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Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (17 Feb 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 164: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the way in which social contributions made while working in Jersey are counted when determining entitlement to a state contributory pension. [8225/10]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (18 Feb 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 80: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the legal instrument which allows a distinction to be drawn on the application of the pension levy for employees of voluntary bodies with pension schemes on the basis of whether or not those voluntary bodies receive funding for core Health Service Executive services or non core HSE services; and if she will set out the position in...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Feb 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 173: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the target he has set for 2010 for the transfer of persons in receipt of rent supplement to the rental accommodation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8547/10]

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (18 Feb 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 180: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide the data available to him in relation to rents charged under the rental accommodation scheme by each local authority with a breakdown by bedroom number and by housing type. [8549/10]

Employment Support Services. (23 Feb 2010)

Róisín Shortall: We cannot get answers to questions in any case.

Social Welfare Code. (23 Feb 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 67: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her plans to reform family income supplement to ensure that employment is incentivised for all jobseekers with families. [9234/10]

Social Welfare Code. (23 Feb 2010)

Róisín Shortall: It is very disappointing that the Minister does not propose to reform FIS. It has never been as important as at present, when many families are suffering a reduction in their pay as a result of reduced hours or reduced pay rates. Does the Minister accept there is a real problem with the incentive to work, in particular for families with young children? There were no changes in the last two...

Social Welfare Code. (23 Feb 2010)

Róisín Shortall: I do not understand why the Minister says we must distinguish between part-time and full-time work. That is the exact point I am making. We need flexibility in the scheme so that people are encouraged or enabled to take up any job opportunities, even for one or two days a week or for a temporary job of a few hours. We need that kind of flexibility. The scheme as it operates at present was...

Social Welfare Code. (23 Feb 2010)

Róisín Shortall: In the current circumstances, the Minister needs to facilitate flexibility.

Social Welfare Code. (23 Feb 2010)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister is missing the point.

Social Welfare Code. (23 Feb 2010)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister expects the review to be published at Easter. However, we were promised it for last Easter. This is another example of a scheme that is simply not meeting the current needs of those who look to it for support. It does not reflect the real-life situation with which people are faced. The ridiculous 30-hour rule means that, irrespective of a family's income, if one member of the...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (23 Feb 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 114: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps she has taken to ensure that services to the public are not affected by the work to rule in her Department. [8911/10]

Written Answers — Civil Registration: Civil Registration (23 Feb 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 126: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her plans to use the impending Social Welfare Bill to change legislation to provide for the compulsory registration of fathers on birth certificates. [8921/10]

Written Answers — Public Sector Pay: Public Sector Pay (23 Feb 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 178: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 238 of 26 January 2010 and No. 187 of 9 February 2010, when a person (details supplied) will be exempt from the public sector wage reduction; and when this person can expect to receive arrears in respect of the 5% already deducted from their income since the first January 2010. [9154/10]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (23 Feb 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 362: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the maximum length of time a person may claim illness benefit in the circumstances where they were in receipt of illness benefit for several years, then returned to employment but subsequently claimed illness benefit again; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8797/10]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (23 Feb 2010)

Róisín Shortall: Question 379: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the means by which the value of farmland holdings are assessed in the means test for jobseeker's allowance when no rental income is derived from the holding; and the way in which such holdings are assessed when a small rental income is derived from the holding. [9058/10]

Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)

Róisín Shortall: With the permission of the House I wish to share time with Deputy Joanna Tuffy. At the outset, I thank the Fine Gael party for tabling this motion. It is very timely and concentrates the minds of people in the House on the single most important issue facing us, that is, the very significant problem of unemployment and all the difficulties it brings in its wake. The Labour Party supports...

Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)

Róisín Shortall: The Government is starving the authorities of funding.

Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)

Róisín Shortall: The Government is starving local authorities.

Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2010)

Róisín Shortall: That is not true.