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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff Data (29 Mar 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 429. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff working in the social welfare appeals office; the estimated full year cost of increasing the number of staff by 10%; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14749/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Unemployment Data (29 Mar 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 430. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of jobless households here; the way in which the rate of jobless households compares to the EU average; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14750/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Investment Incentive Scheme Data (29 Mar 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 431. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that have been subject to sanctions for non-compliance or non-engagement with her Department in each of the years 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14751/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Poverty (29 Mar 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 432. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the target for child poverty; the likelihood of the target being reached within the set timeframe; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14752/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Data (29 Mar 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 433. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of social welfare appeals lodged in each of the years 2012 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form; the percentage of appeals which were successful; the average waiting time in these years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14753/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Data (29 Mar 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 434. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the target for poverty here; the likelihood of the target being reached within the set timeframe; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14754/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Consultancy Contracts Expenditure (29 Mar 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 435. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent by her Department on external consultant reports from May 2016 to date in 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14755/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Youth Diversion Projects (28 Mar 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 179. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason it has been decided without consultation that there will only be one service provider per Garda division; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14411/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Youth Diversion Projects (28 Mar 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 182. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the Irish Youth Service has not included a project (details supplied) in the European tender regulations covering protection of employees on transfer of undertakings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14481/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries Ireland (28 Mar 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 240. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason Inland Fisheries Ireland has banned salmon fishing on the lower River Shannon for conservation reasons in view of the fact that the amount of salmon caught in recent years on the river was well above the number required to allow this activity to continue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14357/18]

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Willie O'Dea: Deputy Bríd Smith will contribute first.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Willie O'Dea: I have a few questions for the Minister. On pensions which was the topic of Deputy Bríd Smith's final question, I am taken aback by the Minister's announcement today that there will be no question of compensating people from 2012 onwards, apart from what she has already announced. My understanding of the Constitution is that it only prohibits retrospective legislation in the case of...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister can forward them to us.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (27 Mar 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 586. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average processing time for all social welfare payments in each of the years 2012 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13756/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times (27 Mar 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 587. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average waiting time for a decision on appeal for social protection payments paid on a weekly basis in cases in which there is no oral hearing and in which there is an oral hearing in each of the years 2012 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13757/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2018)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the witnesses for their attendance and opening statement. I do not have too many questions as the presentation more or less speaks for itself. I note Mr. Bowe's emphasis on flexibility rather than what is proving to be an extremely rigid pay by results system. I compliment the ILDN on its excellent work and look forward to the Indecon report which I am sure will vindicate that. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2018)

Willie O'Dea: I must apologise because I have another appointment at 12 noon and, unfortunately, I must leave the meeting. The exchange has been most informative. The figures for Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown are replicated throughout the country and it has been the experience in my own area. Deputy Brady has received information on LES in replies to parliamentary questions and I have had some...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (20 Mar 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 377. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason an association (details supplied) would not be afforded protections under the Industrial Relations Act 1990 if it engaged in withdrawal of services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12171/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (20 Mar 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 638. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to classify haemochromatosis as a long-term illness on the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12694/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (20 Mar 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 940. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11975/18]