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- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Food Poverty (3 May 2018)
Willie O'Dea: There is a lot of evidence, both anecdotal and official, that food poverty is still widespread in the community. I want to ascertain whether the Government has given any thought to targeting this problem in the forthcoming budgetary measures.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Food Poverty (3 May 2018)
Willie O'Dea: I am, of course, aware of the FEAD programme. Let us be realistic, however, and acknowledge that it is a drop in the ocean. I am also, of course, aware of the school meals programme. Nevertheless, in a recent analysis the Society of St. Vincent de Paul indicated that the number of calls it was receiving had risen since last year and that one in three was related to food poverty. For people...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: JobPath Programme (3 May 2018)
Willie O'Dea: 1. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of the recently announced changes to the JobPath scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19262/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: JobPath Programme (3 May 2018)
Willie O'Dea: As the Minister is aware, I recently published legislation proposing the change she is introducing; naturally, therefore, I welcome it. I tabled the question to allow her the opportunity to flesh out the details of how it will operate in practice.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: JobPath Programme (3 May 2018)
Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister for her response. Did I understand her to say that if somebody was in the JobPath system, a vacancy occurred on a Tús or community employment scheme and he or she took up the place, he or she would have to continue with the JobPath service until the expiration of the 12 month period if he or she had already started? The Minister made reference to rearranging...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: JobPath Programme (3 May 2018)
Willie O'Dea: We had published a Bill.
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Qualified Child Increase Payments (3 May 2018)
Willie O'Dea: 22. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce a higher rate of a qualified child increase for children of 12 years of age and over in view of research by an organisation (details supplied) which shows the additional costs associated with adolescence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19176/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payments (3 May 2018)
Willie O'Dea: 36. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to reform the operation of the exceptional needs payment in view of concerns that have been raised regarding access to the payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19175/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (3 May 2018)
Willie O'Dea: 40. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is satisfied with the restructuring process for Money Advice and Budgeting Services and Citizens Information Services; her views on the manner in which the process is being handled and the significant opposition to the process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19178/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (3 May 2018)
Willie O'Dea: 49. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address issues in defined benefit pension schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19177/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times (3 May 2018)
Willie O'Dea: 50. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address social welfare appeals processing times; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19174/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Facilities (3 May 2018)
Willie O'Dea: 104. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the provision of the new male and female facilities for Limerick Prison; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19363/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge Review (1 May 2018)
Willie O'Dea: 101. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress of the working group on the future of PRSI and the USC in respect of contribution rates and ensuring contribution classes are actuarially reviewed on an annual basis to determine the changes required to fund benchmarked increases in State pension payment rates or expansion of benefits cover; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19123/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (1 May 2018)
Willie O'Dea: 438. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the design of a total contributions State pension model; when it will be released for public consultation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19119/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (1 May 2018)
Willie O'Dea: 439. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of her plans to allow post-2012 pension recipients on reduced rates to utilise the total contributions model by 2019; the first and full-year cost of this measure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19120/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (1 May 2018)
Willie O'Dea: 440. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the development of a consultation paper on a rate setting or funding approach for the Social Insurance Fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19121/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Expenditure (1 May 2018)
Willie O'Dea: 441. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress she has made to set a formal benchmark target of 34% of average earnings for State pension (contributory) payments and institute a process whereby future changes in pension rates of payment are explicitly linked to changes in the consumer price index and average wages; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Language Schools Closures (26 Apr 2018)
Willie O'Dea: 98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 151 of 19 April 2018, his plans to make provision for teachers in those schools who have not received their full salaries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18374/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Offices (25 Apr 2018)
Willie O'Dea: 231. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the circumstances under which social welfare branch managers will be paid under the new remuneration model; if the financial package will only be put in place following acceptance by all branch managers of a new agreement; if this is in line with the recommendations of the independent chair facilitated discussions with an...
- Community Employment Pension Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2018)
Willie O'Dea: I thank everybody who contributed to the debate. I thank all the parties and individual Deputies who expressed their support for this motion. We very much appreciate that. There was one aspect of community employment that has not been mentioned tonight, namely, the sponsors. I recognise the important role the sponsors play in the delivery of the community employment schemes. I also want...