Results 3,561-3,580 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Employment Support Services. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: Question 107: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the improvements she will make to the back to education allowance and the back to work enterprise allowance in order that unemployed people can avail of these supports within a few months of their signing on the live register. [35949/08]
- Employment Support Services. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: Does the Minister accept the budget should be judged on two issues, whether it is fair and whether it helps the economy and jobs? The public has given a clear answer on the first and the budget is clearly not fair. With regard to jobs, not only is the Government making matters more difficult for people who find themselves unemployed in terms of cutting their entitlements, but the budget has...
- Employment Support Services. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: The qualifying criteria for these schemes were designed in a different era for a very different problem. Why must a person who becomes unemployed wait at least 12 months before being permitted to avail of the back to education allowance in order to attend a third level course? Surely an unemployed person should be encouraged in every way possible to avail of further training to enable him...
- Employment Support Services. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister knows that is not what I am talking about.
- Employment Support Services. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: I am not talking about the age limit, I am talking about the time lag.
- Employment Support Services. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: Why does the Minister force people to remain unemployed for longer than they need to be?
- Employment Support Services. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: That is what she is doing.
- Employment Support Services. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: Nobody is talking about that.
- Employment Support Services. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister knows that is not what I am talking about.
- Employment Support Services. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: I am not talking about 18 year olds.
- Employment Support Services. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: What is the reason for the time lag?
- Employment Support Services. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: What about the people who do not get statutory redundancy?
- Employment Support Services. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: Many people do not get statutory redundancy.
- Employment Support Services. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: The Government has done that for people who get statutory redundancy.
- Employment Support Services. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: Yes.
- Employment Support Services. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: Many people losing their jobs now unfortunately do not get statutory redundancy.
- Employment Support Services. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister is penalising them further by forcing them to wait.
- National Carers Strategy. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: There has been considerable slippage in the delivery of the Government's undertaking. Is it a case of the Government not giving adequate priority to the work of carers? The programme for Government states: "Ensure a National Carers' Strategy focusing on supporting informal and family carers in the community will be developed by the end of 2007." That is a delay of ten months. It would be...
- National Carers Strategy. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: The Government knew that when it drew up the programme for Government.
- National Carers Strategy. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: It seems that it slipped off the Minister's desk.