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Other Questions: Disability Support Services (24 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: The unemployment rate of 10% was mentioned but unemployment among those who are disabled ranges from 60% to 70%. There are activation measures to encourage the unemployed off the dole queues and into employment and it is only fair and just that those with a disability should have equal access to those activation measures. I received communication from the Disability Federation of Ireland...

Other Questions: Disability Support Services (24 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister of State for that information. I will not get into a debate on what sort of jobs we have created-----

Other Questions: Disability Support Services (24 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: -----and how better off people are as a result of all those jobs that have been created. I have a specific question for the Minister of State. The Disability Federation of Ireland has also brought to my attention that the probability of exit, PEX, score, used by the Department of Social Protection, measures the probability of exit from the live register. The Disability Federation of...

Other Questions: Disability Support Services (24 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I am sure the people will reward the Minister of State accordingly.

Other Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (24 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: That is a "No".

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (24 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 12. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is in favour of extending social welfare entitlements to the self-employed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24674/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (24 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 30. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the measures she has introduced to provide greater clarity and transparency on pension charges; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24675/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Respite Care Grant Expenditure (24 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 35. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if it is her intention to restore the level of the respite grant to what it was in 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24677/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement (25 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 39. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason there is no option given on the application form for the family income supplement to have payment paid via the post office; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25468/15]

Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: It is a point of order.

Topical Issue Debate: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (30 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: We have been making the point for quite a long time that the cap on rent supplements is driving more and more people into homelessness. This report would seem to justify our worries in that regard. The survey carried out by the Simon Community found, startlingly, that seven out of eight properties available for rent are priced beyond the reach of those in receipt of rent support. In the...

Topical Issue Debate: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (30 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister of State.

Topical Issue Debate: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (30 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister of State for his offer and intend to take him up on it. I take his point on rent inflation. We propose a 5% increase in the rent cap in order to alleviate what is a desperate situation. I am not in favour of hundreds of millions of euro of taxpayers' money going into the pockets of private landlords. I abhor it and it is grossly wasteful; however, we are faced with a...

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I am sharing time with Deputy Troy. I am amazed that lone parents are not doing cartwheels of delight, given the golden age which the Minister has announced will be ushered in for them from next Monday on. I am positively flabbergasted at the Government's mulish, dogged and persistent refusal to face reality here. The reality is that at least 10,000 families, who are already living in...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (30 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 209. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when payment of a carer's allowance will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26369/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015 (30 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 288. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015 will be the primary source of reference for designated public officials on the way they interact with lobbyists; if compliance with this legislation will take precedence over any international recommendations on lobbying; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26427/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Data Protection (30 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 557. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the communication she has had with an association (details supplied) in County Limerick regarding the installation of covert closed-circuit television cameras within a school; her views that this conduct is acceptable; the actions she proposes to take; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26277/15]

Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Are you not the Taoiseach?

Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Is Deputy Adams an expert in equality?

Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)

Willie O'Dea: We are further away from it now.