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Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Not with a mobile telephone.

Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will try to be brief. I hope the landlord and tenant Bill, along with the national paediatric hospital development board (amendment) Bill can be prioritised and fast-tracked. These Bills are on the legislative programme. The landlord and tenant Bill is not scheduled until next year. No timeframe has been announced for the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (amendment) Bill....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Review (23 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 42. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if consideration was given to extending the disability allowance for eligible community employment participants beyond 31 December and the number of community employment participants affected by the change. [40744/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (4 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 95. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the cuts that had been scheduled to be made to the one parent family payment scheme next year, including the lowering of the cut-off age to seven years and the reduction to the income disregard, will now proceed in view of her statement in the context of the latest budget that there would be no reductions to social welfare payments in 2015....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (4 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: On budget day the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection said there would be no reductions jin social welfare payments in 2015. In the light of that assertion, will she confirm whether she will now proceed with the planned reductions to the one parent family payment scheme next year, namely, her plan to lower the cut-off age to seven years and further reduce the income disregard...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (4 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The survey on income and living conditions, SILC, is often quoted in this House and was released in April 2014. It confirmed that one-parent families are those most at risk of poverty, with the highest consistent poverty rate, at 17.4%, a rate of deprivation of 49.5%, and nearly 30% of families are at risk of poverty. However, the Minister cannot give a simple answer about whether she is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (4 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Perhaps the Minister does not remember it because her memory seems to be fading. The Government has already cut the income disregard from €146.50 to €90 and now to €75. When the Minister introduced changes to the one-parent family provision, she said she would not proceed without "a credible and bankable commitment" from the Government putting in place a system of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (4 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is not what the Minister promised.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 98. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients of jobseeker's allowance or jobseeker's benefit who will not receive either a Christmas bonus or a water support payment next year. [41715/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This question seeks to gauge whether the Minister is fully aware of the hardship water charges will wreak on households and if she appreciates the gross inadequacy of the measures she announced in the recent budget.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It also refers to water support payments.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: As Deputy Ó Fearghaíl noted, approximately 150,000 people - as many as 190,000 according to some estimates - took to the streets last weekend to say "No" to water charges. I have no doubt that these protests put the fear of God into the Government. The marchers included young and old people, the unemployed, people who depend on social welfare and people in employment, all of whom...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Does the Minister accept that her Government's water charge will exceed the miserly social welfare increases announced in budget 2015? Does she intend to increase the so-called water support payment to cover the full cost of water charges for those dependent on social welfare? Does she intend to introduce the equivalent support for the low paid? If these things are not done, everything she...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The water charge will take it away in January.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: They will have to pay more. The payments are not significant if more money is being taken from them.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I always welcome improved social welfare payments. I would laugh except it is not funny. The payment is being given with one hand, but taken away with the other.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Respite Care Grant Payments (4 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 106. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will propose an amendment to the Social Welfare Bill 2014 to provide for an increase of €325 in the respite care grant. [41663/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Work Placement Initiative (4 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 107. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will amend the rules governing the Tús scheme to remove the element of compulsion in view of the inappropriateness of having a reluctant participant work with vulnerable persons including older persons and persons with disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41665/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 110. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will extend greater supports to former carers in the period following the conclusion of their caring role. [41661/14]