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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment: Discussion (18 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: I have a few brief questions. How exactly will these changes benefit lone parents who are not working? How will they ease their access to employment and training measures? It was mentioned that those on a jobseeker's transition payment would be able to engage with an Intreo officer but it could also have been arranged for lone parents to be able to engage with an Intreo officer and they...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment: Discussion (18 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: I have many more questions but time is against me. That is why I asked at the start if we had enough time but apparently we do not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment: Discussion (18 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: My proposal is that we ask the Minister to hold off on the change in July pending further discussion because we have not had sufficient time to discuss this today. Many serious issues arise. I support Deputy Collins' proposal.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment: Discussion (18 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: We will take it up at the next meeting.
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: A section in the programme for Government concerns political reform. One of the promises made is: "We will introduce a role for the Ceann Comhairle in deciding whether a Minister [which I presume includes the Taoiseach] has failed to provide reasonable information in response to a question". Has it been introduced and, if not, when will it be introduced?
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: Excuse me.
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: I cannot remember it being invoked. This morning, when the Taoiseach was answering questions about lone parents, provided a classic example of where it should have been invoked.
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: May I invoke it?
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: The Taoiseach did not provide proper information this morning in reply to Deputy Micheál Martin.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: Such as.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: Does the Taoiseach not understand they are still at a loss?
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: Therefore, lone parents have to pay for this.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: By penalising them.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: He should speak to the Tánaiste, in particular. She might explain to him what is happening.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: How does making people poorer activate them?
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit Applications (17 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: 191. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an exception will be made in respect of an application for a jobseeker's allowance from a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22, as the reason the claim was closed was due to dockets being submitted late, even though her Department was informed that the dockets would not always be on time from the employer; if the original claim will be...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Sick Pay Scheme Reform (12 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: 97. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 258 of 16 December 2014, if any provisions or exceptions will be provided to public service workers who were on long-term illness leave, more than a year prior to the new illness scheme being introduced, in view of the fact that the look-back period is four years, and as a result, these workers now...
- Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: Did the Taoiseach say that the new social welfare Bill, which will provide a so-called dividend for low-paid families, is due to be debated next week?
- Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: I thought the Taoiseach said that in response to Deputy Fitzpatrick.
- Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)
Willie O'Dea: It is coming before Cabinet next week?