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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Payments (7 Jul 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 51. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason arrears are not payable in regard to invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick, having been awarded through the appeals office; the way her Department arrived at its figures; if arrears owed can be repaid at a reduced amount to assist with the financial situation of the family; and if she will make...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Payments (7 Jul 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 60. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when arrears of an approved disability allowance will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27199/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (7 Jul 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 82. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for a carer's allowance will be awarded to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27437/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Services for People with Disabilities (7 Jul 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 514. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to applicants under the disability access route to education, who are in genuine need of this access to third level, and who have been clients of child and adolescent mental health services and of the Health Service Executive for some years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27458/15]

Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)

Willie O'Dea: We are further away from it now.

Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)

Willie O'Dea: It is the Taoiseach's responsibility now.

Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Are you not the Taoiseach?

Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Is Deputy Adams an expert in equality?

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I am sharing time with Deputy Troy. I am amazed that lone parents are not doing cartwheels of delight, given the golden age which the Minister has announced will be ushered in for them from next Monday on. I am positively flabbergasted at the Government's mulish, dogged and persistent refusal to face reality here. The reality is that at least 10,000 families, who are already living in...

Topical Issue Debate: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (30 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister of State.

Topical Issue Debate: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (30 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister of State for his offer and intend to take him up on it. I take his point on rent inflation. We propose a 5% increase in the rent cap in order to alleviate what is a desperate situation. I am not in favour of hundreds of millions of euro of taxpayers' money going into the pockets of private landlords. I abhor it and it is grossly wasteful; however, we are faced with a...

Topical Issue Debate: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (30 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: We have been making the point for quite a long time that the cap on rent supplements is driving more and more people into homelessness. This report would seem to justify our worries in that regard. The survey carried out by the Simon Community found, startlingly, that seven out of eight properties available for rent are priced beyond the reach of those in receipt of rent support. In the...

Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: It is a point of order.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (30 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 209. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when payment of a carer's allowance will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26369/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015 (30 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 288. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015 will be the primary source of reference for designated public officials on the way they interact with lobbyists; if compliance with this legislation will take precedence over any international recommendations on lobbying; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26427/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Data Protection (30 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 557. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the communication she has had with an association (details supplied) in County Limerick regarding the installation of covert closed-circuit television cameras within a school; her views that this conduct is acceptable; the actions she proposes to take; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26277/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement (25 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 39. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason there is no option given on the application form for the family income supplement to have payment paid via the post office; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25468/15]

Other Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (24 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: That is a "No".

Other Questions: Disability Support Services (24 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: The unemployment rate of 10% was mentioned but unemployment among those who are disabled ranges from 60% to 70%. There are activation measures to encourage the unemployed off the dole queues and into employment and it is only fair and just that those with a disability should have equal access to those activation measures. I received communication from the Disability Federation of Ireland...

Other Questions: Disability Support Services (24 Jun 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister of State for that information. I will not get into a debate on what sort of jobs we have created-----