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Leaders' Questions (19 May 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not know how much the Minister is aware of what is happening in Dublin City Council. At the moment, Dublin City Council staff are offering sleeping bags to some of the homeless people instead of emergency accommodation. This shows how little emergency accommodation is available to Dublin City Council. There is a crisis for those who are already in crisis and who are attending the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Job Creation Data (19 May 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister of State quoted from some of the tables with which he will supply us later, namely, the quarterly national household figures. I presume the Minister referred to the last published figures from February which relate to last year. I understand 26,900 net new jobs were created last year. When one examines the figures and the details, as others have, such as Deputy Coppinger...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Crime Data (19 May 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It has been a cause of major concern for several years that crimes were recorded in different ways in different parts of the country and even within the city of Dublin itself. As a member of Dublin City Council's joint policing committee, I recall being presented with reports in which there was clearly a difference in how crime statistics were compiled for different districts, even where...

Order of Business (19 May 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I wish to raise one issue relating to legislation and one scheduling matter. The Bill to transfer the digital hub to Dublin City Council was on the list as a stand-alone Bill. It is not mentioned as an item under any of the legislation lists, so I am trying to figure out what legislation is going to be presented to allow that to happen. It was something the Government said it would...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobsPlus Scheme (26 May 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 171. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10 does not qualify for the JobsPlus scheme, which the person's employer, for three days a week during the school day, is considering applying for to employ the person on full-time days. [19825/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (26 May 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 184. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost to the Exchequer of increasing the State pension by €5 a week. [19993/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (26 May 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 185. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost to the Exchequer of increasing the living alone allowance by €2.50 a week. [19994/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (26 May 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 187. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost to the Exchequer of fully restoring the Christmas bonus for recipients of the State pension. [19996/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (26 May 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 188. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost to the Exchequer of extending the period covered by the fuel allowance scheme from 26 weeks to 32 weeks. [19997/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (26 May 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 186. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost to the Exchequer of restoring the telephone allowance. [19995/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (26 May 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 214. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the social welfare payment a person (details supplied) in County Cavan is eligible to receive. [20378/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payments (26 May 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 216. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a breakdown of the number of current recipients of the one-parent family payment by county. [20384/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Employment Appeals Tribunal (26 May 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 728. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is a delay in paying a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 the redundancy payment due following an Employment Appeals Tribunal finding issued on 25 February 2015, and signed off by a person in the Health Service Executive that week, given that nearly three months have elapsed since the finding. [20652/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Employment Appeals Tribunal (26 May 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 729. To ask the Minister for Health the cost to the Health Service Executive and his Department in defending cases in the Employment Appeals Tribunal for each of the past five years; the firms that are employed by the Executive and his Department in such cases; if this work is tendered for and the way it is tendered for. [20656/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (26 May 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 966. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the amount of funding that has been allocated to each local authority; the amount of funding for housing construction that has been released to each local authority by his Department since the announcement of the social housing strategy 2020; the amount of funding that has been released...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (26 May 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 967. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to outline the amount of money that has been allocated in 2015 to approved housing bodies; and if he will provide details of the proposed developments. [20534/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Data (26 May 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 1038. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the fact that a total of €75 million remains outstanding from previous rounds of the sports capital programme and from special allocations, if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount outstanding for applications from each local authority area; and the contact or discussions he has had with each local authority...

Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Are there only two Whips now, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael?

Topical Issue Debate: Services for People with Disabilities (27 May 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire as ucht bheith anseo chun an díospóireacht seo a thógaint. Earlier this year, on 17 February, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, responded to a Topical Issue matter I raised drawing attention to concerns I had over the rolling out of the social inclusion and community activation programme,...

Topical Issue Debate: Services for People with Disabilities (27 May 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thank the Minister of State for the answer, but it is a hands-off answer implying the matter has nothing to do with the Government and that it is up to the LCDC. This is not the case given the consequences of not funding the LCDC properly and the fact that the fund is already allocated based on the tender. The tender under which this group was operating was not successful. It does not...