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Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Yes.

Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)

Willie O'Dea: No, the fall was in 2011.

Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Will the Minister undertake to publish the advisory group's report on the disability and domiciliary care allowances when she receives it? In a reply to me, dated 23 August 2012, the Minister gave me statistics on the disability allowance. In 2009, there were 20,794 applications received and the number disallowed was 9,677, indicating a success rate of 55% or refusal rate of 45%. In 2010,...

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

Willie O'Dea: May I ask a brief question?

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

Willie O'Dea: The Government also leaks the reports.

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

Willie O'Dea: We also presided over increases.

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

Willie O'Dea: Just like the Minister has forgotten her promises.

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

Willie O'Dea: The Minister was reprehensible in her approach in that she supported nothing.

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

Willie O'Dea: The Minister supported more expenditure and less tax.

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

Willie O'Dea: When the Minister was in opposition the whole approach of the Labour Party was to seek less tax and more expenditure.

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

Willie O'Dea: The Minister is in Government.

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

Willie O'Dea: The Minister has made a couple of extraordinary statements since the start of Question Time. I am overwhelmed by her boasting about last year's budget when, according to Social Justice Ireland, an organisation with no axe to grind, it was the most socially regressive budget in the last ten years. The Minister said her Department had not been flying kites but there are so many kites coming...

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

Willie O'Dea: I am glad the Minister has confirmed that she regards pensioners are more important than others. That is some progress. Do I take the Minister's reply to mean that jobseeker's allowance, jobseeker's benefit, carer's allowance, family income supplement and disability allowance come within the ambit of core rates? The Minister was widely quoted in the media at the weekend as giving an...

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

Willie O'Dea: I ask the Minister to clarify what she means by core rates.

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

Willie O'Dea: The Minister announced a decision last Friday.

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

Willie O'Dea: Which are?

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]