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Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Brendan Ryan: Is there no back money?

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Brendan Ryan: I thank the Minister of State for his explanation of the need. Is he confident that nurses would have the competence to fulfil this role? Within the medical assessor structure is there a senior medical assessor and would there be some level of supervision over this?

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Brendan Ryan: To respond, obviously we want-----

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Brendan Ryan: Dealing with backlogs and speed is important, but it is also important that the proper decisions are made. We could decide that we are going to speed it up, but it might not be the right thing to do.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Brendan Ryan: On the face of this, there could be an application for a payment with a certificate from a doctor or GP that could be rejected by a nurse.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Brendan Ryan: It would be on the direction of the nurse.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Brendan Ryan: I have yet to come across that.

Social Welfare Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2015)

Brendan Ryan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important Bill. It is also welcome to speak on a Social Welfare Bill which does not contain any cuts but, instead, welcome restorations or partial restorations of important and vital payments. This Bill is a sign of our improving economy and recovery. It does not solve every problem in social protection nor does it contain every restoration or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)

Brendan Ryan: I will be brief. First, I welcome the presentations by the three groups, which have been useful in informing the joint committee. I welcome the review announced by the Department. It had been called for by the National Youth Council and it is good to learn it is being delivered. Does the Department have a view at this point as to whether there might be a continuing need for JobBridge at a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)

Brendan Ryan: Concerns have been raised about JobBridge being used in the public sector. From my understanding and knowledge of public sector trade unions, they know their work well and I would never see a situation developing whereby those unions would allow JobBridge to be used to bypass a moratorium on recruitment.

Social Welfare Bill 2015: Second Stage (4 Nov 2015)

Brendan Ryan: No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Activation Services and Supports for the Unemployed: Discussion (14 Oct 2015)

Brendan Ryan: I thank the INOU and the officials for coming in to deal with this matter. As the Chair indicated at the start, it is a topic that we all encounter on a regular basis in our clinic work. The officials have gone through the various categories of those who are not on the live register but the one I encounter most, and probably encountered to a greater degree a couple of years ago, is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Activation Services and Supports for the Unemployed: Discussion (14 Oct 2015)

Brendan Ryan: I will pick up on the point about people's experiences of attending Intreo offices and the survey by the Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed. If Intreo and the Department want a real sense of what people experience when they go to the offices, they need to survey people on an ongoing basis. Perhaps the witnesses can tell me whether this next happens - I do not believe that it does...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Activation Services and Supports for the Unemployed: Discussion (14 Oct 2015)

Brendan Ryan: Would the Department consider the proposal to have something permanently there and say “We value your input, tell us about your experience”-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Activation Services and Supports for the Unemployed: Discussion (14 Oct 2015)

Brendan Ryan: -----and have that in situ?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Incidence (13 Oct 2015)

Brendan Ryan: 268. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in the north Dublin area who suffer with autism and have not yet been allocated an adult service after moving from a service in their childhood and teenage years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35442/15]

Social Housing Policy: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Sep 2015)

Brendan Ryan: We have a serious housing problem. The root cause is simple, namely the lack of housing supply. We are dealing with it through the Housing Strategy 2020. When we emerged from the troika shackles and were first in a position to do so, we set out an ambitious housing strategy, costed at over €3.8 billion. We have begun to build social housing units again. In Fingal County Council,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)

Brendan Ryan: I thank the Minister and her officials. I welcome what I believe the Minister said, that she would agree with working towards the New Zealand model and work with the committee to achieve it. Does the Minister hope to get close to some of the elements of the model in the context of delivering the 2016 Estimates? I hope so, and it would be a positive response to us. The Minister gave...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)

Brendan Ryan: The Ministers mentioned working with the committee towards progressing towards a New Zealand model for the 2016 Estimates. Will the Department be in a position to consult with the committee and its staff on specific details of any measures proposed for inclusion in those Estimates before the Estimate is finalised? In regard to the reference made to the Department having to hear the view...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (30 Sep 2015)

Brendan Ryan: Is the Minister happy for her officials to work with the secretariat of this committee towards achieving that?