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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Funding (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Indecon report has a figure of 29%. The Minister is wrong. She has not read it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Funding (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Twenty-nine percent of the companies have written people off.

Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Applications (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 123. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current waiting times for carers' allowance applications; the reason for the delays; if she is concerned by the distress and hardship these delays give rise to; and the further steps she will take to speed up processing times. [24119/14]

Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Applications (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I acknowledge that the changes made in recent years have been beneficial, in the main, in that people are not waiting as long as in the past. However, it is still very frustrating for those who make an application for carer's allowance or another allowance and who, on inquiring about their application, are told that processing has not even begun and or that it will take a number of months....

Other Questions: Social Welfare Rates (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 88. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will raise the possibility of restoring any of the cuts made by the current or previous Governments to social welfare payments in the context of the upcoming budgetary process or in advance of same; and her views on whether the PRSI yield, which is significantly ahead of profile in the year to date, gives her some scope to do so. [24120/14]

Other Questions: Social Welfare Rates (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I mentioned this matter last week. I am not asking the Minister to give information about budget 2015.

Other Questions: Social Welfare Rates (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am not asking the Minister about that because at issue is money the Minister will have that will remain unspent. This is voted expenditure and it could be reassigned within the Department without having recourse to a budgetary measure. I am calling on the Minister to consider the €138 million she has gained so far this year and use it to help those whom she has punished in recent...

Other Questions: Social Welfare Rates (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I was not expecting a discussion on budget 2015 which we will have in October, but many changes can be made by ministerial order. Some of what we are discussing is Voted expenditure, but in many instances savings have been made, for example, through increases in employment or because so many unemployed persons have emigrated. I asked the Minister a question when we discussed the Social...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 99. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 425 of 27 May 2014, the timeframe by which she expects its new housing interagency intervention system to be fully operational; the number of rent supplement recipients that it is anticipated will be assisted via this new system; if that assistance will include higher rent supplement payments; the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Ombudsman's Reports (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 100. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that 491 complaints were made to the Ombudsman about her Department last year; and the steps she will take to prevent the reoccurrence of failings identified by the Ombudsman. [24117/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 124. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the JobPath tender process; her views on whether the privatisation of social protection services proposed gives rise to a danger of supports focusing on those amongst the long-term unemployed that are easiest to place at the expense of those with more intensive support needs also known as parking and creaming...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 165. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners will act immediately to proceed to wind up a company (details supplied) in Dublin 1 to satisfy outstanding arrears of tax and PRSI due to the Revenue Commissioners and providing a route for the workers to access the insolvency fund to receive payment of wages and other entitlements. [24403/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 266. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are licence or lease agreements in place in respect of the rental of portions of the Four Courts building in Dublin; when the licences or leases were signed; the rent paid in respect of these agreements; if there are any arrears in this respect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24223/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Payments (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 329. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if those persons in receipt of children's allowance receive payments into their bank accounts on the Saturday of bank holidays; the reason those in receipt of children's allowance can only access the payment on bank holiday weekends if they are with Bank of Ireland (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24408/14]

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. 1: In page 6, to delete lines 7 to 9.A number of further amendments are consequential on this one. Given the tight timeframe, however, they were not proposed in the exact order desired by the Bills Office. They deal with the primary issue, that is, the removal of An Post from the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005, which brings all of the relevant Social Welfare Acts...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will follow up on the last point about the mechanisms for this and other social welfare legislation. I welcomed the fact that the budget was brought forward to October. I have been my party's spokesperson on social protection for some time and have had to deal with guillotines being applied to virtually every social welfare Bill in the last ten or 12 years. On rare occasions, the No. 2...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That may be the technical nature of the Bill, but I still believe that prepared bidder status should be granted to An Post or others in such contracts. The movement in European thinking away from the concept of a social Europe and towards a commercial Europe is a danger. It is not just a danger in terms of An Post but a danger in the approach to the delivery of social welfare services as a...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This is what underlies the thinking.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister responded and I am replying to her points, outlining that An Post has a preferred status of some sort, because she states that the Bill strengthens it. There is no mention of An Post now in the social welfare code as having any additional status. There was an agenda and I think this Bill continues the agenda to open up the delivery of all services. The Minister argued also...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have no problem, but I will not be rushed on this point.