Fianna Fáil TD, Willie O’Dea will lead the debate on a motion to ensure that all victims of child sex abuse whose perpetrators have been convicted can seek redress from the State tonight in the Dáil. The Fianna Fáil motion seeks to amend the scheme for ex-gratia payments from the State to victims following a […]

Fianna Fáil’s Employment Affairs and Social Protection Spokesperson, Willie O’Dea has said that the move to change eligibility for State Pension to 68 should not take place until the new system for calculating pension entitlements is in place, and up and running. “There is some unease, and it’s an unease that I share, that the […]

“Community Employment Supervisors and Assistant Supervisors are being frustrated in their attempts to secure occupational pensions by a Government that is unwilling to follow previous Labour Court recommendations,” said Fianna Fáil’s Spokesperson on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Willie O’Dea. Deputy O’Dea was commenting ahead of his party’s PMB on the matter which will be […]

Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Employment Affairs and Social Protection Willie O’Dea TD has cautiously welcomed the changes announced today to Jobpath which Fianna Fáil has been actively campaigning for. The changes announced will facilitate access, from 1st June this year, to Community Employment (CE) and Tús schemes for long-term unemployed jobseekers that are engaging in […]

Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Willie O’Dea has said that the scandal of food poverty is this Government’s inconvenient truth. Deputy O’Dea was commenting after a recent analysis by the Society of Vincent de Paul (SVP) of requests made to last year showed that the most prevalent issue being reported is […]