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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Payments (22 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 41. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to set out the number of children who were refused or discontinued child benefit this year and last year for not being in full-time education broken down by age 16 and 17 years respectively. [40564/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (22 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 47. To ask the Minister for Finance if water is now considered a utility and has a tax exemption; the reason there is no tax exemption for other utilities such as electricity, gas and so on. [40490/14]

Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (21 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is an activation measure for the participants not the supervisors.

Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (21 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not know who wrote the reply for the Minister of State. He is well aware that no CE scheme or very few CE schemes have other financial resources and would not be in a position to continue to pay a CE supervisor. In that instance, the CE supervisor would probably not be acknowledged because the CE scheme was not set up in that way. It is the case that the community employment scheme...

Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (21 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We have had that discussion here but there has been no action.

Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (21 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I refer the Minister of State to the 2008 Labour Court recommendation. The Minister of State is in government, not me.

Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (21 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister of State has not answered my question. The Department sets the terms and conditions. In the case to which I refer, the woman was in employment for 20 years. The guidelines issued by the Department have changed several times since then but no one bothered to look at her contract. The sponsoring organisation is now open to a charge of unfair dismissal because the Department did...

Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (21 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 85. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department is insisting that community employment supervisors must retire at the age of 66, regardless of their ability to continue in the post; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39795/14]

Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (21 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Why does the Minister insist that community employment, CE, scheme supervisors must retire when they reach the age of 66, regardless of their ability and their willingness to continue in their post, especially in light of the Department's decision not to put in place a pension for those same employees as instructed by the Labour Court in 2008? The case arose last week of Elizabeth McAuliffe,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Administration (21 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister may not be aware that most teachers who qualify have experience. It is an abuse of those teachers who are qualified to expect them to participate in JobBridge. I will give an example. I have been contacted by a constituent who despite having an under-graduate degree and several years classroom experience, which she obtained abroad, took up an aid position under JobBridge....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Administration (21 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 79. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has had any discussions with the Department of Education and Skills on the use of JobBridge in schools since 20 September 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40053/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Administration (21 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Similar to the previous question, in the wake of a public outcry against the use of the JobBridge scheme to fill essential posts in schools last September, a number of advertisements were removed from its website and the Minister for Education and Skills undertook to raise the matter with the Minister for Social Protection. What were the content and outworkings of those discussions?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Administration (21 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I accept that when there was an outcry, the Department acted and addressed the issues relating to the website but a perusal of the website since then reveals that three advertisements have been placed for teachers, two for caretakers-janitors and 29 for special needs assistants, SNAs. This practice has, therefore, not been suspended, as the Minister has tried to present. There continues to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Poverty Impact Assessment (21 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 97. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department conducted an equality and poverty impact assessment of budget 2015, including an examination of the cumulative impact of budgetary measures over the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39798/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Household Benefits Scheme (21 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 100. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of a weekly social welfare payment who do not receive the household benefits package and who consequently will not receive any assistance with the water charges to be introduced next year and the difference between the size of the new payment in the household benefits package and the relevant average annual bill....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Programmes (21 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 114. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to privatise the Department's Jobs Ireland website and if her attention has been drawn to the experience of same in Britain where the website once outsourced became rife with fake jobs. [39794/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Projects (21 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 115. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on her proposal to privatise social welfare services via JobPath. [39796/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (21 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 193. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the 25% Christmas bonus will be paid to all participants on all activation programmes, for example Tús, Gateway, community employment, JobBridge and so on. [40386/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works Projects (21 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 254. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans for the Office of Public Works site at a location (details supplied) in Dublin 8. [39779/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Applications (21 Oct 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 332. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the delay in processing an application for Garda vetting in respect of a person (details supplied); and when they may expect a decision on their case. [40174/14]