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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Telephone Support Allowance (27 Feb 2018)

John Brady: 709. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of reforming the telephone support allowance payment in order that it is available to persons in receipt of the living alone allowance or the fuel allowance; the number of additional persons who would qualify for the payment if that change was made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10127/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)

John Brady: I welcome the officials. There has certainly been huge concern among the public and organisations dealing with civil liberties, for example, as well as on the part of the data commissioner. The commissioner issued comprehensive questions to the Department. Is she satisfied with the responses that have been given to date? Has she asked for further information? Following on from Deputy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)

John Brady: Like anyone else, adopted people appear with the information and documents that they have been told are required. They bring in a short version of their birth certificate. They are told at that point that this document is not acceptable, and that they need to get the long version of their birth certificate. As I stated in my opening remarks, 40% of adopted people do not know they are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)

John Brady: As I said twice already, 40% of adopted people do not know their status. They do not know they were adopted. The logic does not follow that those people do not carry a passport because clearly the vast majority of people do. I think there are double standards at play here. Unfortunately, adopted people feel like second-class citizens and that they are discriminated against when it comes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)

John Brady: In fairness, I asked a specific question and it was not answered.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)

John Brady: I raised the case of an old age pensioner having her payment suspended for 18 months because of her legitimate refusal to get a public services card, PSC. I asked about the number of other individuals who have had their payment suspended, curtailed or cut because of their legitimate refusal to get one, due to legal concerns about the card.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)

John Brady: How many people have formally made complaints about the process? Surely Mr. Duggan has that information on people who raised legitimate concerns and whose payments have been stopped because of the concerns around the-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)

John Brady: How many?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)

John Brady: Mr. Duggan does not know.

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2018)

John Brady: This morning, Barnardos launched its Lost Childhood campaign in recognition of the one in seven children, that is, more than 170,000 children whose childhoods and futures are being written for them through circumstances completely out of their control and because of poor policy on the part of the Government. One in seven children are lost to homelessness and poverty. Three thousand children...

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2018)

John Brady: That is not true in all circumstances.

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2018)

John Brady: The lone parent figures are up.

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2018)

John Brady: It is 2020 we are talking about - the Taoiseach's targets.

Other Questions: Public Services Card Authentication (20 Feb 2018)

John Brady: You would not find me over on those benches.

Other Questions: Fuel Allowance Payments (20 Feb 2018)

John Brady: 49. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to review the rates of payment and the periods of time for which the fuel allowance is paid by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8342/18]

Other Questions: Fuel Allowance Payments (20 Feb 2018)

John Brady: What are the Minister’s intentions to review the payments of the fuel allowance and their duration? When we debated the Social Welfare Act 2017 I tabled an amendment to ensure she would carry out a review and use the information with a view to potentially extending or increasing the payment.

Other Questions: Fuel Allowance Payments (20 Feb 2018)

John Brady: There are strong links between low income unemployed people and fuel poverty. Single person households, lone parents and older people are more susceptible to fuel poverty. It is estimated that a colossal 28% of homes across the State are experiencing fuel poverty of one degree or another. This is the responsibility of several Departments but specifically the Minister's Department. She...

Other Questions: Fuel Allowance Payments (20 Feb 2018)

John Brady: I am not asking the Minister to get into the specifics of budget 2019 but we need to be realistic. The payment does not go far enough. In 2010, a 40 kg bag of coal cost in the region of €13.50 and that now stands at €20 or thereabouts. A bale of briquettes was approximately €2.99 and now it costs approximately €4.80. Energy costs have gone up considerably. I...

Other Questions: Jobseeker's Payments (20 Feb 2018)

John Brady: 43. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the report into the impact of the reduced jobseeker's payment rates for jobseekers aged 18 to 25 years, further to the commitment in the Pathways to Work 2016-2020 strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8344/18]

Other Questions: Jobseeker's Payments (20 Feb 2018)

John Brady: I want to ask about the status of a report the Government committed to on the cuts to jobseeker's payments for young unemployed people. That report was committed to under the Pathways to Work 2016-2020 strategy. We have yet to see the report. Will the Minister give us an update on it?