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One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: If it was so important, why did the Tánaiste cut it?

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Tánaiste cut it and has never replaced it.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That just shows how the Tánaiste is losing because she cannot even answer a simple question.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Tánaiste has lost it again.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Only if it is properly paid work.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This is utterly predictable.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: She is encouraging us.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Resent away, God love you. The Tánaiste took the decisions, not me.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: She is encouraging me again, God love her.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move:“That Dáil Éireann:— condemns the choices made by the current Government and its predecessor to force lone parent households to disproportionately shoulder the burden of cuts in the wake of an economic crash that was not of their, or their children’s, making; — recognises that the entirely foreseeable consequences of the series of social welfare...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Funding (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I acknowledge the Minister's answer but since budget 2011, there has been, in total, a 5% cut in capitation grants to primary schools, which has had a negative impact. I support the call not only for that cut to be reversed but also to bring the primary capitation grant up to the secondary school level, as the INTO has sought. We should also be examining a capitation grant system to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Funding (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: What happens in the meantime? We would all like our schools to be replaced by modern, super-efficient ones but that will not be the case. Some schools may build gardens, while others do not have money for heating or simple things like fixing light bulbs. While some schools can find money when necessary, not all schools have the same spending outlay. Given that it is far cheaper to run a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Funding (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Will the Minister consider changing the capitation grant system to provide a reliable system of payment to schools most in need, which would take account of a school's age, location and student composition?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Primary Online Database (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The intention is to ask the Minister to further elaborate on her proposal to collect and store data on primary schoolchildren, and the fact that there is a proposal that non-co-operative schools may be defunded if they do not co-operate with the primary online database, despite its changes.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Primary Online Database (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not know whether the Minister is aware that the Data Protection Commissioner's office confirmed only two weeks' ago that even after the changes she introduced in April to the primary online database, that it still might not be legal. Could the Minister confirm whether further legislation is required to underpin her proposals on the primary online database, if a further review is to take...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Primary Online Database (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not know whether that captures the concerns of the Data Protection Commissioner's office which were outlined on 18 June. Having investigated the primary online database, POD, the Data Protection Commissioner's office still had concerns, as did parents who had objected to the storage of sensitive data, that were valid even following the changes made in April. That is the key point....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 160. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if consideration will be provided to retitle payments under the community employment scheme and the Tús work placement initiative as social welfare allowances and not as wages, thus saving these very low-paid workers on pay related social insurance payments; and the amount it would cost the Exchequer to do this, by year. [25825/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 210. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the status of an application for a carer’s allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and when a decision will issue. [26377/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Data (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 212. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated revenue that would be raised in 2016 if the rate of employer's pay related social insurance was increased by 1% on pay up to €100,000 per annum, and increased to 15.75% on pay exceeding €100,000 per annum. [26385/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 460. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be made available to the Cuan Dara detoxification unit in the Cherry Orchard Hospital in Dublin 10 to upgrade the toilet and shower facilities for wheelchair users, given that the unit is not currently wheelchair or disability compliant; and when will these upgrades be implemented. [26236/15]