Results 4,541-4,560 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Committee Stage (28 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: The Government will end up before the courts on this issue.
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Committee Stage (28 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: I oppose this section. Much of the attention has been focussed on the income levy and other cuts contained in the budget, but the health levy is a major increase, which people are only realising now and they will be very aware of it next week when they get their pay packets. It is a substantial increase. New rates of 4% and 5% are proposed, 4% for those earning more than â¬26,000 and 5%...
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Committee Stage (28 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: They are not all well off.
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Committee Stage (28 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: There are plenty of people struggling to survive on such levels of income.
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Committee Stage (28 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: People are also trying to survive on welfare and are also being hit by the Minister's changes. Working families with young children are just about keeping their heads above water as things stand, but from next week they will be hit by approximately â¬250 per month. That money is not there in family budgets. Something will give on this. There is no justification for imposing these levels...
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Committee Stage (28 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister would not be doing this if she knew them.
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Committee Stage (28 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Is this progressive? These are ordinary families.
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Committee Stage (28 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: What about the people earning â¬250,000, â¬300,000 or â¬400,000 a year?
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Committee Stage (28 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: That is not true.
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Committee Stage (28 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister was told where the money was to be found and what could have been done.
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Committee Stage (28 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister chose not to.
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Committee Stage (28 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: It was hardly reduced at all. There is the potential for at least another â¬500 million saving in that regard.
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Committee Stage (28 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Tinkering. That is all it was.
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Committee Stage (28 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: No, they have not been dealt with.
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Committee Stage (28 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: No. That is not true.
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Committee Stage (28 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Why does it have to be within the same Department?
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Committee Stage (28 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Is fairness not a better guiding principle?
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Committee Stage (28 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Unfortunately they were the choices the Government made.
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Committee Stage (28 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: It made those choices. There were alternatives, as the Minister knows.
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Committee Stage (28 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: I move amendment No. 3: In page 3, before section 3, but in Part 2, to insert the following new section: 3.âThe Minister shall as soon as may be after the passing of this Act prepare and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas a report on the implications of new control measures to make it compulsory for a registered nursing home (public and private) to notify the Department if a person is...