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- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: I move amendment No. 8: In page 6, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following: 3.âSection 198 of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (3D): "(3E) The landlord in receipt of a payment of a supplement towards the amount of rent payable of a tenant shall, as soon as practicable, submit to the Health Service Executive the registration...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: I move amendment No. 9: In page 6, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following: 3.âSection 198 of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (3D): "(3E) The payment of a supplement towards the amount of rent payable by a person in respect of his or her residence shall be paid in its entirety by the Health Service Executive to the...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: I am concerned about this section, which is on people losing jobseekers payments if they go on a course of study. How does this tally with the announcement made last July by the former Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, when he announced 1,500 free college places for jobseekers? When one reads the details one sees they are part-time flexible courses and there are...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: That is exactly what is being said in this section in respect of jobseekers benefit and certain courses. It does not make any sense. That type of outdated thinking should have no place in the current jobs scene. There are umpteen people in the country who would give anything to get onto a course or to have an opportunity to improve their skills and prospects of getting a job. The Minister...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: On a point of order, I suggested earlier that under section 7 a person in receipt of jobseekers allowance could not continue to receive it while on a course of study. The Minister denied that when he got up to speak. My reading of the Bill is that it is the case. Can the Minister clarify that? Section 7 states that a person shall not be entitled to received jobseekers allowance while...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: What if they do not qualify for the back to education allowance?
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: On a point of order, I noted that section 7 means that a person receiving a jobseeker's payment cannot commence a course without losing the benefit. I thought this did not make sense but the Minister denied this was the case.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: They are not entitled to back to education allowances. The Minister denied that what I said was true but I think his advice is to the contrary. His officials are telling people on jobseeker's benefit that they cannot take up courses.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: What if he or she is not?
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: If the person is made redundant and gets a statutory redundancy payment.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: He is living in the past again.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: It is the same old mindset.
- Written Answers — Drugs in Prisons: Drugs in Prisons (30 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Question 90: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to comments made by the retiring governor of Mountjoy Prison (details supplied) who said that overcrowding in the jail was now so acute and conditions so brutal and appalling that they foster inmate drug use, rather than helping to break addiction; the steps being taken to deal with...
- Written Answers — Recidivism Rate: Recidivism Rate (30 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Question 99: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the recent report from the Irish Penal Reform Trust showing that three out of every five prisoners are likely to reoffend within a few years of their release; his views on the level of recidivism among prisoners; his plans for measures to counter this trend; and if he will make a...
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (30 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Question 118: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will incorporate into the proposals for the national pensions framework a commitment to the reduction in the value of maximum possible tax free pension pots. [27999/10]
- Written Answers — Pre-school Services: Pre-school Services (30 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Question 148: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 149 of 12 May 2010, if she is now in a position to furnish a reply. [28636/10]
- National Drugs Strategy (1 Jul 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Question 15: To ask the Minister for Community; Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on whether any future ban on headshop products will ensure the complete ending of this type of outlet [28767/10]
- Written Answers — Freedom of Information: Freedom of Information (1 Jul 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Question 76: To ask the Minister for Finance, further to a freedom of information request (details supplied), if it is standard practice not to retain documentation and early drafts of replies to parliamentary questions within his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29145/10]
- Written Answers — Children in Care: Children in Care (1 Jul 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Question 137: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the protocol, if any, which exists between her Department, the Health Service Executive and the Department of Education and Skills in relation to education for children in care. [29169/10]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (1 Jul 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Question 221: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the daily disregards of additional income from employment applying to jobseeker allowance claimants in each of the past ten years. [28951/10]