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Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

Willie O'Dea: I move amendment No. 13:In page 12, in line 16, to delete “child,”.” and substitute the following:“child,(ec) In circumstances where the parents of the child are separated and have been awarded joint custody, the domiciliary care allowance shall be paid to the parent who is in receipt of Child Benefit in respect of that child regardless of the time spent by each...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

Willie O'Dea: I appreciate the Minister's response. The resources available to her are far greater than what are available to me. I am happy to withdraw my amendment on that basis.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

Willie O'Dea: I am supportive of the final point made by Deputy Smith because one in 20 people in Ireland is a carer. The projections are that by 2030, that figure will increase to one in five. A significant volume of unpaid caring work is provided free to the State. Various figures have been bandied around but the volume of unpaid caring carried out is a significant boon to the State. Only 25% of...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

Willie O'Dea: I have no difficulty supporting the amendment but I am worried about the timeframe. Can the Deputy amend it to six months?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

Willie O'Dea: I will support it on Report Stage if it is six months rather than three.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

Willie O'Dea: I am heartened to hear this from the Minister because her predecessor, who is now Taoiseach, seemed wedded to the idea of linking social welfare increases to inflation. One cannot do this because many studies have shown that for people who are wholly or mainly reliant on social welfare, a different rate of inflation applies. They spend their money on the necessities of life, such as heating...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

Willie O'Dea: I am somewhat confused. Surely the amendment just seeks to commission a report. Deputy Brady is not entitled to propose a disregard of maintenance payments. He is simply proposing that there would be a report. I do not see why there would be any great difficulty with that. He has a fairly ambitious timeframe but, nevertheless, it is a problem that has been ongoing for some time. There...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

Willie O'Dea: I am sorry, it is €95. I have a few questions on that. The point I was trying to convey, perhaps badly, on Second Stage is that the rates of poverty among lone parents are dramatic, with deprivation levels of more than 50%. If one had a situation whereby maintenance was disregarded in the calculations for lone parent allowance, that would mean a family would be €95 a week...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

Willie O'Dea: I am sorry. I refer to the balance. They would be better off by the balance, by what the Minister is counting. Does she follow that?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

Willie O'Dea: Their net income would be more because the maintenance would be entirely disregarded. Is that not the sort of targeting we are talking about to lift that sector? If one wants to focus on poverty, then one should look at people with disabilities and lone parents. They are the two groups that especially stand out in terms of the statistics. By disregarding maintenance payments entirely one...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

Willie O'Dea: I am inclined to take the same view as Deputy Penrose. If the Minister is prepared to bring in an amendment on Report Stage with "six months" instead of "three months", I would support it.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

Willie O'Dea: I move amendment No. 25:In page 15, after line 31, to insert the following: “Impact of Brexit 20. The Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection shall, when complete, share the analysis being conducted by her Department on the impact of Brexit on the reciprocal arrangements for social insurance schemes, social assistance schemes and child benefit between Great Britain,...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

Willie O'Dea: Can I comment briefly on that?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

Willie O'Dea: I will be exceptionally brief. The Minister will be aware that in some parts of the country, there are more Tús workers on schemes now than community employment, CE, workers. Some concessions and flexibility have been extended to CE workers for an extension of their time. It seems illogical now that those same concessions would not be extended to Tús workers. I know that,...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

Willie O'Dea: It simply means that an increasing number of schemes which are reliant mainly on Tús now will not be able to continue. That is the reality of it.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

Willie O'Dea: It is a small number, but they are very hard cases.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Labour Market (27 Nov 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 95. To ask the Taoiseach the number of jobless households in each county in tabular form. [49129/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme Applications (27 Nov 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 549. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application by a person (details supplied) for a partial capacity allowance at the maximum rate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48881/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance (27 Nov 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 568. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which the policy on age-related jobseeker's allowance can continue to be justified as a preventative measure for welfare dependency when there is no basis in evidence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49087/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance (27 Nov 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 571. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the equality and poverty proofing measurements in place to protect jobseekers' under 26 years of age particularly those that are experiencing homelessness, those with international protection that are moving out of direct provision and those that have support needs such as mental health and confidence building and that...