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Social Welfare Code. (11 Nov 2009)

Róisín Shortall: I understood the issue was that they should not be assessed as a group but, rather, individually. Surely people in the past who were assessed as part of a group would now have a case against the State.

Social Welfare Code. (11 Nov 2009)

Róisín Shortall: I continue to receive complaints about accessing payments from people who were self-employed, whose businesses have gone bust and who find themselves in dire circumstances. In many cases such people are being asked to produce the last set of accounts for their business, which are very often those for 2007. Decisions are being taken in an entirely new scenario at the end of 2009 on the basis...

Social Welfare Code. (11 Nov 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Many cases are going to appeal, which creates obvious expense and delay. Would the Minister consider a minor change which might improve the situation? A person now has only 21 days to produce all the necessary documentation, which is very difficult when a person had his or her own business and is looking for accounts and up-to-date information. If people were given a little more time they...

Social Welfare Code. (11 Nov 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Three weeks is a very short period.

Social Welfare Benefits. (11 Nov 2009)

Róisín Shortall: At the outset I ask the Minister to stop using the 6.5% drop in the CPI as a figure in any way relevant to what is happening to people depending on social welfare. Those dependent on social welfare rarely have mortgages or significant foreign travel, and those two elements account for approximately half of the reduction in the CPI. It is not a relevant figure. The decision to cut the...

Social Welfare Benefits. (11 Nov 2009)

Róisín Shortall: That is up to this year. They are dealing with it.

Child Poverty. (11 Nov 2009)

Róisín Shortall: If the Minister had attended the Barnardos launch yesterday, she would have discovered more about the serious difficulties being caused by the undoing of earlier progress in tackling child poverty. The anecdotal experience of Barnardos is that there has been a significant increase in the number of families with young children that are experiencing poverty. Has the Minister had an...

Child Poverty. (11 Nov 2009)

Róisín Shortall: I am not sure the Minister realises that we are talking about people who are so badly off that they cannot afford to pay the rent on their local authority houses.

Child Poverty. (11 Nov 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Exactly.

Child Poverty. (11 Nov 2009)

Róisín Shortall: The Government is undoing that now.

Money Advice and Budgeting Service. (11 Nov 2009)

Róisín Shortall: It would be helpful for the Minister to commit to publishing the waiting times on a quarterly basis so that people might know which office to approach. MABS was established with a completely different brief from the demands placed on it now. It was set up to help people better manage their money in circumstances where they might have run up rent arrears or whatever. In many cases MABS is...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Nov 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 101: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she has completed her deliberations on the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programme; and if she will outline her conclusions. [40729/09]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Nov 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 213: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the way and when she will reform mortgage interest supplement. [41000/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (11 Nov 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 129: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to her public statement in September 2009 that she was seeking legal advice on the severance package given to a person (details supplied) in view of the claims that information about overspending at FÁS was deliberately withheld by management from the Board of Directors of FÁS; if she has now...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (11 Nov 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 144: To ask the Minister for Finance the relief available to a medical card holder who was charged for dental treatment by a dentist not participating in the General Medical Service scheme. [40863/09]

Written Answers — Food Labelling: Food Labelling (11 Nov 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 153: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the European Commission's proposal COM (2008) 40, final, Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Provision of Food Information to Consumers; the further position in respect of negotiations with the Council; and if it is expected that political agreement will be reached in...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (11 Nov 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 174: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the statutory basis on which a subvention payment has been withdrawn from a person (details supplied) in County Laois; if it is the case that no carer may avail of subvented respite care; if so, the number of carers affected; the alternative arrangements that are being made to ensure that carers are given respite for part of the year;...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (11 Nov 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 176: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that dentists are refusing to treat long standing patients who are medical card holders thereby forcing them to either pay for treatment to which they are entitled or to find an alternative dentist; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40862/09]

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (11 Nov 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 177: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding delays and waiting lists for personal assistants services for disabled persons; if her attention has been drawn to the hardship caused by the delay to those awaiting this service; and her proposals in this regard. [40864/09]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (11 Nov 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Question 179: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the Health Information and Quality Authority inspection of the special care unit at Ballydowd, County Cork; the steps she is taking to address the issues raised; the reason this centre is to be closed rather than reformed; the total number of high support places available and their location; the number of such...