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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes (7 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 92. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the pay claim submitted by the rural social scheme and Tús supervisors to the Department for pay parity with community employment supervisors. [54239/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes (7 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: This might be a bit peculiar, but I may be able to offer some clarity on the previous question. Deputy Barry might be interested. My understanding is that people would still qualify through a means test for jobseeker's allowance and would be awarded whichever is the higher payment. If they were not disqualified by means test, which lower and middle-income workers would not be, they would...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes (7 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I am trying to be helpful inasmuch as I can.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes (7 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will ask my question. It relates to the rural social scheme. The issue of community employment supervisors has progressed, which is welcome. At that stage, the Minister of State said there was a need to look at all schemes, which would include the rural social scheme and Tús. There is currently a pay claim with the Department in respect of people on the rural social scheme, who are...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes (7 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Whichever payment is the higher can be claimed. That was my sense of it as well. I am sorry for that unusual intervention but it just occurred to me. I wanted to reassure myself. I appreciate that the Minister of State has acknowledged, correctly, that the schemes are different in nature, although there are certain similarities. Having said that, I understand the rural social scheme and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Support Services (7 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 90. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider reviewing the wage subsidy scheme for people with disabilities, in particular the fact that the subsidy an employer is paid has not kept pace with the increases in the minimum wage. [54238/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Support Services (7 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Tá mé ag cur ceist ar an liúntas pá do dhaoine le míchumas. This question relates to the wage subsidy scheme and I raised it previously in committee with the Minister for Social Protection. Concern has been expressed that the wage subsidy scheme has not kept pace with the increases in the minimum wage, thus reducing the differential advantage for employers to take...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Support Services (7 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: This is an important scheme. It creates an incentive for employers to take on people with disabilities and reduces any costs that might be associated with same. It makes it easier for employers to take on people with disabilities, which is important given the unemployment rate among people with disabilities. There are lots of obstacles to employment, some of them cultural and others more...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Support Services (7 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: If we are hoping that employers are taking long-term decisions when they decide to take on people with disabilities, which we should be, then we need to offer them a certain amount of predictability. I know the subsidy is not currently linked to the minimum wage but the Government should consider linking the two. I appreciate that the subsidy is not small and that it was increased. It...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (7 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 109. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the fact that, standard disregards for maintenance that apply in the means testing of other payments, do not apply in the means testing of the Guardians payment non-contributory. [54244/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Procurement Contracts (7 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 117. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the tender for EmployAbility which was due to be published in April 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54242/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Legislative Measures (7 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 154. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the proposed legislation on child maintenance system changes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54241/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 155. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the Guardians payment, specifically where a relative is approved for child benefit, that this would then lead to the automatic signposting to the Guardians payment for the relative. [54240/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Consultations (7 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 156. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the consultation of the ‘working age payment’ model mentioned in the Green Paper on Disability Reform; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54243/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach and I thank the Minister. I have been asked by Deputy Ward to step in for him. He cannot make it today and he gives his apologies. I also apologise for my own delay. Our thoughts remain with those who are recovering in hospital and we hope they are doing okay. Notwithstanding some of the concerns I have institutionally, I pay tribute to the gardaí on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The first conversation the Minister had with the Commissioner was at approximately 2.50 p.m. At that stage did he brief the Minister on the suspected attacker? Did he express any concern at that stage about the possibility of disorder or malign elements exploiting it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: In the first conversation he expressed concern that there was potential for disorder.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That is not quite the same question. Did he express concern that there was the potential for disorder? If not on that phone call, at what stage did he first express this concern?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It does not need to be the exact language. It is a sense that there was something happening-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I take the point of the Leas-Chathaoirleach but learning from what happened on the day is a policing matter. It is of concern for the future. With regard to the Minister's own awareness, at what stage during the day did it occur to her that we could be dealing with a very serious situation, aside from the very serious stabbing? When did it seem to her that we were facing a very serious...