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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (5 Mar 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 1. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to postpone the proposed changes to lone parent payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9402/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (5 Mar 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I have tabled this question to ascertain whether the Minister intends to proceed with the change to the lone parent's allowance conditions which is scheduled to take effect from July.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (5 Mar 2015)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister said earlier this week that she had spoken to a number of lone parents about these changes, but I have been in direct and indirect communication with several hundred lone parents and not one of them has spoken in favour of the reforms or changes she is proposing. I have one simple question for the Minister. In this House on 18 April 2012 she promised single parent families that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (5 Mar 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I do not. I asked a specific question. Is the Minister going to break her promise - yes or no?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (5 Mar 2015)

Willie O'Dea: It is working lone parents whom the Minister is hurting most, the very ones she says she wants to incentivise. Is she telling the House that the child care provisions to which she has referred constitute a Scandinavian-type child care system? If not, she is breaking the promise she made to the House on 18 April 2012. Last evening the Minister of State at the Department of Social...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Reports (5 Mar 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 15. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on her Department's recent report, which states that better-off families are set to be the main beneficiaries of budget 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9125/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (5 Mar 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 18. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when she will bring forward proposals for a new supplementary workplace retirement saving scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9123/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure (5 Mar 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 30. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her targets for expenditure on social protection, as a proportion of gross domestic product; the latest figures for Irish expenditure on that matrix; the way it compares to the European Union average; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9124/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Anti-Poverty Strategy (5 Mar 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 31. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the measures she is putting in place to tackle food poverty; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9126/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Administration (5 Mar 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 40. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her response to the proposal by the National Youth Council to double JobBridge payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9122/15]

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Mar 2015)

Willie O'Dea: No, they did not want to avail of the family dividend because they would become used to the extra money and would then not be in receipt of it after one year.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Mar 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Yes.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Mar 2015)

Willie O'Dea: The intention of section 6 of the Bill, which introduces the so-called family dividend, is to create an incentive to move from welfare to work by attempting to widen the gap between an individual's disposable income when working, as opposed to what it was while he or she was on welfare. I welcome that provision in principle but we must dispel the myth that poverty is a lifestyle choice for...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobsPlus Scheme (26 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 48. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a report outlining the cost of increasing the current assistance rate to an employer to employ a person in the JobsPlus scheme, to a rate which would provide each employer with a subsidy of 70% of the minimum wage, for 37.5 hours per week, for each employee, for a period of 18 months; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (26 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a report which outlines the cost to the Exchequer of providing a €6,000 housing cost tax credit; his views that the housing cost tax credit should be assigned to any person who in providing a principal private residence for them, or their family, has engaged in a lease or mortgage; that this housing cost tax credit would replace...

Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: It is a bigger challenge for the patients.

Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: It is not.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Further Education and Training Programmes Funding (24 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 186. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the funding available from the case officers in the Intreo offices for all courses, for example, fork-lift training, Further Education and Training Awards Council, FETAC, courses and so on; and if any of this training, being funded, is subject to having a job secured, prior to funding being approved. [7843/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Update on Employment Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (18 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Can I ask whether we are time-constrained today?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Update on Employment Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (18 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I notice there are a number of representative groups here to discuss one-parent families. I do not propose to delay proceedings.