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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: If she listened to the question, she might understand.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: If she listened to the question, she might understand and then be able to answer it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Will the Minister provide it?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have asked the Deputy as she is the Minister.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister said there is confidentiality.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 2. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the rationale underpinning her decision to prevent the disclosure of the names of companies which have used the JobBridge scheme in view of the significant benefits these companies derive from the work done by interns paid for by her Department; and if in the interests of deterring abuse of the scheme she will make a statement withdrawing the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am trying to get the Minister to indicate why she is refusing to disclose to the public the list of companies availing of the JobBridge internship scheme, which is a State sponsored scheme. Will she end the expectation that these companies have confidentiality, which is an expectation that she and her Department have created?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: In a letter she wrote to the Ceann Comhairle to justify her refusal to answer a similar question in the past, the Minister stated that host organisations participate in the scheme on a voluntary basis and receive no payment or other benefit from the State in respect of that participation: no benefit. What does she call 39 hours of work each week undertaken by the JobBridge participants at...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This is a State subsidy, and in each case of State subsidy, the public is entitled to know the companies that are benefiting.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister did not answer the question as usual, and she distracted people by talking about Sinn Féin's position on jobs. I have been a proposer and a supporter of some of the proposals she has brought forward, such as JobsPlus. She cut the training allowance for CE schemes, but I supported an increase in the training allowance. The Minister has created an expectation in these...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Is there any chance the Minister might answer the question?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: What about the question?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There are seven seconds left to answer the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Initiatives (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This is ridiculous. She cannot answer the question.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 39. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide update on plans to transfer responsibility for rent supplement to a new housing assistance payment; the steps she will take in the interim to address the situation whereby rent supplement recipients are being priced out of the rental market in Dublin where rents have been rising steeply. [50774/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 35. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the implications for her Department and the social welfare appeals office of the recent High Court ruling directing an appeals officer to reconsider the application by the mother of a ten year old girl for domiciliary care allowance in the context of new evidence; and if she will issue guidance on the matter to staff. [50775/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Eligibility (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 38. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will amend the rules of the fuel allowance scheme to ensure that payment is not lost by the qualified adult in the event of family breakdown. [50773/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 40. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review and amend the record of mutual commitments form to achieve a greater balance between the promises of each side. [50772/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 154. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 has been refused a medical card. [51113/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (28 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 155. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 with A. M. leukaemia has been refused a medical card on the grounds that they did not have an income although they explained that their jobseeker's allowance was stopped because they were ill and had applied for illness benefit on which a decision has yet to be made....