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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Community Employment Scheme: Discussion with SIPTU (17 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Would level 6 take another year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Community Employment Scheme: Discussion with SIPTU (17 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Is the 10% limit on extensions hampering certain of the outcomes for participants? It was stated earlier that it is not possible for people to pursue a FETAC level 5 course. What is the position with other schemes? The scheme with which I am familiar is that which relates to child care. The campaign raised a range of other issues during the past year and I presume that SIPTU is still...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Community Employment Scheme: Discussion with SIPTU (17 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I asked this question because some of the schemes with which I am dealing are very frustrated that extensions are not being granted. Mr. Darragh O'Connor referred to a constant churn of people through organisations. In that context, there is no benefit to participants because they are halfway through courses when they are obliged to leave. Equally, there is no benefit to the scheme because...

Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is 15 months since the gender recognition advisory group reported and five years since the Lydia Foy case. When will the heads of the gender recognition Bill, which will address this issue, be published to deal with the findings of this group and the courts? The Minister for Social Protection had indicated that the heads of the Bill would be before the relevant committee this autumn and...

Social Welfare (Amnesty) Bill 2012: First Stage (18 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move:That leave to be granted to introduce Bill entitled an Act to introduce a temporary amnesty with respect to social welfare overpayments

Social Welfare (Amnesty) Bill 2012: First Stage (18 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (18 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the work he is undertaking to ensure that no more US military personnel or war machinery pass through Irish airports. [45137/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Facilities Provision (18 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the lack of recreational facilities for special needs children and for the differently abled; his plans to address this imbalance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45122/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (23 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Maybe he should look at Cork.

Statutory Sick Pay: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Some months ago the Minister for Social Protection indicated that she intended to introduce statutory sick pay and that she was considering making employers pay the first four weeks of illness benefit which is currently paid from the PRSI fund, and Exchequer transfers when that fund is low, as it is currently. The PRSI fund and its associate schemes are like one big community-rated insurance...

Statutory Sick Pay: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It would be based on the ability to pay, which the Minister's proposal is not. It would target businesses which can afford to pay some workers €100,000 or sums in excess of that. At 10.5%, the standard employer PRSI rate is very low by international standards. Our proposal is in line with international standards and takes account of employers' ability to pay. Many businesses are...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Urban Renewal Schemes (23 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on his plans for the regeneration of an area (details supplied) in Dublin 8. [46197/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (23 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he has taken to reduce energy costs in 2012. [46073/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Arrears (23 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to limiting the granting of a financial licence to financial institutions selling mortgages and related property products that they have to partake in State run mortgage relief schemes such as the mortgage to rent scheme. [45831/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Mortgage Interest Supplement Eligibility (23 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will outline the rules and regulations associated with the mortgage interest supplement and in particular the way the reasonable housing costs figure is reached and the other factors that are taken into account when determining if an applicant is granted the payment or not. [45830/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Appeals (23 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) was to move home to live with their parents, if their back to education allowance which currently involves a zero payment be reassessed and a payment be instituted. [45870/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (23 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if any review has been undertaken by her Department on the impact which cuts in rent supplement, implemented earlier this year, are having on those living in the private rented sector and who are dependent on the payment; if she has particular concerns about the effects that the cuts are having on households who find it difficult to find accommodation...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Expenditure Reviews (23 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 100 of 16 October 2012, confirming a higher expected out-turn for 2010 of €20.7 to €20.8 billion, if she still intend to target €540 million of new cuts in Budget 2013 as per the Comprehensive Expenditure Review or will she be revising this target and if so by how much. [46491/12]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Mobile Telephony (23 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the auction and bidding for 4G spectrum will take place; the timeframe for that process and the persons likely to be in the bidding; and his views on the proposed 4G roll out. [46014/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme (23 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps being taken to include more mortgage lenders, in particular sub-prime lenders, in the mortgage to rent scheme; and if he will list the mortgage providers operating here who are and are not participating in the scheme. [45829/12]