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

Willie O'Dea: The Minister referred to an independent assessor to whom people can refer in the event of a disagreement between the claimant and the State Claims Agency. What precisely will be the role of this assessor? What is the point in the assessor if the State will not cover any of the liabilities? Who will cover them? Is the Minister telling us that he is not going to remove either of the two...

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

Willie O'Dea: Will the Minister reply to my request for a meeting with the victims? Will he make them a-----

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

Willie O'Dea: Will the Minister meet them?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Claims Agency (31 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will change the terms under which the State Claims Agency is allowed to make ex gratia payments to the victims of school child sexual abuse, in view of the fact that these terms will preclude the majority of such victims from claiming any compensation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3765/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: As the Taoiseach will be aware, the motorised transport grant, which was for disabled drivers and passengers, has been in abeyance for five years. It was put into abeyance by the Ombudsman because he decided the scheme was not wide enough. For the past five years, the grant has not existed at all. The Taoiseach has been promising us continually that its restoration would be imminent. I...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (1 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of tourism and hospitality skills training positions allocated to the Limerick city constituency in 2015 and 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4706/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (1 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding that was allocated to the Limerick City constituency for tourism and hospitality skills training in 2015 and 2016 by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4766/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (1 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the agency or Government body which has oversight and responsibility for hospitality and tourism skills development policy here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4768/17]

Pensions (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2017: First Stage (2 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Pensions Act 1990 to provide for an appeals mechanism where a pension scheme is being wound up by the trustees of that scheme. Recent events have demonstrated that there is a serious deficiency in Irish pensions law, which means that a solvent company can walk away from its responsibilities having run down its...

Pensions (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2017: First Stage (2 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Pensions (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I wish to share my time with Deputies Darragh O'Brien and Mary Butler. Even before 2008, defined benefit pension schemes were under pressure. Of course, this trend was accentuated by the crash in 2008 which is why, I suspect, that in 2008 the pensions regulator suspended the minimum funding requirement. This was widely seen at the...

Pensions (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I thank everyone who has contributed. I thank those supporting the Bill, including Deputies Róisín Shortall and John Brady. I thank Sinn Féin, AAA-PBP and, needless to say, my colleagues. Deputy John Brady made a particular point. I tabled an amendment as long ago as 2014. I tabled it again in 2015. On each occasion the Government shot it down. The amendment was along...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Availability (7 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 184. To ask the Minister for Finance if tax relief will be introduced for graduate entry medicine students on the repayment of their student loans, as in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5968/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Scottish Water, Welsh Water and the Commission for Energy Regulation (8 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: When I read the presentation, I could not get my head around the fact that Scottish Water had run a very successful system without the need for individual meters attached to each household. It is using district metering and also detects leaks very successfully in this way. I do not know if the delegates know this, but we have spent a fortune on meters for individual houses, which makes it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Scottish Water, Welsh Water and the Commission for Energy Regulation (8 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: Those in receipt of social welfare payments.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Scottish Water, Welsh Water and the Commission for Energy Regulation (8 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: Can Mr. Millican say that again?

Pensions (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2017: Referral to Select Committee [Private Members] (9 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I move:That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Social Protection pursuant to Standing Orders 84A(3)(a) and 141.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I am aware of the time constraint and will be brief. I thank Dr. Sweeney for a very interesting and thought provoking presentation. It would appear that there is scant evidence of a connection between activation programmes and the drop in unemployment. It is only now, having invested quite a lot of money in the area, that we are evaluating and measuring the effect. Reports in the media...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes Data (14 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 278. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full year cost in 2017 of all schemes under the remit of his Department in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6762/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (14 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 279. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if his Department has conducted any recent analysis of traps, such as poverty traps and unemployment traps, within the social welfare system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6763/17]