Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Community Employment Schemes Eligibility

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

85. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if her Department is insisting that community employment supervisors must retire at the age of 66, regardless of their ability to continue in the post; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39795/14]

Poverty Impact Assessment

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

97. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if her Department conducted an equality and poverty impact assessment of budget 2015, including an examination of the cumulative impact of budgetary measures over the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39798/14]

Household Benefits Scheme

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

100. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of a weekly social welfare payment who do not receive the household benefits package and who consequently will not receive any assistance with the water charges to be introduced next year and the difference between the size of the new payment in the household benefits package and the relevant average annual bill. [39797/14]

Departmental Programmes

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

114. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her plans to privatise the Department's Jobs Ireland website and if her attention has been drawn to the experience of same in Britain where the website once outsourced became rife with fake jobs. [39794/14]

Labour Activation Projects

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

115. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on her proposal to privatise social welfare services via JobPath. [39796/14]

Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

193. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if the 25% Christmas bonus will be paid to all participants on all activation programmes, for example Tús, Gateway, community employment, JobBridge and so on. [40386/14]

Office of Public Works Projects

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

254. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans for the Office of Public Works site at a location (details supplied) in Dublin 8. [39779/14]

Garda Vetting Applications

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

332. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the delay in processing an application for Garda vetting in respect of a person (details supplied); and when they may expect a decision on their case. [40174/14]

Child Protection

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

354. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures he has taken to ensure that the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport and the Department of Education and Skills ensure that every organisation under their auspices and every organisation they grant-aid in any way is fully compliant with the code of ethics, the duty to care and the children's first guidelines. [40463/14]

Counselling Services

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

368. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a counselling service (details supplied) in Dublin 8 may have to close before Christmas due to a 48% cut in funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39775/14]

Home Help Service Provision

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

421. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health if persons (details supplied) in Dublin 12 will be granted an extra hour of home help a week due to the rapid deterioration of health. [40031/14]

National Children's Hospital

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

461. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health his views that there are question marks over the award by his national paediatric hospital development board of a mechanical and electrical engineering contract relating to the new children's hospital to a company (details supplied) earlier this year, including basic mathematical errors in calculating their score in the tendering process, which in fact would have put them behind at least one other bidding company; his further views that everything relating to this large public contract was above board, and that there will not be any further delay in the building of the long-awaited hospital as a result. [40335/14]

Student Grant Scheme Eligibility

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

528. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the decision by the Student Universal Support Ireland not to award a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6W a student grant to allow her to finish her final year of her degree because she could not provide SUSI with a utility bill from October 2007, despite providing it with all other requested documentation, including proof of independent residency at her current address for the past five years. [40245/14]

Motor Tax Exemptions

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

551. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 has received a motor tax bill for vehicles which they do not drive and are housed in a warehouse despite having a declaration of non-use which they thought was an ongoing declaration and not an annual one as now it transpires; and the option they have to remove the charges levied on them. [39874/14]

Child Protection

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

614. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the allegations regarding lack of child safety guidelines and code of ethics, their poor procedures and other matters raised in relation to the treatment of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 22 by an association. [40460/14]

Sports Organisations

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

615. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Athletics Association of Ireland is answerable to the Irish Sports Council in relation to the production and implementation of a code of ethics, the duty to care and the Children First guidelines in clubs within its association. [40461/14]

Child Protection

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

616. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm that each sports club in receipt of grant aid must have a child safety policy and a code of ethics in place prior to their application being considered or granted. [40462/14]

Pension Provisions

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

10. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason the 2008 Labour Court recommendation on a pension scheme for community employment supervisors was not implemented. [39452/14]

Child Benefit Data

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

11. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of children in the State in respect of whom child benefit is not being paid. [39457/14]

Child Benefit Data

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

12. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of children in respect of whom an application for child benefit has been made but who have failed the habitual residence condition test. [39458/14]