Results 2,861-2,880 of 4,782 for speaker:Olwyn Enright
- Employment Support Services. (21 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: They will not deal with people on a one-to-one basis.
- Employment Support Services. (21 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: A difficulty that has not been solved.
- Employment Support Services. (21 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: That is not what I asked about.
- Employment Support Services. (21 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: Nothing is happening. There is no progress.
- Social Welfare Code. (21 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: Question 110: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her view on the recent statement by the Combat Poverty Agency that budget 2009 fails to protect the most vulnerable in society and will impact negatively on low-income households; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36038/08]
- Social Welfare Code. (21 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: If anything ever showed the need for an independent agency, it is that answer. I will ask for the Minister's opinions. The Combat Poverty Agency is an advisory body that uses evidence-based proposals to combat poverty. Recently, the Minister stated that the agency was established when people needed to focus on combating poverty. Given this statement, does the Government believe that we no...
- Social Welfare Code. (21 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: The Government gives it with one hand and takes it away with the other.
- Social Welfare Code. (21 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: Does the Minister believe that the targets will be met in the agreed timeframes? In light of the budget, the Combat Poverty Agency believes it cannot be done. Will the Minister guarantee the agency's independence now that it will be subsumed into her Department? Will the new body, be it the "Office of Social Inclusion" or so on, be able to make statements on the next budget as the Combat...
- Social Welfare Code. (21 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: The poor are getting poorer.
- National Carers Strategy. (21 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: It was also a commitment.
- National Carers Strategy. (21 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: So the programme for Government is meaningless.
- National Carers Strategy. (21 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: Why promise it?
- National Carers Strategy. (21 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: For 2007.
- National Carers Strategy. (21 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: It is pathetic to discover that staff in the Minister's department can work on only one project at a time. The programme for Government contained a commitment to devise a national carers strategy and to introduce a Green Paper on pensions. We are currently awaiting the White Paper on pensions. Is the Minister now saying there will be no progress in this regard until the carers strategy is...
- National Carers Strategy. (21 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: The bodies representing carers have described this year's budget as a bitter blow.
- National Carers Strategy. (21 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: The Minister is making commitments she does not intend to honour.
- National Carers Strategy. (21 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: When will that be? The Minister has given a ridiculous answer.
- National Carers Strategy. (21 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: Clearly not.
- Social Welfare Benefits. (21 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: The Minister is doing a great deal of cherry-picking in that she is taking the line of reports which back up what she is saying and is stating other reports which do not agree with her are "interesting". The Minister needs to take on board what the Vincentian Partnership had to say. A person who moves from living in a two person household to a one person household is given an increase of...
- Social Welfare Benefits. (21 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: The Government had 11 other years during which it could have done something in this area.