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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 82. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will revise the youth guarantee to make specific positive provisions for young persons with disabilities. [24274/14]

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: When the youth guarantee was conceived at EU level, the idea was to guarantee all young people a meaningful education, training or a job opportunity. When the Government developed the implementation plan, it sought to limit that guarantee by excluding young people with disabilities. Will the Minister open up participation in the youth guarantee provisions to young people with disabilities?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 99. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 425 of 27 May 2014, the timeframe by which she expects its new housing interagency intervention system to be fully operational; the number of rent supplement recipients that it is anticipated will be assisted via this new system; if that assistance will include higher rent supplement payments; the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Ombudsman's Reports (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 100. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that 491 complaints were made to the Ombudsman about her Department last year; and the steps she will take to prevent the reoccurrence of failings identified by the Ombudsman. [24117/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 124. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the JobPath tender process; her views on whether the privatisation of social protection services proposed gives rise to a danger of supports focusing on those amongst the long-term unemployed that are easiest to place at the expense of those with more intensive support needs also known as parking and creaming...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 165. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners will act immediately to proceed to wind up a company (details supplied) in Dublin 1 to satisfy outstanding arrears of tax and PRSI due to the Revenue Commissioners and providing a route for the workers to access the insolvency fund to receive payment of wages and other entitlements. [24403/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 266. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are licence or lease agreements in place in respect of the rental of portions of the Four Courts building in Dublin; when the licences or leases were signed; the rent paid in respect of these agreements; if there are any arrears in this respect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24223/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Payments (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 329. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if those persons in receipt of children's allowance receive payments into their bank accounts on the Saturday of bank holidays; the reason those in receipt of children's allowance can only access the payment on bank holiday weekends if they are with Bank of Ireland (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24408/14]

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This Bill. There is no urgency yet it was published-----

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It was published on Friday and we are discussing it today. It is not the way to do business and there should be more time between publication and discussion. The Minister may remember one of the first Bills she brought to the House in July 2011 was to legislate for the minimum wage rate. We welcomed that Bill at the time but I argued that the Bill removed the need for all legislation to...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I agree there has been a range of cuts. However, given the day that is in it, it is worth reminding people that the Minister could reverse the cut to the respite care grant which was estimated at the time as €26 million or €27 million. Everyone on all sides of this House would urge the Minister to consider reversing the cut. It could have been contained in this Bill. She...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Yesterday, I made the point that, in the main, this is an innocuous Bill. That said, in some ways it is not because this is a rushed item of legislation. It deals with approximately 14 different aspects of the social welfare and pension codes and, consequently, each change can have a profound effect on one or several individuals or, in some cases, thousands of people. As a result, while...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There is no competition. Well, open competition but-----

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: At present, it is mentioned in law as An Post. My concern is this measure is opening it up and the Minister is admitting this is opening it up to competition.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not necessarily blame the Minister-----

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: -----but not everything the European Union demands of us must be implemented in the way it often is implemented by the Government. There are concerns about society, changes therein and the need to protect institutions that serve society best. I am aware there has been an ongoing exchange in the EU about postal workers. This is more a concern for the Minister for Communications, Energy and...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Second Stage (4 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: In the short time available to me this evening, I will deal with only one aspect of the Bill before returning to its main provisions tomorrow. This is, in the main, innocuous legislation. Its only urgent provision is in section 16, which deals with an EU directive from 2010 and, therefore, addresses an outstanding matter that was not addressed when other parts of the directive were adopted...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Annual Report 2013: Office of the Ombudsman (4 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Speaking in my other role, I welcome the report. I shall not go over ground that others have covered on the discretionary medical card and the mobility allowance. I am interested in two areas. The first is the outstanding cases which Emily O'Reilly as Ombudsman had raised over the years and which to date have not been fully concluded. We have just talked about one of them, the mobility...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Annual Report 2013: Office of the Ombudsman (4 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will now ask members for comments and questions. A range of issues is contained in the report and what Mr. Tyndall presented is just a flavour of it. It is a report that I have looked forward to for many years and I have encouraged as many members of the public as possible to engage with the Office of the Ombudsman. If Mr. Tyndall ever gets waste management, I wish him well because the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Annual Report 2013: Office of the Ombudsman (4 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The main business of the meeting is consideration of Office of the Ombudsman's annual report for 2013. I remind all present, including members, media representatives and the public, that mobile phones and BlackBerry devices, must be turned off completely or switched to flight or safe mode as they interfere with the sound system, even if left in silent mode. Cuirim fáilte roimh Mr. Peter...