Results 3,081-3,100 of 12,585 for speaker:Willie O'Dea

Priority Questions: Poverty Data (21 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: Leaving the politics aside, is it not disappointing that the poverty figures are reducing so marginally? I obviously welcome any improvement, but is it not a major disappointment that they are reducing at such a slow rate? The Minister mentioned that deprivation and at-risk-of-poverty rates for lone parents had fallen. Those figures have only fallen marginally - by 0.1% or 0.2%, that...

Priority Questions: Poverty Data (21 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: Deputy Brady would like to raise a point of order.

Priority Questions: Poverty Data (21 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 26. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the recently published survey on income and living conditions, SILC, data; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8532/17]

Priority Questions: Poverty Data (21 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: The introduction will be very short. I raised the question to ascertain the Government's response to the survey on income and living conditions, SILC, figures, which give details of poverty levels across various strands of society for the year 2015.

Priority Questions: Poverty Data (21 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister for his response. The problem is that when we have raised the issue of poverty, the Minister has said on a number of occasions that our figures were outdated. These figures are for the year before last, from a time when employment had increased quite significantly. Despite that significant increase in employment, is the Minister disappointed that consistent poverty...

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I wonder why the Ceann Comhairle assumed the Deputy had done so.

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: The Taoiseach will recall that it is almost three months since there was a very moving demonstration outside the front gates of Leinster House. I attended a candle-lit vigil in the rain in Limerick on Friday night with parents of children suffering from cystic fibrosis. They told us that since that demonstration outside Leinster House, several children have died for want of the drug in...

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: The matter has moved on since then.

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: We understand the system.

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: We know that.

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: The Taoiseach is sitting on it. When is he going to make a decision?

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: When?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Administration (21 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 51. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to make any changes to the free travel pass; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8361/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (21 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 53. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to recognise the additional costs faced by those persons with a disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8358/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Poverty (21 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 59. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to address child poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8357/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Poverty Data (21 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 72. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the recently published SILC, survey on income and living conditions, data which showed that the at risk of poverty rate, the deprivation rate and the consistent poverty rate actually increased for those persons not at work due to illness or disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8359/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (16 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 157. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when payment will be made in respect of carer's allowance to a person (details supplied) after an appeal was successful; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7874/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (16 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 158. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will reconsider the change in the terms of illness benefit introduced by his predecessors whereby a person is not paid for the last six days; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7884/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: My head is spinning from "established practice". Mr. Ciobanu-Dordea seems to be saying that if a practice has continued in a country for many years and then there is a proposal to change it, it suddenly ceases to be established practice and the proposal becomes established practice. Why is the word "established" used? It is not "changed practice", but "established practice". Does the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)

Willie O'Dea: Mr. Rodríguez Romero says the use of metering is generalised. My question is whether, to comply with the EU directive, there is any requirement for individual metering. The fact that it is generalised does not necessarily mean there is any requirement to have individual meters. The Commission representatives are suggesting, by admitting that the Commission is not taking action...