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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.

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

Willie O'Dea: I would like the Minister to respond in her concluding remarks to the MABS report she has received from the Joint Committee on Social Protection. On 15 June last, the committee was addressed by a group that wants to be brought within the terms of the Dr. David Parris case. I understand that the circumstances are exactly the same. It should be included in the interests of justice and...

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

Willie O'Dea: I congratulate the Minister on her elevation to high office and wish her the very best in persuading her colleagues, in particular her colleague at the Department of Finance, to make adequate provision to ensure that the progressivity we managed to get reintroduced in budgets last year is continued. She can be assured of our unstinting support in that regard. Fianna Fáil does not...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Waiting Times (13 Jul 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 1203. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there are delays in her Department in issuing payments that fall under her Department's remit; if so, the payments that are affected; the timeframe the payment is supposed to be paid in; the actual time it is taking to issue the payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34301/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (13 Jul 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 1204. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of complaints since commencement to date that have been made against the two companies tasked with delivering JobPath; the actions taken to investigate such complaints; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34302/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Citizens Assembly (13 Jul 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 1205. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the actions she will take following the Citizens Assembly recommendations regarding the need for a mandatory pension scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34303/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (13 Jul 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 1206. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons by payment who have been refused a social welfare payment; the number that subsequently were awarded a payment on appeal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34304/17]