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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Data (11 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 1902. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of welfare recipients who have been subject to sanctions for non-engagement in each of the years 2012 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38568/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Data (11 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 1903. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have applied for an exceptional needs payment in each of the years 2012 to 2016 and to date in 2017; the number who have been awarded and refused this payment, respectively; the expenditure on this payment in those years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38569/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reports (11 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 1904. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the report that was to be prepared by her Department within three months of the passing of the Social Welfare Act 2016 on the financial and social effects of amendments to the one-parent family payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38570/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Data (11 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 1905. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rate of severe material deprivation for lone parents here; the way in which this compares with the EUROSTAT average; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38571/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Data (11 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 1906. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rate of severe material deprivation for those not at work due to an illness or disability; the way in which this compares with the EUROSTAT average; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38572/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Waiting Times (11 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 1907. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average waiting times for decisions on all social welfare payments from her Department; the number of persons awaiting decisions for all social welfare payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38573/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Data (26 Jul 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 1495. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons aged 65 and over in receipt of a jobseeker's payment, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35257/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (26 Jul 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 1582. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the cost benefit analysis of the restructuring of MABS and CIS will commence; the expected date for completion and publication of this analysis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36591/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: National Minimum Wage (26 Jul 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 1583. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of increasing funding to the community service programme in line with the recommendation to increase the national minimum wage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36592/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: National Minimum Wage (26 Jul 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 1584. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase funding to the community service programme in line with the recommendation increase in the national minimum wage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36593/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: National Minimum Wage (26 Jul 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 1585. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has considered the impact that the recommendation to increase the national minimum wage will have on income thresholds set to qualify for certain social welfare payments; her plans to increase the income thresholds for social welfare payments in line with the recommendations for same; and if she will make...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (26 Jul 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 1586. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have been issued a public services card in each year since first introduced; the waiting time to issue a public services card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36595/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Family Income Supplement (26 Jul 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 1587. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the new working family payment that her Department is planning to introduce; the way in which this payment will differ from family income supplement, FIS; if this payment will replace FIS; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36596/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment (26 Jul 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 1588. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she will take following the report by her Department on lone parents and the impact that changes to the one parent family payment had on lone parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36597/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Fund (26 Jul 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 1589. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to further extend benefits available to the self-employed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36598/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Brexit Issues (26 Jul 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 1590. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has started contingency planning in the event that the common travel area and the reciprocal arrangements for social insurance and social assistance are not preserved or are altered in the aftermath of Brexit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36599/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Poverty (26 Jul 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 1600. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her targets for poverty including child poverty; if these targets are being met; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36722/17]

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Jul 2017)

Willie O'Dea: And the Pensions Authority.

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Jul 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I was under the impression that I had 20 minutes.

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Jul 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I will make some brief concluding remarks. I apologise for my timing being way out.