Results 4,941-4,960 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2009)
Róisín Shortall: The Taoiseach has always protected them.
- Social Welfare Benefits. (11 Nov 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 61: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps she will take to reduce the cost of rent supplement to the Exchequer. [40998/09]
- Social Welfare Benefits. (11 Nov 2009)
Róisín Shortall: There is no evidence of the Minister working hard on this issue. Our questions concern how the Minister will reduce the cost of housing in terms of rent supplement. Unfortunately, very little progress has been made in this area and it seems the Minister is washing her hands of the matter. The Minister referred to savings made through actions taken in the past two budgets but she does not...
- Social Welfare Benefits. (11 Nov 2009)
Róisín Shortall: In an entirely different position.
- Social Welfare Benefits. (11 Nov 2009)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister is being disingenuous.
- Social Welfare Benefits. (11 Nov 2009)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister is being entirely disingenuous in the way she is answering the question. What is more, she is showing that she has no grasp of the issue. If the Minister speaks to members of the Simon Community, Threshold or Focus Housing they will all tell her of the severe difficulties she has caused for people at the lower end of the market, the most vulnerable people in grotty bedsits who...
- Social Welfare Benefits. (11 Nov 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Passing the buck to the tenants.
- Social Welfare Benefits. (11 Nov 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Yes, of the way the Minister did it which was targeting tenants.
- Social Welfare Benefits. (11 Nov 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Why does the Minister not actively examine expanding RAS?
- Social Welfare Benefits. (11 Nov 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Why is the Minister not doing that?
- Social Welfare Benefits. (11 Nov 2009)
Róisín Shortall: What is the Minister doing about it?
- Social Welfare Code. (11 Nov 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 63: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will give a commitment not to reduce the half-rate carers payment in Budget 2010. [40999/09]
- Social Welfare Code. (11 Nov 2009)
Róisín Shortall: I asked the Minister for a commitment not to reduce the half-rate carers allowance. The Taoiseach and several of her colleagues have already given a commitment to the wealthy that they will not be taxed further. If that kind of commitment can be given to people who are very well off, I do not know why she cannot give a commitment on the additional payment of just over â¬100 to those who...
- Social Welfare Code. (11 Nov 2009)
Róisín Shortall: We know that approximately â¬8 billion in tax reliefs are available to the better off. Why can commitments be given to those people? It is easy for the Minister to say she values carers but if that is the case she will not hit them financially. I am asking her to give a commitment not to reduce the half-rate carers allowance, which has a ceiling of just over â¬100 per week. Does she...
- Social Welfare Code. (11 Nov 2009)
Róisín Shortall: That is where the money is going.
- Social Welfare Code. (11 Nov 2009)
Róisín Shortall: In many cases they do.
- Social Welfare Code. (11 Nov 2009)
Róisín Shortall: What point is the Minister making?
- Social Welfare Code. (11 Nov 2009)
Róisín Shortall: They are enabling other people to stay out of nursing homes.
- Social Welfare Code. (11 Nov 2009)
Róisín Shortall: In view of the ruling that people applying under the habitual residency condition must be treated as individuals and considered under the five standard criteria, does it open up a liability for the State in terms of people seeking backdated payments? What legal advice has the Minister received in that regard?
- Social Welfare Code. (11 Nov 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Previous decisions have been taken on the basis of assessing applicants as a group rather than individually.