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Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: They have all gone.

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: They are able to find jobs in Australia and Canada.

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is not voluntary.

Other Questions: Employment Support Services (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: They are not.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister's response to Deputy Boyd Barrett is disingenuous in the extreme. To ask any Deputy from Dublin to go and work with the local authority is an absolute failure to understand that the local authorities in this city cannot cope with the problem that is being created by underfunding and under-investment in social housing. Deputy Boyd Barrett quoted figures. I will quote one that I...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That is the area I represent and I guarantee that every other Deputy in the House can say the same. Waiting for three years for a pilot scheme down in Limerick is not good enough and does not address the housing crisis in Dublin. This is a crisis and I am asking the Minister if she has had emergency meetings with her colleague Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, the Minister of State with...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister is not responsible for housing, but I asked her if she has had or will have continuous crisis meetings to address this issue. A pilot scheme in Limerick does not address it. The plan to get the construction industry going will not address it in the short term. It will take at least five years if the Government puts the money into local authorities, which it is not doing. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Payments (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: They used to be available in chemists to medical card holders.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 5. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the current rent supplement thresholds for Dublin city and county are totally unrealistic and is resulting in increased in homelessness in the city including a high level of families and will increase the threshold pending the long-awaited housing assistance payment. [11006/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Payments (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: On 1 February, the Minister brought about this change in a quiet, slíbhín manner, discontinuing a scheme which was aimed at people with a condition, such as coeliacs, stroke victims or those suffering from motor neurone disease. The Minister cited the report but it stated that there is an additional cost which has increased as a proportion of social welfare spending. This is a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Payments (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The old saying goes, "If it's not broken, don't fix it." The Minister's own report said that an additional financial burden is being placed upon current beneficiaries of this scheme. Future applicants would obviously also have benefited. The cost of these diets for coeliacs, stroke victims or people suffering from motor neurone disease has increased in the period covered by the report...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Payments (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 2. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to explain the reason for her decision to close the special dietary supplement scheme, which offered social welfare recipients who, for example, have coeliac disease or who have suffered a stroke a small contribution towards the cost of medically necessary diets, which are substantially more expensive than the typical food bills of people who do...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Work Placement Programmes (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 12. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that companies advertising job vacancies on the Intreo website are using loopholes in company law to lay off long-term employees, register new companies providing the same service, and advertise the same jobs but on a much reduced salary; her view on whether such practice are ethical; and if not, if she...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 32. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps she will take to address the rising crisis of homelessness amongst families recently highlighted by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive; her views on the contribution that the rent supplement caps make to the growing problem of homelessness; and if she has discussed the matter with the Department of the Environment, Community and Local...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Initiatives (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 26. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the JobPath tender process. [10345/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Administration (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 44. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for her decision to make JobBridge an involuntary scheme for young persons as part of the Youth Guarantee in view of the regular emphasis she placed on the voluntary nature of participation on the scheme theretofore. [10344/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 42. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on extending some of the job search and training activation supports to categories of the unemployed who do not currently qualify for any assistance in their own right but who are searching for work and would like support around same, for example persons who are formerly self-employed and others who do not qualify for any payment due to...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Despite pre-election promises, child benefit continues to be cut. In budget 2013 alone the Government took away, in the case of a family with four children, €58 each week. This was despite the earlier acknowledgement that child benefit was what kept many families afloat, that child benefit helped to put food on tables and pay energy bills. There is a lot more wrong with the...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is a pity the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, could not hang around. Given that this opportunity was provided as a new and innovative way of addressing the Government's programme, it is a pity she could not wait to hear a response to what she had to say. Little of her contribution had to do with social protection. In fact, much of it had to do with issues in her...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am sorry; I will rephrase. Like somebody who is trying to hide behind cuts that she makes, the Minister cannot be in the House to listen to criticism. She closed off the diet supplement scheme which had offered social welfare recipients suffering from conditions such as coeliac disease, stroke, throat cancer and motor neuron disease a small contribution towards the additional costs...