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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]

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

Willie O'Dea: I tabled this question to ascertain how the Government can reconcile its repeated commitments to preserve the post office network as we know it with the headlong rush to an electronic payment system for social welfare recipients.

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

Willie O'Dea: Nobody in the Government has contradicted the opinion of the Irish Postmasters Union, which clearly states a move to electronic payments in the timescale envisaged by the Government, which is by 2017, would result in the immediate closure of 600 post offices out of the network of 1,100. This is supported by Grant Thornton and various other independent organisations. How does the Government...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Data Protection (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: I accept the Tánaiste's remarks about the legislation, but credit unions are prohibited by legislation from using PPS numbers in the way they were used in this case. Once PPS numbers are given out to a third party, there is the potential for other people to acquire them. It would not be easy, but has anything been done as a result of this case? Private investigators posing as public...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Data Protection (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: I share the Tánaiste's concern about the conduct of those credit unions. I congratulate the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner on this successful prosecution. I was interested to hear the Tánaiste's reply. Essentially, credit unions that had access to PPS numbers rang the Department, pretended to be representing another State body and sought the addresses of people they...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Data Protection (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 81. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the responsibility her Department accepts in the circumstances where private investigators accessed social protection information in breach of data protection; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40055/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Data Protection (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: This question arises from recent legal proceedings in which private investigators were convicted of breach of the data protection legislation by using confidential information which they got from the Department of Social Protection.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Placements (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: We are all aware that schools have to resort to desperate measures in some circumstances because of the huge cutbacks in the education sector over the past four years. Does the Minister of State agree it is reprehensible that schools should exploit those young people in this way? Does he agree it was exploitation because that is how the Minister described it? She said that exploiting one...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Placements (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: On the general question of JobBridge, I do not deny there have been some successes; I freely concede that. I acknowledge that some of those schemes operate to the benefit of schools. Nevertheless, there has been some disturbing evidence of abuse by employers of the JobBridge scheme. The scheme is constructed in such a way that the taxpayers are paying these people to work in the private...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Placements (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: It is positive - with exceptions.