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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pensions Reform (24 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: Does the Minister intend to start putting this system in place in time for the next budget and what sort of timescale does he envisage to have it completely in place? I accept this depends on political consensus and various other issues, but the Minister must have some sort of a timescale in mind. Does he intend to start at the next budget?

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

Willie O'Dea: The Minister, in comparing the UK system with the Irish system, said that Deputy Penrose and I are trying to achieve something retrospectively. Everybody knows defined benefit pension schemes were in place in the UK before the relevant legislation was introduced, and its introduction did not have all the dire consequences the Minister has outlined today. The Minister's position seems to be...

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

Willie O'Dea: 45. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the fact that a profitable company can close down a defined benefit pension scheme whilst the scheme is in deficit to the detriment of existing and deferred pensioners; his plans to rectify the situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3027/17]

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

Willie O'Dea: The Minister will be aware of the controversy before Christmas that indicated a major gap in Irish law, namely, that a solvent company can walk away at will from a defined benefit pension scheme. I ask the Minister if there are any proposals to change that situation.

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.