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- 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 interesting that the Minister opened up that contribution by talking about the era of new politics. We have become so used to that term over the past 18 months or so but the proof is in the pudding. The Opposition brought forward legislation to deal with a serious problem of banded hour contracts. It came to the jobs committee, a cross-party committee, which did exhaustive work on...
- 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 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: This cuts to the chase. The Minister is either ignorant of the realities or just turning a blind eye. If we want to deal with zero-hour contracts then we must put in place the legislation. We cannot bring forward a Bill that bans zero-hour contracts yet makes an exception if the work is of a casual nature. By definition that is what zero-hour contracts are. The Minister is talking out of...
- 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 are not losing the argument.
- 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 am not losing an argument.
- 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 is the Minister's briefing to take on Sinn Féin. The Minister should answer the question-----
- 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: -----instead of her cheap attacks.
- 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: If the Bill is well thought out, why has the Minister not touched on head 8 which would be totally unconstitutional? It is not a well thought out Bill.
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Data (3 Oct 2017)
John Brady: 600. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of completed tenant purchase scheme applications by each local authority since its introduction in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41274/17]
- Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)
John Brady: There are elements of this budget to be welcomed but in reality much of the social protection measures are the reintroduction of old payments that Fine Gael either cut or abolished, announcements of new schemes without any substance as to what they actually are, and name changes. Only Fine Gael could bring about a situation where for the second budget in a row, lone parents will be better...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2017)
John Brady: Women understand it, though.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2017)
John Brady: I beg your pardon. It was raised by us in our pre-budget submission.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2017)
John Brady: The Taoiseach is misleading the House.
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Humanitarian Assistance Scheme (17 Oct 2017)
John Brady: 582. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will amend the humanitarian assistance scheme in County Donegal to ensure that affected families who lost items such as children's toys, play and entertainment items and garden equipment are adequately compensated for their loss. [43870/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Services Programme (17 Oct 2017)
John Brady: 583. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the funding removed from a company (details supplied) by Pobal is still available for other interested parties or organisations in the area to apply for; if she will clarify same; the person in her Department who is responsible for processing a new application for support under the Pobal community services programme....
- Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Oct 2017)
John Brady: On Monday night the Spanish high court jailed without bail two Catalan civil society leaders. They are being prosecuted for organising peaceful demonstrations in the run-up to the 1 October independence referendum. This is totally reprehensible and a serious escalation of the Spanish state's clampdown on the Catalan people. As the Bills that had been scheduled for today have been cleared,...
- Topical Issue Debate: Coastal Protection (18 Oct 2017)
John Brady: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Seán Kyne, for taking this question. Unfortunately, it is not the Minister of State, Deputy Kevin "Boxer" Moran. Arklow, like a number of towns in County Wicklow, is susceptible to serious flooding, and there have been some very serious flooding events in Arklow over the recent years, both in terms of river flooding and coastal flooding....
- Topical Issue Debate: Coastal Protection (18 Oct 2017)
John Brady: I listened with intent to the Minister of State's response. Clearly, the local authority has identified this as an area of grave concern. While there was some limited flooding in the area during Storm Ophelia, there are commercial and residential properties in it that are at risk of serious flooding. There are several problems, one of which is the fact that the current structures are being...
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
John Brady: The Deputy is saying nothing about the wine he might drink.
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
John Brady: In December 2016 Sinn Féin brought forward a pension equality and fairness motion calling on the Government to restore the pension bands and rates to their pre-September 2012 position. It was the very first motion I brought forward as a new Deputy in the House.