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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: These questions should be answered.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: What is the point in members asking questions if the questions are not answered fully?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: There were no answers. It is not that I was unhappy with the answers; there were none.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: I wish to clarify that I am not asking a supplementary question but restating questions that were not answered. Can I have a guarantee from the Chairman that my questions will be answered?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: There is no point-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: The last time I asked questions I did not get answers. Is the Chairman going to accept that from the witnesses?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: Will I have adequate time to ensure I get answers to the questions I ask?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: It is important on behalf of the hundreds of students who have contacted us that we get the questions answered today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: Was the scanning facility for applicants considered prior to the system roll-out? If so, why was it not implemented?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: When questions are asked in groups, we are not getting answers. Could I have answer to that question? Will deploying additional staff ensure the problem is sorted before Christmas? It is not acceptable that only 30,000 grants will be paid by the end of the year. That leaves thousands more without payment. What are those people to do? Are the systems in place not adequate to sort out...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: Considering the fact that thousands of applications will not be processed and payments will not be made until after Christmas will the witnesses consider asking for more staff on top of what they have already asked for to ensure students are paid earlier?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: Does Ms Stewart think it is acceptable that people will have to wait until after Christmas?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: Would more staff bring this date forward?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: My point is that some people are on the verge of dropping out of college. They do not have the luxury of waiting until Christmas or after Christmas.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: Will the CDVEC apologise to the students and their families for the delays and hardships caused?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: I asked whether the CDVEC would apologise to the students and their families.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: No. I asked whether the CDVEC would apologise to the students and their families for the hardship caused.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: No, it has not been answered. Will the CDVEC apologise or not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: That the CDVEC will not says it all.
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Redundancy Payments (14 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the supports available to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry [50300/12]