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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 number of questions. The figures for farm assist are significantly reduced. Can the Minister indicate the reason for that? Are farmers doing a good deal better this year than other years?

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Some farms are doing better but other farms will not have done as well. That is the nature of farming but it is a substantial drop in a year in terms of farm assist. On the redundancy and insolvency section, which I believe falls under the working age income supports, RTE ran a story about the recovery of redundancy debt and suggested that in 2011, for instance, only a very small portion...

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The big challenge for the State, as Deputy O’Dea said, is to ensure the Social Insurance Fund is large enough to deal with an increasingly ageing population. Yesterday, I attended an Age Action conference at which representatives of all parties were questioned on various issues by an audience of pensioners. The Minister would do well to speak with her party colleague, Councillor Mary...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Cessation (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 73. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 460 of 27 May 2014 the reason FÁS are not paying the Enhanced Redundancy in accordance with the agreement signed up to by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment and the Trade Unions SIPTU and IMPACT in 2002 and amended in 2005. [33324/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Drugs (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 1014. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reinstate Edecrin on the list of drugs covered under the medical card. [33925/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 1313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason there is no phase 2 apprenticeship course in electrical, available in the Ballyfermot Training Centre, despite 500 apprentice electricians with year 1 completed on a waiting list and a fully equipped electrical training rooms sitting vacant. [33674/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 1314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for the future for the newly equipped apprenticeship plumbing training rooms in the Ballyfermot Training Centre now that the course is transferred to Finglas. [33675/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelscoileanna Issues (17 Sep 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 1450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cad é an staid maidir le Gaelcholáiste Phort Láirge faoi láthair. [34156/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Report on “A Good Death”: Office of the Ombudsman (16 Jul 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I congratulate the Ombudsman on this report. I hope it will have the intended effect of bringing about a guaranteed minimum service or standard. Ms McNally raised the point of why there are not many complaints. Some of this relates to the Irish approach to death, as has been noted, and if somebody dies, people may not want to resurrect issues surrounding the death or dwell on the matter so...

Order of Business (16 Jul 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Ba mhaith liom ceist a chur maidir leis an nGarda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2014. The House has discussed a number of scandals recently. There are a number of measures that the Minister intends to introduce in the forthcoming Garda Síochána (amendment) Bill. The Cabinet agreed the heads of that Bill on 1 July. Is it intended to put that before the committee in the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (16 Jul 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 128. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the expected total spend on jobseeker's allowance and social welfare allowance to recipients under the age of 26 in 2015. [31969/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (16 Jul 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 129. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 251 of 9 July 2014, if the figure of €163 million is based on paying the maximum weekly rate of €188 to all those in question under 26 or on applying a maximum weekly rate of €188 to all those in question under 26; and if the figure is based on the former what is the estimated cost of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Administration (15 Jul 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Tánaiste referred to progression rates. A recent article listed the number of people who have taken part in JobBridge, the number currently on the scheme and the number of interns who subsequently found employment in the Department in which they did an internship. It found that of 261 interns in Departments, only one was offered a job and in that case the offer was for a six month...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Administration (15 Jul 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The figure for the subsequent employment of interns in Departments is 0%.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Administration (15 Jul 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 64. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the decision to withhold the names of 68% of the companies benefitting from a significant public subsidy via the JobBridge scheme; her views that this creates a secret competitive advantage for those companies funded by the State; her further views that her Department was correct to give companies the option of not having their name...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Administration (15 Jul 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Cosúil leis an Teachta O'Dea, ba mhaith liom comhghairdeas a ghabháil leis an mbeirt Airí agus tá súil agam go mbeidh an chuid seo do thréimhse Rialtais i bhfad níos fearr ná an chuid dheireanach agus go mbeidh siad in ann déileáil le roinnt de na ceisteanna a d'ardaigh muid le tamall. This question is to find out whether the Tánaiste...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Administration (15 Jul 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: As I stated, I received a partial freedom of information response within which I obtained some of the briefing documents with which the Tánaiste is provided when answering questions, one of which was from November 2013. At that point, in the event of a question being asked about what control measures the Department of Social Protection had in place to monitor internships, the Department...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payments (15 Jul 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 80. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will cancel the latest change to the one parent family payment and freeze any further reductions of the scheme in view of the Government's failure to deliver the promised child care. [30869/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Review (15 Jul 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 86. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure that the travel pass scheme is fully protected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30867/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Administration (15 Jul 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 89. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the NESC finding that 23% of households are underemployed, which is more than twice the EU average, if she is concerned that the JobBridge scheme may be exacerbating the underemployment crisis; if her Department has researched the link between the availability of free labour via the JobBridge scheme and the poverty of hours crisis in...