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Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This is a highly irregular and presumptuous proposal. It presumes that the motion we are about to debate on the Standing Orders will be passed and, therefore, these new criteria will kick in straightaway. I object to a motion such as that, presuming what the House would do. That is not the way to do business in any form. I have no difficulty with a Friday sitting, as we have had in the...

Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have no problem with that. Sometimes I go on a bit, but today I will try to be brief. The Government intends to change the list of Standing Orders outlined in the motion. At the Whips meeting I did not argue specifically for more time because I was in the middle of bringing forward an amendment which is on the Order Paper also. It also has to be dealt with in that short period of...

Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Positively or not, they will all be affected. Workers in the Houses and even the Fourth Estate will be affected. While some of the changes are positive, the vast majority are not practical in many ways. There are alternatives, but I will not be able to go through each of the changes and debate with Members the benefits of what I am or the Government is proposing. There will not be time to...

Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is an example because it is tied-----

Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: These are tied to a proposal to limit the time in this case. Next week the Government will limit the time available to discuss the Social Welfare Bill which has not even been published, contrary to the changes to Standing Orders suggested by the Government in its Dáil reform proposals. The same is true of the local government Bill which will be introduced on Tuesday. Members of the...

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Leave the medicine alone.

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Tánaiste does it regularly.

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: He is misleading the Dáil.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 31. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the recruitment embargo on local authorities, the paid employment opportunities that it is envisaged participants on the proposed gateway scheme will obtain once they have completed the programme. [43366/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Anti-Poverty Strategy (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 37. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the sharp rise in severe material deprivation recorded here since 2007; the likely consequences of the changes to social transfers introduced by the latest budget for the prevalence and depth of poverty. [43362/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 102. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if appendix 8 of the medical eligibility guidelines for domiciliary care allowance, on medical conditions, is still in force; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43892/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Local Drugs Task Forces Remit (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 226. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Dublin 12 Local Drug Task Force cannot sustain any further cuts to its budgets in view of the devastating impact the previous cuts have had on local services, equating to 25% since 2008, €350,608 and that future cuts will jeopardise the remaining projects. [44061/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Local Drugs Task Forces Remit (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 227. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the fact that the Dublin 12 Local Drug Task Force, similar to other Drugs Task Forces have been given the remit for alcohol in addition to drugs, the additional funding that has been given to carry out that task; and if the Health Service Executive diverted its previous spend on alcohol related projects to the taskforces to allow them carry out...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Bodies (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 228. To ask the Minister for Health when the Drugs Advisory Group last met; the agenda and outcome of the meeting. [44063/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Bodies (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 229. To ask the Minister for Health when the National Coordination Committee on Drugs met; and its role and remit. [44064/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Petitions Received (16 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Is it possible to get clarification from the Department of Education and Skills before next week on its review of apprenticeship? The second phase of that was due to start in April. Can we find out what progress has been made and when we are likely to see a report based on that because that will tie into the points raised by the petitioner?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Petitions Received (16 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I propose that we write to the petitioner giving her a transcript of what we have done to date and that the Minister's correspondence would be forwarded to her. Given that the social welfare qualification criteria are quite black and white, we should write to the social protection committee requesting that when it is considering any future pension changes or substantial changes to the social...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Public Petitions Received (16 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Mr. Liam Tuathail has raised some interesting points but a particular point he has highlighted is that the Pensions Ombudsman fully acknowledges that his contractual rights have been violated but that it was not within their power to overturn an Act introduced by the Oireachtas. Given that, and the other points raised by Mr. Liam Tuathail, it would be appropriate to refer this petition to...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I listened earlier to the Minister for Social Protection. It is a pity the debates are not organised in such a way that one could respond directly in the presence of the Minister. I will respond to the Minister for Agriculture, food and the Marine, Deputy Simon Coveney, in his capacity as a member of the Government which has just introduced a budget that unfairly targets young people. The...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: They are the latest figures available. Whose fault is it that 80,000 people left these shores last year, 80,000 the previous year and potentially many more? It is not my fault; it is the fault of the Government. The Minister, Deputy Simon Coveney, and his colleagues are the ones at the steering wheel. The Minister is taking such decisions. While Fianna Fáil caused the economic...