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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (24 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I take the Minister's point about these being voluntary and depending on the willingness of the employer to engage in them, but everything the Minister has said applies equally to the defined benefit schemes in the United Kingdom. The UK has introduced legislation to prevent a solvent company from winding up a defined benefit scheme until such time as it makes up the deficit that is owed to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (24 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 59. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the specific measures his Department plans to introduce to tackle unemployment for those persons aged 50 years of age and over; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2726/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme (24 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 86. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to the fact that rural social scheme supervisors are on notably different pay scales to community employment supervisors; the reason for such a discrepancy in view of the fact they carry out similar duties and responsibilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2727/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Tax and Social Welfare Codes (24 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 87. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to extend PRSI benefits to self-employed persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2725/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 88. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to introduce a new working family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2724/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme (24 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 90. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to a report which proposes a €50 annual charge on the free travel pass; if he will give a commitment that no such charge will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2723/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (24 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason resource hours teaching is no longer regarded as sufficient to enable primary school teachers to attain the 100 hours teaching necessary to proceed to study for a HDip; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2594/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Data (24 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 281. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the rate of youth unemployment here; how this figure compares with the European average; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2566/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (24 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 282. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of households in receipt of FIS; the number of households in receipt of the back-to-work family dividend; the number of households in receipt of both payments in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2567/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Paternity Leave Scheme (24 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 283. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons to date who have applied for paternity benefit; the number of persons who have received paternity benefit in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2568/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (24 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 284. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of households by county in receipt of rent supplement; the number of households by county that have had rent supplement increased above the prescribed limit in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2569/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Delays (24 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 285. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to tackle welfare fraud; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2570/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme (24 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 296. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the new entrant term limitations for the rural social scheme, which has up to now been an income support for small under employed farmers that were entitled to stay on the scheme as long as their situation remained the same; if he will address the hardship this change places on small farmers on RSS that are not unemployed and that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I am a little confused because I thought the remit of this committee was to consider a mechanism for water charging. A lot of the presentation I have heard seems to be a justification for the existence of Irish Water, which we are not discussing at all. The expert committee appeared to recommend that there should be absolute equity between people who are getting their water supply through...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: What percentage of compliance is it based on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: Surely it must adjust the charges depending on how much the State could afford to subvent them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: We have to know what the net cost was. We are discussing the impact on the public finances.

Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: Before Christmas, the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government undertook to get the Residential Tenancies Board to carry out some research to ascertain whether rent control would be extended to Limerick, Galway and Waterford. What stage is this research at and will the Minister be able to meet his commitment that the decision will be made towards the end of this month...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (17 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 257. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to change the terms of the tax concession for disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme 1994, in respect of a person (details supplied); when he plans to do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41749/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (17 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline his plans to enable teachers in appropriate special education settings, resource and special class, to have their probation completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1449/17]