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Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. 17:In page 10, to delete lines 5 to 12.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. 30:In page 12, line 15, after “consent” to insert “or refuses to give their consent to the request”.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. 36:In page 12, to delete line 32 and substitute the following: "(c) an indication of the person's gender using the abbreviation M (male), F (female or X (indeterminate/unspecified/intersex).". This amendment is about the indication on the certificate. The section provides that a gender recognition certificate shall specify the date on which it is issued, the person's...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I did not expect the Minister of State to accept it. He is correct in saying it could have profound implications in terms of other laws. One of the reasons this Bill took so long is that it challenged many of the rigid aspects of society. It challenged the pigeon holes we create as a society. In this amendment I am seeking, at the very least, a recognition that there are those in society...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I understand. I will withdraw the amendment and table it on Report Stage. It is an issue that is not earth-shattering and could be facilitated in the future.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. 44:In page 19, line 32, to delete “the father or mother” and substitute “parent”.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Deaths of Irish Citizens in Berkeley: Expressions of Sympathy (17 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Chomh maith le Teachtaí eile, ba mhaith liom comhbrón ó chroí a ghabháil le clanna na ndaoine a fuair bás inné. Bhí an timpiste an-tragóideach. It is every parent's worst nightmare to hear such news. The six young people who died were on a lifetime adventure in America. Many of us have known people who went to America on J1 visas. It was like...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (17 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I would endorse that proposal and an effort should be made to speed it up, given that the programme broadcast on RTE the other night highlighted to many people, who were not fully aware of the level of collusion, just how bad it was. It added additional urgency to the matter because, otherwise, it gets forgotten about.

Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Second Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I dtús báire, labhróidh mé beagán faoin duine a bhí sa phost roimhe seo, an tUasal Kieran Coughlan. We remember the work Kieran did in his quiet, mild manner. When we were first elected to the House one of the first people we met was the then Clerk of the Dáil and a relationship with him grew. It was not political in any sense. He was a classic civil...

Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Second Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: One might consider the committee or Minister in this regard but, wherever one looks, somebody will contradict one. There needs to be some reflection on all the various components of the Houses of the Oireachtas in the making of the appointment. Nothing would be worse than having someone's disgruntlement with an appointment causing tensions that should never arise between a Clerk and...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I oppose the Bill. Once again, it is satisfying the developer. This is a dangerous path, and we have already seen the results of tinkering with Part V. Part V was introduced to try to force developers to deliver social housing for cities in particular. It has not worked and was never going to work in the way it was introduced, and it needs to be tightened and strengthened. Instead, the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (23 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 171. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the roll out of JobPath will commence; and the cost, to date, of the roll-out, including consultation, tendering and preparation. [24773/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff (23 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 611. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 788 of 16 June 2015, whether his reply applies to Grade 6 and 7 inspectors in local authorities, who are analogous to the clerical administrative grades, working in the local authorities around the country; and if not, if there is a separate circular dealing with covering Grade 6 and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Support Services (24 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 2. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has read the document, A Fair Recovery for Jobseekers with Disabilities: Sinn Féin Proposals for Immediate Action from the Department of Social Protection; her plans to take positive action on the document's recommendations to open mainstream jobseeker supports to persons with disabilities on a voluntary basis, increase the capacity and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Support Services (24 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: In the context of the upcoming comprehensive strategy for people with disabilities and the slowness of the system in implementing change, I produced a document which makes a number of proposals on assisting jobseekers with disabilities. I ask the Tánaiste whether she has read the document and whether she will implement the positive, self-financing and simple recommendations which would...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Support Services (24 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: My questions are not meant to be critical of the Minister because, as I noted earlier, I am awaiting the comprehensive employment strategy and I acknowledge that departmental officials and disability groups have been working together to produce a strategy which would address the current shortfalls in employment support. However, it is recognised that some of our employment supports lack...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Support Services (24 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The average full-time saving for a person with a disability moving into sustained employment is €10,660 per year, and this is why I said it would be self-financing. The Minister mentioned the Walk programme. There is an urgency regarding pilot programmes such as the Walk programme and, hopefully, the Minister will find in their favour and allow the approach they have taken away from...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Support Services (24 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I agree with the voluntary nature of it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Payments Administration (24 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 5. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will withdraw new social protection forms encouraging persons to abandon their local post offices in favour of financial institutions, when dealing with social welfare transactions. [24849/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Payments Administration (24 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have tabled this question to call on the Minister to withdraw the new social welfare forms which are currently recommending that customers use the commercial banks to receive social welfare payments rather than their local post offices. If the Department continues in this way, it will further undermine local post offices, especially in rural areas.