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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Funding (18 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 611. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the allocation to Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived, FEAD, Ireland in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the distribution of this funding; if funding to FEAD Ireland has increased as a result of the homeless crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52719/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Food Poverty (18 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 612. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the percentage of persons here considered to be in food poverty; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52720/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (18 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 631. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason an illness benefit payment has not issued to a person (details supplied) for six weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53140/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Eligibility (13 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 211. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position on illness benefit certificates; if the majority of general practitioners are using the new forms; if general practitioners that used old forms and photocopies have received payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52514/18]

Housing (Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability) Bill 2018: First Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to make provision for ease of access to a housing adaptation grant for people with a disability for those applicants qualifying for same and to provide for related matters. I wish to share time with Deputy Frank O'Rourke.

Housing (Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability) Bill 2018: First Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: The policy on all sides of this House, as I understand it, is that elderly or ill people should be allowed to remain in the comfort and security of their own homes, or the homes of members of their family, rather than being in nursing homes or in State care in hospitals, and so on. In order to achieve that objective, repairs or alterations have to be done to a house in many cases. There is...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: Could I ask the Taoiseach what arrangements, if any, are in place to protect the reciprocal arrangements for the receipt of State benefits between Ireland and the UK, including Northern Ireland? For example, 135,000 people in Ireland are currently in receipt of British State pensions and approximately 70,000 are in receipt of private pensions from the UK. There are also reciprocal...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: Will it be seamless?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (11 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 327. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reopen the health services of the Askeaton protocol (details supplied); if the Askeaton protocol is still used for investigations of potential emissions from industrial facilities that can cause damage to human health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51626/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (11 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 357. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reopen the health services of the Askeaton protocol, which was a major part of the Askeaton investigation in the late 1990s, following the dossier he received from a person, which was complied by a person (details supplied) into their family in Askeaton; if the Askeaton protocol is still being used for investigations of potential emissions from...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (11 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 335. To ask the Minister for Health if the pause in the use of transvaginal mesh (details supplied) will be conditional upon the science proving the device is safe for use. [51656/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Benefit Scheme Eligibility (11 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 340. To ask the Minister for Health if the treatment abroad scheme is available for transvaginal mesh survivors; if not, his views on whether it should be available in view of the fact that the cost of having private surgery in the UK is significant and the HSE is perceived to be ill-equipped to deal with complications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51663/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Commencement of Legislation (11 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 515. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the delay in the commencement of Part 9 of the Children and Families Relationship Act 2015; the steps she has taken to date to address the issue; when this section of the Act will be commenced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51524/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (11 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 524. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she has or is taking to address issues faced by returning emigrants in terms of information on and access to social welfare entitlements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51752/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reports (11 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 525. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the research being undertaken by her Department; the expected publication date on each subject matter in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51753/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (11 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 526. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has examined the habitual residence clause in view of the increasing number of emigrants returning here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51754/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Unemployment Data (11 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 548. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on the issue of underemployment here; if she will provide the available data relating to same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52023/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes Data (11 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 549. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in each county participating in each of the employment and activation programmes in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52024/18]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: There is a commitment in the programme for Government to develop a new help-to-buy scheme to assist first-time house purchasers. Does the Taoiseach agree with me that this scheme is not working particularly well? In my experience, it takes up to six months to get a decision on whether one can get a loan to purchase a house. There are more refusals than acceptances. Does the Government...