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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (27 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 274. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter regarding pensions for community employment supervisors (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49313/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Legislative Measures (27 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 302. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the timetable for the passing of the Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016 through all Stages in the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49311/19]

Social Welfare (Payment Order) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." The Bill is being introduced to extend the power of the liable relatives unit of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection to make a District Court application for a payment order in respect of jobseeker's transitional payment to one-parent families, thereby enabling the State to recoup from a liable relative a...

Social Welfare (Payment Order) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: I should be shocked by the Department's response but I am unshockable at this stage. The Minister of State's whole speech is a disgrace. To give one example, he notes that my Bill refers to the Department's maintenance recovery unit instead of the liable relative unit. I remind him that the Bill was drafted back in 2016 when the unit in question went by the former name. In any case, what...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (28 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 138. To ask the Minister for Health when funds will be allocated to enable a person (details supplied) in the midwest region who has been approved for home help and is on a waiting list to access same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49465/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: National Childcare Scheme (28 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 243. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a public services card will be required to access the new childcare scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49461/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Strategies (28 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 252. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the new road map for social inclusion 2019 to 2025 will be further delayed in view of the fact that new SILC data is due for release on 28 November 2019 which may impact on the targets set in the road map and so on; if the road map for social inclusion will have to be revised in view of the new data; and if she will make...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: Obviously, we will not be opposing the Supplementary Estimate because we want people to get their Christmas bonus, as it is currently known. I have a few questions for the Minister. One of the reasons savings were made is because the Department operated at under the approved headcount for the last 12 months. What is the approved headcount and how many posts were vacant? There have been...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: I note that the increase in expenditure is 5.23%. How much of that is attributable to the budgetary increase and how much to additional people qualifying for the payment?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: The contributory pension. What would it cost to increase the contributory pension to the much-talked about target of 34% of the average industrial wage?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: That is okay.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: Can I ask one more question, please? It has been suggested to me that there is some change in conditions on the jobs initiative, JI, workers scheme in holiday pay, length of holidays, time off, etc.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: Jobs initiative. It has been suggested to me in respect of one or two schemes that people have received a directive from the Department which has changed their conditions somewhat for the worse. I put a query in about it and the Department asked me to send on details of the specific areas. It was more or less denying there has been any general change.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: That is interesting.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: Undoubtedly, we will let the Minister know.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Food Poverty (3 Dec 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 579. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the latest available data on food poverty; the way in which Ireland compares to the rest of the EU in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49975/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (3 Dec 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 580. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49986/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (3 Dec 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 589. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50198/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Services Card (4 Dec 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 35. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has received an enforcement notice from the Data Protection Commissioner in respect of the public services card, PSC; if the course of action she will take has been decided if enforcement proceedings have been issued; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50497/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Services Card (4 Dec 2019)

Willie O'Dea: I will not take up my 30 seconds. We discussed this question on the previous occasion on which the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection took questions and it was discussed subsequently at the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection. I have put down the question to find out if there is any update or has she received an enforcement notice yet.