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- Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: Did the Taoiseach say that the new social welfare Bill, which will provide a so-called dividend for low-paid families, is due to be debated next week?
- Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: I thought the Taoiseach said that in response to Deputy Fitzpatrick.
- Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: It is coming before Cabinet next week?
- Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: I wish to raise one other issue. There is a commitment in the programme for Government to undertake a review of the fair deal scheme to make it "fair and equitable". Does the Taoiseach regard as fair and equitable a situation where there is a minimum 15-week delay in the scheme, at a cost of €1,000 to €1,500 per week for hard-pressed families?
- Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: Has the review been completed?
- Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: I asked a question but I did not get an answer. Has the review been completed?
- Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: Four years down the road and it has not been completed.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (11 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: 33. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the relaxation of the current time limits and capping rules, placed on participants of community employment schemes, who are a year off retirement; if she will grant these participants a special exemption to allow them to work until they are 66 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6231/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Sick Pay Scheme Reform (12 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: 97. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 258 of 16 December 2014, if any provisions or exceptions will be provided to public service workers who were on long-term illness leave, more than a year prior to the new illness scheme being introduced, in view of the fact that the look-back period is four years, and as a result, these workers now...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit Applications (17 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: 191. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an exception will be made in respect of an application for a jobseeker's allowance from a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22, as the reason the claim was closed was due to dockets being submitted late, even though her Department was informed that the dockets would not always be on time from the employer; if the original claim will be...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: How does making people poorer activate them?
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: Such as.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: Does the Taoiseach not understand they are still at a loss?
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: Therefore, lone parents have to pay for this.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: By penalising them.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: He should speak to the Tánaiste, in particular. She might explain to him what is happening.
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: A section in the programme for Government concerns political reform. One of the promises made is: "We will introduce a role for the Ceann Comhairle in deciding whether a Minister [which I presume includes the Taoiseach] has failed to provide reasonable information in response to a question". Has it been introduced and, if not, when will it be introduced?
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: Excuse me.
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: I cannot remember it being invoked. This morning, when the Taoiseach was answering questions about lone parents, provided a classic example of where it should have been invoked.
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: May I invoke it?