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- Order of Business (7 Mar 2012)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Bliain ó shin, nuair a cuireadh an clár Rialtais le chéile, thug an Rialtas geallúint go ndéileáilfeadh sé go práinneach trà reachtaÃocht le cúrsaà a bhaineann le siopaà agus gnóthaÃ. B'shin an cheist faoi athbhreithnithe ardaitheacha amháin ar chÃosanna, upward only rent reviews. In ainneoin go ndúirt an tArd-Aighne nach raibh reachtaÃocht cuà sa chás seo, toisc go...
- Written Answers — Census of Population: Census of Population (6 Mar 2012)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 74: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress made on publishing the 1926 census; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12481/12]
- Oifig an Choimisinéara Teanga (6 Mar 2012)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 95: To ask the Aire EalaÃon; Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta an bhfuil sé chun a chinneadh ar an gCoimisinéir Teanga a athrú. [12567/12]
- Social Welfare Benefits (1 Mar 2012)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 5: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the scope, format and timeframe of the review she is conducting of the domiciliary care allowance scheme; if she is seeking views specifically from parents; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the notice period given in advance of the review of a child's payment is too short to allow for the parent to gather the medical...
- Social Welfare Benefits (1 Mar 2012)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: In January I welcomed the Ministers intention to review the domiciliary care allowance - nobody has a problem with a review. Will the Minister commit that the advisory group on tax and social welfare will consult with the carers association and parents organisations on the domiciliary care allowance? Most people are not aware that the group that is reviewing whether to cut the disability...
- Social Welfare Benefits (1 Mar 2012)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have raised the issue because most parents I have dealt with were not aware of a review date. Sometimes if one rings up in advance one can get the date but one is not informed at the start that there will be a review in one, two or three years. It does not matter much whether they are informed at the start or whether notice goes out with sufficient time for them to make the preparation to...
- Social Welfare Benefits (1 Mar 2012)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: What if the pre-notice was not changed?
- Community Employment Schemes (1 Mar 2012)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I attended the launch of the Pathways to Work initiative to familiarise myself with the considerable change proposed. I was surprised to find the realignment of one third of the places on community employment schemes. My question is simple. There are 22,300 CE places at present. Of that, a number are termed "special CE". Does the realignment relate to one third of the total minus that...
- Community Employment Schemes (1 Mar 2012)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That response deals with the drugs places but there are others related to child care, disability places and a whole range that has built up over the years. If these are deducted from the 22,000, how many of the CE places are realigned to the new one-year figure?
- Employment Support Services (1 Mar 2012)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Yesterday, I attended a joint committee meeting at which a presentation on the major information technology challenges was given. The achievement of the targets that have been set in Pathways to Work will also be challenging. Is the Minister confident that the extension of profiling to almost all new claimants by the end of this year, as set out in Pathways to Work, will be achieved? Has...
- Control Savings (1 Mar 2012)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Comptroller and Auditor General said that the Department's current practice of including all overpayments arising from control activity as bankable savings, is questionable. I will explain that control savings are where there are no controls and no inspections. Michael Taft said it would be like the gardaà estimating the number of murders that might take place over time if there was no...
- Control Savings (1 Mar 2012)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Department should have more inspectors.
- Control Savings (1 Mar 2012)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister is not employing more social welfare inspectors.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (1 Mar 2012)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 15: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has read the report Seven is too Young, published by OPEN; if she will reconsider her decision to reduce the one parent family payment cut-off from 14 by 2016 to 7 by 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11867/12]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (1 Mar 2012)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 21: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will make changes to the family income supplement scheme to allow for a more regular review of the payment level especially in circumstances when the family suffer a reduction of income through their working hours being reduced because under the current system a family must wait until the full 52 week period concludes before the...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (1 Mar 2012)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 137: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of lone parents receiving one-parent family payment who are in work, yet are below the 19-hour threshold to qualify for family income supplement. [12068/12]
- Employment Support Services (1 Mar 2012)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way she intends to deliver the deeper and more regular engagement with NEES promised in Pathways to Work with fewer staff and less resources. [11950/12]
- Employment Support Services (1 Mar 2012)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I listened to the Minister's reply. I welcomed the idea of the NEES that was outlined in the presentation, in addition to Pathways to Work on previous occasions. Yesterday, the Minister lost 246 staff from the Department as a result of the early retirement scheme and she is not replacing the majority of them. The numbers applying for social welfare payments has been increasing across every...
- Employment Support Services (1 Mar 2012)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It all comes back to the fact that there are 50 jobseekers for every vacancy, which is well above the EU average. The Minister mentioned the large number of staff who have been taken on by her Department, but it has also taken on a large amount of extra work.
- Employment Support Services (1 Mar 2012)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The staff require a great deal of training. When can we expect the full roll-out of profiling, the group management or group hug-type idea and access to jobs and training, which are required if the plan is to work?