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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Community Employment Scheme: Discussion with SIPTU (17 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Is that FETAC level 5?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Community Employment Scheme: Discussion with SIPTU (17 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Would level 6 take another year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Community Employment Scheme: Discussion with SIPTU (17 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I hope Mr. Darragh O'Connor heard what the officials from the Department of Social Protection had to say. They highlighted some of the changes that are coming but some of the questions and issues raised by Mr. O'Connor were not fully addressed. Can Mr. O'Connor tell me the cost of a FETAC level 5 child care course and how long such a course takes to complete? Can it be done within a year...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Minimising Unemployment: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (17 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There are a number of issues I want to raise but I will try to be brief. It is a huge area and it is important that we get it right and do not further exacerbate the problems. How are we to going to address the issue of recruitment for many child care schemes, particularly those catering for people with a disability? A figure I was given by Citywide indicated an 84% drop in applications...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Minimising Unemployment: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (17 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Gabhaim buíochas le Mr. Egan agus a fhoireann as ucht teacht isteach inniu. Tá sé tábhachtach go bhfuil an plé seo á dhéanamh againn sula dtagann an tuairisc chun cinn. It is important that we have this discussion, I hope, before finalisation of the policy report and that we have some input or that the views expressed today will have a bearing on what will...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Peace Process (17 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the recently released UN report, 27 August 2012, which states that Gaza will not be liveable by 2020, barring immediate action; if he has raised the damning report with the Israeli Government; and if he will take any action on this report. [44802/12]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (17 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the group styling itself the Patriotic March, an amalgamation of civic society groups and individuals in Colombia; his views on whether it is a new and positive development that will encourage civil participation and engagement; and whether they be afforded the necessary security and space...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Availability (17 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Finance the tax reliefs available to a person who has their jeep adopted with a swivel chair to allow access by a person with a disability with the work done by a HSB recommended person; and if where the jeep was originally purchased has any bearing on the entitlement to relief. [45262/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seeker Accommodation (17 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of accommodation centres closed by the Reception and Integration Agency since August 2012, and the decreased number of asylum seekers spaces taken out of the system as a result of the closures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45285/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seeker Accommodation (17 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the cost to the State, paid in excess capacity versus occupancy, in the provision of accommodation for asylum seekers, from May 2010 to 1 October 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45286/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seeker Accommodation (17 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the recommendations contained in the Value for Money and Policy Review, Reception and Integration Agency, Final Report May 2010, have not been implemented in regard to excess capacity, which as of 16 September 2012 was running at 14.7%, which represents 852 excess bed spaces; the cost of this excess capacity; the person in the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seeker Accommodation (17 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the residents of Lisbrook House, Galway, who with their belongings were on a bus awaiting transfer to another accommodation centre, were instructed to get off the bus, take their belongings and return to Lisbrook House; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45288/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seeker Accommodation (17 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times since taking office he has visited the offices of the Reception and Integration Agency, at Bishop’s Gate, Dublin 2; the number of times and at what interval he is directly briefed by senior staff within the Reception and Integration Agency regarding the excess cost to the State of running an excess capacity over actual...

Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: In the first six months of this year, the refusal rate for the invalidity pension was 87%. It shows an increase in the refusal rate for those medical-based payments. Will the Minister comment on that significant increase in the first six months of this year?

Other Questions: Disability Allowance (16 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Does the Minister agree that the significant rise in the number of people applying for disability allowance is a consequence not only of the downturn but especially the added difficulty that people with a disability have in accessing employment at this stage? It is very disappointing to have the refusal rate as high as it is, at 62%. Is the Minister concerned that in 2011, one in three of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare (16 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I wish to return to the issue of child benefit. Is the Minister aware of the Central Statistics Office survey on income and living conditions which also demonstrates that the income of families fell five times more than the incomes of childless households between 2009 and 2010? It is not always the Minister's fault and we accept that. She inherited chaos but she has added to it. We also...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare (16 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am talking about the suggestion of the Minister, Deputy Noonan.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare (16 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not either.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare (16 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: How much time do we have?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare (16 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will deal first with my question about child benefit. I realise the Minister cannot say specifically what will happen in the budget but there have been a number of proposals, one of which is that child benefit be cut by €40 and that a separate top-up system be put in place. Is the Minister seriously considering a two rate child benefit system, to include a top-up system? Does she...