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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Data (17 May 2018)

John Brady: 235. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount paid out by each community welfare office under the exceptional needs payment in 2017. [21747/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Data (17 May 2018)

John Brady: 236. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount paid out by each community welfare office under the exceptional needs payment to cover fuel costs in 2017. [21748/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Data (17 May 2018)

John Brady: 237. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department is carrying out an examination of the effectiveness of the fuel allowance payment; if other examinations into the payment are taking place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21749/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Maintenance Payments (17 May 2018)

John Brady: 238. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has set up a working group to examine child maintenance; if such work is ongoing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21750/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (17 May 2018)

John Brady: 239. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will meet with representatives of an organisation (details supplied) regarding the closure of the defined benefit scheme at a company; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21751/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (17 May 2018)

John Brady: 240. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she will receive the Data Protection Commissioner's report into the public services card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21752/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Advertising Expenditure (17 May 2018)

John Brady: 241. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent by her Department on all means of advertising, including the social welfare fraud campaign and campaigns run by her Department in 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21753/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (17 May 2018)

John Brady: 242. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent by her Department on advertising the public services card in 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21754/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit Payments (17 May 2018)

John Brady: 243. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person who becomes unemployed and then receives jobseeker's benefit cannot claim for a child dependant over 18 years of age in full-time education for the first six months; the rationale for the six month timeframe; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21755/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (17 May 2018)

John Brady: 244. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person can be granted a back to education allowance to partake in a short course which is nine months in duration rather than six months; if the rules regarding this will be relaxed in certain circumstances to assist persons in returning to education to retrain and upskill; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Transitional Payment (17 May 2018)

John Brady: 245. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of lone parents that are in receipt of the jobseeker’s transition payment; the number in receipt of the one parent family payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21757/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commemorative Medals (17 May 2018)

John Brady: 263. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if 1916 medals will be presented to those in the Fire Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21762/18]

Palestine: Statements (15 May 2018)

John Brady: Israel can only be described as a rogue state. It presides over an apartheid system and imposes punitive collective punishment on the entire Palestinian population for simply standing up for their rights. Yesterday's murder of 60 civilians and the injuring of 2,771 others should not come as a shock nor even as a surprise to anyone in this Chamber or in the international community. Israel...

Palestine: Statements (15 May 2018)

John Brady: That can only happen when people are willing to negotiate.

Leaders' Questions (15 May 2018)

John Brady: We should withdraw our ambassador.

Leaders' Questions (15 May 2018)

John Brady: It shows his attitude to the Palestinian people.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Gender Recognition (15 May 2018)

John Brady: 552. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the timeline for the review of the Gender Recognition Act 2015; the date she expects the review group’s findings to be released; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21316/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Guarantee (10 May 2018)

John Brady: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of EU funding made available to Ireland under the youth guarantee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20672/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Guarantee (10 May 2018)

John Brady: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount Ireland has drawn down from EU funding under the youth guarantee; if no such funds have been drawn down, the reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20673/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Guarantee (10 May 2018)

John Brady: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to draw down EU funding under the youth guarantee to assist in reducing the youth unemployment rate of 12%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20674/18]