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Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Will the Minister reverse the cut?

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: We are asking questions on behalf of the people at the gate.

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: We increased tax on the rich also, unlike the current Government.

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Is that the Minister's answer? Is she reversing the cut? She is filibustering.

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: That has nothing to do with the section.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Expenditure (13 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will explain the 0.9% linear reduction to the single farm payment imposed in 2012; the number of farmers this will affect; the total amount of the reduction and where these funds go; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55971/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications (13 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications received under the agri environment options scheme 3 by 7 December 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55976/12]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Support Agency (18 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if adequate resources to employ social workers for children are in place for 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56708/12]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: City and County Child Care Committees (18 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the discussions she has had with the Health Service Executive regarding complementary funding supports to county childcare committees; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56713/12]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Public Inquiries (18 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the De Silva report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56927/12]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Public Inquiries (18 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions he has held with the British government in relation to the De Silva Report and the need for a full independent inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56928/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Staff (18 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered the fate of the agency workers who are currently employed by the Health Service Executive in the posts now to be taken by new graduate nurses; if he will consider these temporary contract workers as applicants for the new posts alongside the graduate nurses when advertising the new positions; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Order of Business (19 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: It is anti-competitive.

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (19 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: To ask the Minister for Health when legislation to provide for free general practitioner care will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57082/12]

Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (20 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I welcome the Bill and we have no notion of opposing it. In fact, we support it strongly. I acknowledge the great deal of work done on the Bill by a number of Members in the Seanad, in particular Senator Bacik. On the surface, the Bill looks unexceptional and does not seem like it would make much difference. However, it represents a fundamental change. Hitherto, only two groups were...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sale of Aer Lingus (20 Dec 2012)

Willie O'Dea: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he or any State agency has tendered for an adviser in relation to the State's 25% shareholding in Aer Lingus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57217/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fuel Rebate Scheme (16 Jan 2013)

Willie O'Dea: To ask the Minister for Finance if passenger transport companies are to be included in the fuel rebate scheme and that the rebate will be at the 13c per litre level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58045/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fuel Rebate Scheme (16 Jan 2013)

Willie O'Dea: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider extending the excise rebate on diesel announced in Budget 2013 to bus and coach companies in the forthcoming Finance Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1045/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (16 Jan 2013)

Willie O'Dea: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if Home and Community Care Ireland have been in touch with him concerning the issue of the status of live-in carer's under the National Minimum Wage Act 2000 and the Working Time Act 1997 and the policing of that legislation by the National Employment Rights Authority; and the action he proposes to take to resolve this issue. [58124/12]

Social Welfare (Amnesty) Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Jan 2013)

Willie O'Dea: I welcome the initiative which enables Members to introduce Private Members' Bills. It is certainly a major improvement, although I question why the Government continues to operate the new system so timidly. The Order Paper sets out dozens of Bills dealing with important issues which will never see the light of day. It is like somebody who issues an open invitation to a party only to slam...