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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Eligibility (4 Jul 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 584. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of reducing the hours work to qualify for family income supplement from 19 to 15; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30966/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Training Support Grant (4 Jul 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 585. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has considered or examined the feasibility of removing the condition whereby a person must be on the live register in order to access training and activation supports; if so, the implications of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30967/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Overview of Pensions: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2017)

Willie O'Dea: Is that five minutes in total?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Overview of Pensions: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the witnesses for appearing before us and for the excellent presentations made by the three groups that will be of assistance to us in the forthcoming debate on the budget. I will start with the presentation made by the National Women's Council of Ireland. Members on all sides of the Houses have raised the anomaly continually in the Dáil. I proposed legislation to backdate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Overview of Pensions: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I agree with Mr. Kavanagh that the auto-enrolment scheme in the United Kingdom has worked well. Will he elaborate on the point he made about the scheme? He stated he had heard a rumour that the Department was considering a compulsory opt-in scheme. Is that correct?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Programmes (29 Jun 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 274. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the areas within her Department which remain outstanding in respect of the confidence and supply agreement; the status of plans for the implementation of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30582/17]

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Jun 2017)

Willie O'Dea: He indicated that, or at least that is my understanding from media reports this morning.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Jun 2017)

Willie O'Dea: Okay, that is already in the Bill. That is fair enough. The Minister pointed out that it was in the Bill but that provision is not enough, in my view. The presidents of the District and Circuit Court should be full and permanent members of the commission. Theirs are the courts that interact with the public the most. They do most of the legal business in the country. We are talking here...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Jun 2017)

Willie O'Dea: The Government legislation is constructed in such a way that only three names will go to Cabinet. The Government explained to us last week that its interpretation of the legislation is that the Cabinet can appoint one of those individuals or else completely ignore all three of them. What Deputy O'Callaghan proposed was that the three names be ranked in order of merit and that if the...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Jun 2017)

Willie O'Dea: First, Fianna Fáil is strongly in favour of a change in the manner in which judges are appointed. Second, we are strongly in favour of a significant lay element in that process. Last night, the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, extolled JAAB and pointed to the significant differences it had made. I disagree with that because I am not aware of any difference that was made by JAAB. I agree...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage. (27 Jun 2017)

Willie O'Dea: Ex-stockbrokers.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Advocacy Service (27 Jun 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 544. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of advocates in the National Advocacy Service for People with Disabilities; the estimated cost of increasing the number of advocates by 5%, 10%, 15% and 20% respectively, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29550/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (27 Jun 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 562. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made regarding a domiciliary care allowance application by a person (details supplied). [29666/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (27 Jun 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 563. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to a disability allowance claim by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29667/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)

Willie O'Dea: Is it the Government's intention to have the water charges legislation on the Statute Book before the end of this session and, if so, when will it be published?

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)

Willie O'Dea: When can we expect to see movement on it?

Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Protection of Pension Property Rights) Bill 2017: First Stage - An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Maoinchearta Pinsin a Chosaint) 2017: An Chéad Chéim (21 Jun 2017)

Willie O'Dea: Tairgim:Go gceadófar go dtabharfar isteach Bille dá ngairtear Acht chun an Bunreacht a leasú. I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Constitution. This proposal is to insert an amendment into the Constitution to prevent any future Government from imposing levies of the sort we saw imposed by the last Government. The context here is the...

Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Protection of Pension Property Rights) Bill 2017: First Stage - An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Maoinchearta Pinsin a Chosaint) 2017: An Chéad Chéim (21 Jun 2017)

Willie O'Dea: Tairgim: "Go dtógfar an Bille in am Comhaltaí Príobháideacha." I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (21 Jun 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 125. To ask the Minister for Health the reason behind the 11% reduction in home help hours in east County Limerick and north County Tipperary for January to April 2017 relative to the same period in 2016. [29083/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications (21 Jun 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 254. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made regarding a carer's benefit application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29139/17]