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Employment Support Services. (5 Mar 2009)

Róisín Shortall: I am concerned that there is a considerable overlap among the different employment services. Does the Minister accept that there is a strong argument for bringing FÁS employment services under the remit of her Department and having one coherent service to ensure people need not wonder whether they should go to the local LES or FÁS office or deal with the job facilitators in the Department...

Employment Support Services. (5 Mar 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Yes.

Employment Support Services. (5 Mar 2009)

Róisín Shortall: A large number of people will leave school this year and there will not be jobs for them. Does the Minister accept there is a strong case for ensuring that people cannot go from school on to the dole and that they will progress directly from school into a training course? This issue will arise on a large scale this year and in the coming years. That is the critical time to catch people to...

Employment Support Services. (5 Mar 2009)

Róisín Shortall: We need to move beyond pilot schemes at this stage. A national scheme is needed.

Employment Support Services. (5 Mar 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Will the Minister extend it this year?

Pension Provisions. (5 Mar 2009)

Róisín Shortall: It exists already.

Pension Provisions. (5 Mar 2009)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister does not seem to get the point here. This is not something she can wash her hands of and claim it is nothing to do with the State. The issue for the State is its failure to ensure adequate pension protection. Arising out of the Robbins case the Government is legally required to do that. Its failure to do that is exposing the State to legal action. A pensions expert recently...

Pension Provisions. (5 Mar 2009)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister needs to make serious ones.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (5 Mar 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 13: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the action she has taken to ensure that all deciding officers are aware that a self-employed claimant's previous years earnings should not be taken as their current means; if guidelines or additional memos have been issued in the past month to deciding officers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9264/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (5 Mar 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 39: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps she is taking to address the particular problems of backlogs in the processing of jobseeker payments in social welfare branch offices; and the number of extra personnel that have been assigned to branch offices since 1 January 2009. [9265/09]

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (5 Mar 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 79: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the timescale for the full expansion of the catchment areas of local employment service offices to match the expansion of the local partnership areas; the LES services which have expanded in line with partnership areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9385/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (5 Mar 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 163: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps she is taking to improve processing times for jobseeker's claims; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9409/09]

Unemployment Levels: Motion (10 Mar 2009)

Róisín Shortall: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes with alarm: the catastrophic increase in unemployment levels that have seen 200,000 people added to the live register since the general election in May 2007, and the acknowledgement by the Taoiseach that the numbers are likely to exceed 450,000 this year; that the cost to the Exchequer of these additional numbers has been €4 billion in terms of extra...

Unemployment Levels: Motion (10 Mar 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Last October, the Labour Party tabled a Private Members' motion calling for action on tackling the jobs crisis. Back then the problem was obvious. We had an extra 100,000 people on the dole in the previous 12 months. The solution was obvious. We needed an urgent response from the Government, such as a jobs plan, a training plan, an income plan, and a completely new approach to the needs...

Unemployment Levels: Motion (10 Mar 2009)

Róisín Shortall: It is time to go beyond pilot projects.

Unemployment Levels: Motion (10 Mar 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Only 5,000 participated.

Unemployment Levels: Motion (10 Mar 2009)

Róisín Shortall: What about the branch offices?

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (10 Mar 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 123: To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated yield to the Exchequer if the reckonable salary for pension relief purposes was reduced to €100,000 and €80,000 respectively. [9489/09]

Written Answers — Rental Sector: Rental Sector (10 Mar 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 161: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of moneys in 2008 received by the Revenue Commissioners from tenants who had withheld rent from their overseas landlord in accordance with law; the number of completed R185 forms submitted to the Revenue Commissioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9838/09]

Written Answers — Rental Sector: Rental Sector (10 Mar 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 162: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of overseas landlords who rent out dwellings within the State to tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9839/09]