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Income and Living Conditions: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment of the motion because it catalogues the consequences of austerity with frightening figures, documenting the rise in the number of people in the State experiencing consistent poverty and enforced deprivation. Children, older people and people with disabilities go without heating in their homes, a warm coat or enough food. It also highlights the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Person or Number?2: Crosscare (25 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To follow on that theme, my other hat is spokesperson on social protection. I am also a member of the committee here and it is something we have been arguing with the Department, the Social Welfare Appeals Office and officials since I have been advocating on social welfare. They need to change the mechanism to include something simple like a telephone call before a decision is made to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Person or Number?2: Crosscare (25 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I apologise that I will be unable to stay for the remainder of the meeting as I must attend a meeting of the Whips. Has the research identified specific offices or officials? My constituency office is in Ballyfermot and I know some of the officials well. They are the best in the world but in the case of certain officials one would pray that some characters would not have to meet them. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Person or Number?2: Crosscare (25 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: If an office is identified, I presume that without having to name an official it would be easier for the Department then to provide anti-racism training targeted at an office in a case where an office was the subject of a number of complaints and the complainant did not wish to lose a payment or have it suspended as a reaction. I presume the Department should target anti-racism training at...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Data (25 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 71. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current and total number, to date, of JobBridge participants, by county. [8409/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Data (25 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 72. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a breakdown of the current and total number, to date, of JobBridge participants engaged by each of the local authorities. [8410/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Customer Charters (24 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 196. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details of each step of the internal processes in her Department that take place, when a person wishes to make, and escalate, a complaint through the various levels, before going to the Ombudsman. [7960/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff (24 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 222. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the proposal to require all public sector workers under the aegis of her Department who interface with service users to wear a name badge; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8565/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff (24 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 254. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the proposal to require all public sector workers under the aegis of his Department who interface with service users to wear a name badge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8657/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff (24 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 260. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the proposal to require all public sector workers under the aegis of his Department who interface with service users to wear a name badge. [7961/15]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Staff (24 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 314. To ask the Minister for Defence his views on the proposal to require all public sector workers under the aegis of his Department who interface with service users to wear a name badge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8568/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (24 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 402. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a hip replacement surgery in Saint James's Hospital in Dublin 8 will be arranged as soon as possible in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12. [7683/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (24 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 441. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10 will receive a date for hip replacement surgery in Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital, Dublin 11. [7915/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Staff (24 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 513. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the proposal to require all public sector workers under the aegis of his Department who interface with service users to wear a name badge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8567/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff (24 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 562. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the proposal to require all public sector workers under the aegis of her Department who interact with service users to wear a name badge; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8566/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (24 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 573. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if an organisation (details supplied) will be granted funding under the scheme to support national organisations for its home-from-home apartment in Chapelizod, Dublin 20, which is Ireland’s only fully wheelchair accessible, self-catering accommodation. [7855/15]

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Internships are not jobs yet the Minister tried to put it across as such. Employers have a pool of free labour that has been created by the Government, the Labour Party in particular. That is what the interns are doing. In the past, it was paid employment and includes those within Departments and local authorities. Previously, this was carried out by civil servants and local authority...

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will not do it. It is a substantial document. In the Indecon report, the majority of people who found work afterwards were on a lower wage than their co-workers in employment.

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: My party colleagues and I are committed to a fair recovery. We want to get people back to work and bring our young people home but we also want to ensure that work pays. The Cabinet has signed off on a jobs strategy, a central plank of which is the JobBridge scheme. Today I published a proposal to scrap JobBridge. I will outline some elements of my proposal and would ask the Minister to...

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is. It is also lowering pay and creating under-employment in this State. I will prove that with data from the Indecon report which the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection continuously quotes to me when I raise concerns about JobBridge and other schemes. The Indecon report found that 30% of employers said that they would create a job if JobBridge did not exist; that is...