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- Pension Provisions (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Why did the board not recruit the experts that were needed?
- Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Question 421: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when and the way in which he intends reforming mortgage interest supplement [28508/10]
- Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Question 421: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when and the way in which he intends reforming mortgage interest supplement [28508/10]
- Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: This is just repetition.
- Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister's general response to the issue seems to be that someone somewhere should do something. The Minister is the position to act here and instead of reading out long answers, it would be better to engage in the topic and tell us what he intends to do rather than hiding behind prepared answers and talking about the Cooney report. It is ludicrous that we do not know how many people...
- Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: What does that mean, inextricably linked? Is the review complete and does the Minister have a copy of it?
- Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: How can matters be meshed if there are not two separate reports?
- Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: No, we do not have two reports.
- Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Will the Minister please focus on the review that is now 15 months overdue? He speaks about being concerned about people in danger of losing their homes but he allows this matter to drift so there is an inexcusable delay in producing the review. Stop confusing this with the wider issues on debt, and there is no doubt that big problems exist. I am asking about the specific review...
- Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: When will it be ready?
- Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: We have been told "the next few weeks" for the past 15 months.
- Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: The difference is that we have been told "the next few weeks" for the past 15 months.
- Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: There is no sense of urgency at all on this issue.
- Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: We were told that-----
- Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: We will wait and see.
- Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Nobody is saying that.
- Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister should stop putting up straw men. The Minister was asked-----
- Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Delay, delay, delay.
- Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: What happens in the meantime?
- Social Welfare Appeals (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: The average processing time for social welfare appeals is now 24 weeks, almost six months. Unlike delays in other areas such as the passport office, getting redundancy payments and so on, delays in social welfare appeals are costing the State money because some 40% of appeals are disallowed and in the meantime people receive a payment.