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

John Brady: Maybe not on this issue.

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

John Brady: The Minister says that the procurement process will be initiated this month for a service to commence in June. No discussions have taken place with any GPs so he does not know if the GPs, who were essentially burned this year although they had signed up and formed a co-operative, are available and willing to offer this service to people. There is bad taste there from the Minister's office...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (8 Feb 2018)

John Brady: 99. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be allocated to a service (details supplied) in County Wicklow in the HSE service plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6110/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (13 Feb 2018)

John Brady: 365. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a youth mental health Jigsaw site for County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6915/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (13 Feb 2018)

John Brady: 366. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether there is a need for a youth mental health Jigsaw site in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6916/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (13 Feb 2018)

John Brady: 367. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the review of the clinical services of Jigsaw youth mental health services; the expected publication time; the reason for the delay in publication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6917/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (13 Feb 2018)

John Brady: 368. To ask the Minister for Health the number of young persons on the waiting list for CAMHS in County Wicklow at the end of December 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6918/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (13 Feb 2018)

John Brady: 369. To ask the Minister for Health the number of young persons waiting for a first appointment for CAMHS in County Wicklow at the end of December 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6919/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Maintenance Payments (13 Feb 2018)

John Brady: 624. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a committee to examine the steps her Department can take to create a child maintenance service to assist lone parents to seek child maintenance payments will be established in view of commitments made during a debate in Seanad Éireann in December 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6857/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (13 Feb 2018)

John Brady: 626. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline the estimated additional annual cost of ensuring via social welfare increases that all household types currently in receipt of a weekly social welfare payment are brought into compliance with the minimum income standards developed by an organisation (details supplied). [6921/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (13 Feb 2018)

John Brady: 627. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to set out in tabular form the estimated annual cost of index-linking each payment (details supplied) to inflation over the next five years. [6922/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (13 Feb 2018)

John Brady: 628. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to set out the estimated annual cost of index-linking all weekly social welfare payments to inflation over the next five years. [6923/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (13 Feb 2018)

John Brady: 629. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to set out the estimated annual cost of index-linking all social welfare payments to inflation over the next five years. [6924/18]

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Feb 2018)

John Brady: I am sharing time with Deputy David Cullinane.

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Feb 2018)

John Brady: On more than one occasion, the Minister, Deputy Regina Doherty, has told us that zero-hour contracts are not prevalent in Ireland. What then does the Minister call a situation where part-time workers have no security of hours from one week to the next and where they are expected to work at the drop of a hat if-and-when their employer provides them with hours? This is the same premise as a...

Report on Lone Parents: Motion (15 Feb 2018)

John Brady: I welcome this debate on a comprehensive piece of work carried out by the committee. I thank the Chair of the committee for facilitating and allowing comprehensive analysis and detailed questioning of all our expert witnesses, and more importantly, real life witnesses. They are out there dealing with the consequences of the failure of successive Governments to tackle one of the most...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Income Inequality (20 Feb 2018)

John Brady: 39. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actions she plans to take as a result of the findings of a recent ESRI report detailing high levels of persistent deprivation for persons of a working age with a disability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8578/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Income Inequality (20 Feb 2018)

John Brady: In 2015, 132,000 people with disabilities across the State were living in consistent poverty. The ESRI report shows clearly that in the context of 11 of our European counterparts, the gap was far greater in Ireland, approximately 10%, than elsewhere. It is clear that not enough is being done. The schemes that have been in place are not working. The Minister referred to the new Ability...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Income Inequality (20 Feb 2018)

John Brady: There are many good schemes in operation including WALK PEER, which I mentioned to the Minister's predecessor several times. Year after year, the organisation that runs the scheme has to fight to retain its funding. Thankfully, its funding is in place for this year. WALK PEER is a programme that works. The Minister should replicate it. I referred to figures from 2015 which show that...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Child Maintenance Payments (20 Feb 2018)

John Brady: 37. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to proposals (details supplied) regarding the establishment of a child maintenance service; her views on such a service; if her attention has been further drawn to the positive impact this would have on lone parents and their children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8577/18]