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Other Questions: Civil Registration Legislation (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I, too, welcome the Minister's commitment in regard to this issue. I wish also to draw to her attention to the fact that reference to this matter being addressed under the Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill is omitted from the "purpose of Bill" section of the legislative programme. I welcome the Minister's clarification in that regard and that the Bill will see the light of day shortly.

Standing Orders: Motion (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is a very interesting debate and if we had got it off the ground some months ago we might be further down the track of the banking inquiry. I understand the reasons behind it. The Joint Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions was established to have these debates and schedule them over the period of its existence. The referendum saw off that aspect of that committee, which...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 115. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will takes steps to limit the period within which her Department can demand the repayment of overpayments in cases excluding fraud to bring it into line with the period people can claim tax relief for expenditures operated by the Revenue Commissioners, which is generally four years; and if she will provide a breakdown of the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Administration (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 118. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will introduce a new advance filtering system to prevent potentially odious positions from gaining access to JobBridge; and if she will review and report on the effectiveness of existing provisions in this regard. [3525/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code Reform (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 122. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will take the legislative or other necessary steps to ensure people who are parenting alone and continue to satisfy the means test requirement for one-parent family payment will not be transferred from that payment to the back to education allowance with the resultant loss of the maintenance portion of their student grant for the duration...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 123. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the crisis in rent supplement, including an update on claim processing times; and the total number of rent supplement recipients that will be transferred to the new housing assistance programme by the end of 2014. [3523/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pensions Reform (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 133. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will reinstate her Department's pension forecast service which was available to PRSI contributors in the past in view of the great uncertainty and anxiety that has arisen from impending changes to the State pension and the unreliability of the private pension system to provide adequate retirement income more generally. [3522/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 380. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if Intreo offices may make referrals to local employment services. [3828/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 381. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the number of NEAP referrals by her Department to local employment services will be affected by the establishment of JobPath; the ongoing and future role of LESs in terms of categories and numbers of persons referred to them. [3829/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 382. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if funding from her Department to local employment services will not be reduced upon the establishment of jobPath. [3830/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Legislative Programme (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 403. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to publications of the recent legislative programme, her plans for the publication of the gender recognition Bill originally planned for mid-2014. [3965/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 493. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps that are being taken to address the housing needs of Travellers in Labre Park in Ballyfermot, Dublin 10. [3483/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 745. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 will be provided with a wheelchair. [3994/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licence Applications (28 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 808. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to delays in issuing driver licences since the national driver licence service took over, whereby despite promising issuing renewal licences within eight days it now takes upwards of eight weeks; and his views on the matter. [3859/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Earcaíocht san Earnáil Phoiblí (29 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 90. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén uair a líonfaidh sé an folúntas do Phríomh-Oifigeach sa Bhrainse Logaimneacha le duine ag a mbeidh na cáilíochtaí cuí mar thaighdeoir, ionas gur féidir leis an gCoiste Logaimneacha tuairiscí cruinn a fháil uaidh nó uaithi chun oibriú dá réir. [4376/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (29 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 151. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision on citizenship will be made on an application in respect of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 22. [4537/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (29 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 152. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a family of two adults and three children (details supplied) in Dublin 22 has been living in a hostel for seven years awaiting a decision on its citizenship application. [4538/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seeker Accommodation (29 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 153. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration will be given to moving a family (details supplied) in Dublin 22 from a one-room hostel accommodation to Watergate Apartments where its will have more space and will be able to cook its own meals. [4539/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Enterprise in Ireland: Discussion (29 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I welcome the delegates. I have followed the campaign for equality budgeting closely and listened carefully to previous presentations that were made to Oireachtas Members. A delegation from the committee will travel to Scotland in the coming weeks to get the view of the authorities there on how equality budgeting has worked for them. Although the situation in that jurisdiction is somewhat...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pátrúnacht Scoileanna (30 Jan 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 54. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an gcuirfidh sé in iúl cén uair a bhí teagmháil i scríbhinn idir oifigigh a Roinne agus an bord bainistíochta, an Foras Pátrúnachta nó eile maidir le suíomh do Ghaelcholáiste an Phiarsaigh a bhfuiltear fós ag fanacht ar dheimhniú go mbeidh suíomh sealadach ann dó...