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Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: -----but not everything the European Union demands of us must be implemented in the way it often is implemented by the Government. There are concerns about society, changes therein and the need to protect institutions that serve society best. I am aware there has been an ongoing exchange in the EU about postal workers. This is more a concern for the Minister for Communications, Energy and...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Second Stage (4 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: In the short time available to me this evening, I will deal with only one aspect of the Bill before returning to its main provisions tomorrow. This is, in the main, innocuous legislation. Its only urgent provision is in section 16, which deals with an EU directive from 2010 and, therefore, addresses an outstanding matter that was not addressed when other parts of the directive were adopted...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Annual Report 2013: Office of the Ombudsman (4 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Speaking in my other role, I welcome the report. I shall not go over ground that others have covered on the discretionary medical card and the mobility allowance. I am interested in two areas. The first is the outstanding cases which Emily O'Reilly as Ombudsman had raised over the years and which to date have not been fully concluded. We have just talked about one of them, the mobility...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Annual Report 2013: Office of the Ombudsman (4 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will now ask members for comments and questions. A range of issues is contained in the report and what Mr. Tyndall presented is just a flavour of it. It is a report that I have looked forward to for many years and I have encouraged as many members of the public as possible to engage with the Office of the Ombudsman. If Mr. Tyndall ever gets waste management, I wish him well because the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Annual Report 2013: Office of the Ombudsman (4 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The main business of the meeting is consideration of Office of the Ombudsman's annual report for 2013. I remind all present, including members, media representatives and the public, that mobile phones and BlackBerry devices, must be turned off completely or switched to flight or safe mode as they interfere with the sound system, even if left in silent mode. Cuirim fáilte roimh Mr. Peter...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (4 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Before we deal with the main business of the meeting, I want to deal with the draft report on the design and layout of ballot papers. Members will recall that at the last meeting I asked them to have a final look at the report and notify to the secretariat recommendations or changes by 2 p.m. on Friday, 30 May. I am advised that none was received. Last week it was agreed that the report,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (4 Jun 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason two local training initiatives that are held in a youth centre (details supplied) in Dublin 12 and have in excess of 30 participants signed up, are being blocked from commencing the courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23865/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Industrial Disputes (29 May 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 92. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if his attention has been drawn to the fact that strike action has been voted for by the 35 security and cleaning staff of the National Gallery of Ireland, starting 5 June, as a consequence of the gallery management's attempt to reduce staff members' annual leave below a nationally agreed standardisation of 32 days and its attempt...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Industrial Disputes (29 May 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 93. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if his attention has been drawn to the fact that strike action has been voted for by the 35 security and cleaning staff of the National Gallery of Ireland, starting 5 June, as a consequence of the gallery management's attempt to reduce staff members' annual leave below a nationally agreed standardisation of 32 days; and the steps he...

Guerin Report: Statements (Resumed) (28 May 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I repeat something I said last night in discussion during Private Members' business on a Bill to try to address some of the issues that have come up over the years and to address the need for change in the justice system. The Government has indicated it will move on some of the measures and hopefully this will be done fast. The issues have hung around for a number of years since the Garda...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 May 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Cuirim fáilte roimh an mBille seo, mar aon leis an mBille a bhí ann anuraidh. Tá sé tábhachtach agus tráthúil go bhfuilimid ag plé é seo agus go bhfuil sin tosaithe, mar tá gá le hathrú suntasach, agus go dtarlódh an t-athrú sin go tapaidh. I congratulate the Minister on her promotion. I have a degree of confidence as...

Order of Business (27 May 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We do.

Leaders' Questions (27 May 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: They are poor. The Government has left them impoverished. It has not provided jobs for them.

Leaders' Questions (27 May 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: They have been under the Government's watch.

Leaders' Questions (27 May 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: He stood by the Fine Gael Party.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Budgets (27 May 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 321. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of moneys reallocated from the Department of Social Protection to other Departments in 2013 and 2014 including the size of the moneys; if the moneys arose from an underspend or from an increase in PRSI income; when the reallocation was made and to which Department. [22474/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (27 May 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 425. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of times Article 38 was notated in the remarks field on ISTS system from 2009 to 2014 broken down by year and where possible, the categories or payments to which discretion was applied; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22759/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Expenditure (27 May 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 386. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of increasing family income supplement payments to 70% of the difference between the income limit for family size and the family's assessable income. [22456/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Expenditure (27 May 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 387. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of households in receipt of a family income supplement payment; the total number of children this involves; and the size of the average FIS payment. [22457/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Expenditure (27 May 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 389. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of increasing the qualified child increase by €5, €7.50 and €10, respectively. [22459/14]