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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Poverty (16 Apr 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount spent on area based approach to child poverty to date; and the plans and projected cost for further improvement in this year. [11372/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (16 Apr 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider adding Dilated Cardiomopathy as one of the conditions that qualify for a long term illness card due to the severity of the condition [16649/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Proposed Legislation (18 Apr 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will introduce the Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2012 in the Dáil. [17840/13]

Maternity Protection (Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Apr 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Bhille seo. Píosa amháin de phacáiste mór a ba chóir a chur os comhair na Dála chun déanamh cinnte go bhfuil an Dáil seo níos oscailte do gach duine sa tsochaí anseo, ní amháin na fir den chuid is mó atá anseo, ach na mná chomh maith, agus daoine óga ach go háirithe. Nílim i...

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I acknowledge the window-dressing in what the Taoiseach has just said. He did not address the real meat of the programme for Government - the wishful thinking that was contained and listed in the programme. There has been an indication, particularly on the part of the Minister for Social Protection, that the penny is beginning to drop with this Government at long last, after two years of...

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will finish on this point but I ask that I be allowed to come back in, as there are one or two other points I wish to raise. Disability was one of the key platforms during the election and also in the programme for Government, which states: "We will ensure that the quality of life of people with disabilities is enhanced and that resources allocated reach the people who need them." Yet on...

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Why would they not be if they are getting free employment?

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: She was playing to the audience.

Order of Business (23 Apr 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Taoiseach might remember 6 November 2012 when he announced the site for the new national children's hospital. When will the legislation be published which will allow for a development board to be put in place to start the work? At the time, the Taoiseach promised works could start once the hospital decanted and that that would take six months but without a development board and a remit,...

Order of Business (23 Apr 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: -----for a national maternity hospital? Will other legislation be required to give effect to a promise made by the previous Government and this one that a new maternity hospital would be built? Is a second Bill required?

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Competitiveness (23 Apr 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 124. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he has taken to address the property costs to small and medium enterprises. [18620/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Issues (23 Apr 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 138. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he has taken to ensure that all job creation bodies, which seek to promote enterprises, do not pass on excessive cost to client companies. [18621/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (24 Apr 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 2. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason retained fire-fighters who are entitled to social welfare payments when they are not working in other employment are still having payments withheld from them. [19161/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (24 Apr 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is welcome news that progress has been made in this area and I hope we will see the detail of the arrangement soon. It was a very simple anomaly. On the one hand, the Department wanted to comply with its rules and regulations, but, on the other, this vital service was being undermined by social welfare inspectors and the social welfare appeals office. Is it the Minister intention to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (24 Apr 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I hope this decision will not impact negatively on the 800 firefighters who avail of the scheme in question. I hope they will be employed in the future rather than being dependent on this payment.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (24 Apr 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 5. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a jobs club service funded by FÁS has been withdrawn from Bawnogue, Clondalkin, Dublin; and the reason jobs club workers have not been paid for weeks worked or being offered enhanced redundancy as would be the norm in such circumstances. [19162/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (24 Apr 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The vital part of the Minister's reply was her reference to the State not being the employer in this case. I remind her that the State often sets the terms, conditions and rates of pay in jobs clubs and most other community employment schemes. Will the Minister examine the case of Bawnogue Unemployed Group Limited? The Bawnogue area needs a service of this nature because it has a high...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (24 Apr 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thank the Minister for assuring me that another service will be provided quite soon. The State sets and evaluates the framework for pay, hours and everything else in the case of organisations which are funded in this way. When it withdraws that money and two jobs are lost as a consequence, the role it plays must involve more than providing statutory funding. This issue is coming up more...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (24 Apr 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I understand.

Other Questions: Rent Support Schemes (24 Apr 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I concur with Deputy Nulty's comments about top-up payments. I have raised this issue with the Minister on a number of occasions and she has denied that her Department has any information that this is happening. If she talked to the groups she mentioned earlier, such as the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Focus Ireland or Threshold, they would attest to a widespread practice of top-up...