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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (20 May 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 1222. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the extension to the pandemic unemployment payment will follow the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business; if persons will no longer be eligible for the payment once their industry or place of employment is allowed to reopen as envisaged in the roadmap; if allowances will be made for persons who cannot return to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (20 May 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 1223. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if students that were working part-time or on an ad hoc basis will continue to receive the pandemic unemployment payment once it is extended in June 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5941/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (20 May 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 1224. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the length of time the pandemic unemployment payment will extended for; the estimated expenditure on same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5942/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (20 May 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 1220. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the expenditure to date on the pandemic unemployment payment; the number in receipt of the payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5938/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Revised Estimates Publication (20 May 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 1225. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when approval by Dáil Éireann for a new estimate for Vote 37 will be required; the process for approving same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5943/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Eligibility (20 May 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 1226. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if changes are envisaged in June 2020 to illness benefit for Covid-19 related absences in terms of rate or eligibility criteria; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5944/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (20 May 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 1233. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration is being given to enable workers who have not taken some or all of their statutory annual leave entitlement due to Covid-19 to be able to carry weeks of accrued but untaken annual leave over into the next two leave years as is allowed for in the UK; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6068/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (20 May 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 1271. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the occasions on which section 202 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 has been utilised since it came into effect; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6620/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (13 May 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 136. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a person (details supplied) who was a public sector worker is entitled to a supplementary pension at 63 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4796/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Communications Masts (13 May 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 1013. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the procedure for appealing against a decision by the Commission for Communications Regulation endorsed by the local authority to install a 5G mast in a neighbourhood; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5420/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (13 May 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 1160. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application for a domiciliary care allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4498/20]

An Bille Sláinte (Caomhnú agus Cosaint agus Bearta Éigeandála Eile Ar Mhaithe Le Leas an Phobail), 2020: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Mar 2020)

Willie O'Dea: The problem is that employers can only look for the rebate if they pay an amount in excess of €203 per week to their employee while that employee is out of work. In such a case, they can recoup the €203. However, where an employer can afford to pay, say, €50 or €100 per week, what is the position?

An Bille Sláinte (Caomhnú agus Cosaint agus Bearta Éigeandála Eile Ar Mhaithe Le Leas an Phobail), 2020: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Mar 2020)

Willie O'Dea: If they exceed the level of €305 they can only get one payment. Is that correct?

An Bille Sláinte (Caomhnú agus Cosaint agus Bearta Éigeandála Eile Ar Mhaithe Le Leas an Phobail), 2020: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Mar 2020)

Willie O'Dea: My amendment has also been ruled out of order. I simply wanted the Government to say what it intends to do by way of regulation on the face of the Bill in plain language. I cannot understand why that cannot happen. The Minister's colleague, the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, announced today that the signing-on process would be on a fortnightly basis from here on in....

An Bille Sláinte (Caomhnú agus Cosaint agus Bearta Éigeandála Eile Ar Mhaithe Le Leas an Phobail), 2020: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Mar 2020)

Willie O'Dea: I am inclined to agree with Deputy Brady. Practically all the social welfare amendments have been ruled out of order on the basis that they are a charge on the Exchequer. I put down an amendment to prevent the Government from introducing regulations to impose additional conditions of entitlement to the increased illness benefit payment in section 40(A)(1)(e). For the life of me, I cannot...

An Bille Sláinte (Caomhnú agus Cosaint agus Bearta Éigeandála Eile Ar Mhaithe Le Leas an Phobail), 2020: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Mar 2020)

Willie O'Dea: I had intended to withdraw amendment No. 27. On the other amendments ruled out of order, the intention of the Government is to raise the basic rate of illness benefit from €203 per week to €305 per week. As the Minister knows, a person with dependants receives a certain percentage - I think it is 70% - of the adult dependant rate and there are also certain rates for child...

An Bille Sláinte (Caomhnú agus Cosaint agus Bearta Éigeandála Eile Ar Mhaithe Le Leas an Phobail), 2020: An Dara Céim - Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Bill 2020: Second Stage (19 Mar 2020)

Willie O'Dea: I want to say a few words on sections 3 to 7, inclusive, the sections relating to social protection. First, I want to congratulate the staff in the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection for the tremendous work they have been doing for the past fortnight under immense pressure. While I welcome the move by the Government to make special provision for people who are in receipt...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Humanitarian Assistance Scheme (5 Mar 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 1173. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of the funding available to businesses and individuals affected by flooding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3709/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Coronavirus Outbreak (5 Mar 2020)

Willie O'Dea: 1174. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding persons that have to take time off work including those that are told to self-quarantine and those whose workplaces close for a period of time due to Covid-19; the social welfare supports available to them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3710/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (18 Dec 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 457. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has approved the business case to fund local authorities to rent from cuckoo funds; the projections he has made for HAP spending; his views on whether this represents value for money as a permanent policy; if a cost-benefit analysis of this and other solutions has been undertaken; and if he will make a statement on the...