Results 5,381-5,400 of 7,991 for speaker:John Brady

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (25 Sep 2019)

John Brady: I raised this matter yesterday during questions on promised legislation because there is significant fear among the public. I have been contacted by a number of people who have received this letter, who fear they will lose the payment, and wording of the letter has created that fear. The Minister needs to clarify the position. My office spoke to officials in her Department about the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (25 Sep 2019)

John Brady: The words "phased basis" are not my words; rather, they are the words of staff in the Department. The first round of letters have gone out to the 10% concerned and I took the response of the Department to mean that the rest will go out in the near future. What has caused the most concern is the wording of the letters. People have been given 21 days to respond. There is a fear that if they...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance (25 Sep 2019)

John Brady: 20. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the stage the report into the reduced rates of payment for jobseekers aged between 18 and 25 years of age is at; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38801/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance (25 Sep 2019)

John Brady: This is discrimination, to call it what it simply is. In June this year, more than 21,000 young people were being actively discriminated against by this State. In a recent debate, Deputy O'Dea, said his party introduced it but it has not worked. If the Fianna Fáil Party believes it has not worked and the Minister, in an earlier contribution, said this discrimination towards are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Services Card (25 Sep 2019)

John Brady: 8. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason her Department holds onto personal data collected through the public services card application process indefinitely; the way in which data are stored; the person or body that has access to the data; if the data are shared across Departments or other State bodies; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Services Card (25 Sep 2019)

John Brady: We will have a broader discussion later this evening on the public services card but my question is about the Department's insistence on retaining indefinitely personal data collected through the SAFE 2 registration process, how the data are stored, who has access to them and if the data are shared across Departments of other State bodies. With due respect, I do not want a response that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Services Card (25 Sep 2019)

John Brady: The Minister would admit that the data that are retained are sensitive in nature. There are legitimate concerns in that regard and that is supported by the Data Protection Commissioner in her findings. It certainly does not comply with the data retention principle that data controllers have no basis for collecting or keeping personal data that they do not need just in case a use is found...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Services Card (25 Sep 2019)

John Brady: People telling the Minister they are happy with it does not make it lawful. This concerns not just the Data Protection Commissioner. The Comptroller and Auditor General described the standard authentication framework environment, SAFE, process as a mass registration of the population to a specific standard in a 2015 report. It is not only me, the Data Protection Commissioner or the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Maintenance Payments (25 Sep 2019)

John Brady: I thank the Minister. I would certainly be interested in being kept up to date on that. We need to look at this with a view to the long term as well as the short term. Whenever I have raised this issue with the Minister she has said that her hands are tied because the issue crosses into the remit of the Department of Justice and Equality. It is critical that the Departments come together...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Maintenance Payments (25 Sep 2019)

John Brady: 2. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a working group with officials from her Department and the Department of Justice and Equality will be set up to examine procedures in place for child maintenance and explore the possibility of establishing a statutory maintenance agency to guarantee fairness and efficiency; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Maintenance Payments (25 Sep 2019)

John Brady: Will a working group with officials from the Minister's Department and the Department of Justice and Equality be set up to examine procedures in place for child maintenance and explore the possibility of establishing a statutory maintenance agency?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Maintenance Payments (25 Sep 2019)

John Brady: I welcome the Minister’s acknowledgment that the system in place is not working. My party has stated this consistently for several years. Last year I published proposals for the establishment of a State family maintenance agency based on similar models abroad. Across the water in England and in the North, there are systems in place which work well. The proposals I have brought...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child Maintenance Payments (25 Sep 2019)

John Brady: The review expands on the concerns I have expressed. Will the Minister zone in on the review?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Strategies (25 Sep 2019)

John Brady: 40. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date for the publication of the new social inclusion strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38799/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Data (25 Sep 2019)

John Brady: 47. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount recouped by her Department from money lost in PRSI through bogus self-employment practices being identified in the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38802/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2019)

John Brady: The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection is currently issuing letters to more than 60,000 recipients of the contributory State pension, who will receive an increase for a qualified adult. The letter includes a declaration to be signed by the recipient and returned to the Department's control unit within 21 days. The declaration states the undersigned has disclosed truthful...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2019)

John Brady: I got a response from the Minister's Department stating flexibility can be provided if there is a difficulty in replying within the requested timeframe.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Public Services Card (24 Sep 2019)

John Brady: 71. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason for ending the requirement for a public services card for applications to the Passport Office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38805/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Drugs Availability (24 Sep 2019)

John Brady: 332. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medication (details supplied) has been withdrawn and is no longer available under the medical card; if a replacement or substitution of another medication will be made available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38589/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Gender Recognition (24 Sep 2019)

John Brady: 510. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of legislation that amends the Gender Recognition Act 2015 in view of the recommendations of the report of the review group of the Act; her plans to table the legislation in 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38399/19]