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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure (24 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 81. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost in 2016 of increasing the weekly rate of all working age benefits by €5, and by €10; and the full-year cost of each rate of increase. [32696/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure (24 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 82. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost in 2016 of an increase in the weekly rate of the State pension by €5; by €10; and the full year cost of each rate of increase. [32697/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Expenditure (24 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 83. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost in 2016 of allowing lone parents to receive the one parent family payment; in the case of lone parents with children aged eight and under; nine and under; ten and under; 11 and under; 12 and under; 13 and under; 14 and under; and the estimated full year cost of each change. [32698/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Water Conservation Grant (29 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 193. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of water conservation grants her department has administered to date. [33174/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Legal Matters (29 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 332. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has received a notification from the Impact trade union, in relation to a retired Department of Agriculture official (details supplied); if he will re-examine the files pertaining to this case given that the ex-official has discontinued all legal proceedings due to lack of resources; and if he will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 1. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her plans to expand social welfare entitlements for self-employed persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33329/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I raise this question again to ascertain if there have been any developments in this matter since it was last raised with the Minister in May. As the House will be aware, we are trying to develop the indigenous sector and the extension of benefits to the self-employed is central to that project.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I do not detect from the Minister's response any developments since this matter was raised five months ago. It seems that the Minister is using the report to avoid making any decision that would assist the self-employed while, at the same time, the Taoiseach said it is central to Government policy to develop the indigenous sector. Reports report, Ministers decide. The Minister will be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: The people will cast their judgment shortly on the Minister's management of the system. I look forward to it eagerly. The Minister made a statement which is patently false. She said there was no example anywhere of a voluntary contribution providing for extra benefits. I have named six OECD countries which operate just such a system on either the jobseeker's benefit side or the illness...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I am not asking the Minister about that.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Will she answer the question?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: That has nothing to do with the question I asked.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: In the same way that six other countries have done.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Even though other countries can do it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I have given the Minister six precedents for doing it on a voluntary basis.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Activation Projects (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I was not being overly critical of the Minister. My problem is that there is now a lacuna. For instance, 119 young people took part in one of the projects I am aware of, the WALK PEER programme, and some of those ended up back on the live register. The problem is the gap. If the project had been extended until such time as a replacement model was ready to be triggered, it would not have...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 4. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her plans to reduce relative and absolute poverty rates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33330/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I raise this question to ascertain what progress the Government has made in reducing the levels of poverty after social transfers.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I did not ask the Minister about inequality or whether we were 0.5% percent above the OECD average. I am asking the Minister about levels of poverty in this country. I accept the latest figures are 18 months to two years out of date but they were produced by the Central Statistics Office, CSO. They indicate that 376,000 people in this country, or 8.2%, were living in consistent poverty,...