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- Order of Business (27 Sep 2012)
Willie O'Dea: I am back.
- Order of Business (27 Sep 2012)
Willie O'Dea: The place will have fallen apart by then.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Did the Minister know about the extra 15?
- Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Is that a reply?
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (27 Sep 2012)
Willie O'Dea: To ask the Minister for Health following the recent agreement with consultants, if he has abandoned plans for a new grade of hospital doctor which it was hoped would provide a more clear career path for NCHDs; the action he will take to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40969/12]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)
Willie O'Dea: I am sorry to interrupt, but what savings have accrued?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Briefly, how many people in the Department are assigned to target fraud currently? How many are allocated to deal with the 985,000 welfare claims? Second, what, if any, role will the Private Residential Tenancies Board have under the new rent supplement regime?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)
Willie O'Dea: How many staff has the Department now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Did only 200 of the extra people come from other Departments?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)
Willie O'Dea: On rent supplement, the Minister told me the Department had given its officers extra powers of inquiry to ascertain who is being paid the rent, the person designated, the proper recipient. In Limerick, this does not seem to have made the slightest difference. The experience on the ground in Limerick is that social welfare officers are run off their feet and the last thing they want to hear...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)
Willie O'Dea: It was predicated on different rates of growth.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Something like the present Government’s growth projections for the next three years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Is the promise about not reducing the rates intact? Does the promise, solemnly made by the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste, that social welfare rates would not be reduced still stand?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)
Willie O'Dea: I have one question relating to fraud. I may have misread the brief and the Minister can correct me if I am wrong. It indicates the target for 2012 is to review 985,000 cases.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)
Willie O'Dea: The target for 2012 is to review 985,000 cases. Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)
Willie O'Dea: How many staff are allocated for the job? Does the Minister agree that much wastage of expenditure falling under the heading of fraud is in reality errors in the system, where somebody in the Department makes a mistake? What is the breakdown of errors and genuine fraud?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)
Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister for her presentation. The Minister stated that the targeted expenditure reduction for this year is approximately €540 million.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)
Willie O'Dea: The reduction for the next two years is approximately €1 billion. Given current projections for economic growth and so on, I am pessimistic about where we are going to get the money for the youth guarantee scheme, regardless of how much co-funding is provided by the EU. I was struck by the figure mentioned by the Minister in her speech in regard to the cost of pensions, which is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Does the Minister envisage that the EU will put up the money to fund this in its entirety in so far as it relates to Ireland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)
Willie O'Dea: Perhaps the Minister will answer this one question.