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- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) John Brady: I welcome the Christmas bonus payout of €266 million to 1.2 million needy people. It has to be warmly welcomed. It also has to be welcomed from the point of view of the injection of money it brings to local economies because I said it at a previous committee meeting - probably last year's Estimates - how important the Christmas bonus is for individuals and for the local economy...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) John Brady: Yes.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) John Brady: They get €311.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) John Brady: I refer to reports and I hear what the Minister is saying about finishing one before commencing another. Two years ago she promised a report on young unemployed people. She indicated on Report Stage of the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill that it was imminent, so when exactly is it expected? Is it next month or in two months? I refer to the housing assistance payment, HAP. I am...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) John Brady: -----and staff are saying they are processing 20 to 30 of those applications a week. That is happening as we speak and I am sure that is being replicated in every local authority in the State.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) John Brady: People are being told that the landlord has to sign up to it or else the payment will be stopped.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) John Brady: I will get the Minister a copy of the letter because it is concerning for many reasons.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) John Brady: On the additional spend of €22.8 million for Turas Nua and Seetec, the figures that were finally produced at the Committee of Public Accounts last week after several years of asking, with the cover of commercial sensitivity being given, are startling. I do not know how the Minister can come here and say that JobPath is the most successful labour activation scheme-----
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) John Brady: -----and stand over that. We know that 190,000 people have been referred over and it has cost €149 million. Only 17% of those people who engaged in employment lasted as far as the first sustainment payment of 13 weeks. If we take the last sustainment payment, only 9% of people-----
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) John Brady: -----have been sustained in a job for 52 weeks.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) John Brady: The Minister initially said that this is demand driven, but it is not. We know people are referred over from Intreo. Some of the massive increase from €48.8 million to €71.69 million might be those sustainment payments. Something else happened during that period in 2018. Was there renegotiation around the contract with Turas Nua and Seetec to see an increase in numbers being...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) John Brady: It would be very useful at this point, and I do not expect to hear it, if there was a full breakdown of all of those figures because they were only produced last week at the Committee of Public Accounts. The figures are alarming, to say the least. This scheme has been in place for three years. I do not buy what the Minister is saying so it would be useful to get an up-to-date picture on...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) John Brady: It is a taxpayer-----
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) John Brady: The Minister is in denial.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2018)
John Brady: The Taoiseach's colleagues are.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2018)
John Brady: In June 2017, the then Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Naughten, announced changes to the waste charges regime in place. He said he would also introduce an annual support of €75 for persons with lifelong and long-term medical incontinence to be rolled out by the end of 2017. Some 19 months later, there is nothing in place for people in these...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (6 Dec 2018)
John Brady: 174. To ask the Minister for Health the position of a person (details supplied) on the waiting list to see a clinical psychologist at the Enniscorthy CAMHS; the length of time the person has been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51313/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Carers' Strategy (11 Dec 2018)
John Brady: 273. To ask the Minister for Health when the latest review of the National Carers’ Strategy took place; and if additional actions have been added to the strategy since it was first published in 2012. [52042/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (11 Dec 2018)
John Brady: 528. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the policy in place for reviewing social welfare payments in which the recipient is deceased having viewed their means once their estate is in probate; when this policy commenced; the way in which it operates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51771/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (11 Dec 2018)
John Brady: 529. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of money that has been recouped following reviews of social welfare payments in which the recipient is deceased for every year since the policy to do so has been in place. [51772/18]