Results 11,101-11,120 of 12,637 for speaker:Willie O'Dea

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Transitional Payment (18 Jun 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 633. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of extending the jobseeker's transitional payment for lone parents until their youngest child reaches 18 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25130/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Transitional Payment (18 Jun 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 634. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of increasing the earnings disregard for the jobseeker's transitional payment by €10, €15, €20 and €25, respectively in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25131/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Data (18 Jun 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 635. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of increasing the earnings disregard for the one parent family payment by €10, €15, €20 and €25, respectively in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25132/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (18 Jun 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 636. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of increasing the week hours a carer can work or study while receiving carer's allowance, carer's benefit or the carer support grant from 15 to 18.5 hours; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25133/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme (18 Jun 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 637. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of extending the free travel scheme for children in receipt of the domiciliary care allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25134/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Data (18 Jun 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 638. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of increasing the income disregard for carer's allowance from €332.50 single and €665 for a couple to €450 and €900, respectively in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25135/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (18 Jun 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 640. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing all social assistance payments by €5, €10, €15, €20, €25 and €30, respectively in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25137/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (18 Jun 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 641. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing all social insurance payments by €5, €10, €15, €25 and €30, respectively in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25138/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Data (18 Jun 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 661. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expenditure to date on the housing adaptation grant; the estimated full year cost of increasing expenditure by 10% and 20%, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25140/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jun 2019)

Willie O'Dea: I thank Unite the Union and Captain Cullen for appearing before us and for their very interesting presentations. A number of points that Captain Cullen made stick out. In his presentation he states that only about half of pilots operating in Irish registered airlines are employed directly by those airlines and that the rate of so-called self-employment among pilots here is three times the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jun 2019)

Willie O'Dea: Perhaps the witnesses could answer the questions that have been asked before we move on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jun 2019)

Willie O'Dea: Does Mr. Cullen have a list of those accountants?

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 7 o’clock I would like to share time with Deputies Butler, Browne, Eugene Murphy, McGuinness, Cahill and Ó Cuív.

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2019)

Willie O'Dea: I congratulate Deputy Penrose on the introduction of the motion. As we have heard, there are approximately 350,000 carers in the country, which equates to almost one in ten of the population. By 2030 one in five people will be a carer. Just over one fifth of carers receive carer's allowance. As Deputy Penrose said, the carer's allowance payment received by someone caring on a 24/7 basis...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care Provision (2 Jul 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 123. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for introducing a statutory right to home care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27757/19]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Recruitment (2 Jul 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 147. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a new recruitment campaign for the Defence Forces School of Music will take place in the second half of 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28130/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (2 Jul 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 212. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the conditions to qualify for a primary medical certificate under the Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers (Tax Concessions) Regulations 1994 are perceived to be very narrow and are being interpreted very strictly; his plans to widen the application criteria; the cost of the concession in 2017 and 2018;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Overseas Students Data (2 Jul 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students from New Zealand studying here; if he, in conjunction with Enterprise Ireland, is taking further steps to attract additional students from New Zealand to come here to study; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28055/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (2 Jul 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 340. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí attached to each divisional protective services units established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28056/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Money Laundering (2 Jul 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 342. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to update the Criminal Justice (Money, Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28069/19]