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- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2018)
John Brady: The lone parent figures are up.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2018)
John Brady: It is 2020 we are talking about - the Taoiseach's targets.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)
John Brady: I welcome the officials. There has certainly been huge concern among the public and organisations dealing with civil liberties, for example, as well as on the part of the data commissioner. The commissioner issued comprehensive questions to the Department. Is she satisfied with the responses that have been given to date? Has she asked for further information? Following on from Deputy...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)
John Brady: Like anyone else, adopted people appear with the information and documents that they have been told are required. They bring in a short version of their birth certificate. They are told at that point that this document is not acceptable, and that they need to get the long version of their birth certificate. As I stated in my opening remarks, 40% of adopted people do not know they are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)
John Brady: As I said twice already, 40% of adopted people do not know their status. They do not know they were adopted. The logic does not follow that those people do not carry a passport because clearly the vast majority of people do. I think there are double standards at play here. Unfortunately, adopted people feel like second-class citizens and that they are discriminated against when it comes...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)
John Brady: In fairness, I asked a specific question and it was not answered.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)
John Brady: I raised the case of an old age pensioner having her payment suspended for 18 months because of her legitimate refusal to get a public services card, PSC. I asked about the number of other individuals who have had their payment suspended, curtailed or cut because of their legitimate refusal to get one, due to legal concerns about the card.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)
John Brady: How many people have formally made complaints about the process? Surely Mr. Duggan has that information on people who raised legitimate concerns and whose payments have been stopped because of the concerns around the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)
John Brady: How many?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)
John Brady: Mr. Duggan does not know.
- Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)
John Brady: That is not good enough.
- Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)
John Brady: Rubbish. That is a cop-out.
- Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)
John Brady: Is the advice to turn the heating off?
- Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)
John Brady: It would go some of the way.
- Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)
John Brady: It is just a cop-out.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Proposed Legislation (27 Feb 2018)
John Brady: 532. To ask the Minister for Health when the drafting of a Bill for the introduction of a scheme to replace the former mobility allowance and motorised transport grant scheme will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10177/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Telephone Support Allowance (27 Feb 2018)
John Brady: 709. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of reforming the telephone support allowance payment in order that it is available to persons in receipt of the living alone allowance or the fuel allowance; the number of additional persons who would qualify for the payment if that change was made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10127/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (28 Feb 2018)
John Brady: 100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for completion of a permanent school building for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10214/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (28 Feb 2018)
John Brady: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will have the requested extra two prefabs in place to allow the school to accommodate a second junior infants class for September 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10215/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Administration (28 Feb 2018)
John Brady: 140. To ask the Minister for Health when the last review of the long-term illness scheme took place; if changes were made to the scheme as a result of a review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10249/18]