Results 9,721-9,740 of 12,637 for speaker:Willie O'Dea
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (31 May 2017)
Willie O'Dea: 34. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he is considering developing a different system of assessment for eligibility for disability and carer's allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25707/17]
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (31 May 2017)
Willie O'Dea: My question is pretty much self-explanatory. I think there has been some internal discussion in the Department on this matter. Could the Minister bring us up to date on developments?
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (31 May 2017)
Willie O'Dea: I agree the means test for carer's allowance is quite generous but my question is not directed towards the actual monetary calculation for entitlement to those benefits. Rather, it concerns the physical examination. It has been contended that in applications for carer's allowance, insufficient consideration is given to the totality of the situation and that there is too much focus on the...
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (31 May 2017)
Willie O'Dea: I strongly urge the Minister to look again at this area because the examination and the new approach that was undertaken regarding assessment for domiciliary care allowance have worked extremely well. Is Making Work Pay the report he mentioned in his reply? He may or may not know that we had a visit today from a delegation from Multiple Sclerosis Ireland which asked me to ask him whether he...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme Payments (31 May 2017)
Willie O'Dea: 38. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to increase the back to school clothing and footwear allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25709/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (31 May 2017)
Willie O'Dea: 66. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to assist those that are long-term unemployed back into the workforce; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25711/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Programmes (31 May 2017)
Willie O'Dea: 96. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he is considering providing replacement schemes for JobBridge and Gateway; if so, the detail of such schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25708/17]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2017: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)
Willie O'Dea: I thank the witnesses for their attendance. Reading through the general scheme yesterday, I made a few notes on matters that came to my attention in this Part. On head 3, will it be the position statutorily that a person will be entitled to receive one full social welfare payment, a full guardian's payment and a half-rate carer's allowance? Will Mr. McKeon confirm that this will be the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2017: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)
Willie O'Dea: Deputy O'Dea.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2017: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)
Willie O'Dea: The Senator has either elevated or anticipated my situation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2017: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)
Willie O'Dea: No such luck, Senator.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2017: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)
Willie O'Dea: Up to 25% of the full personal rate of payment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2017: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)
Willie O'Dea: I think that is provided for in legislation. When drafting head 9, will the officials ensure that in a situation where somebody is legitimately injured, he or she will automatically qualify for social benefit payments and that, as the supplementary welfare allowance will already have been deducted from their payments, there will be no charge on any rebate due? In other words, will they...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2017: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)
Willie O'Dea: I am taking my lead from him.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2017: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)
Willie O'Dea: I refer to head 11. I read some documentation that confirmed that as of 31 December 2015, 60% of defined benefit schemes were in compliance with the funding standard, while the rest were subject to funding proposals. In other words, there were only nine schemes outstanding. Does the Bill provide for only nine schemes? I imagine that on 31 December 2016 all but nine were in order because...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2017: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)
Willie O'Dea: It is part of the pension equality matter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2017: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)
Willie O'Dea: They are complaining that there is no access to the Workplace Relations Commission as an alternative to going to court or as a preliminary step.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2017: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)
Willie O'Dea: It could also be the Equality Tribunal.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2017: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)
Willie O'Dea: What about the Equality Tribunal? There are various other tribunals.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2017: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)
Willie O'Dea: Will the witnesses look at that?