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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (16 Jun 2016)

John Brady: 74. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) who has a pension under the invalidity pension scheme can obtain a certificate under the primary medical certificate scheme so as to recoup vehicle registration tax. [16451/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (21 Jun 2016)

John Brady: 276. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the report and review on the impact of the reduced jobseeker payment rates for jobseekers 18 to 25 years of age, as committed to in the Pathways to Work 2016-2020 strategy has commenced; and if not, when it will be undertaken. [16698/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Offices (21 Jun 2016)

John Brady: 285. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the future of the social welfare office in Swinford, County Mayo; if he can assure people in east County Mayo that there are no plans to close the office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16818/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (21 Jun 2016)

John Brady: 298. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of allowing lone parents in employment whose children are between seven and 14 years of age to receive the jobseeker's transition payment and the family income supplement if they meet the qualifying criteria. [16999/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (21 Jun 2016)

John Brady: 299. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of making the jobseeker's transitional payment and the Student Universal Support Ireland grant payable to lone parents who are undertaking an educational or training course for the duration of the course regardless of the age of the youngest child in the family or whether the family is in receipt under the rent supplement scheme. [17000/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Parks Projects (21 Jun 2016)

John Brady: 337. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the State will acquire land (details supplied) as part of an expanded Wicklow Mountains National Park. [16697/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Motorised Transport Grant Closure (21 Jun 2016)

John Brady: 344. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reinstate the motorised transport grant and, if so, the timeframe for its reinstatement. [16688/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (21 Jun 2016)

John Brady: 345. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a survey carried out by an inter-agency group to identify gaps in services for persons under 18 years of age experiencing substance abuse in east Wicklow (details supplied); the measures he is taking to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16913/16]

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2016 (Resumed) (22 Jun 2016)

John Brady: I thank the Minister for his speech. I am surprised by Fianna Fáil Deputies speaking out of both sides of their mouths. They failed to mention that they were in government and implemented many of the cuts to which reference has been made.

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2016 (Resumed) (22 Jun 2016)

John Brady: Fianna Fáil cut rent supplement when it was in power and also initiated the cuts to social welfare for those under 20 years of age.

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2016 (Resumed) (22 Jun 2016)

John Brady: Absolutely. It is surprising there is no increase in funding for social protection. One would think we lived in some sort of utopia, with no serious social or economic difficulties facing massive sections of Irish society. The programme for Government acknowledges that Irish people have worked hard for the economic progress we now have. The Government continued to pat Irish people on the...

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2016 (Resumed) (22 Jun 2016)

John Brady: While the Government can talk about GDP growth and Ireland having the fastest growing economy in Europe, we are also a country with 1.3 million people experiencing deprivation, thanks to Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael.

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2016 (Resumed) (22 Jun 2016)

John Brady: According to CSO figures and research carried out by Mandate, three quarters of a million people living in poverty-----

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2016 (Resumed) (22 Jun 2016)

John Brady: May I speak without interruption from Deputy Willie O'Dea?

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2016 (Resumed) (22 Jun 2016)

John Brady: Obviously I have touched a raw nerve with Deputy O'Dea.

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2016 (Resumed) (22 Jun 2016)

John Brady: It is important that Fianna Fáil is reminded-----

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2016 (Resumed) (22 Jun 2016)

John Brady: Yes. I thank the Acting Chairman.

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2016 (Resumed) (22 Jun 2016)

John Brady: In research carried out by Mandate, one in ten people are experiencing food poverty, which is nearly half a million citizens. We have a crisis in housing, healthcare and education. We have families struggling to feed their children and heat their homes. Poverty is rising among children and pensioners as well as among people with disabilities and carers. Lone parents are among the most...

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2016 (Resumed) (22 Jun 2016)

John Brady: -----something Fianna Fáil had as part of a policy document it produced only last year. Last year, Fianna Fáil had this as a policy.

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2016 (Resumed) (22 Jun 2016)

John Brady: The Sinn Féin legislation would have saved renters up to a €1,000 per year. Yet, Fianna Fáil decided to go against its own party policy to run along with its coalition partners, Fine Gael. This really begs the question as to why Fianna Fáil did not go into coalition with Fine Gael in the first place-----