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Written Answers — Department of Health: Water Fluoridation (17 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 357. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the company or companies that supply Irish Water or the local authorities with fluoride in the State; the terms of these contracts; and if he has any supervisory role in ensuring that the stated level of fluoride in tap water throughout the State falls within the permitted guidelines. [40228/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 399. To ask the Minister for Health the average length of time spent on the personal assistant service waiting list; and the estimated cost of clearing the waiting list. [40329/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Diagnoses (17 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 400. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated additional cost of extending the assessment entitlements in the Disability Act 2005 beyond children born after 2002; and a breakdown indicating the figures if the 2002 threshold were to be moved back in five year intervals. [40331/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Process (17 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional cost of giving full effect to the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004. [40325/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Process (17 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 527. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full-year additional cost of giving full effect to those provisions of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004 that provide for individual education plans. [40326/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Expenditure (17 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 528. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full-year additional cost of removing the cap on the number of special needs assistants. [40327/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Expenditure (17 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full-year additional cost of removing the cap on resource teachers. [40328/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Upgrade of Public Amenities (17 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 565. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the cost of installing fully accessible toilets, including a hoist and a changing bench in 50 public amenities. [40330/15]

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Report Stage (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Deputy Naughten's proposal is reasonable and is in line with the objectives of the social welfare code. Where anomalies arise, as in the example he gave, a degree of discretion should apply. I have come up with examples in respect of different schemes where a bit of flexibility would provide the relief or help that someone needs to get over a hump. One of the reasons we may have such a...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Report Stage (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: While I can understand the motivation behind the proposal tabled by Deputy Pringle, it is a blunt instrument and is not the proper place to address the issue to which he refers. In addition, the amendment's wording contains a contradiction because child benefit is a social assistance payment in any event and consequently, this provision would contradict itself in that it provides that one...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Report Stage (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I support this proposal. I would have gone further and called for reports on the terms of the changes introduced to the lone parent allowance and for young people in receipt of jobseeker’s allowance. Again, these were meant to be emergency measures, but we have not seen either being rowed back on. The Government has announced there is a recovery and that we are in a different...

Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: They failed miserably.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We had quite a long debate on this issue several years ago when we made substantial changes to how double insolvency was treated. At the time, we argued that solvent and highly profitable businesses, whether an individual business or a complex network, should not try to get out of their commitments to their workers, either current, former or deferred. There is a logic behind Deputy Willie...

Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There is a logic to this amendment and to the idea of major changes to the electoral register, which have been debated not only in the House but at the Constitutional Convention and other places. This is a simple change that will allow people to register with ease right up to the current cut-off date. After that, it would be the responsibility of anybody on the supplementary register to...

Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Abuse has been mentioned, but there are many examples around Europe and elsewhere of systems that do not have the restrictions our system has but that have tight safeguards to ensure abuse does not happen. Some systems are based on national ID cards or PPS numbers or the equivalent, yet they allow a greater use of postal votes. We have one of the most restrictive systems in the world in...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 58. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the full-year cost of increasing disability allowance by €20. [40861/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Department of Social Protection (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will not ask about the inadequacy of the direct provision payment. I will leave that to somebody else. Is it automatic that every child in the direct provision system will receive child benefit? I understand the idea of credits and that it is difficult to imagine a scheme under which credited social insurance contributions would be given to those in the direct provision system if they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Department of Social Protection (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That is not the case in the case of children. There are quite a number of people resident and working in the country whose children cannot claim if they are in the European Union. It is a random approach in child benefit provision. For example, a person from Italy could be living in Ireland. He or she can claim child benefit for his or her children if there is a difference in the child...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Department of Social Protection (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I might be under a misconception, but I understand the rules applying to child benefit which is supposedly for the child. It has to do with the child in the main, unless there is an unaccompanied minor or he or she is not the asylum seeker. There are European Court judgments which state the child has different status from the applicant for asylum. In some instances elsewehere in Europe and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Department of Social Protection (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Or vice versa.