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Other Questions: Illness Benefit Applications (29 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I listened to the Minister's answers. I have also encountered this issue. The perception - it may only be a perception - seems to be that someone with a mental illness is not taken as seriously as someone with a physical and, therefore, visible illness and, as such, a different approach is taken. Given where we are as a society and the considerable increase in rates of depression and...

Other Questions: Jobs Initiative Inquiry (29 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This is a peculiar case because the person in question has, in effect, been done out of a position by FÁS because there was an amalgamation of the workers from the KWCD partnership, which collapsed overnight, and the Dublin 12 Congress Centre took on some of the workers. The woman in question facilitated FÁS by allowing her to be categorised as additional administrative support...

Other Questions: Jobs Initiative Inquiry (29 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I welcome that and ask that the case in general be considered, given it is a complicated case because it involves the partnership collapse and everything around that. However, commitments were given to all workers who were transferred from the partnership to the Dublin 12 Congress Centre that their conditions of employment and the source of their funding would be protected and that this...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There must be another opportunity given to Government parties to vote in a different way, given the obnoxious nature of this Bill. There needs to be a vote other than by electronic means.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There must be another opportunity given to Government parties to vote in a different way, given the obnoxious nature of this Bill. There needs to be a vote other than by electronic means.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Agencies Funding (29 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 26. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount of funding allocated to Citizens Information Centres during each of the past five years; the amount of this funding which was allocated to Money Advice and Budgeting Service in the same period [25706/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Agencies Funding (29 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 34. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of clients that Money Advice and Budgeting Service has assisted during each of the past five years. [25707/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pupil-Teacher Ratio in Gaeltacht Schools: Discussion (29 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: An bhfuil mórán fágtha le rá ag Ms Ní Mhainín?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pupil-Teacher Ratio in Gaeltacht Schools: Discussion (29 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Perhaps Ms Ní Mhainín can be allowed to finish her presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pupil-Teacher Ratio in Gaeltacht Schools: Discussion (29 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil leis na haíonna as ucht an méid a chur siad os ár gcomhair inniu. B'fhéidir go bhfuil sé ait go bhfuil tuiscint ar leith agam maidir le scoileanna Gaeltachta cé go dtagaim ó mBaile Átha Cliath. Tá tuiscint ar leith agam maidir le scoileanna Gaeltachta. D'fhreastail mé ar thrí cinn acu ar...

Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (30 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Táimid ag déileáil leis an Bhille Leasa Shóisialaigh agus Pinsean nach bhfuil mórán cosanta breise dóibh siúd atá ag brath go huile is go hiomlán ar aisíocaíochtaí as an PRSI a d'íoc siad thar na blianta, nó a d'íoc a sinsir de thairbhe ar an gcruachás ina bhfuil siad anois le cúig bliana anuas agus...

Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (30 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is not fully reflected in this Bill, which is a pity because if the Minister really believes it is not working she would be introducing a Bill to repeal some of the regressive decisions which have been taken. The social welfare system is not working as a safety net because the gap between rich and poor in our society is growing. That is the gap between the lowest cohort of our society...

Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (30 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I did not mind the interruption. I am not being critical-----

Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (30 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: My point is that the simple way to address the problem was to reverse the change the Minister had made in budget 2012. That would have been much simpler than putting in a complicated scheme which, I am led to believe, in some cases could end up leaving women in a worse situation than they are in at present. The Minister has acknowledged that the comprehensive system we need is not in...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta Issues (30 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 35. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide a detailed progress report to date on the Historic Towns Initiative Pilot Scheme; if he will provide a detailed report of its financial return in terms of heritage tourism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26102/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta Issues (30 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 38. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ar an bhforbairt atá beartaithe ag an gcomhlacht Bioniche/Mylan in Indreabhán, Contae na Gaillimhe, i bhfianaise an mhéadaithe ar an líon post a d’fhógair an Taoiseach anuraidh, cé méid post atá cruthaithe go dtí seo; cé méid post a...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (11 Jun 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That is because of the Government's policies.

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I oppose No. 11, the order to rescind the referral of the Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 to the Select sub-Committee on Social Protection. This is an example of how this House is doing its business in the wrong way. Every Bill should go through its proper Stages as laid out in the White Paper, Regulating Better. Both parties in government agreed with this...

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I too want to oppose the proposal to have a guillotine on the debate on this legislation which has only been published and to which even up to yesterday the Minister was publishing amendments. This Government since it came to power would put the French Revolution's Committee of Public Safety and its use of guillotines in the tuppence ha'penny place, as it would Fianna Fáil Governments...

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Both parties in government used to be on this side of the House and they criticised the then Fianna Fáil government for the exact same policy, of which Deputy Dooley and his colleagues were guilty in the past.