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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance (6 Oct 2016)

John Brady: The Deputy is better off just sitting there-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance (6 Oct 2016)

John Brady: The Deputy is better off just sitting there because Fianna Fáil is as guilty.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance (6 Oct 2016)

John Brady: I am saying the Minister should work with us to have one system across the State as opposed to Westminster dictating the rates. The Minister knows the facts.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance (6 Oct 2016)

John Brady: He was not providing an answer; he was giving red herrings.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance (6 Oct 2016)

John Brady: The only policy that is working for is emigration.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (6 Oct 2016)

John Brady: Fianna Fáil knows that already. It should not come as a surprise to it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Poverty (6 Oct 2016)

John Brady: Only some of them.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance (6 Oct 2016)

John Brady: 2. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress of the report into the impact of the reduced jobseeker's payment rates for jobseekers aged 18 to 25 years of age, as committed to in the Pathways to Work 2016-2020 strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29008/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance (6 Oct 2016)

John Brady: In a number of budgets from 2009 onwards, discriminatory cuts were made to jobseeker's payments for those under 26 years of age by both Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. Young people were one of the first groups to shoulder the burden in the early stages of the economic crisis and these cuts have left 18 to 24 years olds on €100 per week, 25 year olds on €144 per week and those...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance (6 Oct 2016)

John Brady: I am not talking about unemployment rate, I was referring to the rates for the unemployed. The Minister may have missed that point. The OECD report to which the Minister referred, which was released yesterday, showed that Ireland has the highest rate of young people receiving unemployment and disability benefits across all 35 member countries of the OECD. The rate in question relates to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Lone Parents: Department of Social Protection (6 Oct 2016)

John Brady: I welcome the officials. Not only do I and many lone parents have concerns, as Deputy O'Dea correctly stated, many organisations also have concerns. I will go through some of those concerns in a moment. We know all of the facts and figures in terms of the numbers of single-parent families. One in four families is a one-parent family. That is a sum of 215,000 one-parent families across...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Lone Parents: Department of Social Protection (6 Oct 2016)

John Brady: I thank the officials for their presentations and for answering the questions but I want to make a specific point on the Millar report. I note the comments made, but the officials effectively rubbished the report when they said it had not carried out the work it was supposed to carry out, and that they would have counter views on the many issues highlighted in the report about which serious...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Payments (6 Oct 2016)

John Brady: 155. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his Department's plans to meet the needs of the surviving members of the Carrickmines fire disaster; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29104/16]

Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2016)

John Brady: In May, Wicklow Comhairle na nÓg conducted a survey to which over 1,000 young people from across the county responded, with 89% of them rating mental health as the number one issue for them. They cited the need for more conversations around mental health, improving services and reducing the stigma around the entire issue. This is a fascinating statistic coming directly from young...

Other Questions: Irish Water Funding (5 Oct 2016)

John Brady: 18. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the impact on the financing of the Irish Water capital programme to 2021 from any reduction in water charge revenues arising from the outcome of the independent commission and the Oireachtas committee on the future of water charges. [28707/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (5 Oct 2016)

John Brady: 67. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the 25,000 new social housing units detailed in Pillar 2 of Rebuilding Ireland by unit type, that is local authority new build, local authority Part V acquisition, approved housing bodies new build, approved housing bodies Part V acquisition and other. [28706/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (4 Oct 2016)

John Brady: 131. To ask the Minister for Finance the financial assistance currently available to volunteer organisations to ensure the continuation of their valuable service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28051/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (4 Oct 2016)

John Brady: 163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the construction of an autistic unit at a school (details supplied); the proposed timeline for the commencement for its construction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28138/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Fit for Work Programme (4 Oct 2016)

John Brady: 260. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way in which fitness to work will be assessed under the fit for work scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28099/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Eligibility (29 Sep 2016)

John Brady: 147. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is refused disability allowance on financial grounds where a payment made to them from the North is calculated as means when the equivalent payment in the South would not be calculated as means; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27898/16]