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Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2014)

Willie O'Dea: I move amendment No. 1: In page 6, between lines 38 and 39, to insert the following:“ “stillborn child” means a child who, at birth, weighs not less than 500 grammes or has a gestational age of not less than 24 weeks and shows no sign of life, and “stillbirth” shall be construed accordingly. These also include an unborn child who dies in the womb of the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Data (4 Nov 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 182. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide the figure for the number of community employment supervisors currently employed and the number of supervisors expected to retire in year 2015, 2016 and 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41318/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit Payments (4 Nov 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 197. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon is entitled to backpay from 5 March 2014 to 14 October 2014 on their jobseeker's benefit in view of the fact that they were unaware following voluntary redundancy that they would have an entitlement to jobseeker's benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41476/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Guarantee (4 Nov 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 218. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the budget for the youth guarantee in 2013, 2014 and 2015; the number of places available in the youth guarantee in 2013 and 2014 and the number expected to participate in 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41888/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Live Register Data (4 Nov 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 219. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons under the age of 25 who are currently on the live register broken down by jobseeker's benefit, jobseeker's allowance and jobseeker's credits for less than three months, for three to six months, for six to 12 months, for 12 to 24 months, for 24 to 36 months, and more than 36 months; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Live Register Data (4 Nov 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 221. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the percentage and number of young persons currently underemployed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41891/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff Data (4 Nov 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 220. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of employment service officers currently employed in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41890/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Initiatives (4 Nov 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 222. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form each live register activation programme currently in operation and the numbers participating in these programmes in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and expected in 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41892/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (4 Nov 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 223. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the number of persons who receive jobseeker's allowance at a rate below €188; the reason for this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41893/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Midwifery Services (4 Nov 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 766. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an independent midwife had their State indemnity insurance removed after transferring a person from their home to hospital when they became dizzy where they subsequently had a bleed after ten hours in hospital yet in similar or worse situations no Health Service Executive staff were ever suspended or had insurance suspended (details supplied);...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Employment Rights (4 Nov 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 918. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an investigation was carried out into employment conditions at a site (details supplied) in County Dublin; who carried the inspection out; the issues which were investigated; if bogus sub-contracting and underpayment of bricklayers were included in the matters for investigation; if the investigation has concluded; if she will indicate the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (23 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 40. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue pertaining to an application for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40737/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (23 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 93. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a single farm payment will be issued in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40753/14]

Irish Water: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: Undeterred by my failure at verbal communication, I sent an e-mail and got a response back late last night that stated, "The PPS numbers have to be submitted to ensure that correct water allowances are allocated to the correct recipients". That is a very interesting answer because it tells us that Irish Water is starting from the premise that the entirety - or almost the entirety - of the...

Irish Water: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: It gives rise to a number of very interesting questions. Is that the Minister's version of accountability?

Irish Water: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: Is that his version of the democratic revolution for which people voted in such numbers in the last general election? I remember a grandiose statement from the programme for Government: "We believe that in recent years an over-powerful Executive has turned the Dáil into an observer of the political process rather than a central player and that this must be changed". How hollow that...

Irish Water: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: I cannot remember exactly the amount because it seems to change every time he answers the question. However, the Minister should remember that nobody signed up with the troika for somebody on the dole with four or five kids to end up paying €400 or €500 in water charges year-in year-out. Nobody signed a deal with the troika or anybody else that the people of this country would...

Irish Water: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: I thank Deputy Cowen for tabling this motion. A total of 750,000 people in the country, that is one in six, live below the poverty line. Hundreds of thousands more are struggling just barely above that line. The population as a whole has been battered by year after year of austerity, cuts, charges and impositions of all sorts, both covert and overt. Against this background the least that...

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: I do not believe he answered the second one either.

Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments Administration (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 86. To ask the Minister for Social Protection how the Department’s policy to migrate to electronic payments affects the Government’s stated objective of protecting the post office network; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39805/14]