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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pensions Reform: Discussion (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It could be an iPad also.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pensions Reform: Discussion (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I apologise for not being present for the entire presentation given by the witnesses, as I was discussing a community employment scheme with the Minister in the Chamber. I am interested in some of the points made by the Irish Brokers Association and I will take up an offer it has made to meet to discuss further the points its representatives have made here and at other times regarding the...

Topical Issue Debate: Community Employment Drug Rehabilitation Projects (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I welcome the Minister's clarification regarding the moratorium. While I was not aware that one was in place-----

Topical Issue Debate: Community Employment Drug Rehabilitation Projects (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The reason I included it in the question was that it had been raised with me by a number of groups. At least there is now clarification that no moratorium is in place and, hopefully, that will help groups to address issues. As the Minister stated, in the case of the Community Lynks Project, a review of the intake of participants is under way. The nature of these schemes is that the numbers...

Topical Issue Debate: Community Employment Drug Rehabilitation Projects (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister for Social Protectin, Deputy Joan Burton, is well aware of some of the special community employment schemes in the city of Dublin and other areas. A special community employment scheme is one which can help those participating in drug rehabilitation programmes and recovering from drug abuse. It is one way the State has helped those who are down on their luck and have managed to...

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: They have all gone.

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: They are able to find jobs in Australia and Canada.

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is not voluntary.

Other Questions: Employment Support Services (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: They are not.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister's response to Deputy Boyd Barrett is disingenuous in the extreme. To ask any Deputy from Dublin to go and work with the local authority is an absolute failure to understand that the local authorities in this city cannot cope with the problem that is being created by underfunding and under-investment in social housing. Deputy Boyd Barrett quoted figures. I will quote one that I...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That is the area I represent and I guarantee that every other Deputy in the House can say the same. Waiting for three years for a pilot scheme down in Limerick is not good enough and does not address the housing crisis in Dublin. This is a crisis and I am asking the Minister if she has had emergency meetings with her colleague Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, the Minister of State with...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister is not responsible for housing, but I asked her if she has had or will have continuous crisis meetings to address this issue. A pilot scheme in Limerick does not address it. The plan to get the construction industry going will not address it in the short term. It will take at least five years if the Government puts the money into local authorities, which it is not doing. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Payments (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: They used to be available in chemists to medical card holders.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 5. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the current rent supplement thresholds for Dublin city and county are totally unrealistic and is resulting in increased in homelessness in the city including a high level of families and will increase the threshold pending the long-awaited housing assistance payment. [11006/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Payments (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: On 1 February, the Minister brought about this change in a quiet, slíbhín manner, discontinuing a scheme which was aimed at people with a condition, such as coeliacs, stroke victims or those suffering from motor neurone disease. The Minister cited the report but it stated that there is an additional cost which has increased as a proportion of social welfare spending. This is a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Payments (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The old saying goes, "If it's not broken, don't fix it." The Minister's own report said that an additional financial burden is being placed upon current beneficiaries of this scheme. Future applicants would obviously also have benefited. The cost of these diets for coeliacs, stroke victims or people suffering from motor neurone disease has increased in the period covered by the report...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Payments (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 2. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to explain the reason for her decision to close the special dietary supplement scheme, which offered social welfare recipients who, for example, have coeliac disease or who have suffered a stroke a small contribution towards the cost of medically necessary diets, which are substantially more expensive than the typical food bills of people who do...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Work Placement Programmes (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 12. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that companies advertising job vacancies on the Intreo website are using loopholes in company law to lay off long-term employees, register new companies providing the same service, and advertise the same jobs but on a much reduced salary; her view on whether such practice are ethical; and if not, if she...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 32. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps she will take to address the rising crisis of homelessness amongst families recently highlighted by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive; her views on the contribution that the rent supplement caps make to the growing problem of homelessness; and if she has discussed the matter with the Department of the Environment, Community and Local...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Initiatives (5 Mar 2014)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 26. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the JobPath tender process. [10345/14]