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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Redundancy Payments (4 Feb 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 356. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the expected level of redundancy payments the State will have to make as a result of the closure of Mount Carmel hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5535/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Administration (4 Feb 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 422. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons who have transferred from the rent supplement scheme to the rental accommodation scheme in 2012 and 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5385/14]

Other Questions: Respite Care Grant Payments (28 Jan 2014)

Willie O'Dea: It used to be more.

Other Questions: Respite Care Grant Payments (28 Jan 2014)

Willie O'Dea: Let her answer the question.

Other Questions: Respite Care Grant Payments (28 Jan 2014)

Willie O'Dea: Why did the Government not restore it?

Other Questions: Respite Care Grant Payments (28 Jan 2014)

Willie O'Dea: We were not here yesterday.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (28 Jan 2014)

Willie O'Dea: The rent supplement was initially supposed to be a short-term panacea to address short-term homelessness. However, it would now appear to be the cornerstone of the Government's policy on social housing given that some 55,000 people have been on rent supplement for more than 18 months. The Minister stated that the Government had provided for just under €400 million and it cost...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (28 Jan 2014)

Willie O'Dea: The problem now is that there are no houses.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (28 Jan 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 108. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to reform the rent supplement scheme; if her attention has been drawn to reports that many tenants are being asked to pay top-up payments to landlords for rent that is above the maximum allowance limit under the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3957/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (28 Jan 2014)

Willie O'Dea: The purpose of this question is to ascertain the current position regarding the transfer from rent allowance to housing assistance payments

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (28 Jan 2014)

Willie O'Dea: A commitment to provide for the transfer from the rent supplement scheme to the housing assistance payment scheme was included in the programme for Government. Three years on, the Government has announced that the new scheme will be piloted initially in Limerick. When I spoke to officials from Limerick City Council yesterday, they were unable to tell me when the pilot will start. I want...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Unemployment Data (28 Jan 2014)

Willie O'Dea: The one statistic the Minister did not give me is the one in which I am most interested, namely, the number of long-term unemployed people who have been taken out of the system as a direct result of the measures to which she referred. In regard to JobBridge, the Minister indicated recently in reply to a parliamentary question I submitted that 61% of JobBridge participants leave the scheme...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Unemployment Data (28 Jan 2014)

Willie O'Dea: How much of that reduction is accounted for by participation in the various departmental schemes?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Unemployment Data (28 Jan 2014)

Willie O'Dea: Now they are making tea and photocopying.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Unemployment Data (28 Jan 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 105. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to outline the progress made through the Pathways to Work strategy; the current long-term unemployment statistics; the current rate of youth unemployment here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3956/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Unemployment Data (28 Jan 2014)

Willie O'Dea: We are trying to ascertain the progress that has been made on the Pathways to Work scheme, which is central to the Government's labour activation policy.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Unemployment Data (28 Jan 2014)

Willie O'Dea: I will start on a positive note by congratulating the Minister on her appointment as director of elections for the Labour Party for the European and local elections, if that information is correct. I hope she will have sufficient time to give to her official duties despite these onerous responsibilities. All I can say is that if she can attract the same positive public relations for the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Data (28 Jan 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 387. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who secure full employment after engaging in the JobBridge scheme; the number of these employees who remain with the original hosting company under the scheme when the internship period is over; if she has any concerns with the potential abuse of employees under the JobBridge scheme; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Data Protection (28 Jan 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 386. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her Department’s policy in relation to data protection; the actions that have been taken to deal with fraud and illegal sharing of information from her Department to third parties; the current whistle blower protections in operation for staff in the her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3853/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (28 Jan 2014)

Willie O'Dea: 388. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of potential double insolvency pension schemes foreseen in the coming year by her Department; when guidelines will be issued to trustees of defined benefit schemes outlining how best to utilise the new legislative provisions as contained in the Social Welfare and Pensions (No 2) Bill 2013; if there are any defined benefit pension...