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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare (16 Oct 2012)

Willie O'Dea: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the expert group advice on the future of the disability allowance for persons aged 16 to 18 years; her future plans for the disability allowance payment for persons aged 16 to 18 years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44638/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Insurance Rates (16 Oct 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister for her good wishes. As I listened to the reply, and as I read the statement on Friday, I was reminded of a literary analogy. The Minister is familiar with George Orwell's Animal Farm and remembers the scene where the basic precepts by which the farm was to be ruled were written on a wall. Whenever it suited the ruling clique to breach one of the precepts, the animals...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Insurance Rates (16 Oct 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Most of them by the Minister's Department.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Insurance Rates (16 Oct 2012)

Willie O'Dea: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the Programme for Government's commitment to maintain social welfare rates remains in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44637/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Payments (16 Oct 2012)

Willie O'Dea: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline her future plans for child benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44639/12]

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2012: First Stage (11 Oct 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Act 2009 to provide for the creation and publication of a register by each housing authority of dwellings which are the subject of rental accommodation agreements and to provide for the creation and publication by the Minister of an alphabetical list of rental...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2012: First Stage (11 Oct 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Order of Business (11 Oct 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I am sure the statements on the framework for sustainable development will be very important but it is somewhat perverse that despite repeated demands from the opposition, we are not having a full debate, in plenary session, on the crisis in the Department of Health, which is heading for a budget deficit of €0.5 billion-----

Order of Business (11 Oct 2012)

Willie O'Dea: On promised legislation, when will the transport (CIE borrowings) Bill be introduced to the House? The Tánaiste will be aware the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar, has steadfastly refused to assist CIE in facing its financial challenges and in that context it is important that this Bill be published as soon as possible. Is it proposed to go ahead with the...

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)

Willie O'Dea: What does this have to do with the question asked? What an eejit. What is the Tánaiste going to do? How much will he save?

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Quit the waffle. Answer the question.

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I am asking about the next 14 days.

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)

Willie O'Dea: What about the thousands spent on consultants?

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)

Willie O'Dea: He must be joking.

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I want to request the Tánaiste’s help in clearing up the confusion that has arisen among public sector workers regarding their allowances. The Tánaiste will be aware that on 19 September the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, who had targeted savings of €75 million in abolishing 1,100 allowances, announced he could only find one allowance for existing workers...

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)

Willie O'Dea: The confusion is in the mind of public sector workers, not just mine.

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)

Willie O'Dea: We are talking about now.

Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Sorry, but the Tánaiste did not answer my principle question which was about savings. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform set out saying he was going to save €75 million but then found on 19 September he could only save €3.5 million. Obviously, he now has found extra allowances. How much in savings does the Minister expect to make as a result of these newly...

Order of Business (10 Oct 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Weetabix.

Order of Business (10 Oct 2012)

Willie O'Dea: What progress has been made on the solas Bill?