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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Consultations (19 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 546. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of consultations undertaken by her Department since 16 May 2016 to date in 2018; the subject matter and or title of the consultation; the cost of the consultation process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53697/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Data (19 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 547. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rates of poverty for persons with a disability here; the way in which this compares to the European average; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53698/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Act Employment Targets (19 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 548. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of working-age persons with a disability in employment here; the way in which this compares to the European average; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53699/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Data (19 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 549. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rate of severe material deprivation for lone parents here; the way in which this compares to the EU average; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53700/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Data (19 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 550. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the data on in-work poverty here; the way in which this compares to the EU average; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53701/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (19 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 551. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of households that have had rent supplement increased above the prescribed limits for their area in each of the years 2016 to 2017 and to date in 2018, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53702/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Voluntary Sector Remuneration (18 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 420. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the pay anomalies for section 39 staff at a centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53133/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Data (18 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 609. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of social welfare appeals lodged in each of the years 2012 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the percentage of appeals which were successful; the average waiting time in these years in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52717/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Consultancy Contracts Expenditure (18 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 610. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of money spent on external consultancy reports between May 2016 and to date in 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52718/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Funding (18 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 611. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the allocation to Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived, FEAD, Ireland in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the distribution of this funding; if funding to FEAD Ireland has increased as a result of the homeless crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52719/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Food Poverty (18 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 612. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the percentage of persons here considered to be in food poverty; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52720/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (18 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 631. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason an illness benefit payment has not issued to a person (details supplied) for six weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53140/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Eligibility (13 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 211. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position on illness benefit certificates; if the majority of general practitioners are using the new forms; if general practitioners that used old forms and photocopies have received payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52514/18]

Housing (Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability) Bill 2018: First Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to make provision for ease of access to a housing adaptation grant for people with a disability for those applicants qualifying for same and to provide for related matters. I wish to share time with Deputy Frank O'Rourke.

Housing (Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability) Bill 2018: First Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: The policy on all sides of this House, as I understand it, is that elderly or ill people should be allowed to remain in the comfort and security of their own homes, or the homes of members of their family, rather than being in nursing homes or in State care in hospitals, and so on. In order to achieve that objective, repairs or alterations have to be done to a house in many cases. There is...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: Could I ask the Taoiseach what arrangements, if any, are in place to protect the reciprocal arrangements for the receipt of State benefits between Ireland and the UK, including Northern Ireland? For example, 135,000 people in Ireland are currently in receipt of British State pensions and approximately 70,000 are in receipt of private pensions from the UK. There are also reciprocal...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: Will it be seamless?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (11 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 327. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reopen the health services of the Askeaton protocol (details supplied); if the Askeaton protocol is still used for investigations of potential emissions from industrial facilities that can cause damage to human health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51626/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (11 Dec 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 357. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reopen the health services of the Askeaton protocol, which was a major part of the Askeaton investigation in the late 1990s, following the dossier he received from a person, which was complied by a person (details supplied) into their family in Askeaton; if the Askeaton protocol is still being used for investigations of potential emissions from...