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Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister responded and I am replying to her points, outlining that An Post has a preferred status of some sort, because she states that the Bill strengthens it. There is no mention of An Post now in the social welfare code as having any additional status. There was an agenda and I think this Bill continues the agenda to open up the delivery of all services. The Minister argued also...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have no problem, but I will not be rushed on this point.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have no problem with that, but as I have said, this is the most controversial part of the Bill. I am responding to the Minister, who raised this issue. I have argued that more and more transfers from the State should go through An Post, which prevents fraud, although it is awkward for some people to get to a post office in person to claim their payments. If we are serious in our efforts...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will follow up on the last point about the mechanisms for this and other social welfare legislation. I welcomed the fact that the budget was brought forward to October. I have been my party's spokesperson on social protection for some time and have had to deal with guillotines being applied to virtually every social welfare Bill in the last ten or 12 years. On rare occasions, the No. 2...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. 1: In page 6, to delete lines 7 to 9.A number of further amendments are consequential on this one. Given the tight timeframe, however, they were not proposed in the exact order desired by the Bills Office. They deal with the primary issue, that is, the removal of An Post from the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005, which brings all of the relevant Social Welfare Acts...

Other Questions: Social Welfare Rates (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I was not expecting a discussion on budget 2015 which we will have in October, but many changes can be made by ministerial order. Some of what we are discussing is Voted expenditure, but in many instances savings have been made, for example, through increases in employment or because so many unemployed persons have emigrated. I asked the Minister a question when we discussed the Social...

Other Questions: Social Welfare Rates (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 88. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will raise the possibility of restoring any of the cuts made by the current or previous Governments to social welfare payments in the context of the upcoming budgetary process or in advance of same; and her views on whether the PRSI yield, which is significantly ahead of profile in the year to date, gives her some scope to do so. [24120/14]

Other Questions: Social Welfare Rates (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I mentioned this matter last week. I am not asking the Minister to give information about budget 2015.

Other Questions: Social Welfare Rates (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am not asking the Minister about that because at issue is money the Minister will have that will remain unspent. This is voted expenditure and it could be reassigned within the Department without having recourse to a budgetary measure. I am calling on the Minister to consider the €138 million she has gained so far this year and use it to help those whom she has punished in recent...

Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Applications (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I acknowledge that the changes made in recent years have been beneficial, in the main, in that people are not waiting as long as in the past. However, it is still very frustrating for those who make an application for carer's allowance or another allowance and who, on inquiring about their application, are told that processing has not even begun and or that it will take a number of months....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Funding (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Paid for their work.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Funding (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The figure is 29%.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Funding (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Look at the figure in the report - 29%.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Funding (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Indecon report has a figure of 29%. The Minister is wrong. She has not read it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Funding (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Twenty-nine percent of the companies have written people off.

Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Applications (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 123. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current waiting times for carers' allowance applications; the reason for the delays; if she is concerned by the distress and hardship these delays give rise to; and the further steps she will take to speed up processing times. [24119/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Funding (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Michael Taft is not my economist and hopefully he is nobody's economists. I think he is an independent economist and was probably closer to the Minister's party in the past than mine. The Minister mentioned independent research but she has never quoted the following fact from her Indecon report. One of the questions to the employers was whether they would employ someone if JobBridge was...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Funding (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: And multinationals.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Funding (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Companies should pay these people.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Internship Scheme Funding (10 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister is not at the Labour Party hustings now.