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- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: The Government also leaks the reports.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: May I ask a brief question?
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Will the Minister undertake to publish the advisory group's report on the disability and domiciliary care allowances when she receives it? In a reply to me, dated 23 August 2012, the Minister gave me statistics on the disability allowance. In 2009, there were 20,794 applications received and the number disallowed was 9,677, indicating a success rate of 55% or refusal rate of 45%. In 2010,...
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Not according to the Minister's letter. I will cite it again.
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: That is incorrect.
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: No, that is a lie. That is incorrect.
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Yes.
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: No, the fall was in 2011.
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: I find it extraordinary. This system has been in place for many years and people are suddenly starting to produce inadequate applications. When did this start? The Minister stated that in the last year of the previous Government - 2010 - there was a jump in refusals. Her letter dated 23 August states that in 2010, some 21,409 applications were received. The number of applications...
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: I can read.
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: That has nothing to do with it. The Minister is using an increase in applications as a justification for a percentage of success.
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: That has nothing to do with it. We accepted more applications.
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: That is a bogus argument.
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Is the Minister making the case that because more people apply, that is a justification for the percentage of success dropping? Is it acceptable that because more people apply, the number of refusals increases? That is what she seems to be saying.
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: I have heard this several times.
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister is going back again.
- Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister would not have what it takes to make me cross.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Payments (16 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline her future plans for child benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44639/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (17 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he is taking to alleviate the plight of displaced and affected persons in the Syrian civil war; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44895/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Gathering (17 Oct 2012)
Willie O'Dea: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he has taken in his role to encourage and promote The Gathering in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44904/12]