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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes Expenditure (25 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 57. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who are currently on a JobBridge placement and the average number who conclude or leave their JobBridge placement each month. [25518/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Data (25 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 59. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of the average community employment place for one year, including income support and all other costs, such as training fees and materials, incurred by her Department and the Exchequer generally; and if she will specify same. [25520/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Data (25 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 60. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of introducing 4,000 additional community employment scheme places in 2016. [25521/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Data (25 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 61. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the family income supplement by 10% in 2016. [25522/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Data (25 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 62. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of households in receipt of a family income supplement payment; the total number of children this involves; and the size of the average payment. [25523/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Expenditure (25 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 66. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of raising the one-parent family payment income disregard to €120 in 2016. [25527/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Expenditure (25 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 67. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost in 2016 of raising the child cut-off age for the one-parent family payment to 12 years old. [25528/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Expenditure (25 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 68. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated additional cost in 2016 of reopening her Department's diet supplement scheme to new applicants from 1 January 2016. [25530/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Farm Assist Scheme (25 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 69. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full-year additional cost under the farm assist scheme of reducing the assessment of means from self-employment, including farming, to 85% and reinstating the deductions from income in respect of children which were discontinued in April 2013. [25531/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (25 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 165. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the dermatology department in Temple Street hospital in Dublin 1 has closed; the reason it has closed; and the alternative that has been put in place for current patients (details supplied). [25479/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Data (25 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of reinstating the SOLAS training allowance in 2016. [25529/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Momentum Programme (25 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of an additional 500 places on the Momentum programme. [25532/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Primary Online Database (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The intention is to ask the Minister to further elaborate on her proposal to collect and store data on primary schoolchildren, and the fact that there is a proposal that non-co-operative schools may be defunded if they do not co-operate with the primary online database, despite its changes.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Primary Online Database (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not know whether the Minister is aware that the Data Protection Commissioner's office confirmed only two weeks' ago that even after the changes she introduced in April to the primary online database, that it still might not be legal. Could the Minister confirm whether further legislation is required to underpin her proposals on the primary online database, if a further review is to take...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Primary Online Database (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not know whether that captures the concerns of the Data Protection Commissioner's office which were outlined on 18 June. Having investigated the primary online database, POD, the Data Protection Commissioner's office still had concerns, as did parents who had objected to the storage of sensitive data, that were valid even following the changes made in April. That is the key point....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Funding (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Will the Minister consider changing the capitation grant system to provide a reliable system of payment to schools most in need, which would take account of a school's age, location and student composition?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Funding (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I acknowledge the Minister's answer but since budget 2011, there has been, in total, a 5% cut in capitation grants to primary schools, which has had a negative impact. I support the call not only for that cut to be reversed but also to bring the primary capitation grant up to the secondary school level, as the INTO has sought. We should also be examining a capitation grant system to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Funding (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: What happens in the meantime? We would all like our schools to be replaced by modern, super-efficient ones but that will not be the case. Some schools may build gardens, while others do not have money for heating or simple things like fixing light bulbs. While some schools can find money when necessary, not all schools have the same spending outlay. Given that it is far cheaper to run a...

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move:“That Dáil Éireann:— condemns the choices made by the current Government and its predecessor to force lone parent households to disproportionately shoulder the burden of cuts in the wake of an economic crash that was not of their, or their children’s, making; — recognises that the entirely foreseeable consequences of the series of social welfare...

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This is utterly predictable.