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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Reform (15 Jul 2015)

Brendan Ryan: 314. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of financial savings achieved in each of the 31 local authorities in the first year after the abolition of the town councils and the amalgamation of a number of local authorities; if these details will be broken down for each individual council; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Provision (22 Sep 2015)

Brendan Ryan: 1390. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number and names of all operating voluntary housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30515/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Priory Hall Development (22 Sep 2015)

Brendan Ryan: 1400. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in relation to the implementation oversight group, set up under the aegis of his Department to oversee the overall implementation of the October 2013 Priory Hall resolution framework, if he will provide an update on the work of this oversight group; if the group has been in contact with property owners; and if he will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)

Brendan Ryan: Each year, the traditional approach to this discussion between the committee, the Minister and the officials has focused on policy. As a committee, we have spoken about shifting the balance of the discussion towards performance in terms of outputs, measurements and so forth. What we are trying to get at is not so much what we are doing and what the policy decisions or choices are but,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)

Brendan Ryan: Not anymore.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)

Brendan Ryan: This is something we have been talking about for a while. Our objective as a committee is to move towards a different and preferred model for the 2016 Estimates. There have been suggestions that the committee will generate a report from today's meeting and officials will come back with suggestions or feedback based on what they have heard. The Minister said she might get somebody to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)

Brendan Ryan: I foresee a situation where the people to whom I refer are around a table. The Minister's officials may say something is too long-term and we should hold off on it. We would eventually have to come to an agreement on what progress we might make in the short, medium and longer term.

Social Housing Policy: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Sep 2015)

Brendan Ryan: We have a serious housing problem. The root cause is simple, namely the lack of housing supply. We are dealing with it through the Housing Strategy 2020. When we emerged from the troika shackles and were first in a position to do so, we set out an ambitious housing strategy, costed at over €3.8 billion. We have begun to build social housing units again. In Fingal County Council,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)

Brendan Ryan: I thank the Minister and her officials. I welcome what I believe the Minister said, that she would agree with working towards the New Zealand model and work with the committee to achieve it. Does the Minister hope to get close to some of the elements of the model in the context of delivering the 2016 Estimates? I hope so, and it would be a positive response to us. The Minister gave...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)

Brendan Ryan: The Ministers mentioned working with the committee towards progressing towards a New Zealand model for the 2016 Estimates. Will the Department be in a position to consult with the committee and its staff on specific details of any measures proposed for inclusion in those Estimates before the Estimate is finalised? In regard to the reference made to the Department having to hear the view...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)

Brendan Ryan: Is the Minister happy for her officials to work with the secretariat of this committee towards achieving that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)

Brendan Ryan: Did I pick the Minister of State up correctly about there being a science strategy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)

Brendan Ryan: If I were working on a science strategy, an important element would be for every student who wanted to study science at second level to be in a position to do so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)

Brendan Ryan: I raise this in the context of a significant school in my constituency that is unable to offer science to every student who wants it. This element should be factored in when considering requests for extensions, improvements, etc. I also raise this matter to provide a reminder to the Minister, Deputy O'Sullivan, in that regard. I am being a little bit parochial.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Incidence (13 Oct 2015)

Brendan Ryan: 268. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in the north Dublin area who suffer with autism and have not yet been allocated an adult service after moving from a service in their childhood and teenage years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35442/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Activation Services and Supports for the Unemployed: Discussion (14 Oct 2015)

Brendan Ryan: I thank the INOU and the officials for coming in to deal with this matter. As the Chair indicated at the start, it is a topic that we all encounter on a regular basis in our clinic work. The officials have gone through the various categories of those who are not on the live register but the one I encounter most, and probably encountered to a greater degree a couple of years ago, is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Activation Services and Supports for the Unemployed: Discussion (14 Oct 2015)

Brendan Ryan: I will pick up on the point about people's experiences of attending Intreo offices and the survey by the Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed. If Intreo and the Department want a real sense of what people experience when they go to the offices, they need to survey people on an ongoing basis. Perhaps the witnesses can tell me whether this next happens - I do not believe that it does...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Activation Services and Supports for the Unemployed: Discussion (14 Oct 2015)

Brendan Ryan: Would the Department consider the proposal to have something permanently there and say “We value your input, tell us about your experience”-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Activation Services and Supports for the Unemployed: Discussion (14 Oct 2015)

Brendan Ryan: -----and have that in situ?

Social Welfare Bill 2015: Second Stage (4 Nov 2015)

Brendan Ryan: No.