Results 3,261-3,280 of 12,701 for speaker:Willie O'Dea

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]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Data (17 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 651. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of social welfare appeals lodged in each of the years 2012 to 2016 in tabular form; the percentage of appeals which were successful; the average waiting time in these years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1516/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (17 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 662. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of putting the social welfare appeals office on a statutory footing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1686/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (17 Jan 2017)

Willie O'Dea: 1723. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Army Ranger Wing applied for a pay rise in 2006 which went to arbitration which stated the minimum pay rise was to be €50 per week backdated to 2006 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41358/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (16 Dec 2016)

Willie O'Dea: 228. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of households by county currently in receipt of the rent supplement payment in tabular form; the number of households by county that have had their rent increased above the prescribed rent supplement limit for their area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40609/16]