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- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: I want choice.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: Will the Tánaiste meet them?
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: Is the Tánaiste going to meet them?
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: The Tánaiste will be aware there has been a massive investment in the post office network for several years. I am sure she will acknowledge that this happened primarily during the lifetime of the previous Government. Yes, some of those running post offices took the decision when this upgrading was being carried out to take voluntary redundancy which resulted in closures.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: There are 1,150 post offices across the country in which 3,700 people are employed. What is happening is up to the Government and its policies. Post offices play a vital part in communities and are a serious focal point for the elderly and families living in rural areas.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, may I have the floor, please? I am raising a serious issue.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: Banks have closed in many smaller towns. Garda stations have also been closed and sold. Post offices have to be protected and enhanced. Department of Social Protection payments account for 30% of the business of the post office network. The spin-off value of people buying other items is as high as 50%. The contract for making social protection payments is worth €25 million per...
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: The Tánaiste will have an opportunity to respond. Whether it is accepted by her, there is genuine concern among postmasters that their businesses will end up being closed, mainly due to the fact that the Department of Social Protection is issuing forms instructing people to change their method of collection to their bank accounts.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: The concerns of postmasters have been independently verified in a report commissioned from Grant Thornton in 2014. The Tánaiste has taken many policy decisions which have irked particular groups across the country.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: Her decision, however, to send forms to people to select bank accounts in which to receive social protection payments threatens to lead to the closure of up to 400 post offices.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: Postmasters are simply asking for a level playing field, but they are not getting it. The Tánaiste is undermining the future and viability of post offices. Will she confirm that it is the Government’s intention to maintain the current network at 1,150 post offices? Will it invest the much needed funding to allow post offices to develop an electronic transaction account which...
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: It was declared in the register of Members’ interests and during the general election.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: 72. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied). [29863/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: 76. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied). [29966/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: 77. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied). [29967/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: 78. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied). [29968/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud Data (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: 87. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of fraudulent payment claims identified in each of the past four years; the monetary value of these; the percentage of these that were claimed, through the post office; through electronic funds transfer. [29981/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: 94. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a review under the carer's allowance scheme in respect of a person (details supplied). [30095/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: 95. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [30096/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: 96. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [30097/15]