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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...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Initiative (15 Jul 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 91. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the JobPath tender process; the number and names of companies that submitted a bid; and if any of the companies that bid have had involvement in the delivery of the work programme in Britain. [30868/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Household Benefits Scheme (15 Jul 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 93. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has conducted research or engaged with others to establish the impact of the loss of the telephone allowance component of the household benefits package on older persons and those with disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30866/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Housing Data (15 Jul 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 366. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of the 2,756 persons accommodated by the new communities unit who had a letter of housing need from a local authority; and the number of the 2,756 that were on a waiting list for social housing with a local authority. [30846/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: After-School Support Services (15 Jul 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 403. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the size of the afterschool child care scheme is demand-led or if there is a cap on places; if the announcement on the 8 July 2014 of changes to the eligibility rules governing the scheme also involved an increase in the capacity of the scheme and, if so, the amount. [31549/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Care Services Provision (15 Jul 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 404. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the size of the community employment child care programme is demand-led or if there is a cap on places; if the announcement on the 8 July 2014 of changes to the eligibility rules governing the scheme also involved an increase in the capacity of the scheme and, if so, the amount. [31550/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Multi-annual Budget Plans (15 Jul 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 478. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of migrant led organisations that applied for the SSNO funding programme; the number of migrant led organisations here successful in receiving this funding in the recent allocation of SSNO funding to successful applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31034/14]

Business of Dáil (11 Jul 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Sinn Féin also objects to the time allocation. We are sitting on a Friday, and we have no problem with that. We have a problem with the fact that most of the Members of the House will not have the opportunity to have their say on the proposal the Government will put before us, the supposedly new direction and the new Cabinet. Twenty minutes for each party leader is inadequate. There...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Stability Programme Data (9 Jul 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 135. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the breakdown of the €261 million identified by his Department in the Ireland's Stability Programme April 2014 Update, as the amount by which net voted expenditure at the end of March was below the estimated profile; if he will clarify any moneys that have been returned to the Exchequer from the Department of...