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- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Nov 2008)
Leo Varadkar: Question 418: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the processing time that it takes for each individual social welfare office to deal with a claim for jobseeker's benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41050/08]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Nov 2008)
Leo Varadkar: Question 419: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the processing time that it takes for each individual social welfare office to deal with a claim for jobseeker's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41051/08]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Nov 2008)
Leo Varadkar: Question 420: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the numbers of individuals on a national basis and by local social welfare office awaiting for their application for jobseeker's benefit to be processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41052/08]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Nov 2008)
Leo Varadkar: Question 421: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the numbers of individuals on a national basis and by local social welfare office awaiting for their application for jobseeker's allowance to be processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41053/08]
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (18 Nov 2008)
Leo Varadkar: Question 466: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will estimate the savings that would be made by suspending incremental pay increases in 2009 with regard to his Department and agencies within the remit of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41044/08]
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (18 Nov 2008)
Leo Varadkar: Question 601: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress that has been made in providing an extension and improvements to the car park in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41047/08]
- FÁS Investigation. (20 Nov 2008)
Leo Varadkar: Question 1: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she has requested that the investigation by the Comptroller and Auditor General into FÃS be a comprehensive audit of the FÃS budget or that it be limited to the aspects raised in the internal audit reports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41984/08]
- FÁS Investigation. (20 Nov 2008)
Leo Varadkar: I have three questions. The Tánaiste asked the Comptroller and Auditor General to start his inquiry straight away rather than wait for the report of the Committee of Public Accounts. Has she received a response from the Comptroller and Auditor General with regard to that specific request, and if so, what was it? Second, the Tánaiste suggested on "Morning Ireland" that she felt the...
- FÁS Investigation. (20 Nov 2008)
Leo Varadkar: Does the Tánaiste want a cover up?
- FÁS Investigation. (20 Nov 2008)
Leo Varadkar: Does the Tánaiste want a limited investigation that is done quickly behind closed doors, one that is limited to the corporate affairs situation? In my view, that would be a cover up.
- FÁS Investigation. (20 Nov 2008)
Leo Varadkar: There is usually a second opportunity.
- FÁS Investigation. (20 Nov 2008)
Leo Varadkar: I did not take six minutes.
- FÁS Investigation. (20 Nov 2008)
Leo Varadkar: I believe I took about one minute. Surely the time should be shared equally.
- FÁS Investigation. (20 Nov 2008)
Leo Varadkar: I note that the Minister did not answer whether the Comptroller and Auditor General had responded to her most recent request to expedite the issue. I agree with her that excellent work is done in FÃS and that there are some excellent people there. Does she agree that the best way to restore confidence in FÃS, if it can be restored, is to have a comprehensive investigation of the...
- Economic Competitiveness. (20 Nov 2008)
Leo Varadkar: Question 3: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason there has been no improvement in Ireland's economic competitiveness, according to the World Economic Forum report; the measures she will take to restore Ireland's economic competitiveness; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41985/08]
- Economic Competitiveness. (20 Nov 2008)
Leo Varadkar: I do not need to remind the House that Ireland is in the depths of a recession which will probably be deeper and longer than many of us anticipated. One cannot tax, borrow or cut one's way out of a recession. We will have to trade our way out of this recession and that will require restoring competitiveness. As the Minister of State indicated, Ireland has been stuck in 22nd place in global...
- Unemployment Levels. (20 Nov 2008)
Leo Varadkar: We have asked many questions about unemployment at Question Time recently and I know there will be more over the coming year. However, the overriding impression I get from the Minister's office is that there does not seem to be any serious understanding of how bad the situation is. Does the Minister of State realise that since Deputy Coughlan took up her job as Minister, when Deputy Cowen...
- Unemployment Levels. (20 Nov 2008)
Leo Varadkar: The Minister does not seem to appreciate that.
- Unemployment Levels. (20 Nov 2008)
Leo Varadkar: Does the Government realise there are now more people signing on than when Fianna Fáil came to office in 1997?
- Unemployment Levels. (20 Nov 2008)
Leo Varadkar: What I am saying is the situation is worse than it was when Fianna Fáil came to power. Take the standardised unemployment rate ââ