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Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (4 Apr 2019)

Willie O'Dea: I will get on to the CE supervisors in a moment but first I will address the Minister's reply. My reading of the Department's statement was that the situation had changed with regard to community employment schemes. Originally their primary purpose was labour activation. Now that we are down to nearly 5% unemployment, it is recognised that there is a tremendous social aspect to these...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (4 Apr 2019)

Willie O'Dea: On the CE supervisors, the Minister will be aware of the Labour Court recommendation, which is now 11 or 12 years old, that indicates that community employment supervisors should be paid pensions. There is also a Dáil motion that was passed by a majority of two to one in this House. The initial explanation from the Government for the delay in implementing the will of the Dáil was...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (4 Apr 2019)

Willie O'Dea: So the answer from the Minister is "No".

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (4 Apr 2019)

Willie O'Dea: It is a separate issue. Why does the Minister not respond to the question?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (4 Apr 2019)

Willie O'Dea: I have asked the Department four or five times and have had no response-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (4 Apr 2019)

Willie O'Dea: It is an absolute disgrace.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (4 Apr 2019)

Willie O'Dea: It is an absolute disgrace.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Pension (Contributory) (4 Apr 2019)

Willie O'Dea: I appreciate the Government's ambition for 2020 but I am getting constant queries, as, I am sure, are other Members, from constituents as to when the new system will be put in place. I cannot tell them definitively, on the basis of the Minister's reply, that it will be next year, but that is the Government's ambition. Did the Department receive submissions in the consultation process...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Pension (Contributory) (4 Apr 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 1. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the total contributions approach to calculating entitlement to the contributory pension will come into effect in 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15534/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Pension (Contributory) (4 Apr 2019)

Willie O'Dea: This relates to the Government's announcement of a new system for calculating people's entitlement to contributory old age pension, namely, the total contributions approach. The Government gave the impression that this system would be in place from 2020. Is that still the position? If that is the Government's intention, when will we see the legislation providing for it?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Pension (Contributory) (4 Apr 2019)

Willie O'Dea: From the Minister's reply, I take it there is no guarantee that it will come into effect in 2020. As a result of the consultation, the necessity for legislation, Cabinet agreement etc., it may not kick in until later than 2020. I want to ask the Minister about one or two technical aspects of the proposal. I know it is in the course of preparation and the Minister mentioned a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (4 Apr 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 31. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the review under way of entitlement to an increased rate of contributory pension; the number of cases that remain to be reviewed; when the review will be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15530/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Activation Projects (4 Apr 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 33. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the budget for activation for persons with a disability is slightly lower in the 2019 Estimates than in 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15533/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (4 Apr 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 37. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of overpayments made in 2018; the number and percentage of same which was a result of fraud; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15532/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (4 Apr 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 38. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the IORP II directive; if she will apply for a derogation for self-directed pension schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15531/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Apr 2019)

Willie O'Dea: The Government's summer legislative programme contains a commitment to introduce a patient safety Bill. Is the Taoiseach aware that 81 people were languishing on trolleys at University Hospital Limerick this morning? There were 52 people on trolleys in the emergency department and 29 people on trolleys elsewhere. I am raising this question in the context of last week's closure of a 17-bed...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Apr 2019)

Willie O'Dea: There are no beds in it.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Apr 2019)

Willie O'Dea: It was very entertaining.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (2 Apr 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 99. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will address matters (details supplied) further to the election observation briefing note; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15190/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Eligibility (2 Apr 2019)

Willie O'Dea: 234. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to consider changing the Employment Permits (Amendment) Regulations 2018 to remove dental technicians from the list of ineligible categories of employees in view of the scarcity of dental technicians and the threat to the feasibility of dental laboratory businesses arising from the failure to secure suitably qualified...