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Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: The Government is dragging it out.

Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: How many of them will have gone under by then?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Diabetes Strategy (10 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: 241. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 220 of 23 May 2013, the reason the Health Service Executive has not contacted me to outline the specific locations of staff recruited under the national integrated care diabetes programme in the mid-west region; if the HSE will do so as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33675/13]

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: It does not make any difference.

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: Nothing is going to be done.

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister's response, which is obviously a script from the Department of Social Protection, is not unfamiliar because we have heard it here several times previously. I could quote it by heart. It will give no comfort whatsoever to people who will be affected by this. Everybody knows, including the Minister and her colleagues, that a number of defined benefit pension schemes will close...

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: They are unlucky not to be retired already. The Minister knows what I meant. He should address the subject

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: The Government has been promising to address it for two and a half years. When is it going to do something?

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: Stick to the subject and answer the question. The Minister should not be here at all on this.

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister suffered from amnesia about a certain incident when he insulted the Garda and would not take a breath test.

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: I do not like it when I do not get an answer to a specific question.

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: I am concerned for people in Limerick and down the country on whose behalf I am asking these questions. Address their concerns.

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: It does not matter, as I am not going to gain much by staying in the Chamber.

Topical Issue Debate: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: The problems facing the pension system in this country are manyfold. Unfortunately I will only have time in the two minutes available to me to focus on one of these problems. I suspect the reason the Minister for Social Protection is not here is that less than one month ago we told her in unmistakable terms that the 30 June deadline for the trustees of defined benefit pension schemes to...

Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: I read in the programme for Government, with some disbelief, a commitment to expand eligibility for the back to education allowance. In view of the fact that eligibility for this allowance has been restricted twice - the opposite of expanded - do I take it this commitment has been abandoned? I also notice there is a specific commitment to exempt from VAT service companies that export more...

Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: These are specific commitments in the programme for Government. Three budgets later, is this a case of another one biting the dust?

Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: Will the Taoiseach answer the question?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: It is in the book.

Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister anticipated some of what I was going to say. I do understand the complexities of transferring from the rent supplement scheme to the HAP scheme but the elephant in the room is the lack of social housing. Under whatever scheme the Minister assists people the lack of social housing is a constant. There is a gross lack of social housing at the moment. Does the Minister agree with...

Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (9 Jul 2013)

Willie O'Dea: I apologise for getting the number wrong in my question, but the Minister has updated me in that regard. As was stated, this was supposed to be a short-term solution. A person who is homeless and cannot afford to rent privately is entitled to support from the Government to rent appropriate accommodation. However, even though this is supposed to be a short-term solution, currently there are...