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Order of Business (11 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister, Deputy Reilly, is advising him.

Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: The ratio is going up.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (11 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 33. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the relaxation of the current time limits and capping rules, placed on participants of community employment schemes, who are a year off retirement; if she will grant these participants a special exemption to allow them to work until they are 66 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6231/15]

Order of Business (10 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: That is it?

Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: We are four years on and there is a crisis now.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Administration (5 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 4. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the operation of JobBridge in view of the use of this scheme to hire instructors for training schemes for jobseekers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5030/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Administration (5 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I wish to ascertain the Government's response to the circumstances outlined in the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Administration (5 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. However, I seek clarification. Those involved in the JobBridge scheme are unemployed persons who are looking for work, even though they might not be recorded statistically as being unemployed. In this case, I understand people who are unemployed and hoping to find a job after a period on the JobBridge scheme were providing coaching for other...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Administration (5 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Perhaps my thought processes this morning are a little slow, but I am still confused. Is the Minister of State saying the job club in question was properly and fully staffed with the appropriate staff and that the interns were brought in to assist the existing staff? The newspaper reports on the audit report suggest the work of two senior staff in a job club was effectively being done by...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (5 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: The conclusion from the Department is startlingly obvious: the more one earns, the more one gains, while the less one earns, the less one gains. I suggest to the Minister that this is as a direct result of all of the regressive budgets introduced by the Government. Is she aware that in countries which also had to impose austerity such as Poland, the statistics show an entirely different...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (5 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I am talking about child poverty, not child benefit.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (5 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Different countries have different payments. The Tánaiste is misleading the House.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (5 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: It has a lower level of child poverty than Ireland.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (5 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Has the Tánaiste read the UNICEF report?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (5 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Yet we have more children living in poverty.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (5 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 1. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to address the increasing deprivation rate here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5029/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (5 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: My question asks the Minister to respond to the recent CSO report that showed levels of poverty at the end of 2013 had risen appreciably over the previous period.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (5 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister seems to indicate that trends since the end of 2013 would show a different result if these figures were taken up now.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (5 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: My apologies. The Minister seems to indicate that the position has improved appreciably since the end of 2013 to which these figures relate. The Department of Social Protection in its assessment of the 2015 budget admits, more or less, that it is regressive, like all the four budgets that preceded it. I refer to the Minister's own document which states that the distributive effect of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (5 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Is the Minister claiming that the situation has improved appreciably since the end of 2013? The Government's target is to reduce consistent poverty to 4% by 2016. In view of the fact that consistent poverty increased from 7.7% to 8.2% between 2012 and 2013, does she think she will achieve that target?