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

Willie O'Dea: The Minister of State is suggesting that we ignore the abuse. He should publish the names of the people caught exploiting the scheme.

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

Willie O'Dea: 78. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the classifications of employment which have been prohibited from utilising the JobBridge scheme; the number of positions which have been removed by her Department from the JobBridge scheme; the kind of positions removed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40054/14]

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

Willie O'Dea: This question is with regard to information recently publicised in the national media about certain positions being withdrawn from the JobBridge scheme.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Payments (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 88. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the persistence of fuel poverty here; if she will enhance the fuel allowance in order to combat this poverty; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39804/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 94. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons that are currently in receipt of rent allowance; the number of persons that have been transferred from rent allowance to housing assistance payment under the pilot project which is currently being carried out in Limerick city; when she envisaged that HAP will be extended nationwide; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Security of the Elderly (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 103. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a number of elderly persons have been compelled to abandon security systems within their homes due to the abolition of the telephone allowance; her plans to rectify this situation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39806/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Rates (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 113. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will address the PRSI anomaly resulting in lower paid workers taking home less pay when they earn more; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39803/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 169. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the actions she will take to include the self-employed under State social insurance; the number of self-employed persons here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40231/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 170. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the actions she will take to ensure that landlords accept tenants who are in receipt of rent supplement; if her attention has been drawn to the high number of persons refused tenancy as a result of their receiving of rent supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40232/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Unemployment Levels (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 171. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is satisfied with her Department’s actions in ensuring that those in long-term unemployment are supported by her Department in their attempts to return to the workforce; the number of long-term unemployed who returned to employment annually from 2011 to date in 2014; the number and percentage of long-term unemployed during that...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Review (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 172. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the review of the free travel pass scheme; the annual expenditure on the scheme since 2011; those in possession of free travel passes since 2011 broken down in tabular form under categories FT-P, FT+S and FT+C; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40234/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 269. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of allegations of bogus self-employment or subcontracting that have been made to the National Employment Rights Authority over the past five years; the number that were investigated; the number of allegations that were confirmed; the findings that were made; the action that was subsequently taken; if an employer has ever...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Investigations (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 520. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an investigation was carried out into employment conditions at a site (details supplied); the person who carried it out; the issues that were investigated; if bogus sub-contracting and underpayment of bricklayers were included in the matters for investigation; if the investigation was concluded; the findings of the investigation; if...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (21 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 552. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the actions he has taken to address the homeless crisis here; the actions he will take to ensure homelessness is ended within two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40230/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local and Community Development Programme Project Funding (15 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 143. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to ring-fence funding to support the national collective of community-based women's networks of which Limerick Women's Network is a member group to deliver the only programme specifically targeted at women from disadvantaged communities; if this is not his plan, the way he plans to provide support for this most...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local and Community Development Programme Project Funding (15 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 145. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way he plans to engage with the national collective of community-based women's networks of which Limerick Women's Network is a member group, to resolve the difficulty that has arisen because that organisation created a national structure to meet the requirement of the community development programme which now...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local and Community Development Programme Project Funding (15 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 148. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to engage with the national collective of community-based women's networks (details supplied) of which Limerick Women's Network is a member group, to resolve the difficulty that has arisen because that organisation created a national structure to meet the requirement of the community development programme which...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local and Community Development Programme Project Funding (15 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 154. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way he plans to support the voluntary board of the national collective of community-based women's networks of which Limerick Women's Network is a member group with their responsibilities to seventeen local women's projects, 44 staff members and approximately 200 non-directly employed staff; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local and Community Development Programme Project Funding (15 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 155. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that marginalised women are not a target group of the new SICAP programme; in view of this, if he will provide reassurance to the national collective of community-based women's networks of which Limerick Women's Network is a member group that an alternative funding stream will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (14 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 198. To ask the Minister for Health when the licence for disposing of hospital waste came up for renewal; if there will be a public tendering process for the licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39194/14]