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Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (16 Feb 2010)

Olwyn Enright: Question 525: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will meet with a delegation (details supplied) from County Laois; if his attention has been drawn to the need of this request; when a meeting will be facilitated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7843/10]

Written Answers — Energy Saving Scheme: Energy Saving Scheme (16 Feb 2010)

Olwyn Enright: Question 548: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a significant number of applicants under the home energy saving scheme do not have bank accounts and that applications have been returned on this basis stating that the application cannot be processed; the procedure he will put in place to assist and facilitate...

Departmental Records. (23 Feb 2010)

Olwyn Enright: To which Department?

Employment Support Services. (23 Feb 2010)

Olwyn Enright: Question 66: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her plans to intensify activation measures within her Department and in co-operation with FÁS in order that unemployed persons are fully supported in returning to work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9230/10]

Employment Support Services. (23 Feb 2010)

Olwyn Enright: I am glad to see the Minister is in a position to get such detailed answers to questions. We are in a bizarre situation when the Opposition is not able to get answers to parliamentary questions from the Department of Social and Family Affairs on behalf of constituents, while the Minister is still able to bring us that level of information. This begs a further series of questions. I return...

Employment Support Services. (23 Feb 2010)

Olwyn Enright: This concerns the worst off in society.

Employment Support Services. (23 Feb 2010)

Olwyn Enright: There are very many.

Employment Support Services. (23 Feb 2010)

Olwyn Enright: I do not want to hear about a welcome for the IBEC programme. I want to know how the Minister will make her programme work better. The fact that persons will get their social welfare payment is not to the point. People have difficulties, whether of child care or in travel to work if it is any way distant. There is no recompense for that. The social welfare payment will not it possible...

Social Welfare Code. (23 Feb 2010)

Olwyn Enright: Question 68: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her plans to change the one-parent family allowance; when she expects to introduce these changes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9231/10]

Social Welfare Code. (23 Feb 2010)

Olwyn Enright: It is ironic that in the past 13 years of Fianna Fáil in government, at a time of high employment, we have listened to the late Séamus Brennan, as Minister for Social and Family Affairs, and his predecessor, the Minister, Deputy Cullen, and now the current Minister, Deputy Hanafin, proposing changes to the lone parent allowance. Yet, when it might have been possible for lone parents to be...

Social Welfare Code. (23 Feb 2010)

Olwyn Enright: I do not blame people for sitting on a certain number of hours. The reality is that even three or four additional hours of work means they will lose their lone parent entitlement and therefore be worse off. That is the problem. I support in principle what the Minister is trying to do but the system will not allow it to be done. There will not be sufficient places in education and...

Social Welfare Code. (23 Feb 2010)

Olwyn Enright: The Department's facilitators have already seen 20,000 people.

Social Welfare Code. (23 Feb 2010)

Olwyn Enright: That is not the real world.

Social Welfare Code. (23 Feb 2010)

Olwyn Enright: They lose those benefits once they start working.

Rental Accommodation Scheme. (23 Feb 2010)

Olwyn Enright: Question 69: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the details on the meetings she has had with the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government with a view to moving persons from rent supplement to the rental accommodation scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9233/10]

Rental Accommodation Scheme. (23 Feb 2010)

Olwyn Enright: What is the reason for the difficulties and blockages that have arisen in respect of the RAS? It is my experience and that of colleagues that there are people in receipt of rent supplement for years. I accept the Minister's figure of 33,000 people in receipt of the supplement for more than 18 months, but it seems low. I am aware of people who have been in receipt of it in the long term and...

Rental Accommodation Scheme. (23 Feb 2010)

Olwyn Enright: The Minister has alluded to the existing blockages and I ask what she plans to do to remove them. If a person on rent supplement refuses a house is this decision notified to the Department? There has to be an element of strictness. I agree one must consider people's needs and whether children are in school but there has to be a bit of practicality. This scheme was intended as a temporary...

Social Welfare Code. (23 Feb 2010)

Olwyn Enright: Question 70: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons in receipt of mortgage interest supplement for each of the past four years; the cost of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9235/10]

Social Welfare Code. (23 Feb 2010)

Olwyn Enright: The answer to my next question is probably contained in the balance of the reply. When is the review group likely to report? The Minister will be aware that last week the Joint Committee on Social and Family Affairs launched a report on indebtedness. Some of the groups who contributed to that process said that much of the work has been completed and there is concern that the review group...

Social Welfare Code. (23 Feb 2010)

Olwyn Enright: The biggest concern is the timescale for this report. The Minister has stated there has been an increase of 91% in the numbers in receipt of mortgage interest supplement and in my view this increase could be the same next year if action is not taken in the meantime. When will we see results from the interdepartmental group that has been formed?