Results 1,861-1,880 of 14,127 for speaker:David Stanton
- Employment Support Services. (1 Mar 2007)
David Stanton: Question 4: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the efforts his Department is making to assist older people and pensioners to remain in and return to the workforce, in view of his commitment to improving the employment prospects of older people; the reasons pensioners cannot avail of the back to education allowance, BTEA, scheme and older people are not included in FÃS...
- Employment Support Services. (1 Mar 2007)
David Stanton: How successful was this income disregard for older non contributory pensioners? Is it true that just 398, or 0.4% of non-contributory pensioners availed of the scheme? What efforts are being made to promote the scheme? Does FÃS operate a quota system for people over the age of 55 on their training and CE schemes? If so, is that discriminatory? Could the Minister examine that please and...
- Social Welfare Code. (1 Mar 2007)
David Stanton: Question 166: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 47 of 14 December 2006, if he has brought forward proposals and an implementation strategy on the lone parent proposals for the Government's consideration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8201/07]
- Social Welfare Code. (1 Mar 2007)
David Stanton: The Minister provided us with a great deal of new information.
- Social Welfare Code. (1 Mar 2007)
David Stanton: Has the Minister brought any proposals and an implementation strategy to the Government for its consideration? Can the Minister give a timescale for the action he outlined to happen? We were led to believe it would happen by the end of last year but it did not. Can he give us more information about the tests he mentioned? What does he mean by tests? Will people be involved in them and...
- Social Welfare Code. (1 Mar 2007)
David Stanton: Will the Department or FÃS be responsible for the activation measures on work advice and education and training opportunities? Has a decision been made on that?
- Social Welfare Code. (1 Mar 2007)
David Stanton: Yes.
- Social Welfare Code. (1 Mar 2007)
David Stanton: Will there be changes?
- Anti-Poverty Strategy. (1 Mar 2007)
David Stanton: Question 23: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason the consistent poverty target in the NAPinclusion 2007 to 2016 is less ambitious than that of the national anti-poverty strategy and agreed programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7963/07]
- Anti-Poverty Strategy. (1 Mar 2007)
David Stanton: Is the Minister telling the House that no one is experiencing poverty? Is it almost gone, so that we can forget about it and turn our backs on it? Perhaps the Minister has been spending too much time removed from reality behind the tinted windows of his Mercedes. Who is responsible for dealing with poverty in Ireland? Where does the buck stop? When it comes to moving long-term recipients...
- Anti-Poverty Strategy. (1 Mar 2007)
David Stanton: Where does the buck stop? Who is responsible?
- Anti-Poverty Strategy. (1 Mar 2007)
David Stanton: For eliminating or dealing with it.
- Anti-Poverty Strategy. (1 Mar 2007)
David Stanton: Who will do so? Is anyone responsible?
- Anti-Poverty Strategy. (1 Mar 2007)
David Stanton: So inequality is a good thing.
- Homemakers' Scheme. (1 Mar 2007)
David Stanton: Is the Minister satisfied that the scheme is being utilised to its maximum potential, given that the numbers he cited seem to have fallen in recent years? How does the Department advertise the scheme? Does the Department have figures on women undertaking home-making duties before 1994 who are unable to benefit from the scheme? Are there any estimates of the cost of the scheme to the State?...
- Homemakers' Scheme. (1 Mar 2007)
David Stanton: Can people who looked after children under 12 in the home before the introduction of the scheme, qualify for the years after the scheme was introduced? Does the Minister have any plans to make the scheme retrospective to take into account people who took up home-making duties before the scheme was introduced? How many people looking after children at home do not currently qualify because...
- Pension Provisions. (1 Mar 2007)
David Stanton: The Minister is referring to additional costs. Can he give us the full cost to the Exchequer of those rates? What is his opinion on the report from the Pensions Board, which has recommended that the State pension be increased to 40% of gross average industrial earnings? Is the level of the State pension currently about 32% of gross average industrial earnings? Will the Minister comment on...
- Written Answers — Anti-Poverty Strategy: Anti-Poverty Strategy (1 Mar 2007)
David Stanton: Question 33: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the efforts his Department is making to address concern raised by the European Commission report (details supplied) that there is an increasing prevalence of people in employment who are at risk of poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7964/07]
- Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (1 Mar 2007)
David Stanton: Question 94: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the situation pertaining to children, not born in the State, whose parents have been granted permission to remain in the State on the basis of parentage of a Irish born child; the procedure involved for such children who arrived in the State at the same time as their parents to get permission to remain in the...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (1 Mar 2007)
David Stanton: Question 185: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 1191 of 31 January 2007, the schemes whose recipients will be allowed to qualify for the new half-rate carer's allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8234/07]