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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Pensions (16 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 269. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to introduce legislation to increase the mandatory retirement age from 65 to 70 years of age for public service employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55102/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sale of State Assets (16 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 629. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the sale of studios (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55000/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Impact Assessment (16 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 1564. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the main areas of policy making and policy programmes for which the three poverty measures contained in the CSO's SILC are used, that is, the at risk of poverty rate, deprivation rate and consistent poverty rate; and the main areas of policy making and policy. [54433/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (16 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 1596. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if those in receipt of a carer's allowance are eligible for a contributory State pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55092/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (16 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 1597. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person that is required to carry out a paid internship for a certain period of time over the academic year as part of their college course could lose their back to education allowance; if this income will mean that the back to education allowance and rent supplement would be reviewed; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Enterprise Ireland Properties (16 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 1915. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the sale of studios (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54999/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pensions Legislation (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 2. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the timeframe for the restoration of the State pension for those affected by the 2012 changes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2331/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pensions Legislation (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: I start by expressing a happy new year to everyone in the House, to the Minister, to the staff and to the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Will the Minister outline clearly a timeframe for the reversal of the 2012 pension changes and a timeframe for the restoration of pension payments to more than 42,000 people who are directly affected by these changes?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pensions Legislation (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: I have listened to the Minister's response and heard her trying to explain the rationale around why these changes were put in place but there is simply no rationale. The changes were wrong in 2012 and they are wrong now. They need to be changed. The Minister and her Government have an opportunity this week to rectify the changes that directly impacted more than 42,000 pensioners,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pensions Legislation (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: I do not want to get into an argument with the Minister on this issue. The Minister seems to think it was an anomaly that arose from the 2012 changes. I argue against that; it was a clearly designed measure taken in the full knowledge of the impact it would have on our pensioners, especially on women. There is no question about that in my mind, in the view of the many organisations that...

Other Questions: Working Family Payment (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: There is no fear of me going down that route.

Other Questions: Poverty Data (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 10. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the increase in the at risk of poverty rate among lone-parent families as highlighted in the recently published survey on income and living conditions for 2016; her plans to reduce this rate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2061/18]

Other Questions: Poverty Data (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: The Minister welcomed on a number of occasions the findings in the SILC report for 2016 but she omitted any reference to the 4% increase in children at risk of poverty in lone-parent families. Will the Minister comment on the increase, which is a substantial one at 4%?

Other Questions: Poverty Data (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: I welcome the Minister's response. She put out a press statement after the publication of the SILC report and referred to it again this morning but she specifically left out any mention of lone parents because it is an increase and that goes against the narrative that everything is on the up. It certainly is not on the up for lone parents. A 4% increase in the at-risk-of-poverty rate is a...

Other Questions: Poverty Data (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: The Minister says lone parents were one of her key target groups in the budget. I admit there were small changes. I do not think they went far enough. A €2 increase for a qualified child must be regarded as small. It is trivial. If the Minister looks at the Indecon report and the survey that was carried out, she will see that 11 specific questions were put to lone parent families...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Citizen Information Services (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 21. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the concerns raised by her Department as referenced in the recently published cost benefit analysis undertaken on behalf of the Citizens Information Board regarding the structure of the MABS service prior to the restructuring plans now underway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2059/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Non-Contributory) (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 28. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason fraud and error surveys are being carried out with older persons in receipt of the non-contributory State pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2060/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions Reform (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 30. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to examine the pension anomaly which exists in which persons aged 65 years of age are being put on jobseeker's payments at retirement; her further plans for when the pension age increases to 67 years of age in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2062/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Maintenance Payments (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 48. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to establish a child maintenance service such as in Northern Ireland to support and assist lone parents in seeking child maintenance payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2058/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 121. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be allocated for the delivery of a general practitioner out-of-hours service for north County Wicklow in the HSE service plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2242/18]