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Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I asked several questions that have not been answered. One was about the youth guarantee and how that is going to affect the number of young people on jobseeker's allowance and whether there is an intention to change the different scales of jobseeker's allowance. The other question was why a higher figure is expected from control savings for this year than for the same amount of reviews...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: In some ways, this section has a little bit of good news in it but it is not reflected in the figures because they change on a regular basis in terms of the numbers on the live register. Obviously, the number on the long-term list is not dropping fast enough. There has been a drop in the number of long-term unemployed but that is not reflected. If the trend this year continues, there would...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: For the better. I did not mean the Garda station but the dole office. I never had to sign on in a Garda station in my life.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The changes which occurred even in the year or so since I last visited the office were interesting. I would have attended with constituents on a number of occasions. I find it is often easier to deal with the social welfare inspectors on the telephone. I get a quicker response than when I had to attend in person. The service is changing. Most of the business is carried out in quite a...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: They were not met in 2012. I asked if the target will be achieved or exceeded this year and what is the target for next year.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: -----rather than decrease, the effects of a good controlled saving. A major review was done last year and the year before. I must give credit to the Department for exceeding its targets in 2012. From what I hear, it will probably exceed them again this year.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: By that scale there will not be savings of the same scale in the future because the work has been done and accuracy is in place. There will always be mistakes such as clerical errors or people making mistakes when filling out forms. Computerisation and cross-referencing implies that savings should decrease. Is it predicted that savings will decrease in 2014 and 2015?

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will come back to the point I made in the general comments because it is related to pensions. I have no issue with the €190 million extra that must be paid. I am not seeking to make an issue of it. However, it is a substantial amount of money, the equivalent of 15,000 additional pensioners coming out of nowhere. That means there is something wrong with the forecasting or the...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am not advocating that we not absorb it. My problem is not with that. In planning for next year the Department will prepare an estimate of what needs to be spent on pensions. Somebody will calculate the current number of pensioners, the number that will die and the number that will come on stream. The problem is that when that figure is calculated there is a difference of approximately...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Again, I do not have a problem with that. However, we are making the wrong assumptions if we are missing 15,000 people in our projections. If the Department projects that the expenditure will be a certain amount, but by the middle of the year it decides it is an extra €190 million, that is the equivalent of 15,000 pensioners. However, I will leave it at that. The other issue is...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister mentioned the social welfare and social transfer contribution to local economies. Any cut or change in the amounts given, taking into account the figures given here, of €484 million less in terms of social welfare payments or supports and €190 million the previous year, makes a combined sum of over €670 million which is no longer in the local economy. While...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (26 Jun 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 36. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the failure of the Spanish Government to enter significant negotiations to formulate a peace process with pro-independence Basque groups; and if he has raised the issue with the Spanish authorities. [30778/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (26 Jun 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 56. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Afghani Government has taken over complete control of security in the country; his views on whether this is a positive and timely development; his views on the recent break down in negotiations between the Afghani Government and the Taliban [30774/13]

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Jun 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister dismissed, as Deputy Catherine Murphy said, a tame amendment. I put down a number of amendments. We are restricted in how we can frame amendments on a constitutional Bill, especially one which had as its target the abolition of the Seanad. One has to work within those confines and I obviously failed in my amendments because they were ruled out. That is not to say that the...

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Jun 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Government is moving very close to such a regime.

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Jun 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I support the amendment. There should be no undue restriction on citizens who want to vote for a candidate of their liking. I have a problem with the Bill as a whole and, while I understand that my amendments were ruled out of order because they were not in the spirit of a Bill that proposes the complete abolition of the Seanad, we cannot have a proper debate on Committee Stage if other...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Status (25 Jun 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 84. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a progress report on the development of the new National Children’s Hospital [30394/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospice Services (25 Jun 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 142. To ask the Minister for Health the additional support that will be provided to the three existing children’s hospitals pending the completion of the new hospital at the St. James’s site, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30395/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (25 Jun 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an application for a replacement of prefabs will be successful in respect of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30306/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (25 Jun 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 562. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Health Service Executive has failed to deal with a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 [30187/13]