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Pension Provisions (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: We do not agree with how the Minister addresses that aspect.

Pension Provisions (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: That is not something that happens too often on the Government side of the House.

Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: The Minister described the context to us of where we are and where we were. It is very difficult to deal with a couple before one in a clinic who cannot pay their mortgage or ESB bills and whose telephone has been cut off, who cannot afford to clothe and properly feed their family because they are waiting for their application to be processed. One cannot just tell them that due to the...

Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: -----not working there? Deputy Feighan will probably raise the same matter of difficulties in the Boyle office. The Minister is failing utterly to tackle the problem in specific areas. What does he intend to do about that?

Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: How can that be paid out in a week by a community welfare officer who still has to be fairly sure that the claimant is entitled, yet it can take a significant length of time to make an application through the Department?

Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: The Minister still has not given the information.

Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: There are many empty buildings in the town that could be used.

Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: We have asked general questions as well.

Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: It is not active where it should be active.

Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: Why is it worse in some places than in others?

Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: What about Boyle?

Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: He does have the table.

Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: It is not just because they are filling the forms in wrong.

Written Answers — Public Service Cards: Public Service Cards (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: Question 47: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the details of the public service card with photo ID to be rolled out from 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21653/10]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: Question 292: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the action he is taking to alleviate the impact of the carbon tax on lower income households; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21939/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: Question 307: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full year spend on all payments administered by his Department in 2010 in tabular form; the estimated number of persons eligible for these payments in 2010 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21537/10]

Written Answers — Housing Adaptation Grants: Housing Adaptation Grants (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: Question 350: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if an application for funding of an extension to facilitate the needs of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly has been submitted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21538/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: Question 412: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills her response to a request from a local authority (details supplied) seeking an easing of restrictions which are preventing the introduction of work placement and training programmes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21454/10]

Requests to Move Adjournment of Dáil Under Standing Order 32 (26 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: I wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise an issue of national importance, namely the proposed loss of a significant number of jobs at the Tullamore plant of Covidien, a medical devices company which is a critical part of the plan to create a smart economy and a focus area for potential job creation, which follows on from the closure of a number of...

Death of Member: Expressions of Sympathy (26 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: I wish to join with my colleagues and with the Taoiseach in sympathising with the late Senator Kieran Phelan's family. There is shock and upset here in the House this morning at the news but it is nothing to the shock and upset that will be felt in the wider Rathdowney and Laois area. Unlike my colleagues, I did not have the opportunity of serving on Laois County Council with him but I...