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Other Questions: Arts Funding (10 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 137. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports in place for aging artists in this State, once they have reached retirement age; and, in view of their valuable contribution to cultural life, if a system of assessment of lifetime earnings within the State will be developed with the aim of supporting those without financial security in old age. [5518/15]

Other Questions: Arts Funding (10 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I ask the Minister to consider the supports that are in place or need to be in place for aging artists in the State once they reach retirement age or are in ill health in later years, given their valued contribution to the cultural life of the State.

Other Questions: Invasive Plant Species (10 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Department needs to consider whether the National Parks and Wildlife Service's use of contractors is having the same systematic effect as the work done by the Groundwork volunteers to whom I refer. In a previous reply, the Minister referred to the adopt a woodland scheme. That scheme might represent the way forward in order that Groundwork or other voluntary organisations might play a...

Other Questions: Invasive Plant Species (10 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thank the Minister. Her reply points to the fact that contractors receive a substantially greater amount of money than those in the voluntary work camps. The latter group has been most successful in clearing much of the Killarney National Park of Rhododendron for a period. Is the Minister aware that Groundwork, the group that carried out many of the voluntary work camps, has revisited...

Other Questions: Invasive Plant Species (10 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 135. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in respect of the amount of the €500,000 spent on the rhododendron ponticim since 2009, the amount spent on contractors; the amount spent on voluntary work camps; and the amount spent on clearance between 2004 and 2009. [5519/15]

Other Questions: Invasive Plant Species (10 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: If I could only find my question.

Other Questions: Invasive Plant Species (10 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The invasive species that is attacking our native woodlands, particularly in our national parks. Is there a more effective way of using that money?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Waterways Issues (10 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 131. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position on the development of the Ulster canal, in view of the fact that the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure in the North is awaiting approval from this State to proceed with works on the first phase of the project, which would restore the line of the canal as far as Castle Saunderson at a cost of approximately...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Waterways Issues (10 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: My question is to find out the reason for the delay in progressing approval for the works on the first stage of the restoration programme for the Lough Erne to Clones stretch of the Ulster Canal, which is to be done at no cost to this State. I ask why we are now awaiting the grant for the first phase.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Waterways Issues (10 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thank the Minister for the clarification and correction of what was stated in my question. However, that does not deal with why we are still awaiting physical progress on a decision that was taken in 2007 - that is, the proposal to reopen the Lough Erne to Clones section of what was a 73 km canal that went from Lough Erne to Lough Neagh. The project has potential in terms of the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Data (10 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 195. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the application procedure for young persons for the new First Steps programme. [5980/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Data (10 Feb 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 196. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there will be a financial consequence in respect of any failure to apply for, or refusal to agree to participate on the new First Steps programme. [5981/15]

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.