Results 2,441-2,460 of 12,585 for speaker:Willie O'Dea

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Momentum Programme (16 Jan 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of places on the momentum programme; the full year cost of increasing the number of places on the programme by 20%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1242/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Traveller Education (16 Jan 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to restore the position of resource teachers for Travellers in view of the fact that they are now recognised as a separate ethnic group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54468/17]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Services Programme (16 Jan 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 1525. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the full-year cost of matching the contribution to the community services programme to the national minimum wage rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1221/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (16 Jan 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 1569. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue on a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54401/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Services for People with Disabilities (16 Jan 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 1634. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the expenditure on the reasonable accommodation fund in each of the years 2012 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1241/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Appointments to State Boards (16 Jan 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 1574. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if candidates interviewed for the post of chief executive of the Citizens Information Board were asked to outline proposals to dismantle and replace or otherwise restructure entities, such as citizens information services and MABS, funded and supported by the board (details supplied); if this took place in advance of a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Payments (16 Jan 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 1616. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full-year cost of increasing all social insurance payments by amounts (details supplied), in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1222/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Payments (16 Jan 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 1617. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full-year cost of increasing all social assistance payments by amounts (details supplied), in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1223/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Payments (16 Jan 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 1619. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full-year cost of increasing the living alone allowance by amounts (details supplied), in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1225/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Payments (16 Jan 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 1620. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full-year cost of increasing the fuel allowance by one, two, three, four, five and six weeks, respectively, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1226/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Payments (16 Jan 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 1625. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of increasing the carer's support grant by amounts (details supplied), in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1232/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Payments (16 Jan 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 1628. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full-year cost of the household benefits package; the full-year cost of increasing the monthly electricity allowance and the natural gas allowance by €5 and €10, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1235/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Payments (16 Jan 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 1632. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full-year cost of extending the Christmas bonus to persons in receipt of the invalidity pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1239/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Payments (16 Jan 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 1637. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of increasing disability allowance, carer's allowance, blind pension and invalidity pension by €5, €10, €15 and €20 respectively, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1245/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (16 Jan 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 1618. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full-year cost of reversing the changes made in 2012 to the bands for the contributory pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1224/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme (16 Jan 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 1621. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full year cost of increasing the back to school clothing and footwear allowance by amounts (details supplied), in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1227/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment (16 Jan 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 1622. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full-year cost of reversing changes made to the one-parent family payment in 2012, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1228/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (16 Jan 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 1623. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full-year cost of extending jobseeker's payments to the self employed, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1229/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment (16 Jan 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 1624. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full-year cost of increasing the income thresholds for family income supplement by amounts (details supplied), in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1230/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (16 Jan 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 1626. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full-year cost of reinstating the State transition pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1233/18]