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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I can tell the Minister where I got the period of five years from. It was in a letter from herself dated 15 August in which she says that this decision was taken after "five years of analysis, consideration of options and extensive consultations with all stakeholders". Five years of that. There was no consultation and there is still no meaningful consultation with stakeholders. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: Does the Minister have any regard or respect for the will of the House?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: Seamus Brennan stopped it. A previous Minister stopped it.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 44. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to reform the pension system; her further plans to address the anomaly in the calculation of the contributory pension whereby those that took time out of the workforce for caring duties are being denied a full State pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39442/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Programme for Government Initiatives (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 45. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the working family payment that the Government is committed to introducing as outlined in the programme for partnership Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39443/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 71. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the concerns raised regrading the impact that JobPath is having on community employment schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39441/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Poverty (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 72. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether Ireland will reach the child specific poverty target that is set out in Better Outcomes, Brighter Futures - the National Policy Framework for Children and Young People 2014-2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39440/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding his Department allocates to Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board on an annual basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39155/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the building unit within his Department will consider buying a permanent site in the city of Limerick as a matter of urgency to house Limerick education centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39205/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Superannuation Schemes (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 582. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to concerns raised regarding the funding proposal submitted to the pensions authority regarding the CIÉ superannuation 1951 pension scheme; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that there was no consultation with the trade union group or the active membership of the pension scheme; if...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Superannuation Schemes (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 583. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a committee (details supplied) has declined the request of approximately 450 active employees for funding for an independent legal opinion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39552/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Superannuation Schemes (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 584. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a person (details supplied) has sought to retrospectively impose financial restrictions on funding for an independent actuary for the CIÉ superannuation pension scheme 1951, in view of the unrestricted independent actuarial advice made available to the TUG to facilitate the 1994 CIÉ pensions rationalisation...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 683. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actions she has taken on foot on the motion opposing the restructuring of MABS and CIS being passed by Dáil Éireann and a report from the Joint Committee on Social Protection which also called for the restructuring process to be halted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39130/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 686. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the restructuring process of MABS and CIS can be halted until such a time as there is agreement between relevant stakeholders on a way forward that is agreeable with all sides concerned; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39133/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 684. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the cost-benefit analysis of the MABS and CIS restructuring process has been completed; if completed, the findings of this analysis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39131/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 685. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has formally met with representatives of MABS and CIS who are opposed to the restructuring of their organisations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39132/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Compensation Fund (21 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 59. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for persons who are granted damages against defendants who are insured by a company (details supplied) in view of the recent Supreme Court decision that they will be paid from the insurance compensation fund in cases in which the amount recoverable is capped at 65%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39978/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Living Alone Allowance (21 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 214. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the living alone allowance; the number of persons in receipt of this payment, by gender; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39958/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (21 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 215. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of social welfare payments in which a qualified child increase payment is also paid in respect of children in the household; the number of children to whom this payment is paid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39959/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (21 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 216. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of disability allowance, carers benefit, full rate and half rate, carers allowance, illness benefit, blind pension and invalidity pension, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39960/17]