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Employment Support Services. (13 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: A declining number are placed.

Employment Support Services. (13 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: It is a very low number.

Budgeting Advice. (13 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: We all accept that MABS provides an excellent service. All of us, on a regular basis, refer constituents to it for support and assistance when they get into debt. However, it is not tolerable that the MABS service operates on the basis of 53 separate, independent companies around the country. For a long time, the Government has been promising to introduce legislation. There was a Bill in...

Budgeting Advice. (13 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: What is the timescale for that?

Budgeting Advice. (13 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: That has been going on for years.

Budgeting Advice. (13 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: I cannot understand why it is taking so long. While I accept the Minister is not very long in office, one must ask what his predecessor was doing for the past five years, from the time the Bill was scrapped in 2002. Was any work done within the Department regarding MABS? It is all very well paying lip service, saying this is a great organisation which does fantastic work, but if that work...

Employment Support Services. (13 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: I told the Minister I believe there is a strong case for merging the income support and employment support services, which is the tendency in many OECD countries. I ask that the Minister keep an open mind in this regard and consider it for the future. Has the memorandum of understanding shared by the Department and FÁS achieved the desired outcome? The Minister stated it is under review,...

Employment Support Services. (13 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Does the Minister accept that the only way there will be a client-centred approach is through institutional reform? The emphasis should be on clients, whether they have income support needs at a particular time, education needs or employment needs. These responsibilities should not be divided between various Departments. One need only see the institutional reform that has taken place at...

Social Welfare Benefits. (13 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: On the payment issue, on which progress has not yet been made, is the Minister committed to introducing a parental allowance which would, as proposed, be payable irrespective of whether there are one or two parents in a family or whether the parent or parents are working? If he is so committed, what is the timescale for introducing such a payment?

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 139: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason for the long delay in processing claims for family income supplement; the target time set down for his Department in relation to processing claims; and the action he is taking to address the significant backlog. [5231/08]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (13 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 125: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the plans he has to extend the number of hours a carer may work and still retain entitlement to carer's allowance and carer's benefit. [5232/08]

Written Answers — Company Closures: Company Closures (13 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 249: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will intervene to assist former employees of a company (details supplied); if to date any redundancy or other payments have been paid to employees; and if not, the steps his Department is taking to assist former employees. [5498/08]

Written Answers — School Meals Programme: School Meals Programme (13 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 270: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his Department will give early approval to a DEIS school (details supplied) in Dublin 11 for inclusion in the free school lunch scheme. [5497/08]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (13 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 272: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when, in view of the continuing rise in rents, he will improve the maximum rents available to rent supplement recipients. [5442/08]

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (13 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 345: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the severe accommodation problems in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 11; the position in relation to the negotiations between her Department and the authorities of another school in relation to the acquisition of that building for use by the Gaelscoil; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Local Government: Local Government (13 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 419: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide details of each of the ministerial orders made under section 24 of the Local Government Act 1994 and Part V of the Local Government Act 1991, relating to the fixing of the number of council members in a local electoral area. [5652/08]

Written Answers — Local Government: Local Government (13 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 420: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the respective dates when the number of council members were last fixed in respect of each city and county council and in each case to provide the legal reference for the ministerial order. [5653/08]

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (19 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 227: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will request the Health Service Executive to ensure that a locum is employed to replace a dermatologist in the Mater Hospital who is currently on long-term leave as patients are currently having their appointments deferred for 12 months; and if she will ensure that alternative arrangements are made in order that a patient...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (19 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 351: To ask the Minister for Transport the course of action open to a group of pensioners of Dublin Port Company whose pensions are linked by agreement to the salary of a Secretary General of a Government Department but who have been denied the pay award of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Sector of June 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6537/08]

Written Answers — Mortgage Interest Supplements: Mortgage Interest Supplements (19 Feb 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Question 425: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people in receipt of a local authority mortgage interest supplement in 2005 and 2006; the number in receipt of private mortgage interest supplements in 2005 and 2006; and the expenditure on these schemes in 2005 and 2006. [6852/08]