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Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)

John Brady: No, they have not been reinstated.

Employment Equality (Abolition of Mandatory Retirement Age) Bill 2016: Referral to Select Committee [Private Members] (23 Feb 2017)

John Brady: I move:That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Justice and Equality pursuant to Standing Orders 84A(3)(a) and 141.

Employment Equality (Abolition of Mandatory Retirement Age) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Feb 2017)

John Brady: I welcome the words of support from the Government and Fianna Fáil. It must be welcomed that the Government and Fianna Fáil will not oppose the Bill and are willing to work with Sinn Féin on getting it right. It would have been surprising if the opposite had been the case, given that all parties agreed to the Bill when it came before the House back in 2015. Unfortunately,...

Employment Equality (Abolition of Mandatory Retirement Age) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Feb 2017)

John Brady: I am sure Fianna Fáil has its own views on it. My fear is we will not progress it fast enough. I am conscious there are people in the Gallery and people and organisations watching the debate from home. Although they had much hope and optimism when the Bill was previously supported, ultimately, their hopes were dashed when it did not progress. It is imperative that we work on this...

Employment Equality (Abolition of Mandatory Retirement Age) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Feb 2017)

John Brady: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." Yoko Ono once said that some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90 and that time is a concept that humans created. I will begin by thanking the individuals and organisations that have come out in support of this Bill and in support of an end to the mandatory retirement age. They are Age Action Ireland, Active Retirement Ireland, the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2017)

John Brady: In the programme for Government, the Government gives a commitment to implement a working family payment. We already have a working family payment in form of the family income supplement. When I spoke to striking workers at the Tesco stores in Bray and Greystones, I was alarmed when a number of them told me that management has threatened that their family income supplement payments will be...

Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2017)

John Brady: The fear is that once payments are suspended, the Department says it could take up to six months to get them reinstated.

Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2017)

John Brady: Can I ask the question?

Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2017)

John Brady: This Government is facilitating the bully-boy tactics of Tesco management, which is threatening workers that their family income supplement payments will be stopped.

Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2017)

John Brady: Can the Tánaiste and the Minister for Social Protection confirm that no family income supplement payments will be stopped?

Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2017)

John Brady: The legislation provides that it may be stopped when engaging in industrial action.

Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2017)

John Brady: Can the Minister give a commitment that no payments to Tesco workers will be stopped?

Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2017)

John Brady: Some are more equal than others.

Other Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance (21 Feb 2017)

John Brady: That is not factually correct.

Priority Questions: Legislative Programme (21 Feb 2017)

John Brady: Deputy Ó Laoghaire asked me to take the question. Is that possible?

Priority Questions: Legislative Programme (21 Feb 2017)

John Brady: That is no problem.

Priority Questions: School Meals Programme (21 Feb 2017)

John Brady: 27. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount his Department spends annually on the school meals programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8703/17]

Priority Questions: School Meals Programme (21 Feb 2017)

John Brady: How much will the Minister's Department spend this year on the school meals programme in light of the cuts he has made to the programme for this school term?

Priority Questions: School Meals Programme (21 Feb 2017)

John Brady: I have been contacted by a primary school principal at a DEIS school who accidentally discovered that the school meals programme has been cut and that by May there will not be enough funding to carry the school through to the end of the year. That principal only found out that the funding had been cut on contacting the Department when a number of additional pupils were taken into the school....

Priority Questions: School Meals Programme (21 Feb 2017)

John Brady: I appreciate that and I will pass on the details but it is not an isolated incident. Principals are only now being informed of this. They are not being notified, they only find out when they contact the Department and are informed that they will only get 90% of the funding they received in previous years. Schools are facing into serious difficulties. I refer to the DEIS schools in this...