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Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I debated it. Some of these consequences were debated at the time.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: At the time we found it difficult to understand why there were two different ages of consent.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I welcome the Attorney General's advice and although there is a case before the court, I had hoped that would have been an end to it because it would have addressed what families have asked to be addressed. If it does not stand the test of the court, I urge the Minister of State to look at it again to ensure there will not be a difficulty in the future. The Bill does not address it and the...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I can raise it in a later section but since we are dealing with definitions, part of this Bill concerns marriages of convenience. If the Minister of State prefers, I will deal with it when the section comes up.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That is fine.

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is a legacy issue.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (5 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 42. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when she will make the report on the review of rent supplement levels available. [42282/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Administration (5 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 45. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm that every JobBridge participant is covered at all times by their host organisation's employers liability and public liability insurance. [42297/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: They will have to pay more. The payments are not significant if more money is being taken from them.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I always welcome improved social welfare payments. I would laugh except it is not funny. The payment is being given with one hand, but taken away with the other.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Does the Minister accept that her Government's water charge will exceed the miserly social welfare increases announced in budget 2015? Does she intend to increase the so-called water support payment to cover the full cost of water charges for those dependent on social welfare? Does she intend to introduce the equivalent support for the low paid? If these things are not done, everything she...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The water charge will take it away in January.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 98. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients of jobseeker's allowance or jobseeker's benefit who will not receive either a Christmas bonus or a water support payment next year. [41715/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This question seeks to gauge whether the Minister is fully aware of the hardship water charges will wreak on households and if she appreciates the gross inadequacy of the measures she announced in the recent budget.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It also refers to water support payments.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: As Deputy Ó Fearghaíl noted, approximately 150,000 people - as many as 190,000 according to some estimates - took to the streets last weekend to say "No" to water charges. I have no doubt that these protests put the fear of God into the Government. The marchers included young and old people, the unemployed, people who depend on social welfare and people in employment, all of whom...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (4 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is not what the Minister promised.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (4 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The survey on income and living conditions, SILC, is often quoted in this House and was released in April 2014. It confirmed that one-parent families are those most at risk of poverty, with the highest consistent poverty rate, at 17.4%, a rate of deprivation of 49.5%, and nearly 30% of families are at risk of poverty. However, the Minister cannot give a simple answer about whether she is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (4 Nov 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Perhaps the Minister does not remember it because her memory seems to be fading. The Government has already cut the income disregard from €146.50 to €90 and now to €75. When the Minister introduced changes to the one-parent family provision, she said she would not proceed without "a credible and bankable commitment" from the Government putting in place a system of...