Results 5,381-5,400 of 7,444 for speaker:John Brady
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (11 Dec 2018)
John Brady: 536. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of part-time or underemployed workers that have been referred to JobPath since its introduction. [51875/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (11 Dec 2018)
John Brady: 537. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for a new JobPath scheme in 2019; her further plans for setting up similar schemes from 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51876/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (11 Dec 2018)
John Brady: 539. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons to date who have found employment through the JobPath service; the number of persons now claiming social welfare payments having previously taken up employment through the JobPath service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51878/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Local Employment Service (11 Dec 2018)
John Brady: 538. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of job starts commenced through the local employment service in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018. [51877/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes Data (11 Dec 2018)
John Brady: 552. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of carer's allowance and carer's benefit in each of the years 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018. [52039/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes Data (11 Dec 2018)
John Brady: 553. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications received for carer's allowance and carer's benefit in 2017 and to date in 2018; and the number of these applications which have been approved and refused, respectively. [52040/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes Data (11 Dec 2018)
John Brady: 554. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of appeals lodged following decisions to refuse carer's allowance and carer's benefit in 2017 and to date in 2018. [52041/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (6 Dec 2018)
John Brady: 174. To ask the Minister for Health the position of a person (details supplied) on the waiting list to see a clinical psychologist at the Enniscorthy CAMHS; the length of time the person has been on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51313/18]
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2018)
John Brady: In June 2017, the then Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Naughten, announced changes to the waste charges regime in place. He said he would also introduce an annual support of €75 for persons with lifelong and long-term medical incontinence to be rolled out by the end of 2017. Some 19 months later, there is nothing in place for people in these...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2018)
John Brady: The Taoiseach's colleagues are.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (4 Dec 2018)
John Brady: I welcome the increase in the medical card earnings disregard for persons in receipt of disability allowance. It will benefit employees with disabilities but not business owners with disabilities. I have been contacted by a business owner in receipt of partial capacity benefit who will see absolutely no benefit as a result of the changes announced. Changes in medical card assessment should...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) John Brady: I welcome the Christmas bonus payout of €266 million to 1.2 million needy people. It has to be warmly welcomed. It also has to be welcomed from the point of view of the injection of money it brings to local economies because I said it at a previous committee meeting - probably last year's Estimates - how important the Christmas bonus is for individuals and for the local economy...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) John Brady: Yes.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) John Brady: They get €311.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) John Brady: I refer to reports and I hear what the Minister is saying about finishing one before commencing another. Two years ago she promised a report on young unemployed people. She indicated on Report Stage of the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill that it was imminent, so when exactly is it expected? Is it next month or in two months? I refer to the housing assistance payment, HAP. I am...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) John Brady: -----and staff are saying they are processing 20 to 30 of those applications a week. That is happening as we speak and I am sure that is being replicated in every local authority in the State.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) John Brady: People are being told that the landlord has to sign up to it or else the payment will be stopped.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) John Brady: I will get the Minister a copy of the letter because it is concerning for many reasons.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) John Brady: On the additional spend of €22.8 million for Turas Nua and Seetec, the figures that were finally produced at the Committee of Public Accounts last week after several years of asking, with the cover of commercial sensitivity being given, are startling. I do not know how the Minister can come here and say that JobPath is the most successful labour activation scheme-----
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018) John Brady: -----and stand over that. We know that 190,000 people have been referred over and it has cost €149 million. Only 17% of those people who engaged in employment lasted as far as the first sustainment payment of 13 weeks. If we take the last sustainment payment, only 9% of people-----