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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Retirements (18 Jan 2018)

John Brady: We need the legislation. It should be in place as soon as possible, because the interim arrangements are certainly not attractive for anybody. The Minister is saying people should have the opportunity to remain in the workforce, but there is no incentive for them to do so if they are coming back on a lower pay scale and terms and conditions different from those which they were previously...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Retirements (18 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 40. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason public service workers who wish to remain at work beyond 65 years of age will see wage cuts as per the terms and conditions set out for those wishing to remain at work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2349/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Retirements (18 Jan 2018)

John Brady: I want to ask the Minister about the announcement he made last December whereby he decided to increase the retirement age for public service workers from 65 to 70. That must be welcomed, although it does not go far enough. The Minister is aware that I put forward legislation to ensure no worker would be subject to a mandatory retirement age. However, there is some concern on this issue....

Other Questions: Poverty Data (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: I welcome the Minister's response. She put out a press statement after the publication of the SILC report and referred to it again this morning but she specifically left out any mention of lone parents because it is an increase and that goes against the narrative that everything is on the up. It certainly is not on the up for lone parents. A 4% increase in the at-risk-of-poverty rate is a...

Other Questions: Poverty Data (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: The Minister says lone parents were one of her key target groups in the budget. I admit there were small changes. I do not think they went far enough. A €2 increase for a qualified child must be regarded as small. It is trivial. If the Minister looks at the Indecon report and the survey that was carried out, she will see that 11 specific questions were put to lone parent families...

Other Questions: Working Family Payment (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: There is no fear of me going down that route.

Other Questions: Poverty Data (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 10. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the increase in the at risk of poverty rate among lone-parent families as highlighted in the recently published survey on income and living conditions for 2016; her plans to reduce this rate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2061/18]

Other Questions: Poverty Data (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: The Minister welcomed on a number of occasions the findings in the SILC report for 2016 but she omitted any reference to the 4% increase in children at risk of poverty in lone-parent families. Will the Minister comment on the increase, which is a substantial one at 4%?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pensions Legislation (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 2. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the timeframe for the restoration of the State pension for those affected by the 2012 changes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2331/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pensions Legislation (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: I start by expressing a happy new year to everyone in the House, to the Minister, to the staff and to the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Will the Minister outline clearly a timeframe for the reversal of the 2012 pension changes and a timeframe for the restoration of pension payments to more than 42,000 people who are directly affected by these changes?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pensions Legislation (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: I have listened to the Minister's response and heard her trying to explain the rationale around why these changes were put in place but there is simply no rationale. The changes were wrong in 2012 and they are wrong now. They need to be changed. The Minister and her Government have an opportunity this week to rectify the changes that directly impacted more than 42,000 pensioners,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pensions Legislation (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: I do not want to get into an argument with the Minister on this issue. The Minister seems to think it was an anomaly that arose from the 2012 changes. I argue against that; it was a clearly designed measure taken in the full knowledge of the impact it would have on our pensioners, especially on women. There is no question about that in my mind, in the view of the many organisations that...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Citizen Information Services (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 21. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the concerns raised by her Department as referenced in the recently published cost benefit analysis undertaken on behalf of the Citizens Information Board regarding the structure of the MABS service prior to the restructuring plans now underway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2059/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Non-Contributory) (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 28. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason fraud and error surveys are being carried out with older persons in receipt of the non-contributory State pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2060/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions Reform (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 30. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to examine the pension anomaly which exists in which persons aged 65 years of age are being put on jobseeker's payments at retirement; her further plans for when the pension age increases to 67 years of age in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2062/18]

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

John Brady: 48. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to establish a child maintenance service such as in Northern Ireland to support and assist lone parents in seeking child maintenance payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2058/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 121. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be allocated for the delivery of a general practitioner out-of-hours service for north County Wicklow in the HSE service plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2242/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services Funding (17 Jan 2018)

John Brady: 122. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be allocated to an organisation (details supplied) in County Wicklow in the HSE service plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2243/18]

Hospital Trolley Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jan 2018)

John Brady: Maureen is 76 years old and has small cell lung cancer. On 30 December last, she started to vomit blood. Unable to have a palliative care team provided until 2 January, her daughter tried to contact the general practitioner out-of-hours service. The family was left waiting for 16 hours because of the Minister's failure to put in place a dedicated GP out-of-hours service. On 4 January,...

Order of Business (16 Jan 2018)

John Brady: Yesterday we received the news that Carillion, the company that had won the tender to construct, maintain and manage six new schools in the State, had gone into voluntary liquidation. This has left huge fear in the schools among the teachers, principals, parents and children. Two of the schools - Coláiste Ráithín and St. Philomena's - happen to be located in my constituency....