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Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (24 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I ask the Minister for clarification. I know the advisory committee on extending benefits to the self-employed recommended that they be extended in cases of illness but not where the business simply fails and that a self-employed person should be entitled to jobseeker's benefit. Did I hear the Minister say he intends to extend benefits in both directions? Businesses can fail because...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (24 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 59. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the specific measures his Department plans to introduce to tackle unemployment for those persons aged 50 years of age and over; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2726/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme (24 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 86. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to the fact that rural social scheme supervisors are on notably different pay scales to community employment supervisors; the reason for such a discrepancy in view of the fact they carry out similar duties and responsibilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2727/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Tax and Social Welfare Codes (24 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 87. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to extend PRSI benefits to self-employed persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2725/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 88. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to introduce a new working family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2724/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme (24 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 90. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to a report which proposes a €50 annual charge on the free travel pass; if he will give a commitment that no such charge will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2723/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (24 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason resource hours teaching is no longer regarded as sufficient to enable primary school teachers to attain the 100 hours teaching necessary to proceed to study for a HDip; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2594/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Data (24 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 281. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the rate of youth unemployment here; how this figure compares with the European average; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2566/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (24 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 282. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of households in receipt of FIS; the number of households in receipt of the back-to-work family dividend; the number of households in receipt of both payments in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2567/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Paternity Leave Scheme (24 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 283. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons to date who have applied for paternity benefit; the number of persons who have received paternity benefit in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2568/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (24 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 284. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of households by county in receipt of rent supplement; the number of households by county that have had rent supplement increased above the prescribed limit in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2569/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Delays (24 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 285. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to tackle welfare fraud; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2570/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme (24 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 296. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the new entrant term limitations for the rural social scheme, which has up to now been an income support for small under employed farmers that were entitled to stay on the scheme as long as their situation remained the same; if he will address the hardship this change places on small farmers on RSS that are not unemployed and that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Mr. Séamas Ó Tuathail, SC (25 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I note that during his submission, Mr. Ó Tuathail referred to the fears of Right2Water that Irish Water would be privatised. Those fears are not exclusive to Right2Water. I think everybody around this table from all parties and none all agree that Irish Water should be kept in public ownership. Fianna Fáil certainly agrees that this should be the case, which is why we were...

Nursing Home Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." When talking about nursing home care and home care, we are talking about more than the elderly. Given that the elderly comprise such a large component of the people in receipt of such care, however, I will outline some statistics which demonstrate the magnitude of the problem we face. Ten years hence, it is estimated that there will be...

Nursing Home Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I thank all the Deputies who contributed today. It was remiss of me not to welcome Mr. Brendan Courtney to the Visitors Gallery and to compliment him on his outstanding documentary. Rarely have I seen a television programme that engendered such a public reaction, particularly in the Limerick area that I am familiar with. I am sure that has been replicated all over the country. He has...

Nursing Home Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: Well, that might be the Ceann Comhairle's preference but it would not be mine.

Nursing Home Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: We may very well still be sitting on the 26 July but if we have adjourned in the meantime we must come back. We will certainly be demanding that because it is part of what is contained in the amendment we are agreeing this evening. I thank my Fianna Fáil colleagues for their outstanding contributions also, in case they thought I was forgetting about them. We have taken a first step...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I apologise to witnesses and the other members of the committee as I have an alternative appointment. I thank them for their presentations which were most interesting. I have read them and perhaps I can engage with the witnesses individually on the various points they have raised.

Topical Issue Debate: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (31 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this issue. I thank Deputy Paul Murphy for raising it also. We are here this evening to seek justice for the victims of sexual abuse in Creagh Lane primary school, Limerick city. That the abuse happened is undeniable. The perpetrator has been convicted by the criminal courts and put behind bars. The victims, who fought their case long...