the Labour Party hustings now.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Funding (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 85. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has researched and estimated the total loss to the Exchequer, including social welfare payments made and tax/PRSI forgone, which potentially arises where employers opt to engage an intern under the JobBridge scheme rather than employing someone on the minimum wage; and if so what would that loss be if 5%, 10%, 20%, 30%, 40% and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Funding (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am asking the Minister to acknowledge and publish the figures on the very significant costs of the JobBridge scheme. Not only does each JobBridge position cost the Exchequer a weekly social welfare payment plus €50, it also incurs a cost to the Exchequer in terms of taxes and PRSI foregone because of displacement where jobs are not advertised and filled as they ought to be. I ask...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Funding (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister is probably aware of the economist and researcher Michael Taft. He has outlined an example of a large company taking on 14 young JobBridge interns for six months instead of recruiting at the minimum wage, which the company should be encouraged to do. It might even be encouraged to take on staff under a JobsPlus mechanism. In the example, the loss to the Exchequer over the six...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Youth Guarantee (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thank the Minister and I hope she lives up to a commitment she seems to be making. I want, if at all possible, for her to list the new measures under the youth guarantee, rather than existing measures, and what portion of additional youth guarantee funding, not existing funding, will go to ensure there is work available for young people with disabilities. As I said, the EU has provided...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Youth Guarantee (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Everybody would hope for that but the problem is that young people with disabilities are specifically excluded from the youth guarantee. The Minister has an opportunity to correct that before the youth guarantee is developed any further. My question seeks to have disabled youth specifically included and to have a specific amount of funding set aside just for them. Most of the allowances...