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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Supply (23 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 496. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current average rate of leakage of water across the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35472/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Redressing the Imbalance Report: Free Legal Advice Centres (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This is an area of interest because a number of people have contacted me and I have tried to help them put together a complaint where a service has not been delivered. PayPal is one of the companies that is very difficult to deal with. If one’s account is affected, due to no fault of one's own, through fraud at another end, one cannot access PayPal in any shape or form. People try...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have a quick query on that because people seem to be constantly seeking advice on appeals. In the event of additional information becoming available, do they send it to the appeals office or the review office?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: What I and other Deputies have found is that sometimes the appeal is lodged and that is when there is a delay in obtaining medical information. There is a huge problem in getting letters from consultants.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It could be two months down the road in the appeals process at that stage, so does a person give the information to the appeals office or back to the Department?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have two brief questions. One concerns the Children's Rights Alliance which made a specific appeal about the habitual residency condition concerning child benefit. The CRA said the State was out of touch with Article 2 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which deals with non-discriminatory aspects. I ask the Minister to examine that matter. Has any consideration been given...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is not exactly the same as community employment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: If the Minister even read her own documentation on the conditions tied to it, she would see that it is not exactly the same as community employment schemes across the country. If it was, I would support it. The difference is that the training budget is not included.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have no problem with that. I would encourage it if it was a proper scheme. It is not a proper scheme, it is a scam.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is not an employment scheme.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: What is the training budget?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am aware of it and I know exactly where they are coming from. They are not additional staff; they are diverted from other work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is not available for these schemes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: By the time they come around there will have been the six-month gap that the Tánaiste mentioned earlier.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not want to stop them. I want to encourage them by making sure they have proper jobs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: No, I want them to have proper jobs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The submission contained a number of practical suggestions, some of which would not cost much. Some of them would even save money for the Department in the long term.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I had already indicated. I can assure the Chairman that my question will be very brief as the Minister knows my position on JobBridge and other initiatives. What is next year's target for JobsPlus in terms of numbers? It has been a successful programme and is one of the schemes that we should encourage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That is my question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There is no specific training budget so it is not the same.