Results 4,241-4,260 of 4,782 for speaker:Olwyn Enright
- Social Welfare Benefits. (19 Jan 2010)
Olwyn Enright: Question 77: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will increase the fuel allowance to help alleviate fuel poverty and to support vulnerable families who will face enormous heating bills in the coming months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2056/10]
- Social Welfare Benefits. (19 Jan 2010)
Olwyn Enright: I find it peculiar that one third of the Minister's answer relates to community welfare officers as a question I tabled for today on the community welfare service was disallowed because it does not come under the Minister's responsibility. To deal with the question in hand, I very much disagree with the Minister. Does she not see and appreciate the difficulty in asking people on low incomes...
- Social Welfare Benefits. (19 Jan 2010)
Olwyn Enright: What will the Minister do about it?
- Social Welfare Benefits. (19 Jan 2010)
Olwyn Enright: A certain figure has been allocated for supplementary welfare payments. Every time a difficulty arises for one in the social welfare system one is told to go to a community welfare officer to apply for a supplementary welfare payment. People whose houses were flooded were also told to go to a community welfare officer to apply for a supplementary welfare payment. That figure was agreed...
- Social Welfare Benefits. (19 Jan 2010)
Olwyn Enright: They do great work but are constrained by their budgets.
- Social Welfare Benefits. (19 Jan 2010)
Olwyn Enright: The Minister could increase the amount community welfare officers have to distribute.
- Social Welfare Fraud. (19 Jan 2010)
Olwyn Enright: Question 79: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount of fraud control savings achieved in 2009; if she has satisfied herself with the savings achieved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2057/10]
- Social Welfare Fraud. (19 Jan 2010)
Olwyn Enright: The savings made by the Minister were far short of the target she had set, and this is clear from her reply. The same pertained to 2008. She has set a much lower target for 2010. Is that because she has failed to reach her targets for the last two years? What else does the Minister plan to do? She has asked for useful suggestions. The Joint Committee on Social and Family Affairs, through...
- Social Welfare Fraud. (19 Jan 2010)
Olwyn Enright: The gentleman in question was not the designated agent in this instance. The person for whom he claimed was dead and could not designate an agent.
- Social Welfare Fraud. (19 Jan 2010)
Olwyn Enright: With respect, the Minister's statement that the number of people on the live register is not as high as anticipated is neither here nor there. Those who would have been on the live register would not have been fraudulent claimants but people with an entitlement to claim a benefit.
- Social Welfare Fraud. (19 Jan 2010)
Olwyn Enright: If the number on the live register had been higher, it would not have affected the figure. Is data matching in place to enable the Revenue Commissioners to check whether landlords in receipt of rent supplement from the Department are paying tax on the payment?
- Social Welfare Fraud. (19 Jan 2010)
Olwyn Enright: The Minister raised the issue, not me.
- Social Welfare Fraud. (19 Jan 2010)
Olwyn Enright: The Minister indicated previously that the majority of such reports prove to be unfounded.
- Social Welfare Benefits. (19 Jan 2010)
Olwyn Enright: Question 80: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she is satisfied that her Department can adequately target low income families who have had their child benefit cut by increasing the qualified child increase and the family income supplement; her views on whether increasing the qualified child increase and the family income supplement creates poverty traps and fails to target...
- Social Welfare Benefits. (19 Jan 2010)
Olwyn Enright: I do not know if the Minister is aware of a number of studies done on poverty traps in the social welfare system in 2005 and 2006. The Government had not introduced any changes which have had a positive impact by reducing these traps. The most recent budget was especially negative in terms of disincentivising people to work. I received a call from a gentleman yesterday who, having been...
- Social Welfare Benefits. (19 Jan 2010)
Olwyn Enright: One must take all the other factors into account.
- Social Welfare Benefits. (19 Jan 2010)
Olwyn Enright: I disagree. I can give the Minister several further examples of people who find themselves in the same position as the man offered a job earning â¬22,000. Does the Minister take decisions in isolation? Did she decide to examine the qualified child increase and family income supplement or did she examine all benefits, including rent supplement, the medical card? I accept that medical...
- Social Welfare Benefits. (19 Jan 2010)
Olwyn Enright: Those are two pretty big cuts.
- Social Welfare Benefits. (19 Jan 2010)
Olwyn Enright: The Minister put the bottom line ahead of the number of cuts.
- Pension Provisions. (19 Jan 2010)
Olwyn Enright: Question 81: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when she will proceed with the reform of the pension system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2059/10]