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Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

John Brady: I move amendment No. 16:In page 14, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following:“Benchmarking of social welfare payment rates 17. The Minister shall consult with stakeholders on examining ways in which social welfare rates are increased with the aim of ensuring adequacy for all recipients and shall do so in quarter 1 of 2019.”. This asks the Minister to engage with the...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

John Brady: I welcome that fact the Minister will accept the amendment. We need to move away from that system for all the reasons I outlined. All the organisations and, more importantly, the people who are in receipt of any type of payments, not simply pensions, want certainty. Phenomenal work is being undertaken by groups such as the Vincentian Partnership for Social Justice to examine minimum...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

John Brady: Yes. This is also important and I would like the Minister to comment. All the non-governmental organisations with which I have engaged support the establishment of such a commission. I realise it is moving away from the amendment-----

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

John Brady: -----however, it cuts to the heart of it.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

John Brady: I move amendment No. 17:17. In page 14, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following:“Review of means testing of child maintenance payments 18. The Minister shall conduct a review and lay a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas on the financial effect of the consideration of child maintenance payments as household income in the means test for various social welfare payments...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

John Brady: The Minister and I will probably never see eye to eye on this. When one looks at the statistics, it is evident that Deputy O'Dea is correct. People on disability payments and those in lone parent families are two of the categories where we have the highest poverty levels. It is difficult for a one-parent family to even try to get maintenance in the first instance. I will deal with that in...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

John Brady: Yes, I have to leave.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

John Brady: I am leaving but Deputy Martin Kenny is stepping in for me.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

John Brady: If there is agreement that I can withdraw the amendment and resubmit it on Report Stage with a change to the timeframe from three months to six months, I will do so?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

John Brady: I will withdraw it and resubmit on Report Stage.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2018)

John Brady: The Government does not care about lifting 100,000 children out of poverty.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2018)

John Brady: There is a commitment under the programme for Government to deliver new schools. On that basis, I raise the crisis facing North Wicklow Educate Together school, whose pupils will be homeless come 30 April next year. That is an immediate crisis facing that school and this Government, but that school also faces a long-term crisis. A dubious decision taken from by ex-chief executive officer...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2018)

John Brady: There is a commitment in the programme for Government.

Microgeneration Support Scheme Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Nov 2018)

John Brady: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill. I commend my colleague, Deputy Stanley, on not just talking about the challenges we face when it comes to our over-reliance on fossil fuels and the need for renewable alternatives but on bringing forward concrete, workable solutions. This Government and previous Governments have failed to grapple with the scourge of fuel poverty. In 2007,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Part-Time Job Incentive Scheme Data (27 Nov 2018)

John Brady: 562. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the part-time job incentive scheme in each of the years 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49021/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Part-Time Job Incentive Scheme Data (27 Nov 2018)

John Brady: 563. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that have spent more than one year on the part-time job incentive scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49022/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Part-Time Job Incentive Scheme Eligibility (27 Nov 2018)

John Brady: 564. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the criteria used to determine whether a person can remain in receipt of the part-time job incentive scheme payment beyond one year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49023/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (27 Nov 2018)

John Brady: 589. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for the JobPath providers to establish pilot schemes specific to part-time workers or aimed at other groups of jobseekers; if the JobPath providers have the remit to establish such schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49368/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (27 Nov 2018)

John Brady: 590. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the procedures in place in circumstances in which a person that is engaged with a JobPath provider moves to another county before completing their time on the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49369/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation Provision (28 Nov 2018)

John Brady: 45. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the interim arrangements that will be put in place for a school (details supplied) that must vacate its temporary premises in April 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49216/18]