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- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (21 Oct 2014)
John Halligan: The Minister's answer is completely at odds with the facts as I know them to be in Waterford having spoken to many people, and people who deal with the rent allowance. The Minister will recall that she confirmed to me that there had been significant staff changes in the unit administering the supplementary claims in Waterford. The office had recently relocated - I believe the Minister...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (21 Oct 2014)
John Halligan: Not a week goes by in my advice centre that I do not deal with someone looking for rent allowance. I am the only Deputy operating out of Waterford city so I know what I am speaking about. It is not five to ten days. I do not know where the Minister gets those facts and figures. The stark reality being presented to many with whom I deal is a damp, dark bedsit with shared toilet facilities...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Appeals (21 Oct 2014)
John Halligan: 82. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way in which a social welfare inspector may refuse an application for jobseeker's allowance and make a negative decision where there is an active outstanding unfair dismissal claim being made by the applicant, particularly where the applicant has the full backing of his or her union; her views that the position in law is that all dismissals...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Appeals (21 Oct 2014)
John Halligan: Why would the Department of Social Protection refuse an application for jobseeker's allowance and make a negative decision where there is an outstanding unfair dismissal case being taken by that applicant, particularly where the applicant has the full backing of his or her union? Does the Tánaiste agree that the position in law is that all dismissals are unfair unless the employers can...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Appeals (21 Oct 2014)
John Halligan: I thank the Tánaiste and acknowledge that I received the correspondence from her Department. I first wish to make clear that I have no problem that some people can be dismissed for gross misconduct. I am not making that argument. However, there are those who make mistakes in their lives, who are constructively dismissed or who leave employment because of bullying or psychological...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Appeals (21 Oct 2014)
John Halligan: Are people not being declared guilty until proven innocent? The position here is that many people leave their jobs or go through constructive dismissal or, as I stated earlier, are sacked justifiably. However, if they decide to take a case of unfair dismissal against the employer and so on, I do not believe one has a right to judge them until this case is heard by the legislative body,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Appeals (21 Oct 2014)
John Halligan: Yes.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (21 Oct 2014)
John Halligan: 173. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on making a provision for the backdating of credits for women who took time out from the workforce prior to 1994 - when the homemaker scheme was introduced - to raise their families in order to enable those women to accumulate the required 520 contributions to qualify for the full State pension; the number of women that would be...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud Data (21 Oct 2014)
John Halligan: 174. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress that has been made to date in the recovery of social welfare payments which have been found to have been fraudulently procured from her Department; the moneys that have been recovered since she took office; her views on the effectiveness of the introduction of biometric public service cards in stamping out fraudulent claims; the...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (21 Oct 2014)
John Halligan: 175. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views that the introduction of the JobBridge scheme is an exercise in reducing the numbers on the live register to imply a marked decrease in the level of social welfare assistance being provided by the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40254/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (21 Oct 2014)
John Halligan: 459. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the fact that there is an automatic entitlement to medical cards where the applicant and their family are solely dependent on social welfare payments, his views that it is fair and just that where an adjustment has been made to a social protection payment due to a means assessment, that this would in turn preclude them from their entitlement to a...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (21 Oct 2014)
John Halligan: 556. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on whether increased rents are now the main cause of increased homelessness here; his views on whether the reduction in capital spending on social housing between 2007 to 2012, which is estimated to be in the region of 70%, is a driving force resulting in increased levels of homelessness; if the use of National...
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)
John Halligan: Nobody in the Technical Group has been excluded.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)
John Halligan: It is.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)
John Halligan: It is.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)
John Halligan: But is it not part of the Order of Business?
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)
John Halligan: We got conflicting legal advice from you, a Cheann Comhairle. You gave us the legal advice.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)
John Halligan: It depends on the legal interpretation of Standing Orders. Your legal interpretation, a Cheann Comhairle, was wrong.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)
John Halligan: You are the one who is interfering with the running of the Technical Group.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)
John Halligan: You are interfering, a Cheann Comhairle.