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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Services Programme (17 Oct 2017)

John Brady: 583. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the funding removed from a company (details supplied) by Pobal is still available for other interested parties or organisations in the area to apply for; if she will clarify same; the person in her Department who is responsible for processing a new application for support under the Pobal community services programme....

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

John Brady: There are elements of this budget to be welcomed but in reality much of the social protection measures are the reintroduction of old payments that Fine Gael either cut or abolished, announcements of new schemes without any substance as to what they actually are, and name changes. Only Fine Gael could bring about a situation where for the second budget in a row, lone parents will be better...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Data (3 Oct 2017)

John Brady: 600. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of completed tenant purchase scheme applications by each local authority since its introduction in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41274/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)

John Brady: I will find it hard to contain my questions in five minutes. I hope to have a second opportunity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)

John Brady: My first point concerns the gender pay gap. The Minister's refusal to look at this is disappointing when there has been so much talk of the gender pay gap. The changes introduced in 2012 are unacceptable and the impact that these have had on 40,000 people, most of them women, is disgraceful. A change in this situation will cost money, absolutely, but we in Sinn Féin have been able to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)

John Brady: We will not get into that. She said at any rate that she would find it difficult to live on. Our young unemployed people are expected to live on €102.70 a week. I ask the Minister to examine this and to end the discriminatory practices in the Department-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)

John Brady: Can I just finish this point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)

John Brady: I have asked the Minister about discrimination towards young jobseekers many times, including in the Chamber just last week. She replied that any young unemployed person who engages in any kind of training or upskilling will get the full payment. Some of these people have Masters degrees, Minister, and we now expect them to engage in further upskilling. They do not need upskilling. They...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)

John Brady: It was passed without debate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)

John Brady: There was no consultation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)

John Brady: The Minister said all 120,000 people have been consulted, which is not correct.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)

John Brady: I will stay away from certain areas. I have specific questions on banded-hours contracts and that whole area. The Minister referred to the Bill she and the Taoiseach want to fast-track. She will know that last year a Bill sponsored by Deputy David Cullinane was published which dealt specifically with banded-hour contracts. It received cross-party support and ended up in the jobs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)

John Brady: I ask the Minister to look at the Bill. Why is she not supporting Deputy Cullinane's Bill? Why is she trying to muddy the waters? I ask her to address the specific concerns on heads 10, 11 and 8 of the Bill she is proposing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)

John Brady: That is not what we have heard here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)

John Brady: Volunteers have walked away.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)

John Brady: It was interesting that the Minister opened up that contribution by talking about the era of new politics. We have become so used to that term over the past 18 months or so but the proof is in the pudding. The Opposition brought forward legislation to deal with a serious problem of banded hour contracts. It came to the jobs committee, a cross-party committee, which did exhaustive work on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)

John Brady: I will just finish this point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)

John Brady: This cuts to the chase. The Minister is either ignorant of the realities or just turning a blind eye. If we want to deal with zero-hour contracts then we must put in place the legislation. We cannot bring forward a Bill that bans zero-hour contracts yet makes an exception if the work is of a casual nature. By definition that is what zero-hour contracts are. The Minister is talking out of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)

John Brady: We are not losing the argument.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)

John Brady: I am not losing an argument.