Results 1,081-1,100 of 7,447 for speaker:John Brady
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Data (27 Sep 2017)
John Brady: 193. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of active participants on community employment schemes. [40829/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Data (27 Sep 2017)
John Brady: 194. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of community employment schemes that are engaged in crèche and after school services. [40830/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (28 Sep 2017)
John Brady: 155. To ask the Minister for Health if he will establish a general practitioner out-of-hours service in north Wicklow; if not, the reasons therefor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41027/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (28 Sep 2017)
John Brady: 156. To ask the Minister for Health the action he has taken to deal with inadequate protocols in place at St. Columcille's Hospital in Loughlinstown in cases in which persons attend the minor injuries unit without a general practitioner referral letter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41028/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (28 Sep 2017)
John Brady: 269. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if JobPath providers Turas Nua and a company (details supplied) are engaging with persons that are not long-term unemployed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41105/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (28 Sep 2017)
John Brady: 270. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of part-time workers that are engaging with the JobPath scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41106/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (28 Sep 2017)
John Brady: 271. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of school teachers that are engaging with the JobPath scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41107/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment (28 Sep 2017)
John Brady: 272. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the stage at which the report into the impact changes to the one-parent family payment are having on lone parents as committed to in the Social Welfare Bill 2016 is at; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41108/17]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)
John Brady: I will find it hard to contain my questions in five minutes. I hope to have a second opportunity.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)
John Brady: My first point concerns the gender pay gap. The Minister's refusal to look at this is disappointing when there has been so much talk of the gender pay gap. The changes introduced in 2012 are unacceptable and the impact that these have had on 40,000 people, most of them women, is disgraceful. A change in this situation will cost money, absolutely, but we in Sinn Féin have been able to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)
John Brady: We will not get into that. She said at any rate that she would find it difficult to live on. Our young unemployed people are expected to live on €102.70 a week. I ask the Minister to examine this and to end the discriminatory practices in the Department-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)
John Brady: Can I just finish this point?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)
John Brady: I have asked the Minister about discrimination towards young jobseekers many times, including in the Chamber just last week. She replied that any young unemployed person who engages in any kind of training or upskilling will get the full payment. Some of these people have Masters degrees, Minister, and we now expect them to engage in further upskilling. They do not need upskilling. They...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)
John Brady: It was passed without debate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)
John Brady: There was no consultation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)
John Brady: The Minister said all 120,000 people have been consulted, which is not correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)
John Brady: I will stay away from certain areas. I have specific questions on banded-hours contracts and that whole area. The Minister referred to the Bill she and the Taoiseach want to fast-track. She will know that last year a Bill sponsored by Deputy David Cullinane was published which dealt specifically with banded-hour contracts. It received cross-party support and ended up in the jobs...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)
John Brady: I ask the Minister to look at the Bill. Why is she not supporting Deputy Cullinane's Bill? Why is she trying to muddy the waters? I ask her to address the specific concerns on heads 10, 11 and 8 of the Bill she is proposing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)
John Brady: That is not what we have heard here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)
John Brady: Volunteers have walked away.