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- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (18 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: The client concerned should provide the Department with an up to date Rent Supplement application form and lease agreement confirming increase in their monthly rent. On receipt of this documentation, the client's rate of Rent Supplement entitlement can be re-assessed.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Maintenance Payments (18 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: The issue of maintenance payments is first and foremost a private matter for the person concerned, and if the matter cannot be resolved, for the courts through family law provisions. Under family law, it is possible to apply to the court for an Attachment of Earnings Order. An Attachment of Earnings Order can be sought if the person is in employment, on a social welfare payment or on a...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (18 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance (DCA) was received from the person concerned on the 16th September 2015. This application has been forwarded to one of the Department’s Medical Assessors for their medical opinion. Following receipt of this opinion, a decision will be made by a Deciding Officer and notified to the person concerned. It can currently take 12 weeks to...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: What I think is unfair on Irish families is that five years ago yesterday Fianna Fáil brought the troika into Ireland-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----and delivered desperate circumstances to many families across the country.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I say to Deputy Barry Cowen-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I agree with Deputy Barry Cowen that it has been a very difficult and long road for many Irish families. Those families who bought in the year or two before the crash generally had the benefit of tracker mortgages. In terms of what happened to the banks-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----as we know, the banks were basically-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: They were broken by the failure of the former Taoiseach and his Minister for Finance to take any action to safeguard them.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: I said-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: When I appeared before the banking inquiry, I laid out what I had said and did. I gave very good advice to people. It is in everybody's interests that we have banks that are working.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Deputy Barry Cowen spoke about people moving their mortgages from one bank to another, but what he did not address - I do not know if he is familiar with this - was the fact that for a number of years many banks offered customers deals with improved interest rates. I do not know whether the Deputy is recommending that people should consider or take these deals-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: They are advertised by all of the banks, particularly the two larger banking institutions where various deals have been negotiated. I am sure at a constituency level the Deputy must have dealt with people who have been exploring these deals and seeking advice on them. For many, it may not be the interest rate reduction to the level the Deputy is talking about, but many of the offerings...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: Furthermore, as Deputy Barry Cowen knows, where people have issues and cannot cope with their mortgage repayments, we have a series of structures which we established-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----including the Insolvency Service of Ireland and so on. However, I assume Deputy Barry Cowen is talking about people who are paying their mortgage but want a better deal on the interest rate charged.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy's suggestion is that they switch mortgage provider. As he pointed out correctly, not many people have availed of mortgage switching-----
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: -----but it is important that people seek better deals which have been and are available from a number of banks in changing terms over a period of years.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: No.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: And it was.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)
Joan Burton: For a party that announced to the national media-----