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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: I will withdraw it on the basis that the Minister withdraws her assertion that the scheme she is introducing is exactly the same as the scheme we introduced. It is not.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister used it in defence of her arguments, therefore she is implying it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: I made no assertion.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: I simply quoted somebody who said-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: I withdraw it on the basis that the Minister withdraws her assertion that the two schemes are exactly the same.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: Does the Minister accept that the schemes were different? The Minister quoted it out of context.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: Send it to me.

Other Questions: Farm Assist Scheme Eligibility (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: It was greater.

Order of Business (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: You are certainly practising it.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Activation Measures (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 11. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to address the increasing numbers of long-term unemployed here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17732/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Placements (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 12. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is concerned at the failure of 40% of those who take an internship through JobBridge to secure full-time employment on completing that internship; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17733/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pensions Reform (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 18. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of defined benefit pension schemes that closed in 2013 and to date in 2014; her plans to further reform the pensions industry here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17734/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 23. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to transfer payments from her Department to an electronic system; if she has discussed this proposed change with the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17736/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Guarantee (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 41. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of training or education places that have been set aside this year for young persons who are out of work as part of the Youth Guarantee; the current number of young persons who qualify for the Youth Guarantee scheme at this time; the ratio of her Department case officers to the number of unemployed persons currently; and if she will...

Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: A great deal of controversy has attended the leaking of the Government memorandum on water charges. I have several questions for the Tánaiste in this regard. I do not raise them from a political perspective but because they echo the questions I am being asked by members of the public. As the local and European elections campaign intensifies, these questions are coming up at almost...

Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the Tánaiste for his clarification. As I said, these questions are being raised on every doorstep, as I am sure my constituency colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, will confirm. In respect of people on social welfare, pensioners and people on low incomes, do I take it from the Tánaiste's reply that the question of their ability to pay will definitely...

Order of Business (17 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: I note the change in the schedule. The Dáil is coming back a week earlier then had originally been planned. Will the Tánaiste indicate whether it is intended to move the writs for the two by-elections on 30 April or thereabouts? I wish to ask the Tánaiste about the legislation on water charges. Can the Tánaiste give me an approximate date when it might be published?...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Household Budget Facility (30 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 367. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason she has discontinued the lough payment scheme whereby household budget scheme deductions from a person's social welfare payment will be discontinued for any Money Advice and Budgeting Service client using the lough payment scheme; if she will reinstate the lough payment scheme until there are more suitable and affordable saving, credit...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Live Register Data (30 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 363. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons aged 62 and over currently on the live register who are exempt from activation measures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19301/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (30 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 364. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the implications for persons who take time out of the workforce to undertake caring duties of the plan to move to a total-contributions approach to pension qualification from the current average contributions test for State pension, contributory, by 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19302/14]