Results 2,961-2,980 of 4,782 for speaker:Olwyn Enright
- Social Welfare Benefits. (11 Nov 2008)
Olwyn Enright: Will the Minister clarify the budget brief on education funding? It states: "This will require a reduction in the provision of 500 places on the back to education initiative â reducing the total number of places to 9,000".
- Social Welfare Benefits. (11 Nov 2008)
Olwyn Enright: It is still equally important.
- Social Welfare Benefits. (11 Nov 2008)
Olwyn Enright: I am entitled to a supplementary question.
- Social Welfare Benefits. (11 Nov 2008)
Olwyn Enright: For example, a person going on the live register on 31 October would be ineligible for a college course which commences in September or early October next year because he or she will not have been in receipt of the relevant social welfare benefits for one year. People are having to wait a month short of two years to fulfil the criteria for eligibility for the course. This needs to be...
- Social Welfare Benefits. (11 Nov 2008)
Olwyn Enright: I asked specifically about third level.
- Social Welfare Benefits. (11 Nov 2008)
Olwyn Enright: Only if they are participating in that programme.
- Social Welfare Benefits. (11 Nov 2008)
Olwyn Enright: It is not available to everyone.
- Social Welfare Benefits. (11 Nov 2008)
Olwyn Enright: Only if they are involved.
- Social Welfare Benefits. (11 Nov 2008)
Olwyn Enright: Not everyone is involved.
- Social Welfare Benefits. (11 Nov 2008)
Olwyn Enright: We want to get to the bottom of matters.
- Departmental Staff. (11 Nov 2008)
Olwyn Enright: Question 94: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will provide details on the transfer of the Combat Poverty Agency to the Office for Social Inclusion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40024/08]
- Departmental Staff. (11 Nov 2008)
Olwyn Enright: The Minister's reply raises quite a few questions. It is utterly cynical and disingenuous of the Minister to introduce the proposed amendments on Committee Stage. She knew at least last Wednesday, two days after the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill was published, that she was going to bring in these changes, and I do not see why she could not have published her intentions in...
- Departmental Staff. (11 Nov 2008)
Olwyn Enright: The Government did not take its ideas on board.
- Departmental Staff. (11 Nov 2008)
Olwyn Enright: As does the HSE.
- Departmental Staff. (11 Nov 2008)
Olwyn Enright: The Minister filed the reportââ
- Departmental Staff. (11 Nov 2008)
Olwyn Enright: A Chathaoirligh, I am entitled to ask a supplementary question.
- Departmental Staff. (11 Nov 2008)
Olwyn Enright: The report was commissioned through the Minister's Departmentââ
- Departmental Staff. (11 Nov 2008)
Olwyn Enright: The next question deals with it anyway.
- Departmental Staff. (11 Nov 2008)
Olwyn Enright: The Acting Chairman let the Minister go on.
- Social Welfare Benefits. (11 Nov 2008)
Olwyn Enright: I welcome the fact that changes are to be made in the legislation to enable people to purchase houses in voluntary schemes. That is important. I do not know whether the Minister read the Focus Ireland submission on housing last week. The main problem with the rent supplement scheme is that the capping levels do not reflect the market value, particularly in certain areas. We all know of...