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Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: The Deputy should withdraw that. It does not become him to tell lies in this House and attribute them to-----

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: The Deputy should withdraw that.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: Is the Deputy man enough to withdraw it?

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: Is the Minister man enough to withdraw that?

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: The Deputy should be man enough to withdraw that now. Is he a man or a mouse?

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: Is he man enough to withdraw a false accusation?

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: On a point of order, the speaker should withdraw an accusation ascribing the use of the term "scrounger" to someone who is not in the House. It is a term I am sure he has never utilised. Sinn Féin is very good at this kind of language. Will the speaker withdraw an accusation in regard to a term which I am perfectly confident the Minister for Finance has not used? The Deputy should be man...

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: On a point of order-----

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: On a point of order, in regard to the decorum-----

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: -----of this House, it ill becomes Sinn Féin to use language which demeans people who have a disability. It ill becomes Sinn Féin to use that kind of language-----

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: -----in this House.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: During the time of the British this use of language was called felon-setting.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: This is what Deputy Ó Snodaigh is at and he should withdraw it and not take his example so much from the UK.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: I stand by all of that.

Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: That is not so. We will check in June 2012 and remind the Deputy of what she has said.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: An application for one parent family payment from the person concerned has been awarded and the first payment will issue to her next week.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (8 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 7 November 2011. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Social Welfare Services on the grounds of appeal be sought. When received, the appeal in question will be referred to an Appeals Officer for...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (8 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: The back to education allowance (BTEA) scheme is a second chance education opportunities scheme designed to remove the barriers to participation in second and third level education by enabling eligible people on social welfare to continue to receive a payment while pursuing an approved full-time education course that leads to a higher qualification than that already held. An applicant must be...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Fraud: Social Welfare Fraud (8 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: The prevention of fraud and abuse of the social welfare system is an integral part of the day-to-day work of my Department which processes in excess of 2 million claims each year and makes payments to some 1.4 million people every week. However, it is important to recognise that the vast majority of people are receiving the entitlement due to them. The Deputy may be aware that I recently...

Written Answers — Personal Debt: Personal Debt (8 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: In July 2011 the Government's Economic Management Council tasked an Interdepartmental Mortgage Arrears Working Group chaired by the Department of Finance (Mr Declan Keane) to consider further actions to alleviate the increasing problem of mortgage arrears. The report was published on 30th September, 2011. The Working Group in their deliberations availed of the outcomes from the extensive...