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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (6 May 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: In alluding to the means test, does the Tánaiste accept that, even as things are, there needs to be a communications campaign to make people's entitlements clear? Often, people do not distinguish between jobseeker's benefit and jobseeker's allowance. For some time, the Fianna Fáil position has been that we would favour the introduction on a voluntary basis of a phased scheme...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (6 May 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Any of us in responding to this issue accepts that for the system to work a realistic contribution has to be made. As we look to the future and to the sort of economy we want to develop, we find we are all committed to developing indigenous small and medium sized enterprises. We all accept that in order to do that successfully the safety net of a social welfare benefit system does two...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (6 May 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 1. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to provide the self-employed with greater access to social welfare benefits; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17372/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (6 May 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I have the unenviable task of standing in for the inimitable Deputy O'Dea. This question seeks to explore with the Tánaiste what plans, if any, she has to extend access to social welfare benefits to the self-employed. The question is posed against the background of all of us in this House wishing to see the indigenous sector develop. We see access to welfare benefits as part of that...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Maintenance Payments (6 May 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 14. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of determination orders issued by the maintenance recovery unit of her Department that will be invalid after 2 July 2015; the financial loss to her Department; the reason this was not catered for in the legislation for jobseeker's transitional payment; in view of financial cuts to working lone parents, the reason her Department is now...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (6 May 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 26. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current level of rent supplement to take account of rent increases; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17332/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Activation Projects (6 May 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 27. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way she will ensure that persons with disabilities will not be inappropriately activated under the proposed JobPath measures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17333/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payments (6 May 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 43. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients of one-parent family payments who are subjected to low-hour contracts and are therefore not in a position to increase their hours to avail of family income supplement; the average income loss to workers in this category from transferring to the jobseeker's allowance transitional payment; the number of lone parents who will...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payments (6 May 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 46. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of stark evidence from the European Union's Survey on Income and Living Conditions 2013, which showed that consistent poverty rates for one-parent family households increased by 32%, from 17.7% to 23%, while there was no statistically significant increase in the general population, if she will suspend any further reform, until a proper...

Topical Issue Debate: Credit Unions (30 Apr 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I support the objective of protecting savings but the issue of death benefit or insurance is a different matter. The Minister of State revealed that responsibility for this has been passed to Permanent TSB but agents of the State entered into an agreement with that bank before the credit union had been subsumed. The issue of death benefit should have been considered as part of this...

Topical Issue Debate: Credit Unions (30 Apr 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I do.

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (30 Apr 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Deputy should not hold his breath.

Topical Issue Debate: Credit Unions (30 Apr 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for having accepted this particularly important Topical Issue matter. I also thank the Minister of State, Deputy Harris, for coming in to deal with it. I hope he will take seriously the issues I am raising. The Minister of State will know from his party colleagues the huge controversy that has surrounded the closure of Newbridge Credit Union, both locally and...

Order of Business (30 Apr 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Government promised to introduce a planning and development Bill and a housing Bill. When are these Bills likely to come before the House and if they are not imminent will the Government provide time in the near future for a debate on housing? I ask this question in the context of a statement released today by the Dublin Simon Community which asserts that the Government's emergency...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Labour Party would have won an Oscar for being angry when it was in opposition.

Other Questions: Comóradh 1916 (30 Apr 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Is mór an trua é sin.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Monuments (30 Apr 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 1. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans for the Moore Street area in Dublin 1 in the wake of her announcement of 31 March 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16943/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Monuments (30 Apr 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: With just eight months to go before 2016, the question seeks to establish what the Government will be able to achieve with regard to the development of the Moore Street site and the national monument there. It acknowledges the fact that the State has correctly taken the property into ownership but seeks to establish what will be done about the birthplace of our republic between now and 2016.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Monuments (30 Apr 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Minister. There was a large share of agreement between us in the run-up to the decision of Dublin City Council. Regrettably, its decision changed everything and we are, as they say, where we are. In this respect the Minister's response is a little disappointing. Many people here have been signalling their concern over recent years that 2016 would come and we would not have...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Monuments (30 Apr 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Minister has responsibility for heritage and we need her to be a leader and to drive forward these plans. It is not just a matter for the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government; it is a matter for the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to take a leadership role. My colleagues in the Seanad have brought forward this very positive proposed legislation,...