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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Living Alone Allowance (21 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 214. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the living alone allowance; the number of persons in receipt of this payment, by gender; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39958/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (21 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 215. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of social welfare payments in which a qualified child increase payment is also paid in respect of children in the household; the number of children to whom this payment is paid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39959/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (21 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 216. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of disability allowance, carers benefit, full rate and half rate, carers allowance, illness benefit, blind pension and invalidity pension, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39960/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: Does the Minister have any regard or respect for the will of the House?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: Seamus Brennan stopped it. A previous Minister stopped it.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 34. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the efforts she has made to halt the restructuring of MABS and CIS until such a time as the concerns of the many staff and volunteers have been comprehensively addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39439/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister will be aware that not only myself but colleagues on all sides of the House have had representations throughout the summer from MABS and the community information centres to the effect that the proposed reorganisation is going full tilt ahead despite the views of this House and the Joint Committee on Social Protection. I made representations to the Minister about this during the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister refers to the bodies' present unsatisfactory structure. She is as aware as I am that the organisations are not wedded to that particular structure on which they are prepared to compromise. She is aware of that and there is no point in us focusing on the two organisations sticking to present arrangements which is an argument that does not exist. When she mentions extensive...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I can tell the Minister where I got the period of five years from. It was in a letter from herself dated 15 August in which she says that this decision was taken after "five years of analysis, consideration of options and extensive consultations with all stakeholders". Five years of that. There was no consultation and there is still no meaningful consultation with stakeholders. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Services Card (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 32. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the scope of the public services card; the measures currently in place to ensure data protection and confidentiality; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39693/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Services Card (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I am aware that there are 2.7 million public services cards in circulation but as the Minister is aware, concerns have been expressed recently about plans to extend the scope of the public service card and about how confidentiality of the information contained on the card can be maintained.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Services Card (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister is saying there are no plans to extend the range of services which will require production of the public services card from now.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Services Card (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: By her Department, for now.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Services Card (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: Does the Minister accept that concerns have been raised and that they are legitimate? They have been raised by ordinary citizens, by the Data Protection Commissioner and her predecessor, by distinguished information technology lawyers who say that clear information is needed on what data has been collected, the purpose of the data and who exactly will have access to it. Is the Minister...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Services Card (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: When does the Minister envisage that this information will be published? The Department has got the questions from the Data Protection Commissioner and I presume it envisages issuing answers to those questions. What is the approximate timescale within which that will be done?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes Administration (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister for that assurance. There could be a separate debate on insurance and the extent to which premiums are decreasing. I have encountered many people in my clinics and so on and not yet met anybody who has told me his or her insurance premium has gone down, nor has mine decreased. The Minister is saying that if a similar problem arises elsewhere and a particular community...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes Administration (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 30. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the community employment scheme known as Pathways to Employment at Southill, Limerick, has been threatened with closure due to the failure of its insurance company to renew its insurance; her plans to rectify this issue; the implications for CE schemes nationally; and if she...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes Administration (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: This refers to a matter brought to my attention in my constituency but it may have wider ramifications. That is the reason I am seeking clarification on the matter.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes Administration (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister for confirming that the matter at Southill has been resolved and my constituents will be delighted with the official confirmation. The Minister stated in her reply that the Department does not propose to become an insurance agent and nor am I suggesting it should. At the same time she states that it provides a sum as part of the capitation grant to cover insurance. How...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 44. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to reform the pension system; her further plans to address the anomaly in the calculation of the contributory pension whereby those that took time out of the workforce for caring duties are being denied a full State pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39442/17]