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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Local Authority Work Placement Programme (2 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 189. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 111 of 25 September, the timeframe that is intended for placements to last, the rate of payment the participants receive, the level and types of training that will be provided to participants and what budget will be allocated for training. [41259/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Local Authority Work Placement Programme (2 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 190. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the recruitment embargo on local authorities, the employment opportunities envisaged under the new Gateway scheme. [41260/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Projects (2 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 191. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the consideration given to immediately offering ECDL, manual handling, first aid and safe pass courses to those recipients of jobseeker's allowance and JobBridge who would like to participate in them when they are first awarded their payment. [41261/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Property Taxation Collection (2 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 192. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if Tús scheme participants are having the property tax deducted from their allowance; if so, if they have been informed of these deductions; and, if not, the reason that is so and how the rate of deduction has been calculated. [41262/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Projects (2 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 193. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the progress made in delivering targets under Pathways to Work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41265/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (2 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 263. To ask the Minister for Health his views the implications of the funding cut to St. Michael's House, as outlined by its directors, including the reduction in staffing across the organisation in day services, clinical services and administration, contraction of residential and respite services, closure of residential services for one Sunday each month, cessation of rent subsidy, cessation...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Bus Services (1 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 120. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the work being done to bring a resolution to the industrial dispute at Dublin Bus; and the efforts he is making to ensure that future budgetary measures undertaken by his Department and implemented by public transport companies do not provoke further industrial unrest and strike action. [40909/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Strategy (1 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 138. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has had discussions with the Department of Education and Skills regarding joint initiatives that could be taken between the two Departments to improve the level of PE classes here, particularly in view of the findings by Eurydice, the EU’s education information network that in both absolute and proportionate terms, Ireland...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Deferrals (1 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 219. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who have opted to defer payment of the property tax; and the percentage of those liable for which this accounts. [41228/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Deferrals (1 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 220. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown by underlying social welfare scheme of the number of persons who have deferred payment of the property tax. [41229/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud Data (1 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 411. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a table with details relating to jobseeker's benefit, jobseeker's allowance, illness benefit, disability allowance, carer's allowance and one parent family payment respectively listing the year of the latest fraud and error survey undertaken, the percentage of each sample who were found to be in overpayment by the survey, the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (1 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 412. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the size of the total control saving figure from the most recent year available; the total number of cases that were reviewed; and the number of those that were found to involve overpayment. [41121/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: PEACE IV Programme: Discussion with Special EU Programmes Body (26 Sep 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There is only one year added on at the end.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: PEACE IV Programme: Discussion with Special EU Programmes Body (26 Sep 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I welcome the change in the intervention rate as it will assist organisations seeking to make applications in the changed circumstances prevailing in this State and the Six Counties as they try to secure matching or alternative funding. The total moneys available under the PEACE IV programme amount to approximately €200 million. Our guests did not indicate what funding will be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Office of the Ombudsman Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Ombudsman (26 Sep 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Ar dtús báire, déanaim comghairdeas le Ms O'Reilly as ucht an post nua. Céim íontach í di agus don tír. The Ombudsman has set the bar quite high for the next fear an phobail, which is the title the late Michael Mills gave the position, which is an appropriate term. A people's champion is what the Ombudsman is meant to be. I note from Ms O'Reilly's...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (26 Sep 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 43. To ask the Minister for Health the additional measures or resources that will be provided to assist organ donation and transplant services here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40044/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Sep 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 44. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he will take to reduce the number of persons waiting for initial appointments with hospital consultants; the current number of people waiting for such appointments at present; the number waiting for a year or more; if he has a target for reduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40043/13]

Private Members' Business - Cuts in Education: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Sep 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Ba mhaith liom ar dtús mo bhuíochas a ghabháil le mo chomhghleacaí, an Teachta O'Brien, as ucht an rún tábhachtach seo a chur os ár gcomhair. This comprehensive and detailed motion starkly illustrates the raft of cuts that have impacted on the State education sector. Our motion gives the lie to claims by Fine Gael and especially the Labour Party. It is a...

Private Members' Business - Cuts in Education: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Sep 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Where does the Deputy think we are from?

Private Members' Business - Cuts in Education: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Sep 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I was born and bred in Dublin.