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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff (22 Sep 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 180. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of medical assessors currently employed by her Department; the number employed in the past five years; if she will provide an update on her plans in respect of same; if she will provide a breakdown by scheme for a first decision on an application for medical assessment; and the same with respect to appeals. [30910/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (22 Sep 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 193. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if the necessary steps were taken to ensure that there has been no negative impact on lone parents who were affected by the change in their status on 2 July 2015 and their ability or entitlement to access the special maintenance grant from the Student Universal Support Ireland this year and in the coming years. [31093/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (22 Sep 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 647. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the fact the working group report on direct provision has been published and is before Cabinet, her plans to implement the recommendations of this working group; and if she plans to do so, when. [31514/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Data (22 Sep 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 746. To ask the Minister for Health if all documents relating to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10 will be released to the person’s family. [30525/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (22 Sep 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 1027. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made on the replacement schemes for the mobility allowance and motorised transport grant which was discontinued in February 2013 with a promise of a replacement within months. [31532/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (22 Sep 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 947. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the application for a medical card by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12; the other options open to the person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31188/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Data (22 Sep 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 1022. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details on the number of people who pay for private health insurance policies; and the average price of their policies. [31511/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (22 Sep 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 1023. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the average annual out-of-pocket spend on health care per adult and per household. [31512/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (22 Sep 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 1024. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the number of PAYE workers in receipt of a medical card. [31513/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (22 Sep 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 1102. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of total spending on health including public spending, private health insurance and out-of-pocket charges in the most recent year for which these figures are available. [32024/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (22 Sep 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 1426. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department received an application from Dublin City Council for funding to insulate older local authority houses; if so, the amount involved and when this funding will be released. [31126/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (22 Sep 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 1613. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason platform 10 in Heuston Station, Dublin 8 has been left out of proposals to open the Phoenix Park tunnel to commuter trains despite the long-standing policy to create modes of different public transport systems, and that the variety of services available at Heuston Station, Luas, Bus Átha Cliath, Bus Éireann and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thank the Minister. This is quite a complex area and, given the number of documents with which we are dealing, it is difficult to see how we are measuring fully the performance outputs. In OECD terms, we are quite low down in ensuring we have a proper monitoring system or accounting by the Government to committees. It is there but I have found in the past number of years that when we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: -----but it was soon identified that we had problems and that the legislation was not fit for purpose. The Ministers listened and, with the Department, came back with better legislation. That would not have been reflected in the 2011 or 2012 outputs. There will be occasions when the Department cannot achieve its own targets and we understand that, but some targets jump out and we must ask...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Coming from years in opposition, one of the reasons one often finds the Opposition does not engage fully in the process of finding alternatives in social protection or finance is we are hampered in that regard because of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: No, not politics. It is a constitutional ban which the Constitutional Convention addressed and asked us to examine; it is in one of the reports. It prevents us from putting forward proposals, be they positive or negative, in response to legislation. That gives rise to the view of why one would bother to make a proposal on a piece of legislation that is on Committee Stage because it would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I presume we are dealing with the broad-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have quite a number of questions about the document itself which we might get to at some stage. One of the questions, not specific to the document, is a policy question which is starting to emerge, namely, the issue of adult dependents looking for access to job activation. Since they are not in receipt of a social welfare payment, they fall into this category. There are others who are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Every year since the crisis, expenditure on social protection has decreased. At this stage, it is estimated that €220 million will not be spent this year. Every year recently, quite a substantial amount of money estimated for the Department has not been spent. It goes back to the Department or into the social fund. Up to this year, the social fund has been substantially overdrawn....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: If one matches the two, it means that there is a figure of €40 million. I have argued before with the Minister that rather having any of the money allocated from the social fund or elsewhere for social expenditure returned to the Department of Finance, it should be spent because of the benefits. It is included in this document and the Minister has stated on a number of occasions the...