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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am due to be in the Dáil shortly so if I am not here for them I will read the answers in the record. I will put my questions in the order of the presentations. The National Youth Council produced a report earlier this year on JobBridge. It was quite critical but also highlighted the need for a further analysis, so it is good to hear that the analysis is about to take place. Has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: When the Dáil is on Topical Issue No. 4.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Administration (5 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 242. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if it is normal procedure for Leader funding to be used in the planning of a future development of an unauthorised marina (details supplied), on property built by Waterways Ireland, which was the subject of several warning letters, and from the documents attached shows it was the subject of an enforcement order from late...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (10 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 127. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of extending the payment of a carer's allowance for six weeks; for 12 weeks; and for six months, after the person being cared for has entered long-term residential care. [39059/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (10 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 414. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 will be given a hospital appointment. [39341/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Eligibility (11 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 43. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if there are groups which no longer qualify for the fuel allowance and the Christmas bonus in budget 2016. [39699/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (11 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 51. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if persons in receipt of the one parent family payment on the jobseeker's transitional allowance are ineligible for the Christmas bonus and/or the fuel allowance; and the position regarding same if a lone parent is in receipt of the working family dividend. [39781/15]

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not have a major problem with this group of amendments which are technical in nature, but it does seem to be a very clumsy way of putting legislation together. Previously, legislation made reference to the Acts being "read together as one", but this has been changed to "construed together as one Act". In some ways, a full restatement would be better. On the substantive point about...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: My own view is that it should be done when the legislation from the Department of Finance is enacted. The logic behind it is there will be the amalgamation of both offices, but that may not happen. That said, I am not opposing the changes. I am just arguing that it seems to be very clumsy and that there must have been a better way to do this. Perhaps it is the opportune time to do so, but...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I welcome these amendments. I hope all the references contained within the consolidated Act that require change are changed and if not, that any other anomalies will be addressed at the earliest possible stage, given the size of the consolidated Act and other legislation, to give full effect to the Marriage Act as now passed.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There are a number of issues and I concur with Deputy O'Dea regarding the litany of cuts to benefits. These cuts would affect people who are in receipt of the contributory pension and also some of the other pensions, some of which are already listed, and others which would also have an effect. For example, if prescription charges increase it would affect people who benefit from medical cards...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I had the figure on inflation rates and consumer price index buried in my notes here. The consumer price index, while not necessarily the best example, is the one usually used and accepted as a guide. It indicates an aggregate inflation rate of 5.08%. It is not the rate of 1.5% which was quoted by the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton. She said that the...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Earlier this year the ESRI published a report on inflation. It stated the rate of inflation for low income families was higher than the average inflation rate during the recession and that it was lower for high income families. When we pick a figure, be it the consumer price index or another, a higher figure applies to low income families during the recession. These families are usually...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: When the change to the pension ages came about, a number of anomalies were identified but there were also effects on the recipients. For instance, it is not only that they end up, instead of being on the State transition pension, being on jobseeker's allowance, albeit as far as I know without being forced to look for work. There was a pre-retirement payment in the past which captured that...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I welcome the name change that is being brought about. I also welcome the fact that the Government saw the light and reversed the cut that it imposed. The name change is an admission of what we knew, that the respite care grant was not used for respite by the vast majority of carers but was used for other supports such as buying equipment, paying for car insurance, fuel and so forth. We...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: On section 6, the two matters are related. One comes into effect on 1 January and the other commences on 1 June. I understand that 1 June is when the payment is made and 1 May marks the six months requirement prior to it. In some ways it would have made no difference if the Minister had left the date as 1 June for when it comes into effect, because the existing payment is transferring...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I welcome any change to reverse cuts. Child benefit has now been restored to the average, if one likes, but there were changes to the payment of child benefit for families with more than four children. Is there an indication that the Minister will reconsider that matter in the future? In the past, the Minister said that if money is available some of the cuts would be reversed. That did...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will remind the Minister of State.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We could grant it.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We will remind the Deputy if we are here.