Results 4,521-4,540 of 4,782 for speaker:Olwyn Enright
- Debt Management (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: Question 34: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the action he is taking to assist persons who are over indebted and need help and advice in coping with debt problems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21936/10]
- Debt Management (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: The Minister's answer worries me if he thinks that MABS is the only solution to the debt crisis. It is part of the answer but it is not the whole solution. The Government has done nothing in terms of enforcing debt procedures, regulating debt collection and providing any sort of new system of personal insolvency. Has he any idea how many mortgage advice cases the 52 independent MABS...
- Debt Management (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: It was the Minister's reply, not my question, that concentrated on MABS.
- Debt Management (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: For a face-to-face meeting.
- Debt Management (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: Exactly.
- Debt Management (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: There is a lack of urgency in this regard. Arrears are growing by the day. People are getting farther and farther into debt and the response is not dealing with it. The Department has a role here in terms of mortgage interest supplement. There is a review that has been ongoing since I came into this position opposite the then Minister for Social and Family Affairs. We are spending â¬70...
- Debt Management (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: I met with that committee. I am aware of it.
- Debt Management (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: Only a small number of those with a mortgage problem are going to MABS.
- Debt Management (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: They do not feel they are able to get all the advice they need because MABS is not resourced to give them that extra sort of advice.
- Debt Management (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: When will we see action on that?
- Debt Management (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: We are not far from agreeing.
- Social Insurance (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: Question 35: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties self employed persons experience in claiming jobseeker's allowance under the current system; if he has any plans to reform the PRSI system in order that self employed persons can benefit from adequate support when they become unemployed or when their business fails; and if he will make...
- Social Insurance (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: There are two strands to the question, how to deal with the persons who were self-employed who now find themselves in a position where they no longer have employment and then to look at the PRSI contributions to ensure that down the road more self-employed persons do not find themselves in this position because they paid only the class S rate. To deal with the more immediate problem, no doubt...
- Social Insurance (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: With respect, the Minister has not answered my question; he has just elaborated on my question. The Minister stated in interviews that he regards this new scheme as being particularly useful for people who formerly worked in the trades and in the construction sector to facilitate them in gaining employment. How will this scheme specifically help the category of formerly self-employed...
- Social Insurance (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: The Social Welfare Bill will be taken in two weeks time.
- Social Insurance (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: The Minister said specifically in an interview that this new scheme would be suited to the self-employed.
- Social Insurance (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: That is all I am asking. He is not answering my question.
- Pension Provisions (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: The Minister is asking a question.
- Pension Provisions (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: The Minister is asking a question.
- Pension Provisions (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: The Minister gives the impression that he turns up at Cabinet meetings to discuss the budget and brings the entire Estimate for the Department of Social Protection, which is then gone through line by line. Is it not the case, however, that he will bring to the Cabinet his recommendations for cuts in his Department? Is that not the reality of how it will happen? The Minister for Social...