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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have no difficulty. These are the Minister's figures.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister continuously twists it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have taken into account the Minister's answer.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: These are the Minister's figures, not mine.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister dreamt it up.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I refer to 21 January.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Does the Minister remember the democratic programme?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Disgraceful.

Other Questions: Job Initiatives (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 5. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the roll-out of the Gateway scheme; if she will provide a breakdown of the numbers engaged in the different types of work covered by the scheme and the gender profile of participants; and her views on whether the scheme, by compelling vulnerable citizens in receipt of social welfare to work for local authorities, is...

Other Questions: Job Initiatives (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I wish to ask the Minister of State for an update on the Gateway scheme given that it was in breach of both the European Convention on Human Rights and the ILO C029 Forced Labour Convention as it compelled vulnerable citizens on social welfare to work for local authorities. What changes have been made or are intended to be made in the rolling out of the scheme?

Other Questions: Job Initiatives (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have talked to them. If the Minister of State and Minister had listened to my criticism of the Gateway scheme, they would have learned there is no proper training or structure to it. I have always argued that a model similar to the community employment model should have been used. It would have allowed somebody to come out the other end with a qualification or achievement that can be put...

Other Questions: Job Initiatives (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will be brief because my point follows on from what the Minister of State is saying. Is he aware that some senior council officials have said it is their intention to use Gateway participants instead of recruiting staff, even with the recruitment embargo lifted? Does he agree that the Gateway scheme should never be a scheme to displace council staff and other full-time employees, and that...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Guarantee (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 14. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the SYNDICAT Confederation of European Trade Unions' report, the Youth Guarantee in Europe, and the contents of the country-specific section examining this State, in particular; the changes she will make to the Youth Guarantee to ensure that it does not perpetuate the growing crisis of precarious work; her views on SIPTU's assessment...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 34. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her view on the report commissioned by a coalition of non-governmental organisations, including FLAC, Doras Luimní, Nasc and Crosscare, which highlighted serious customer service issues including racism and rudeness to immigrants on the part of some social welfare officers. [4910/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 44. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of her previous assertion that raising the rent supplement caps would lead to further rises and artificial inflation of rents the steps she has taken to guard against this happening on foot of the supplementary welfare allowance note for information 2014/18 circulated to staff of her Department on 9 December 2014 which effectively raises...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Administration (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 46. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the appropriateness of jobs clubs contracted by her Department to provide courses to jobseekers using JobBridge interns to deliver these classes on their own; her views that this discovery highlights the inadequacy of the safeguards and monitoring mechanisms built into the JobBridge scheme; and if she will take any action in response...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Poverty Data (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 48. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the Central Statistics Office's survey on income and living conditions finding that the percentage of the population experiencing enforced deprivation has risen to 30.5%; and if she will introduce emergency social welfare provisions targeting those groups experiencing deprivation. [4907/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Directives (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 146. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when EU Directive 2014/24/EU, which is to replace Directive 2004/18/EC regarding public procurements, will be transposed into law, in view of the fact that the transposition date is supposed to be before the end of April 2015. [5214/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 256. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the regulations to provide full effect to the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 regarding evictions from local authority homes will be published. [5220/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Waterways Issues (10 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 131. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position on the development of the Ulster canal, in view of the fact that the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure in the North is awaiting approval from this State to proceed with works on the first phase of the project, which would restore the line of the canal as far as Castle Saunderson at a cost of approximately...