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

Denis Naughten: Question 212: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps she is taking to increase the uptake of family income supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40841/09]

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

Denis Naughten: Question 210: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the savings made to date in 2009 by her Department as a result of fraud detection; if she will achieve her Departmental target by year end in 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40839/09]

Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Denis Naughten: I wish to ask the Tánaiste about two pieces of legislation. All Members in the House have had personal experience of the trauma people go through in dealing with the coroner service. The Coroners Bill has been in limbo in the Seanad for the past two years. Will the Seanad give us any indication of when it will move through the Seanad and come before the Dáil? The second piece of...

Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Denis Naughten: We are awaiting Committee Stage. There has been a delay in tabling amendments for two years. Deputy Stagg raised a similar issue last week which the Taoiseach responded to on Tuesday. The precedent is there.

Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Denis Naughten: I do not expect the Tánaiste to have it.

Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Denis Naughten: She can do me the courtesy of coming back to me on the issue. No. 76 is the social welfare lone parent and low income families reform Bill.

Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Denis Naughten: On Tuesday the Taoiseach responded to a question put by Deputy Stagg the previous week on legislation before the Seanad. The question asked when Committee Stage amendments would be tabled and the Taoiseach responded in the House on the specific pieces of legislation. I am talking about a piece of legislation——

Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Denis Naughten: ——that has been in the Seanad for the past two years.

Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Denis Naughten: The Minister for Transport has trotted out figures without any basis and there is a piece of legislation that could streamline the whole process and address some of the trauma people experience in dealing with coroners around this country. All I am asking is for the Tánaiste to come back to me on that and let me know what is happening. The second issue is No. 76, the social welfare lone...

Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Denis Naughten: ——and slashing social welfare rates from 1 January, it would be more in her line to get her own act together in her Department——

Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Denis Naughten: ——and deliver on her own commitments to tackling fraud. Only half of the target for fighting fraud will be achieved by the end of the year. It is an appalling disgrace and shows the gross incompetence of the Government and the Minister for Social and Family Affairs.

Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Denis Naughten: What about No. 76?

Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Denis Naughten: The people of the north west want to know what is going on.

Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Denis Naughten: She is the boss.

Pension Provisions. (12 Nov 2009)

Denis Naughten: Question 1: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the deficit in the FÁS pension fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41134/09]

Pension Provisions. (12 Nov 2009)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Tánaiste for her response. Many members of the public would be amazed to see a deficit of €303 million in the FÁS pension fund at a time when its chief executive got a pension benefit of €1.4 million in very questionable circumstances. What is the current deficit of the FÁS pension fund? The Tánaiste also mentioned the Financial Measures (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act...

Pension Provisions. (12 Nov 2009)

Denis Naughten: Is it correct to say that we are looking at approximately €1.3 billion of a deficit with these pension funds being transferred to the NPRF at the end of 2008 anyway? Will the Tánaiste give an indication of the total exposure of the taxpayer as of now, as the taxpayer will have to foot the bill for the pension fund deficits and liabilities? It will be galling for many members of the...

Pension Provisions. (12 Nov 2009)

Denis Naughten: What is the overall liability?

Live Register. (12 Nov 2009)

Denis Naughten: Question 3: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason for the differential between the redundancy figures and the live register figures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41135/09]

Live Register. (12 Nov 2009)

Denis Naughten: Is the Minister of State saying that the redundancy figures, the trend of which is far worse than the trend of the live register figures, indicate that more stable employment is being lost? That, in itself, is a very worrying trend. I would like to ask about those figures. Would a person who has been in a part-time role with a company for a considerable period of time, over the two-year...