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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (14 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 198. To ask the Minister for Health when the licence for disposing of hospital waste came up for renewal; if there will be a public tendering process for the licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39194/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Administration (14 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 294. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the purpose of having to provide personal public service numbers when completing the Irish Water application form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38846/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local and Community Development Programme Project Funding (15 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 143. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to ring-fence funding to support the national collective of community-based women's networks of which Limerick Women's Network is a member group to deliver the only programme specifically targeted at women from disadvantaged communities; if this is not his plan, the way he plans to provide support for this most...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local and Community Development Programme Project Funding (15 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 145. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way he plans to engage with the national collective of community-based women's networks of which Limerick Women's Network is a member group, to resolve the difficulty that has arisen because that organisation created a national structure to meet the requirement of the community development programme which now...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local and Community Development Programme Project Funding (15 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 148. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to engage with the national collective of community-based women's networks (details supplied) of which Limerick Women's Network is a member group, to resolve the difficulty that has arisen because that organisation created a national structure to meet the requirement of the community development programme which...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local and Community Development Programme Project Funding (15 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 154. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way he plans to support the voluntary board of the national collective of community-based women's networks of which Limerick Women's Network is a member group with their responsibilities to seventeen local women's projects, 44 staff members and approximately 200 non-directly employed staff; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local and Community Development Programme Project Funding (15 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 155. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that marginalised women are not a target group of the new SICAP programme; in view of this, if he will provide reassurance to the national collective of community-based women's networks of which Limerick Women's Network is a member group that an alternative funding stream will...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Placements (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 78. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the classifications of employment which have been prohibited from utilising the JobBridge scheme; the number of positions which have been removed by her Department from the JobBridge scheme; the kind of positions removed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40054/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Placements (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: This question is with regard to information recently publicised in the national media about certain positions being withdrawn from the JobBridge scheme.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Placements (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: We are all aware that schools have to resort to desperate measures in some circumstances because of the huge cutbacks in the education sector over the past four years. Does the Minister of State agree it is reprehensible that schools should exploit those young people in this way? Does he agree it was exploitation because that is how the Minister described it? She said that exploiting one...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Placements (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: On the general question of JobBridge, I do not deny there have been some successes; I freely concede that. I acknowledge that some of those schemes operate to the benefit of schools. Nevertheless, there has been some disturbing evidence of abuse by employers of the JobBridge scheme. The scheme is constructed in such a way that the taxpayers are paying these people to work in the private...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Placements (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: It is positive - with exceptions.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Placements (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister of State is suggesting that we ignore the abuse. He should publish the names of the people caught exploiting the scheme.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Data Protection (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 81. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the responsibility her Department accepts in the circumstances where private investigators accessed social protection information in breach of data protection; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40055/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Data Protection (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: This question arises from recent legal proceedings in which private investigators were convicted of breach of the data protection legislation by using confidential information which they got from the Department of Social Protection.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Data Protection (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: I share the Tánaiste's concern about the conduct of those credit unions. I congratulate the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner on this successful prosecution. I was interested to hear the Tánaiste's reply. Essentially, credit unions that had access to PPS numbers rang the Department, pretended to be representing another State body and sought the addresses of people they...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Data Protection (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: I accept the Tánaiste's remarks about the legislation, but credit unions are prohibited by legislation from using PPS numbers in the way they were used in this case. Once PPS numbers are given out to a third party, there is the potential for other people to acquire them. It would not be easy, but has anything been done as a result of this case? Private investigators posing as public...

Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments Administration (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 86. To ask the Minister for Social Protection how the Department’s policy to migrate to electronic payments affects the Government’s stated objective of protecting the post office network; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39805/14]

Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments Administration (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: I tabled this question to ascertain how the Government can reconcile its repeated commitments to preserve the post office network as we know it with the headlong rush to an electronic payment system for social welfare recipients.

Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments Administration (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: Nobody in the Government has contradicted the opinion of the Irish Postmasters Union, which clearly states a move to electronic payments in the timescale envisaged by the Government, which is by 2017, would result in the immediate closure of 600 post offices out of the network of 1,100. This is supported by Grant Thornton and various other independent organisations. How does the Government...