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

Willie O'Dea: Surely the Minister will agree with me that the recent ESRI survey took into account USC changes and it also took into account projected increases in prices and in living standards. It concluded that almost half the population were worse off as a result of budget 2015.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Payments (5 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 21. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on recent IMF commentary on the issues surrounding child benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4913/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (5 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 31. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the caps currently in place on the rent supplement scheme; if she will provide an update on the HAP scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4912/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Unemployment Data (5 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 42. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide the latest statistics for the long-term unemployed here; if she is satisfied with the current impact of labour activation matters in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4914/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 51. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to reverse the proposed changes to the one-parent family payment which will take effect in July 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4915/15]

Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: It should be deleted.

Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I remind the Taoiseach about the section in the programme for Government on homelessness. What, if any, progress has been made on the specific proposals laid out? The Taoiseach is aware that numerous people, whole families in some cases, are crammed into hotel rooms, hostels and bed and breakfast accommodation from one end of this country to the other at horrendous cost to the State. These...

Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: How many are in hotel rooms, hostels and bed and breakfast accommodation?

Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: There are more people in emergency accommodation than ever before in the history of the State.

Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: That is not true. We see them in Limerick.

Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: I will take the Taoiseach on a tour of my constituency where he will see the reality on the ground.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Levy (4 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 51. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the assertion of the Pensions Ombudsman to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance and Public Expenditure that the imposition of a 0.6% levy on private sector pension schemes in 2011 was legal but not necessarily fair; and that Government statements at the time of the levy’s introduction, to the effect that employers could be...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (3 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 216. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to reports that the community employment and employment services programmes are now only accepting persons on training if they can confirm they have a job secured when they leave the training; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4939/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Residential Institutions (3 Feb 2015)

Willie O'Dea: 428. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the fact that Mr. Justice Quirke's first recommendation on the Magdalene women was that they should receive a card entitling them to the free range of services currently received by holders of the Health (Amendment) Act 1996 card, the reason the Government is refusing this card to those women; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4520/15]

Order of Business (28 Jan 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Surely we can engage with him to question his interpretation.

Order of Business (28 Jan 2015)

Willie O'Dea: No debate.

Order of Business (28 Jan 2015)

Willie O'Dea: We could discuss it with him, surely.

Order of Business (28 Jan 2015)

Willie O'Dea: One is exactly the same as the other.

Order of Business (28 Jan 2015)

Willie O'Dea: It is very vague.

Order of Business (28 Jan 2015)

Willie O'Dea: Exactly.