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Written Answers — Department of Health: Psychological Services (16 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 135. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of psychologists to whom the Health Service Executive refers children. [43729/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Petitions Received (16 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I propose that we write to the petitioner giving her a transcript of what we have done to date and that the Minister's correspondence would be forwarded to her. Given that the social welfare qualification criteria are quite black and white, we should write to the social protection committee requesting that when it is considering any future pension changes or substantial changes to the social...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Petitions Received (16 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Mr. Liam Tuathail has raised some interesting points but a particular point he has highlighted is that the Pensions Ombudsman fully acknowledges that his contractual rights have been violated but that it was not within their power to overturn an Act introduced by the Oireachtas. Given that, and the other points raised by Mr. Liam Tuathail, it would be appropriate to refer this petition to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Petitions Received (16 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Is it possible to get clarification from the Department of Education and Skills before next week on its review of apprenticeship? The second phase of that was due to start in April. Can we find out what progress has been made and when we are likely to see a report based on that because that will tie into the points raised by the petitioner?

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Leave the medicine alone.

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Tánaiste does it regularly.

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: He is misleading the Dáil.

Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have no problem with that. Sometimes I go on a bit, but today I will try to be brief. The Government intends to change the list of Standing Orders outlined in the motion. At the Whips meeting I did not argue specifically for more time because I was in the middle of bringing forward an amendment which is on the Order Paper also. It also has to be dealt with in that short period of...

Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Positively or not, they will all be affected. Workers in the Houses and even the Fourth Estate will be affected. While some of the changes are positive, the vast majority are not practical in many ways. There are alternatives, but I will not be able to go through each of the changes and debate with Members the benefits of what I am or the Government is proposing. There will not be time to...

Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is an example because it is tied-----

Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: These are tied to a proposal to limit the time in this case. Next week the Government will limit the time available to discuss the Social Welfare Bill which has not even been published, contrary to the changes to Standing Orders suggested by the Government in its Dáil reform proposals. The same is true of the local government Bill which will be introduced on Tuesday. Members of the...

Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This is a highly irregular and presumptuous proposal. It presumes that the motion we are about to debate on the Standing Orders will be passed and, therefore, these new criteria will kick in straightaway. I object to a motion such as that, presuming what the House would do. That is not the way to do business in any form. I have no difficulty with a Friday sitting, as we have had in the...

Business of Dáil (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Ceann Comhairle inputs it.

Standing Orders: Motion (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have welcomed positive changes to Standing Orders since I was appointed my party's Whip in 2002. I am one of the longer serving Whips in the House. In that time I have tried to engage positively with and come to consensual agreement on any package any Government has introduced to make the workings of the House better, make it more accountable and reflective of society. I have...

Standing Orders: Motion (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I objected to the timeframe for this debate. We do not even have a copy of Standing Orders on which we can work. It was the Fine Gael and Labour Party Whips who blocked Dáil reform in the last Dáil because they could not get one change accepted, namely, that the Taoiseach take Leaders’ Questions on a Thursday. We do not see the Taoiseach here on a Thursday.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget 2014 (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 2. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has conducted research assessing the capacity of those targeted by Budget 2014 to absorb the changes affecting them; her views on the impact the changes to social transfers will have on poverty and employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43513/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget 2014 (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister obviously did not answer one part of the question tabled. No assessment has been properly carried out that poverty-proofs or equality-proofs the Minister's 2014 budget measures. Otherwise, she might have answered the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget 2014 (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister cannot seriously claim that young jobseekers have the capacity to absorb a €44 cut in their core weekly welfare rate. What poverty-proofing was undertaken of this measure, instead of allowing the Minister to heap hardship on young people and their families? Is she aware that the consequences of her actions will be increased homelessness for young people and emigration?...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget 2014 (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is a cut.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget 2014 (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is not the Minister's party's philosophy.