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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Data (25 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 213. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the back to education allowance in each of the years 2015 to 2017. [3827/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Data (25 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 214. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons engaged in community employment in each of the years 2015 to 2017. [3828/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)

John Brady: I will try to keep it brief.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)

John Brady: I thank both organisations for their presentations and concur with the Cathaoirleach on Mr. Lysaght's presentation. It was powerful and personal and it means so much to hear it first-hand. Unfortunately, we hear such stories every day of the week but it is brilliant to have heard from Mr. Lysaght. I read the Disability Federation of Ireland's presentation and listened intently today....

Topical Issue Debate: Company Closures (30 Jan 2018)

John Brady: The collapse of Carillion did not come as much of a surprise to me and many others who saw this coming down the tracks. It has directly impacted on two schools in my constituency, namely, St. Philomena's primary school, Ravenswell and Coláiste Raíthín. I am delighted that so many parents, teachers and pupils from Coláiste Raíthín have travelled from Bray in...

Topical Issue Debate: Company Closures (30 Jan 2018)

John Brady: This matter will end up in a protracted legal case. Liquidations do not end well and this liquidation will not be any different. Not only are the teachers, pupils and parents involved at the mercy of a potential legal case, they are also at the mercy of banks in Tokyo and Germany. The Minister will be well aware that in the case of a public private partnership lasting for 25 years, the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Private Partnerships (30 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the liquidation of a company (details supplied) will delay the opening of two new schools in County Wicklow; the action his Department is taking to ensure that there will be no delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4366/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff Retirements (30 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 596. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline her policy with regard to her Department's employees who are approaching their 65th birthday and seek to extend their working life within her Department; the length of time they may extend their working lives with her Department; the criteria for such an application to be successful; and if she will make a...

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2018)

John Brady: This morning, the ESRI published a major study into deprivation in 11 EU countries between 2004 and 2015. The study distinguishes between social groups who experience spells of deprivation and those who experience deprivation persistently. Across all countries, the highest material deprivation rates were found for the same two social groups: lone parents and working age adults with a...

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2018)

John Brady: The study published today puts the spotlight on Ireland. It shows Ireland to be a country that allows its most vulnerable to live in deprivation-----

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2018)

John Brady: -----and poverty for years. It shows that our social welfare system is not successful in addressing this issue. What specific measures will the Government take to lift the most vulnerable people in our society out of deprivation and poverty?

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2018)

John Brady: The Taoiseach stated that everybody suffered during the austerity years but the ESRI report shows that the most vulnerable in our society, lone parents and people with disabilities, suffered more than anybody else. These figures are borne out in the latest SILC report which was published last year. It shows that there has been an increase in the at-risk poverty rate for lone parent families...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements: Supplementary Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (31 Jan 2018)

John Brady: Negotiations involving the two Governments and the parties in the North have recommenced. Sinn Féin has met representatives of those sectors whose rights are being denied and the current negotiations are trying to vindicate. Sinn Féin is committed to the full restoration of the political institutions. It makes sense that local politicians take the local decisions that affect...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements: Supplementary Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (31 Jan 2018)

John Brady: The Euro Health Consumer Index for 2017 published this week rates waiting times for health care in the State as among the worst in Europe. We are in 24th place, which is even lower than the previous year. The authors, understandably, ask why countries with more limited means can achieve a virtual absence of waiting lists while this State fails to do so. Why can we not address this? This...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

John Brady: I welcome Ms Murray and Mr. Moran and his mother, Ms Catherine Moran. I commend the committee on taking on this important issue, which, fundamentally, relates to equal rights. Ms Murray is correct, I believe she was referring to Rosa Parks when she spoke about revolutions starting on buses. Rosa Parks lived in an apartheid state in America and was told where she could and could not sit on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

John Brady: I welcome Mr. Moran, along with his mother. It is good to listen to Mr. Moran. He, like Ms Murray, is giving a voice at a high level to many other people who are unable to articulate their experience. Deputy Munster touched on some of the figures. From speaking to Mr. Moran and other people with disabilities, I know there are many people who feel they have nowhere to go when they are...

Other Questions: General Practitioner Services Provision (8 Feb 2018)

John Brady: 12. 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. [6109/18]

Other Questions: General Practitioner Services Provision (8 Feb 2018)

John Brady: In October 2016, the Minister announced he had secured the funding to roll out a GP out-of-hours service in his constituency of Wicklow and specifically in the north Wicklow area, which is one of the last major urban areas in the State to have a dedicated HSE-funded out-of-hours service. It was due to come into operation in early 2017 and mysteriously the funding was pulled. Will the...

Other Questions: General Practitioner Services Provision (8 Feb 2018)

John Brady: We have had promises from the Minister before that the funding was secured for this in 2016. He took to social media and the airwaves to announce that it would be rolled out in the early part of 2017. No explanation was ever given to his constituents, the people who desperately need this and lie waiting for 72 hours for a GP who never shows up. An explanation is due to those people and to...

Other Questions: General Practitioner Services Provision (8 Feb 2018)

John Brady: His constituents and my constituents, the people who depend on that, deserve an explanation.