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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

John Brady: On an unrelated issue, we know the State has failed to put in place a pensions scheme following a Labour Court ruling for community employment, CE, supervisors. I am looking at the entire community and voluntary sector where the Minister has said repeatedly that to enact the Labour Court ruling and put in place a pension system for CE supervisors and assistant supervisors would require a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

John Brady: The Minister has muddled the issues together.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (10 Oct 2018)

John Brady: 37. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the studies his Department has conducted on alternative collection models for household waste here. [41127/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (10 Oct 2018)

John Brady: 38. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has reviewed the current unique model of collection here in view of the difficulties outlined in a recent report by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, CCPC, on household waste collection. [41126/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (10 Oct 2018)

John Brady: 233. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date on which referrals to JobPath will cease in 2019. [41267/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications Data (10 Oct 2018)

John Brady: 234. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the percentage of new forms being received by the illness benefit section since their introduction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41270/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications Data (10 Oct 2018)

John Brady: 235. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons awaiting a decision on their illness benefit application; the average waiting time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41271/18]

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

John Brady: Hear, hear.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

John Brady: I am sharing with four of my colleagues. The average price of a home in Wicklow is now €320,000, which is up 6.6% on last year. The average rent in Wicklow is now €1,335, which represents a rise of 11.9% in the last year and which means Wicklow has the second highest rents in the State. It has been seven years and the crisis is deepening, if the Minister is ready to listen....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2018)

John Brady: When it suits the private landlords.

Social Welfare Commission Bill 2018: First Stage (2 Oct 2018)

John Brady: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the establishment of a commission to make recommendations and report annually on the adequacy of social welfare rates in the State; and to provide for related matters. I am delighted to introduce the Social Welfare Commission Bill, honouring a commitment made by Sinn Féin as part of our manifesto in the...

Social Welfare Commission Bill 2018: First Stage (2 Oct 2018)

John Brady: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (2 Oct 2018)

John Brady: 215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the stage plans are at to locate a suitable site for the development of a new school in Newtownmountkennedy, County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39594/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Waiting Lists (2 Oct 2018)

John Brady: 380. To ask the Minister for Health the position of a person (details supplied) on a waiting list; when they will be seen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39615/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (26 Sep 2018)

John Brady: I am not asking the Minister to introduce anything piecemeal. I am asking her to introduce the full recommendation of the WRC from back in 2008. What that recommendation lays out would cost a fraction of the €188 million the Minister cites. We are not talking about doing things piecemeal. We are talking about the Minister following up on the commitments in the programme for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (26 Sep 2018)

John Brady: We will.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (26 Sep 2018)

John Brady: 75. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps taken to honour the pension claim of community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors as per a 2008 Labour Court recommendation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38816/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (26 Sep 2018)

John Brady: The programme for Government states that the Government will respect the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, and the Labour Court and ensure that both bodies are supported to fulfil their roles. Does the commitment still stand? When we were dealing with the Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, the Minister cited legitimate concerns about the implications of proposed amendments on...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Illness Benefit Applications (26 Sep 2018)

John Brady: I want to be associated with the Minister's comments about the staff dealing with the illness benefit forms. The reason they had to come in and work those extra hours, however, was the unmitigated disaster and mess that was created by the officials and by the Deputy herself, as Minister, in unilaterally introducing these new forms on 6 August without any proper consultation. It is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Illness Benefit Applications (26 Sep 2018)

John Brady: It was stated that the aim of introducing these new forms was to improve efficiency for GPs and the Department, but efficiency has gone out the window. It appears to me that the only reason these forms were introduced was to make the process more efficient for the Department, certainly not for patients. This is what we see. I mentioned cancer patients and terminally ill people who are...