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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Costs and Controls (16 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 605. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the sale by the National Assets Management Agency of occupied apartment complexes to investors, both national and international, is contributing to rent inflation as these profiteering companies seem to immediately inflate the rent on the day of the rent review, as in the...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I acknowledge that the Minister said that he would look at making the regulations in consultation with the committee and, hopefully, the Government will look at that aspect when setting up anything like that. There is a body of people in here who have the interest, if not the expertise, which should be used far more in terms of Ministers making regulations as they are the ones who have dealt...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am just making that point. It would come up at the public water forum if it was not dealt with in the legislation.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There is no water charge.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I want to clarify what the amendment is about. It refers to "representatives of the trade unions with members in Irish Water”. Once Irish Water is fully established, there will probably be a number of trade unions of which workers within Irish Water would be members. The best way would be to have a representative of each trade union on the forum, but that could be unwieldy. In some...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: On a point of order, there is a proposal to adjourn the House for a specific period, namely, until next Tuesday. If that is accepted, it supersedes any other proposal that was agreed on the Order of Business. The Leas-Cheann Comhairle indicated that it does not supersede the order for tomorrow's sitting. In fact, it does supersede it.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: A subsequent vote will supersede what went earlier. I agree that we should put the proposal to adjourn until Tuesday to a vote.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There is a proposal before the House. If the Leas-Cheann Comhairle is putting it, he needs to do so now.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Chair has not ruled.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am not saying he does not, but he has not ruled on it.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That is not the proposal.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: They are written on the back of an envelope.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thought "hello" money was illegal.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Funding (11 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 45. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount available for community employment projects annually per CE participant for training and courses; and the options available to the project in the event of course costing more than the individual training grant. [47551/14]

Palestine: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (10 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Today is a great day for Ireland but it is also a great day for Palestine because the motion will not be opposed. While some people have been spinning to say the motion is not binding, I do not see how a Government could not support the motion and its effects into the future. It is a challenge for us as Opposition Members but it is also a challenge for the Government in particular to live...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We had a discussion on priority orders last year when we were discussing double insolvencies and the change to how defined benefit should be viewed. We did not have a long enough debate on it in terms of the Mercer report which outlined at the time the various different strategies around how to create a priority order. The Mercer report, which the Minister had, was made available a week or...

Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (10 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 8. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reforms she will introduce to the rent supplement scheme in response to the recent High Court ruling that the Department was wrong to discount the accommodation needs of a separated father's children when assessing his housing need; her views that the scheme as operated served to deny children their right to the care of both their parents; and...

Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (10 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This question relates to the recent High Court ruling that the Department of Social Protection was wrong to discount or ignore the accommodation needs of a separated father's children when assessing his housing need for the purpose of rent supplement. Does the Minister agree that the scheme as operated served to deny children their right to care from both of their parents and will she take...

Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (10 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: According to the most recent Central Statistics Office, CSO, census figures there are 88,918 separated men in this country. That is an increase of almost 16,000 on the figure for the census taken prior to that. Not all of these have part custody of children or are in need of rent supplement, although obviously a portion of them are. Has the Department estimated the number of separated...

Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (10 Dec 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Has a timeframe been set for the review to ensure that within a number of months or perhaps a year the implications of the outcomes of the High Court case and the Equality Tribunal case from October 2013 are fully worked out and also to implement whatever changes are required to bring the rent supplement scheme into line with those judgments?