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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Citizen Information Services (11 Apr 2017)

John Brady: 81. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will issue a policy directive to the Citizens Information Board to ensure that the MABS and Citizens Information Services are retained as they are to avoid any restructuring;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17953/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (11 Apr 2017)

John Brady: 343. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person can receive an extension to their community employment scheme if they are over 62 years of age; if this extension can be up until pension age; when this measure as part of community employment reform will be available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17538/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Data Protection (11 Apr 2017)

John Brady: 344. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on communications between an elected representative and Turas Nua regarding a person engaged with Turas Nua with the person's consent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17539/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Apr 2017)

John Brady: 345. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to reinstate a diet supplement payment; the way in which persons, particularly those in receipt of social welfare payments, are to manage these payments without the diet supplement payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17540/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (11 Apr 2017)

John Brady: 350. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to phase out crèche and play school service provision by community employment schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17622/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (11 Apr 2017)

John Brady: 351. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to provide additional resourcing for QQI level six training for community employment participants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17623/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Administration (11 Apr 2017)

John Brady: 352. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider increasing the additional supplement provided to community employment participants in view of increased transport costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17624/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (11 Apr 2017)

John Brady: 353. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if it is his Department's policy objective to place jobseekers in JobPath in preference over community employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17625/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Schemes (11 Apr 2017)

John Brady: 354. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the precise criteria required for a person to transfer from JobPath to community employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17626/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Local Employment Service (11 Apr 2017)

John Brady: 355. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if it is his Department's policy to replace local employment service mediators; if so, his plans to replace them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17627/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (11 Apr 2017)

John Brady: 361. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount the JobPath programme has cost to date, including the entire tendering process, the use of economic research specialists and legal costs; the amount the programme will cost the tax payer by the end of the four-five year cycle; if there are any breaks or penalty clauses if the Government decides on the early termination of the contract;...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (11 Apr 2017)

John Brady: 362. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the rationale for the basic requirement to be considered eligible to bid for JobPath that a company had a minimum turnover of €20 million per year, which excluded many local companies and voluntary organisations from the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17705/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (11 Apr 2017)

John Brady: 366. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans for a two-stream approach to community employment; the changes that are planned in this regard; the responsibilities this will place on schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17876/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (11 Apr 2017)

John Brady: 448. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason members of the fire services were not awarded with 1916 commemorative medals along with other front-line emergency services in 2016; if she will review this and present members of the fire services with the 1916 commemorative medals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17497/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy (11 Apr 2017)

John Brady: 534. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists to see an occupational therapist in health centres in County Wicklow, including Baltinglass and Blessington; the average waiting time in each of the health centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17825/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Rent Controls (6 Apr 2017)

John Brady: 19. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason his Department omitted Greystones, County Wicklow from the rent pressure zones list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17115/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (6 Apr 2017)

John Brady: 42. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to planning concerns at Wicklow County Council which successive Ministers have committed to examining; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17114/17]

Maternity Leave and Benefit: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2017)

John Brady: I welcome the motion and I commend the Green Party and the Social Democrats for bringing it forward, particularly Deputy Catherine Martin, who spoke very passionately and emotionally when speaking on the motion this evening. Since the motion was first published I, like many Deputies in the Chamber, received many e-mails from right across the State from parents who have faced the potential...

Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)

John Brady: During statements on waiting lists a number of months ago, I urged the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, to reinstate a very simple check for children in primary schools to identify scoliosis and intervene where it may be identified. This had been carried out by primary health nurses until 2008. It was withdrawn from schools due to austerity measures. When I put the question to the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)

John Brady: It is. In A Programme for a Partnership Government there is a commitment to tackle serious issues in the health service, and certainly this is a very serious issue with regard to scoliosis, which has been widely debated in the Chamber.