Results 4,701-4,720 of 12,646 for speaker:Willie O'Dea
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Respite Care Services (10 Jun 2014)
Willie O'Dea: It looks like the same old face to me.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Respite Care Services (10 Jun 2014)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister has imposed more austerity in social welfare than did any other Minister with responsibility for that portfolio.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Respite Care Services (10 Jun 2014)
Willie O'Dea: Go off to Canada.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Respite Care Services (10 Jun 2014)
Willie O'Dea: It was supposed to be done this year.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Respite Care Services (10 Jun 2014)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister promised she would do that this year, but now she is talking about doing it next year.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Respite Care Services (10 Jun 2014)
Willie O'Dea: She has successfully fooled the people. She has conned them again.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Respite Care Services (10 Jun 2014)
Willie O'Dea: She has hoodwinked them. Deputy Keaveney is the only man who dared to comment.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Respite Care Services (10 Jun 2014)
Willie O'Dea: The question was to ask the Minister for Social Protection the plans she has to improve services for those who depend on the respite care grant in view of the fact that that grant was cut last year. The Minister has spent several minutes answering a question that could be answered in four words: We have no plans. The Minister mentioned that the expenditure on carers in the current year is...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Respite Care Services (10 Jun 2014)
Willie O'Dea: At the time of the Social Welfare Bill and the controversy that arose regarding the cut in the respite care grant, various members of the Minister's party said that this was not the be all and end all because, as she said, the respite care grant did not have to be paid at the time of the budget. However, various suggestions were put forward in a Seanad debate, largely by members of the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Respite Care Services (10 Jun 2014)
Willie O'Dea: If the Minister answers the question-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Respite Care Services (10 Jun 2014)
Willie O'Dea: I am conscious that the Minister is trying to avoid answering the question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Respite Care Services (10 Jun 2014)
Willie O'Dea: Is this the new face the Labour Party is going to present to the public?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Respite Care Services (10 Jun 2014)
Willie O'Dea: I asked the Minister a simple question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Respite Care Services (10 Jun 2014)
Willie O'Dea: That is not relevant to the question I asked.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Respite Care Services (10 Jun 2014)
Willie O'Dea: Does the Minister have any suggestions?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Respite Care Services (10 Jun 2014)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister cut it by €6.50 a week.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Respite Care Services (10 Jun 2014)
Willie O'Dea: And the Minister's one of €6.50.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Respite Care Services (10 Jun 2014)
Willie O'Dea: 81. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to improve services to those who depend on the respite care grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24272/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Respite Care Services (10 Jun 2014)
Willie O'Dea: The Minister will be aware that various suggestions were made to alleviate the effects of the cut in the respite care grant. I am trying to ascertain whether any of those recommendations has been implemented or is intended to be implemented.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Work Placement Programmes (10 Jun 2014)
Willie O'Dea: 91. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons that have been put on the Gateway initiative; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24105/14]