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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: No, I did not.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: On a point of order, we introduced an entirely different measure.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: I do not want the Minister to mislead the House. We introduced an entirely different measure whereby if one could not access a course one's social welfare did not reduce.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: Yesterday somebody said the Labour Party is reduced to lying openly in the House.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: I will withdraw it on the basis that the Minister withdraws her assertion that the scheme she is introducing is exactly the same as the scheme we introduced. It is not.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister used it in defence of her arguments, therefore she is implying it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: I made no assertion.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: I simply quoted somebody who said-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: I withdraw it on the basis that the Minister withdraws her assertion that the two schemes are exactly the same.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: Does the Minister accept that the schemes were different? The Minister quoted it out of context.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: Send it to me.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 4. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons under the age of 26 years now in receipt of reduced jobseeker's allowance; if this change has reduced the number of persons unemployed under the age of 26 years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17794/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: I am sorry that the question is somewhat ambiguously drafted. I will explain what I am trying to ascertain. It relates to the substantial reduction in social welfare payments to people under the age of 26 on the basis that they should be encouraged to apply for jobs or training places. I am trying to ascertain how successful the change has been.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: It is very significant now. It takes six months for appeals.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 1. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will contact persons who have been refused domiciliary care allowance for the past two years in view of the decision of the High Court of 1 April 2014 that found serious flaws in her Department's handling of such applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17793/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: This question arises out of the review conducted by the Department of eligibility for domiciliary care allowance and a decision by the High Court on 1 April which overruled a decision of the Department to refuse domiciliary care allowance.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: This decision was on medical eligibility. The Minister will be aware that the High Court was scathing about what it referred to as the Department's disdainful mindset to the evidence of long-term experts, all of whom had seen the child in question, and condemned the fact that despite this evidence, the Department insisted on making its decision based on the desk top review done by its...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister for answering a question I did not ask. I am aware of the review in regard to domiciliary care allowance but I asked her about other health-related entitlements where the decision on medical eligibility is taken in exactly the same flawed way which the High Court condemned in its decision on 1 April. As the Minister said, a review has taken place, parents are more...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Activation Measures (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 11. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to address the increasing numbers of long-term unemployed here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17732/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Placements (16 Apr 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 12. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is concerned at the failure of 40% of those who take an internship through JobBridge to secure full-time employment on completing that internship; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17733/14]