Results 4,541-4,560 of 6,030 for speaker:Brendan Ryan
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014) Brendan Ryan: New schools have been announced for many areas, including in my constituency which is a growing area and places are needed for children at both primary and secondary level. However, existing schools have done much of the heavy lifting over the past years. They have set up prefab classrooms and taken all-comers. Catholic schools have catered for all nationalities. They may have had a...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014) Brendan Ryan: For example, I refer to the situation in Swords which I have previously brought to the attention of the Minister. Loreto Swords is the only school in Swords providing single-sex education for girls for which there is quite a demand. Because of a lack of laboratory facilities the school at present cannot offer students the opportunity to study science. This is linked to our previous...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection (Revised) (23 Jan 2014) Brendan Ryan: On the changes to the transitional pension scheme, I refer to someone who applies for jobseeker's benefit as an alternative to the transitional pension. The Minister has recognised the uniqueness of the group in accepting that it can avail of jobseeker's benefit for the full year. There is a recognition of its position. Another group arrives at the age of 65 years in the expectation that...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection (Revised) (23 Jan 2014) Brendan Ryan: What about a contributory pension?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection (Revised) (23 Jan 2014) Brendan Ryan: The Minister is reporting very good performance outputs in reducing processing times across the various payments. How are we doing in respect of waiting times in the appeals office? Is there an equally successful performance?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection (Revised) (23 Jan 2014) Brendan Ryan: Has an aggressive, achievable target been set for this year?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection (Revised) (23 Jan 2014) Brendan Ryan: I have a question on the programme we are discussing. What are the comparative costs as between a Tús participant and a community employment scheme participant?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection (Revised) (23 Jan 2014) Brendan Ryan: I am specifically interested in the cost per participant for the two schemes I mentioned.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection (Revised) (23 Jan 2014) Brendan Ryan: On administration, I note there are three elements to Table 24, one of which is salaries, wages and allowances, in respect of which I note there is 4% reduction. Is this linked with the Haddington Road agreement? On training and development, I assume this relates to the switch in emphasis in the Department in training people in terms of activation. I would be interested to hear the...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection (Revised) (23 Jan 2014) Brendan Ryan: What about consultancy costs?
- Order of Business (29 Jan 2014)
Brendan Ryan: Many people who are currently prevented from applying for certain jobs are anxiously waiting for the passage of the Spent Convictions Bill, which is awaiting Report Stage. In the middle of the last term it was on the Order Paper but was withdrawn. What is the reason for the delay? When will it return to the House so that we can complete the passage of the Bill?
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (4 Feb 2014)
Brendan Ryan: 442. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the next tenant purchase scheme will be launched. [4961/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Oireachtas Joint Committee Reports (4 Feb 2014)
Brendan Ryan: 548. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 812 of 5 November 2013, if he has received the clarification and advice sought from the chairman of the joint committee, Attorney General and the Minister for Health; and if not when he expects to receive same. [5666/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Oireachtas Joint Committee Reports (4 Feb 2014)
Brendan Ryan: 549. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in relation to the report of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality on the current review of prostitution legislation, the timetable for his response to the report's recommendations; if, in view of the political consensus on this issue at committee, he intends to make provision for the report's recommendations; and if...
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2014)
Brendan Ryan: The Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill 2010 aims to bring much needed reform to our immigration and asylum systems. The Minister for Justice and Equality indicated in the middle of last year that he hoped to bring a revised Bill to the Government before the end of 2013. Can the Taoiseach report any progress on this much needed and long overdue legislation?
- Recent Flooding: Statements (12 Feb 2014)
Brendan Ryan: Today we awoke to news of a status red wind warning for Counties Cork and Kerry, with weather systems bashing the coasts throughout the morning and into this afternoon. The past two months have been incessant for so many communities around the country. In my own constituency we have seen severe flooding in Portmarnock, Malahide and Swords as well as spot flooding in almost every other town....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implications for Employees of Changes to Pension Age: Discussion (12 Feb 2014)
Brendan Ryan: On the abolition of the transition pension, an individual who reaches his or her 65th birthday in 2014 and has been working up to that point will receive jobseeker's benefit for the full year but somebody who has put in the years of work required for a contributory pension is entitled to apply for jobseeker's allowance if he or she is not working at the age of 65 years and may not qualify for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implications for Employees of Changes to Pension Age: Discussion (12 Feb 2014)
Brendan Ryan: I refer to cases in which jobseeker's benefit has expired.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implications for Employees of Changes to Pension Age: Discussion (12 Feb 2014)
Brendan Ryan: That change will make people feel hard done by.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implications for Employees of Changes to Pension Age: Discussion (12 Feb 2014)
Brendan Ryan: They will have an additional year in which they will get nothing, despite having a legitimate expectation of receiving a transition pension.