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- The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (29 Jan 2009)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister cannot even get his sums right. The amount in question is â¬400 million.
- The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (29 Jan 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Does the Minister take any responsibility?
- The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (29 Jan 2009)
Róisín Shortall: How does the Deputy propose to do that?
- The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (29 Jan 2009)
Róisín Shortall: This is all just rhetoric.
- The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (29 Jan 2009)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister should provide details.
- The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (29 Jan 2009)
Róisín Shortall: There is plenty of rhetoric but not much detail.
- The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (29 Jan 2009)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister should try being honest about the situation. What attempt will she make to look after the unemployed?
- The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (29 Jan 2009)
Róisín Shortall: It simply is that more people are travelling north.
- The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (29 Jan 2009)
Róisín Shortall: What about all the high earners who are not paying any?
- The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (29 Jan 2009)
Róisín Shortall: We will believe it when we see it.
- The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (29 Jan 2009)
Róisín Shortall: We will believe it when we see it.
- The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (29 Jan 2009)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister put them at ease.
- The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (29 Jan 2009)
Róisín Shortall: And the Government will look after the vulnerable, I am sure.
- The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (29 Jan 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Just as the Government did in the budget.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Jan 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 125: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in County Dublin who is applying for mortgage interest supplement has been required to produce a letter stating his or her father's role as guarantor of his or her original mortgage loan; the relevance of same to the application for mortgage assistance; the further reason he or she...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Offices: Social Welfare Offices (29 Jan 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 126: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will open a social welfare office in Ashbourne, County Meath to meet the needs of social welfare claimants in Ashbourne, Ratoath and Dunshaughlin in view of the large increase in population in these towns in recent years and the significant number of people in this area who have lost their jobs and have to travel to...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (29 Jan 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 127: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the arrangements, when there is a sharp appreciation of the euro, to allow for a review of the means of claimants who are in receipt of a pension or social security payment from a non-eurozone country and a reduced rate allowance payment from her Department; the way the rate is set in respect of sterling; the regularity with...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Jan 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 128: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of claimants whose allowance payment is reduced because they are also claiming payment, pension or income from the UK. [2888/09]
- Social Welfare Code. (3 Feb 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 102: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will review the rules applying to jobseeker's allowance for the assessment of self-employed persons and contract workers to social assistance payments in view of the sudden drop in income affecting both sets of workers. [3534/09]
- Social Welfare Code. (3 Feb 2009)
Róisín Shortall: I wonder if the Minister is aware of the scale of the problem. In recent years, a significant number of people were forced to become self-employed. In many cases self-employment is not a matter of choice. For example, it has been difficult to secure regular employment in the building industry because contractors have insisted that those working for them are treated as being self-employed....