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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (24 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 455. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help hours provided to persons in County Clare in each of the years 2010 to 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11454/16]

Leaders' Questions (25 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: Who was arrested yesterday?

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions (25 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: The question is self-explanatory.

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Payments (25 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 26. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide assurances that receipt of child benefit will not be dependent on school attendance, as outlined in the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11887/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Payments (25 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: What I sought to ascertain when I tabled the question was an assurance from the Minister that we would not change the current system and link the payment of child benefit to school attendance. I do not detect any such assurance in his reply. Unless I misunderstood the Minister, he has suggested it is a matter for another Department. Many people are worried about the issue. They are...

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Payments (25 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister for that assurance. It would appear that the long answer is "No" and the short answer is also "No", so we are happy with that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Payments (25 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: Data.

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Legal Cases (25 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: It is the bureaucracy.

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Review (25 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 29. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to reform the JobBridge Scheme given the number of criticisms that have been levelled at it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11888/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Review (25 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: I must apologise as I forgot to congratulate the Minister on his new appointment. I would be the first to concede that JobBridge has done a lot of good. Will the Minister agree, however, that interns have been exploited? For example, is he aware of a newspaper study which reached the following conclusions and threw up the following statistics? The largest user of the scheme over its...

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Review (25 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: Two wrongs do not make a right. The Minister will be aware that 86 companies were struck off the JobBridge scheme because, quite frankly, they were abusing it. Nevertheless, they were restored because it was found that the procedures adopted to strike them off were unfair. In other words, they were restored on a technicality. Does the Minister regard it as reasonable that five years into...

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Review (25 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: They were restored.

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Review (25 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: Yes, and they are back.

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Review (25 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister refers to people going to court because their good names are impugned. If somebody is disqualified from being involved in the JobBridge scheme because they have been found to be exploiting young people who want to get into employment and those who are long-term unemployed, surely they deserve to have their names published. The Minister is using a different excuse than his...

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Review (25 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: On a point of order, what does the Minister mean exactly by that statement?

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Review (25 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister should answer the question he was asked.

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: Social Insurance (25 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 30. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to change the PRSI system to extend benefits to the self-employed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11905/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: Social Insurance (25 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: I take it from the Minister's reply that he is endeavouring to introduce a safety net for self-employed who fall ill or whose businesses collapse in the same way as employees have the jobseeker's benefit or illness benefit. The tenor of the reply appears to indicate that he will do this on a compulsory basis. I acknowledge that is what the advisory group recommended but I disagree...

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: Social Insurance (25 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: I am aware of that. I am also aware of the position as it pertains to employees. On the basis of conversations I have had with a number of self-employed business people and their representatives, they would love the option if the contributions were reasonable. We have produced figures on this. The report the Minister mentioned estimated that to bring in a scheme for illness benefit and...

Other Questions: One-Parent Family Payment (25 May 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 33. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to publish the report by a person (details supplied) on the impact on one-parent families of the changes to the one-parent family payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11768/16]