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Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (27 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: I appreciate that, but we are asking about people who are not incarcerated.

Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (27 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: This new conditionality does not apply to general applicants.

Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (27 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: I appreciate that the PRSI threshold has also been increased. The amendment put forward by myself and Deputy Penrose had a particular objective, which the Minister's amendment appears to achieve. When is it intended to increase the minimum wage? The Minister said she would do so as soon as practicable. However, I thought it was the Government's intention to bring the increase to the...

Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (27 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: I thank the Minister for her explanation of this new amendment which did not appear on Committee Stage. I look forward to the future amendment regarding old age pensions. I do not want to delay proceedings unduly but I wish to check one point with the Minister. Is amendment No. 3 proposing a new section specifically directed at people who at the time they were in receipt of illness...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (27 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 274. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter regarding pensions for community employment supervisors (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49313/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Legislative Measures (27 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 302. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the timetable for the passing of the Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016 through all Stages in the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49311/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (26 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the acceptable requirements to receive approval for time served teaching outside the EU; the reason overseas private primary schools are considered acceptable and secondary schools are not; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49019/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 294. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the long waiting list for children who wear orthotics; if there is a problem with funding for same in mid-western areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48700/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (26 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 439. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will address a matter relating to early years services (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48726/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (26 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 462. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48553/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (26 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 474. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when arrears will issue to a person (details supplied) in respect of a carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48704/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (26 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 476. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made regarding a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied) that is ongoing since January 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48716/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (26 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 493. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been reached regarding the date on which the entitlement of a person commenced (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48993/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (21 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 237. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason there has been such a delay in publishing the new road map or national action plan for social inclusion; when it will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48321/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: The Minister mentioned legal advice from the Attorney General's office. I understood, when I raised this during parliamentary questions, that this had been farmed out to a third-party lawyer. Did this advice come directly from the Attorney General's office or an outside lawyer? I suppose it would be too much to ask who the lawyer was. We have not seen the legal advice. It may not be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: There is a certain artificiality about the whole process. Some of the Minister's answers are disingenuous, to say the least. She responded to a question I asked about school transport by speaking about SUSI, even though I had not said a word about SUSI. I said there was an insistence that people appealing decisions on school transport would have to produce the PSC. That was the position,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: That is my understanding.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: It may not have been an insistence, but that was certainly the direction in which it was travelling.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: What was the purpose of the Data Protection Commissioner investigation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)

Willie O'Dea: Just a minute now. The purpose of the Data Protection Commissioner's investigation was to ascertain whether it is obligatory under the legislation for the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection to insist on the production of a PSC by those applying for social welfare. The purpose of the investigation we are talking about was to examine the attempt to extend that mandatory...