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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (23 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 46. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the rationale for the cut of €58 million from the housing budget, including €15.3 million from local authorities and €14.4 million from approved housing bodies, respectively, in the context of almost 112,000 applicants on the housing waiting lists and increasing difficulty for rent supplement and RAS...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (23 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 70. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on whether the reduction in spending on social housing by €700 million from 2010 to €80.9 million for 2014 is regrettable and regressive. [44808/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Council Funding (22 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 102. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding that will be available to the Arts Council for the coming budgetary year; if he intends to increase the level of funding available to the Arts Council; the way in which the funding for the last budgetary year was spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44241/13]

Other Questions: National Internship Scheme Placements (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: In the past the Minister has accused me of being opposed to JobBridge. Before she does so again, I wish to put it on the record that I have never opposed JobBridge per se. I have called for its reform and I wish all of those who get work from JobBridge or under their own steam well in those jobs. However, I believe the Minister is a disgrace. She is turning her back on the unemployed,...

Other Questions: National Internship Scheme Placements (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The fact that the JobBridge steering committee is weighed down by departmental officials might be one of the reasons a number of people in JobBridge are in the public service. Why is there no trade union representative or representative of the unemployed on that steering committee? In contrast, an anti-union company which recently announced the lay-off of 280 paid workers has two...

Other Questions: National Internship Scheme Placements (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is the chief executive officer of Hewlett Packard in Ireland. Anybody can Google his name and it is on the Department's website.

Other Questions: National Internship Scheme Placements (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Why did the Minister appoint him to a jobs council at the same time as he was laying off 280 workers?

Other Questions: National Internship Scheme Placements (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There is compulsion in Tús.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget 2014 (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister obviously did not answer one part of the question tabled. No assessment has been properly carried out that poverty-proofs or equality-proofs the Minister's 2014 budget measures. Otherwise, she might have answered the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget 2014 (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister cannot seriously claim that young jobseekers have the capacity to absorb a €44 cut in their core weekly welfare rate. What poverty-proofing was undertaken of this measure, instead of allowing the Minister to heap hardship on young people and their families? Is she aware that the consequences of her actions will be increased homelessness for young people and emigration?...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget 2014 (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is a cut.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget 2014 (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is not the Minister's party's philosophy.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget 2014 (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Does the Minister agree with SIPTU's assessment that this measure will drive young people into working for no pay or leaving the country? Does she agree with the ICTU's evidence that there are not enough jobs to go round for young people?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget 2014 (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Work fair.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget 2014 (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 2. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has conducted research assessing the capacity of those targeted by Budget 2014 to absorb the changes affecting them; her views on the impact the changes to social transfers will have on poverty and employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43513/13]

Standing Orders: Motion (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have welcomed positive changes to Standing Orders since I was appointed my party's Whip in 2002. I am one of the longer serving Whips in the House. In that time I have tried to engage positively with and come to consensual agreement on any package any Government has introduced to make the workings of the House better, make it more accountable and reflective of society. I have...

Standing Orders: Motion (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I objected to the timeframe for this debate. We do not even have a copy of Standing Orders on which we can work. It was the Fine Gael and Labour Party Whips who blocked Dáil reform in the last Dáil because they could not get one change accepted, namely, that the Taoiseach take Leaders’ Questions on a Thursday. We do not see the Taoiseach here on a Thursday.

Business of Dáil (17 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Ceann Comhairle inputs it.

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...