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Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (10 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Has a timeframe been set for the review to ensure that within a number of months or perhaps a year the implications of the outcomes of the High Court case and the Equality Tribunal case from October 2013 are fully worked out and also to implement whatever changes are required to bring the rent supplement scheme into line with those judgments?

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We had a discussion on priority orders last year when we were discussing double insolvencies and the change to how defined benefit should be viewed. We did not have a long enough debate on it in terms of the Mercer report which outlined at the time the various different strategies around how to create a priority order. The Mercer report, which the Minister had, was made available a week or...

Palestine: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (10 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Today is a great day for Ireland but it is also a great day for Palestine because the motion will not be opposed. While some people have been spinning to say the motion is not binding, I do not see how a Government could not support the motion and its effects into the future. It is a challenge for us as Opposition Members but it is also a challenge for the Government in particular to live...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (10 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 17. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the current application process for carer's allowance being unsuitable with respect to those looking after persons with learning disabilities or autism; the reason for the delay in taking steps to reform the system; her plans to reform the system; and the expected date by which new application forms and guidance for deciding officers...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Application Numbers (10 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 31. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the capacity of the emergency needs payment scheme to meet the growing and future demands on it, from persons who are struggling due to cuts made to other social welfare schemes and rates and the imposition of new taxes and charges such as the water charges, in view of the fact that spending on the scheme has been halved since she to took up...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thought "hello" money was illegal.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: They are written on the back of an envelope.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: On a point of order, there is a proposal to adjourn the House for a specific period, namely, until next Tuesday. If that is accepted, it supersedes any other proposal that was agreed on the Order of Business. The Leas-Cheann Comhairle indicated that it does not supersede the order for tomorrow's sitting. In fact, it does supersede it.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: A subsequent vote will supersede what went earlier. I agree that we should put the proposal to adjourn until Tuesday to a vote.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There is a proposal before the House. If the Leas-Cheann Comhairle is putting it, he needs to do so now.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Chair has not ruled.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am not saying he does not, but he has not ruled on it.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That is not the proposal.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Funding (11 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 45. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount available for community employment projects annually per CE participant for training and courses; and the options available to the project in the event of course costing more than the individual training grant. [47551/14]

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I want to clarify what the amendment is about. It refers to "representatives of the trade unions with members in Irish Water”. Once Irish Water is fully established, there will probably be a number of trade unions of which workers within Irish Water would be members. The best way would be to have a representative of each trade union on the forum, but that could be unwieldy. In some...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There is no water charge.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I acknowledge that the Minister said that he would look at making the regulations in consultation with the committee and, hopefully, the Government will look at that aspect when setting up anything like that. There is a body of people in here who have the interest, if not the expertise, which should be used far more in terms of Ministers making regulations as they are the ones who have dealt...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am just making that point. It would come up at the public water forum if it was not dealt with in the legislation.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (16 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 133. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10 who is in receipt of jobseeker's allowance is entitled to the Christmas bonus. [47904/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Property Sales (16 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 214. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the sale by the National Assets Management Agency of occupied apartment complexes to investors, both national and international, is contributing to rent inflation as the profiteering companies seem to immediately inflate the rent on the day of the rent review, as in the case of rental properties (details...