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

John Brady: 77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the long-term plans in place for providing permanent accommodation for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49217/18]

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

John Brady: What short-term and long-term arrangements are in place to accommodate the needs of North Wicklow Educate Together school, which is facing an impending crisis due to the fact that the current lease on its temporary accommodation on Putland Road, Bray expires at the end of April next year? Some 180 pupils will find themselves with no school, and 60 of them are due to sit their junior...

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

John Brady: It is unbelievable that the Government has allowed the Department to sleepwalk into the pending crisis. I have been asking questions about this for the past two years, particularly regarding the concerns relating to the BIFE site. I pointed out that there were issues with the identification of that site by the ex-CEO, Mr. Sean Nash, and with the engagement with the Department, which I...

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

John Brady: The Minister has mentioned cost-benefit for taxpayers. We are talking about taxpayers and pupils, learners who are going to be homeless. They will have nowhere to go at the end of April 2019. While the Minister is thinking of cost-benefit, I think of the benefit that will accrue for the pupils and their parents, as well as the teachers, and pupils who are due to enrol in that school next...

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill: Report Stage (29 Nov 2018)

John Brady: I move amendment No. 6:In page 12, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following:“Review of carer’s allowance payment 13.The Minister shall conduct a review and lay a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas on the financial hardship faced by carers who must provide full-time care in order to receive carer’s allowance restricting them from taking up other work to...

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill: Report Stage (29 Nov 2018)

John Brady: I thank the Minister for agreeing to accept this amendment. She said she will not do anything mad in tabling an amendment when the Bill goes to the Seanad but I hope whatever she brings forward will strengthen provision in this area because a considerable volume of work needs to be done regarding all the issues facing carers. With respect to Family Carers Ireland, what I have touched on...

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill: Report Stage (29 Nov 2018)

John Brady: I move amendment No. 7:In page 15, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: "Review of means testing of maintenance payments 19. The Minister shall conduct a review and lay a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas on the financial effects of the consideration of maintenance payments as household income in the means test for various social welfare payments and that the report...

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill: Report Stage (29 Nov 2018)

John Brady: I will try to be brief but this is an important issue. The Minister is aware that the joint committee, under its Chairman, Deputy Curran, has started a comprehensive consideration of bogus self-employment. Our first meeting was fascinating. It was with officials from the Department and they appeared to think that this is a non-issue and that it is not as extensive or rampant as is the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times (29 Nov 2018)

John Brady: 216. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the processing times in which additional information is sought for all social welfare payments including fuel allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49934/18]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (4 Dec 2018)

John Brady: I welcome the increase in the medical card earnings disregard for persons in receipt of disability allowance. It will benefit employees with disabilities but not business owners with disabilities. I have been contacted by a business owner in receipt of partial capacity benefit who will see absolutely no benefit as a result of the changes announced. Changes in medical card assessment should...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Household Budget Facility (4 Dec 2018)

John Brady: 658. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for recent issues experienced by persons who use the household budget service in which deductions automatically applied and lodged into their household budget account did not happen; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50375/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Wage Subsidy Scheme (4 Dec 2018)

John Brady: 662. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of employers in receipt of the wage subsidy scheme under strand 1, 2 and 3; the number of employers that have participated in the scheme since it was introduced; the number of persons with a disability who are engaged with the scheme; and the number of persons with a disability who have engaged in the scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Wage Subsidy Scheme (4 Dec 2018)

John Brady: 663. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent on the wage subsidy scheme for each of the years since its introduction. [50428/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Wage Subsidy Scheme (4 Dec 2018)

John Brady: 664. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of inspections of premises carried out in which the wage subsidy scheme is being paid in respect of a person with a disability in each of the years since its introduction. [50429/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Wage Subsidy Scheme (4 Dec 2018)

John Brady: 665. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of employers that have been disqualified from the wage subsidy scheme since its introduction. [50430/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Wage Subsidy Scheme (4 Dec 2018)

John Brady: 668. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when her Department last reviewed the wage subsidy scheme, the employability service and the reasonable accommodation fund. [50433/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Services for People with Disabilities (4 Dec 2018)

John Brady: 666. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons with a disability who have engaged with the EmployAbility service since its introduction; the number of persons who have gained employment through the scheme since its introduction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50431/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Services for People with Disabilities (4 Dec 2018)

John Brady: 667. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of employers that have sought assistance through the reasonable accommodation fund for each of the available four grants; and the amount spent on the fund and on each of the four grants. [50432/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Services for People with Disabilities (4 Dec 2018)

John Brady: 669. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications that have been made under the disability awareness support scheme; the number which have been successful; and the amount spent on the scheme since its introduction. [50434/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Support Services (4 Dec 2018)

John Brady: 670. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent on the ability programme since its introduction; the number of young persons that have engaged with the programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50435/18]