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Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: The Minister, Deputy O'Sullivan, was Minister of State with responsibility for housing and planning for four of those years. It is a shameful legacy. It is in contrast with the attempt to claim all credit for implementing the recovery initiated by the late Brian Lenihan. This Government - Fine Gael lite - has created a situation in which rental prices have now risen beyond the reach of...

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: Four months living in a hotel. There is a couple who have slept in a turf shed under the Minister's watch for the last six months-----

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: -----waiting to be housed.That is the Government's legacy. The Government has left council staff in a hopeless situation, unable to offer houses and with no option but to direct people towards the private rental accommodation market.

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: However, there is no supply in that area. The Government has secured a ceiling of supports, which the Tánaiste stubbornly refuses to move, contrary to the advice of all the experts in that area and organisations working on the front line of homeless people in this country. The Labour Party turned its back on the homeless and vulnerable. The Tánaiste who styles herself and her...

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: -----a roof over the head of a child who will sleep in a turf shed.

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: That is the Government's legacy. Its intransigence is fuelled by the ethos of its senior party in Government. The Labour Party has become Fine Gael blue lite.

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: The homeless statistics make for grim reading. Over 700 families and over 1,500 children are now living in emergency accommodation. Alongside them are over 6,000 individuals, many of whom have been waiting years in emergency accommodation. The Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, boasts about his spending on homelessness during his tenure as Minister. This money is not being spent on keeping...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (26 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: 313. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive a hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2770/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: ESB Networks (21 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: 160. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will mandate that Electricity Supply Board Networks meter readers receive An Garda Síochána clearance before being employed, given the recent arrangements entered into by the company with regard to meter readers and given that their roles bring them onto private property, including entering into private...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Appointments to State Boards (19 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: 92. To ask the Taoiseach the names of the persons he has nominated to serve in positions carrying remuneration, other than out-of-pocket expenses, on commissions, industrial, assurance, semi-State or other similar concerns; the amounts received annually in respect of each appointment; the name of the concern to which the appointment was made during the years 2011 to date; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Services for People with Disabilities (19 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: 108. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the full-year cost of making all Intreo offices and services accessible to persons with disabilities by the end of 2016; the cost of providing disability training to all staff who are not already trained in disability awareness; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1989/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance (19 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: 109. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the full year cost in 2016 of increasing the disability allowance by €6, €7, €7.50 and €8 per week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1990/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Citizen Information Services (19 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: 111. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the funding allocated to and the actual expenditure by the sign language interpretative service from 2012 to 2015 in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2030/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (19 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: 413. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full-year cost in 2016 of extending the Fund for Students with Disabilities to students participating in part-time education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1983/16]

Topical Issue Debate: Mobility Allowance Review (13 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: I am disappointed it has taken three years. This scheme, and the Minister of State's response, is the same as the response she gave in February 2013. It is the same number of citizens with a disability who are ring-fenced by the current arrangement, or by inertia. My concern is for the many other citizens in society who do not have the same capacity to fully integrate and play an active...

Topical Issue Debate: Mobility Allowance Review (13 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: This Government prides itself on putting equality at the front and centre of every decision it makes and every policy it pursues. Almost 1,000 days ago, it abolished the mobility grant scheme, which allowed for transport supports and allowances to be provided to people with disabilities. The Minister of State will be aware that earlier today, disability campaigners from across the country...

Topical Issue Debate: Mobility Allowance Review (13 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Appointments to State Boards (13 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: 72. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the names of the persons she has nominated to serve in positions carrying remuneration, other than out-of-pocket expenses, on commissions, industrial, assurance, semi-State or other similar concerns; the amounts received annually in respect of each appointment; the name of the concern to which the appointment was made during the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Appointments to State Boards (13 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: 198. To ask the Minister for Finance the names of the persons he has nominated to serve in positions carrying remuneration, other than out-of-pocket expenses, on commissions, industrial, assurance, semi-State or other similar concerns; the amounts received annually in respect of each appointment; the name of the concern to which the appointment was made during the years 2011 to date; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Appointments to State Boards (13 Jan 2016)

Colm Keaveney: 257. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the names of the persons he has nominated to serve in positions carrying remuneration, other than out-of-pocket expenses, on commissions, industrial, assurance, semi-State or other similar concerns; the amounts received annually in respect of each appointment; the name of the concern to which the appointment was made during the years...