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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Functions (24 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 537. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will release the funding for the redevelopment of a park (details supplied) in Dublin 10; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41346/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (24 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 538. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the Irish League of Credit Unions made a proposal to him which included €2 billion for local authority housing or social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41347/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Scéimeanna Teanga (24 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 604. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil scéim teanga daingnithe ag Córas Iompair Éireann - lena n-áirítear Bus Éireann, Bus Átha Cliath agus Iarnród Éireann; cá seasann an scéim sin i láthair na huaire. [41466/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Scéimeanna Teanga (24 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 608. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an gcuirfidh sí liosta ar fáil de na comhlachtaí poiblí a thagann faoi Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla, 2003 nach bhfuil scéim teanga aontaithe ag an Roinn leo. [41670/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (19 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 174. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 17; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40964/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (19 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 235. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the date the decision was taken to grant Leader funding to a marina (details supplied) in County Westmeath; who was involved in the decision; the date on which the money was released, given that Westmeath County Council was aware from early 2012 that the marina was an unauthorised development and the first enforcement...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (19 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 236. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views that it is acceptable that Leader funding be granted to an unauthorised development (details supplied) in County Westmeath that was built mainly outside the Waterways Ireland jurisdiction line, therefore built on property owned by the people of Ireland; and if he is aware that the area in question is a special...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (19 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 237. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that a company (details supplied) in County Westmeath is running as a full commercial business on property it does not own and does not have the right to run a commercial business on or out of; that Waterways Ireland, the relevant authority, has been aware of this for four years, has not done anything...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (19 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 238. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he or his Department has had any communication with the owner of a marina (details supplied) in County Westmeath regarding its sale of lands which it does not own, but which is owned by Waterways Ireland, in trust for the people of Ireland; and if he has not, if he will investigate this matter and act, if untoward...

Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Abuse has been mentioned, but there are many examples around Europe and elsewhere of systems that do not have the restrictions our system has but that have tight safeguards to ensure abuse does not happen. Some systems are based on national ID cards or PPS numbers or the equivalent, yet they allow a greater use of postal votes. We have one of the most restrictive systems in the world in...

Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There is a logic to this amendment and to the idea of major changes to the electoral register, which have been debated not only in the House but at the Constitutional Convention and other places. This is a simple change that will allow people to register with ease right up to the current cut-off date. After that, it would be the responsibility of anybody on the supplementary register to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Department of Social Protection (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will not ask about the inadequacy of the direct provision payment. I will leave that to somebody else. Is it automatic that every child in the direct provision system will receive child benefit? I understand the idea of credits and that it is difficult to imagine a scheme under which credited social insurance contributions would be given to those in the direct provision system if they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Department of Social Protection (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That is not the case in the case of children. There are quite a number of people resident and working in the country whose children cannot claim if they are in the European Union. It is a random approach in child benefit provision. For example, a person from Italy could be living in Ireland. He or she can claim child benefit for his or her children if there is a difference in the child...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Department of Social Protection (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I might be under a misconception, but I understand the rules applying to child benefit which is supposedly for the child. It has to do with the child in the main, unless there is an unaccompanied minor or he or she is not the asylum seeker. There are European Court judgments which state the child has different status from the applicant for asylum. In some instances elsewehere in Europe and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Department of Social Protection (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Or vice versa.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Department of Social Protection (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Does the Department of Social Protection pass on the money to the Department of Justice and Equality?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Department of Social Protection (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I had another question about credits.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Department of Social Protection (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It does not only concern the housing list. In order to get access to the RAS scheme in the past, one had to have been on the housing list or in receipt of rent allowance for a number of months.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Department of Social Protection (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The HAP has a lower threshold. One cannot go from direct provision straight onto the RAS or HAP scheme. One can receive rent supplement once the assessment of need has been made. Senator Ó Clochartaigh was asking if there was some recognition of the length of time a person spent in direct provision, not for the purpose of the housing list because that would mean that many people would...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (18 Nov 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We had quite a long debate on this issue several years ago when we made substantial changes to how double insolvency was treated. At the time, we argued that solvent and highly profitable businesses, whether an individual business or a complex network, should not try to get out of their commitments to their workers, either current, former or deferred. There is a logic behind Deputy Willie...