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Order of Business (28 Jan 2015)

Willie O'Dea: It is very vague.

Order of Business (28 Jan 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Exactly.

Order of Business (28 Jan 2015)

Willie O'Dea: It is very important.

Order of Business (28 Jan 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Surely we can engage with him to question his interpretation.

Order of Business (28 Jan 2015)

Willie O'Dea: No debate.

Order of Business (28 Jan 2015)

Willie O'Dea: We could discuss it with him, surely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Report on Intreo: Discussion (28 Jan 2015)

Willie O'Dea: That is fair enough. I thank Mr. McKeon for his presentation and I thank the INOU for the survey - albeit based on a small sample - which it carried out. Reference was made to the growth in employment, which I welcome, but there has not been a commensurate growth in the totality of the amount paid out in wages. Despite the fact that there has been a 5% reduction in unemployment, there has...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (3 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 216. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to reports that the community employment and employment services programmes are now only accepting persons on training if they can confirm they have a job secured when they leave the training; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4939/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Residential Institutions (3 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 428. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the fact that Mr. Justice Quirke's first recommendation on the Magdalene women was that they should receive a card entitling them to the free range of services currently received by holders of the Health (Amendment) Act 1996 card, the reason the Government is refusing this card to those women; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4520/15]

Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: It should be deleted.

Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I remind the Taoiseach about the section in the programme for Government on homelessness. What, if any, progress has been made on the specific proposals laid out? The Taoiseach is aware that numerous people, whole families in some cases, are crammed into hotel rooms, hostels and bed and breakfast accommodation from one end of this country to the other at horrendous cost to the State. These...

Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: How many are in hotel rooms, hostels and bed and breakfast accommodation?

Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: There are more people in emergency accommodation than ever before in the history of the State.

Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: That is not true. We see them in Limerick.

Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I will take the Taoiseach on a tour of my constituency where he will see the reality on the ground.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Levy (4 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 51. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the assertion of the Pensions Ombudsman to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance and Public Expenditure that the imposition of a 0.6% levy on private sector pension schemes in 2011 was legal but not necessarily fair; and that Government statements at the time of the levy’s introduction, to the effect that employers could be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (5 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 1. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to address the increasing deprivation rate here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5029/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (5 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: My question asks the Minister to respond to the recent CSO report that showed levels of poverty at the end of 2013 had risen appreciably over the previous period.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (5 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister seems to indicate that trends since the end of 2013 would show a different result if these figures were taken up now.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (5 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: My apologies. The Minister seems to indicate that the position has improved appreciably since the end of 2013 to which these figures relate. The Department of Social Protection in its assessment of the 2015 budget admits, more or less, that it is regressive, like all the four budgets that preceded it. I refer to the Minister's own document which states that the distributive effect of...