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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (23 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: Spoof.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (23 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: Do they exist?

Order of Business (23 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: I wish to ask the Taoiseach about two items of legislation. When can we expect the legislation to provide for the dissolution of the County Enterprise Boards and transfer of their functions to Enterprise Ireland? On the question asked by Deputy Humphreys, can the Taoiseach say precisely when the legislation, promised often by the Minister for Social Protection, the purpose of which is to...

Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: Last week the Taoiseach assured the House that the legislation to provide for a referendum for the abolition of the Seanad would appear during this session. When is that legislation likely to be passed and does the Taoiseach envisage it taking place this year?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: 1. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total amount of savings that she expects to achieve from the abolition of exceptional needs payments for religious ceremonies; the number who received such payments in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013;; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19152/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: The relevant figure given by the Minister is €1.5 million. This is the amount the Government will save by depriving 14,000 families, many of whom are living in destitution, others on the verge of destitution, of this particular payment, out of a total budget of €56,472 million. I put it to the Minister that it is disingenuous to say people can have access to the exceptional...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister is giving a history lesson. She did not say much about that during the election campaign when she promised the sun, moon and stars.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: Among the poorest of the poor.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: Is that Labour Party policy?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: The community welfare officers advised the Minister how to spend scarce money. She was not too worried about scarce money while on this side of the House when she could find money for everything under sun. It is a mean cut and it should be reversed. Why did the Minister wait until the eve of First Holy Communion and Confirmation, with the result that people did not have the chance to plan...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: A situation in which the Minister was more than willing to take over.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister has slashed special needs payments.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister is a joke. She has some neck.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: Protect child benefit - vote Labour.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: I understand that.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister was not too worried about spending hard-working taxpayers’ money when she was on this side of the House.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: Did the Government target the rich? Why did it not target those earning over €100,000?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: The Government’s solution is to crush the poor. Is that Labour Party policy?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: Get off the stage.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Apr 2013)

Willie O'Dea: On a point of order, how many people has the Government got back to work?