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Other Questions: Job Initiatives (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 5. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the roll-out of the Gateway scheme; if she will provide a breakdown of the numbers engaged in the different types of work covered by the scheme and the gender profile of participants; and her views on whether the scheme, by compelling vulnerable citizens in receipt of social welfare to work for local authorities, is...

Other Questions: Job Initiatives (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I wish to ask the Minister of State for an update on the Gateway scheme given that it was in breach of both the European Convention on Human Rights and the ILO C029 Forced Labour Convention as it compelled vulnerable citizens on social welfare to work for local authorities. What changes have been made or are intended to be made in the rolling out of the scheme?

Other Questions: Job Initiatives (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have talked to them. If the Minister of State and Minister had listened to my criticism of the Gateway scheme, they would have learned there is no proper training or structure to it. I have always argued that a model similar to the community employment model should have been used. It would have allowed somebody to come out the other end with a qualification or achievement that can be put...

Other Questions: Job Initiatives (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will be brief because my point follows on from what the Minister of State is saying. Is he aware that some senior council officials have said it is their intention to use Gateway participants instead of recruiting staff, even with the recruitment embargo lifted? Does he agree that the Gateway scheme should never be a scheme to displace council staff and other full-time employees, and that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is the Minister's answer to her parliamentary question.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have no difficulty. These are the Minister's figures.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister continuously twists it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have taken into account the Minister's answer.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: These are the Minister's figures, not mine.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister dreamt it up.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I refer to 21 January.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Does the Minister remember the democratic programme?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Disgraceful.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 2. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her response to the Central Statistics Office SILC finding that the number of lone parent households suffering enforced deprivation has risen to 63%; if in consideration of the SILC findings and in the absence of affordable after-school care, she will abandon her plans to lower the cut-off age for the one-parent family payment to seven years to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: My question highlights the rocketing rates of deprivation among lone-parent households, as indicated in the recently published CSO survey of income and living conditions, SILC. The report highlights the fact that 63% of such households are now living without basic necessities. Considering the absence of affordable after-school care facilities, will the Minister abandon her plans from 2 July...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: If this cut goes ahead, it will result in a further significant loss of income for thousands of lone parents and an increase in deprivation. Will the Minister to confirm that almost 12,000 lone parents will suffer a financial loss of up €86 per week if she proceeds with the cut? Her response to a parliamentary question I tabled in January stated 6,400 lone parents would suffer a loss...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Tánaiste's logic is that if one drives lone parents further into poverty, they might come out at the other end. However, what the SILC statistics show is that is one is driving them further into deprivation, making it even more difficult for them to get out of poverty. There is no Scandinavian model of child care available here and the Tánaiste has not addressed that issue....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Guarantee (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 14. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the SYNDICAT Confederation of European Trade Unions' report, the Youth Guarantee in Europe, and the contents of the country-specific section examining this State, in particular; the changes she will make to the Youth Guarantee to ensure that it does not perpetuate the growing crisis of precarious work; her views on SIPTU's assessment...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 34. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her view on the report commissioned by a coalition of non-governmental organisations, including FLAC, Doras Luimní, Nasc and Crosscare, which highlighted serious customer service issues including racism and rudeness to immigrants on the part of some social welfare officers. [4910/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (5 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 44. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of her previous assertion that raising the rent supplement caps would lead to further rises and artificial inflation of rents the steps she has taken to guard against this happening on foot of the supplementary welfare allowance note for information 2014/18 circulated to staff of her Department on 9 December 2014 which effectively raises...