Results 8,401-8,420 of 12,637 for speaker:Willie O'Dea

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

Willie O'Dea: Is the Minister claiming that the situation has improved appreciably since the end of 2013? The Government's target is to reduce consistent poverty to 4% by 2016. In view of the fact that consistent poverty increased from 7.7% to 8.2% between 2012 and 2013, does she think she will achieve that target?

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

Willie O'Dea: Surely the Minister will agree with me that the recent ESRI survey took into account USC changes and it also took into account projected increases in prices and in living standards. It concluded that almost half the population were worse off as a result of budget 2015.

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

Willie O'Dea: The conclusion from the Department is startlingly obvious: the more one earns, the more one gains, while the less one earns, the less one gains. I suggest to the Minister that this is as a direct result of all of the regressive budgets introduced by the Government. Is she aware that in countries which also had to impose austerity such as Poland, the statistics show an entirely different...

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

Willie O'Dea: I am talking about child poverty, not child benefit.

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

Willie O'Dea: Different countries have different payments. The Tánaiste is misleading the House.

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

Willie O'Dea: It has a lower level of child poverty than Ireland.

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

Willie O'Dea: Has the Tánaiste read the UNICEF report?

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

Willie O'Dea: Yet we have more children living in poverty.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Administration (5 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 4. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the operation of JobBridge in view of the use of this scheme to hire instructors for training schemes for jobseekers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5030/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Administration (5 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I wish to ascertain the Government's response to the circumstances outlined in the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Administration (5 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. However, I seek clarification. Those involved in the JobBridge scheme are unemployed persons who are looking for work, even though they might not be recorded statistically as being unemployed. In this case, I understand people who are unemployed and hoping to find a job after a period on the JobBridge scheme were providing coaching for other...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Administration (5 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Perhaps my thought processes this morning are a little slow, but I am still confused. Is the Minister of State saying the job club in question was properly and fully staffed with the appropriate staff and that the interns were brought in to assist the existing staff? The newspaper reports on the audit report suggest the work of two senior staff in a job club was effectively being done by...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Payments (5 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 21. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on recent IMF commentary on the issues surrounding child benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4913/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (5 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 31. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the caps currently in place on the rent supplement scheme; if she will provide an update on the HAP scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4912/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Unemployment Data (5 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 42. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide the latest statistics for the long-term unemployed here; if she is satisfied with the current impact of labour activation matters in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4914/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 51. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to reverse the proposed changes to the one-parent family payment which will take effect in July 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4915/15]

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: We are four years on and there is a crisis now.

Order of Business (10 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: That is it?

Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: The ratio is going up.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister, Deputy Reilly, is advising him.