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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board (19 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 663. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to change the legislation establishing the Residential Tenancies Board which only allows an appeal to the courts on a point of law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47524/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (21 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 237. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason there has been such a delay in publishing the new road map or national action plan for social inclusion; when it will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48321/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister mentioned legal advice from the Attorney General's office. I understood, when I raised this during parliamentary questions, that this had been farmed out to a third-party lawyer. Did this advice come directly from the Attorney General's office or an outside lawyer? I suppose it would be too much to ask who the lawyer was. We have not seen the legal advice. It may not be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: There is a certain artificiality about the whole process. Some of the Minister's answers are disingenuous, to say the least. She responded to a question I asked about school transport by speaking about SUSI, even though I had not said a word about SUSI. I said there was an insistence that people appealing decisions on school transport would have to produce the PSC. That was the position,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: That is my understanding.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: It may not have been an insistence, but that was certainly the direction in which it was travelling.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: What was the purpose of the Data Protection Commissioner investigation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: Just a minute now. The purpose of the Data Protection Commissioner's investigation was to ascertain whether it is obligatory under the legislation for the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection to insist on the production of a PSC by those applying for social welfare. The purpose of the investigation we are talking about was to examine the attempt to extend that mandatory...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: -----absence of this report, this thing would have crept out into other Departments. I take what the Minister is saying about 3.2 million people being happy about the convenience of all of this. However, she is wrong when she says that the purpose of the Government's approach was to allow people to access services more efficiently. The purpose of the Government's approach was to force...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: I am not insulting the Minister. She has insulted the Data Protection Commissioner and I am responding to that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: The Data Protection Commissioner refuses to accept that. The Minister is wrong.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: It does not underpin it, according to the Data Protection Commissioner.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: I agree with the Data Protection Commissioner.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: That is a completely different issue because it relates to individual cases.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: How?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister said she would not descend to personal abuse.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (21 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: Deputy Brady quoted the Minister's reply last year. What does she have to say about that now?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (21 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the Chairman and I received his correspondence. In a means testing scenario, a person is allowed to work for 15 hours per week. This amendment would have increased the amount by approximately the value of the minimum wage, or €10; if a person is allowed to work an extra three and a half hours, the means test would have to be increased accordingly. In the case of a couple,...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (21 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: I move amendment No. 3: In page 14, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following: "Report on current and projected future increases in carbon tax 20. The Minister shall undertake an impact assessment on the current and projected future increases in carbon tax on low income families and shall bring forward a report on same within six months of this Act being signed into law.". This...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (21 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: On Deputy Bríd Smith's point, is it still the case that the Minister is not responsible for compiling this report? Who could possibly undertake this report if we asked them nicely on Report Stage?