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Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That is factored into the figures.

Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will give the figures to the Tánaiste.

Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is to further a campaign for fiscal and financial power that we do not have. It calls for tax-raising powers because past Governments here did not support our demands for the transfer of financial and tax-raising powers.

Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It spent €80 million on the consultants in Irish Water.

Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Not with a mobile telephone.

Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Yesterday, I invited carers and their representative groups to visit Leinster House to explain to Deputies and Senators from all political parties how vital the respite care grant was to families affected by disability. The DCA Warriors, the Special Needs Parents Association and Aoibheann's Pink Tie, all of which are voluntary groups that do outstanding work, attended. Alongside the Carers...

Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Tánaiste stated that the number of carers and those in receipt of respite care grants had increased. While I acknowledge this, she must acknowledge that, to be awarded carer's allowance or the respite care grant, an onerous medical assessment is made of the caree. As such, each and every one of the people receiving those payments is a deserving case.

Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Those people deserve much more than this State has ever granted them. We have examined the figures, as has the Carers Association. When the water charges are included, every family carer will be financially worse off next year than he or she is this year. I have the figures and can give them to the Tánaiste later if she wishes, but her Department is well capable of running them as...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Review (23 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 42. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if consideration was given to extending the disability allowance for eligible community employment participants beyond 31 December and the number of community employment participants affected by the change. [40744/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Payments (22 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 41. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to set out the number of children who were refused or discontinued child benefit this year and last year for not being in full-time education broken down by age 16 and 17 years respectively. [40564/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (22 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 47. To ask the Minister for Finance if water is now considered a utility and has a tax exemption; the reason there is no tax exemption for other utilities such as electricity, gas and so on. [40490/14]

Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (21 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is an activation measure for the participants not the supervisors.

Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (21 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not know who wrote the reply for the Minister of State. He is well aware that no CE scheme or very few CE schemes have other financial resources and would not be in a position to continue to pay a CE supervisor. In that instance, the CE supervisor would probably not be acknowledged because the CE scheme was not set up in that way. It is the case that the community employment scheme...

Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (21 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We have had that discussion here but there has been no action.

Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (21 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I refer the Minister of State to the 2008 Labour Court recommendation. The Minister of State is in government, not me.

Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (21 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister of State has not answered my question. The Department sets the terms and conditions. In the case to which I refer, the woman was in employment for 20 years. The guidelines issued by the Department have changed several times since then but no one bothered to look at her contract. The sponsoring organisation is now open to a charge of unfair dismissal because the Department did...

Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (21 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 85. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department is insisting that community employment supervisors must retire at the age of 66, regardless of their ability to continue in the post; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39795/14]

Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (21 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Why does the Minister insist that community employment, CE, scheme supervisors must retire when they reach the age of 66, regardless of their ability and their willingness to continue in their post, especially in light of the Department's decision not to put in place a pension for those same employees as instructed by the Labour Court in 2008? The case arose last week of Elizabeth McAuliffe,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Administration (21 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister may not be aware that most teachers who qualify have experience. It is an abuse of those teachers who are qualified to expect them to participate in JobBridge. I will give an example. I have been contacted by a constituent who despite having an under-graduate degree and several years classroom experience, which she obtained abroad, took up an aid position under JobBridge....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Administration (21 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 79. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has had any discussions with the Department of Education and Skills on the use of JobBridge in schools since 20 September 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40053/14]