Results 1,921-1,940 of 15,268 for speaker:Kathleen Lynch
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (3 Dec 2008)
Kathleen Lynch: I suggest the Deputy tables a question on the issue to the Minister in the normal way. I understand her concern and the difficulty, but she cannot address the amendment as it stands.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (3 Dec 2008)
Kathleen Lynch: I hope the Deputy's contribution will indicate to the Minister that the Deputy has serious reservations about this. Tabling a question to the line Minister is probably the only way she can do that.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (3 Dec 2008)
Kathleen Lynch: The Deputy can raise this matter in her concluding comments.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (3 Dec 2008)
Kathleen Lynch: Unfortunately, I have no mechanism to allow the Deputy to do that other than to suggest that she raise the issue again in her concluding remarks.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (3 Dec 2008)
Kathleen Lynch: The Deputy is free to do that.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (3 Dec 2008)
Kathleen Lynch: I am reluctant to interrupt the Deputy but am conscious he might want to make a fuller contribution when we resume the debate on the Bill.
- Written Answers — Dairy Sector: Dairy Sector (3 Dec 2008)
Kathleen Lynch: Question 101: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will request EU Farm Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel to introduce early supports for the dairy sector in order to restore confidence and put a floor under current market prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43977/08]
- Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (3 Dec 2008)
Kathleen Lynch: Question 119: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on the vote taken at the European Parliament to continue with changes to pesticide legislation which carries an obligatory reduction in pesticide use of 50% within the next ten years and would see an introduction of a single zone EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43976/08]
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2008)
Kathleen Lynch: Four months ago, a Supplementary Estimate for â¬12 million was introduced to the House in order to relieve the pressure on health boards arising from nursing home subventions for the elderly. I understand that none of this money has reached the health boards and, because of the derisory sums involved, it will effectively be worth between â¬14 and â¬16 per person when it is distributed.
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2008)
Kathleen Lynch: Now that the Minister for Finance is sitting beside the Tánaiste, I ask him to introduce a supplementary budget in order to relieve the pressure on families.
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2008)
Kathleen Lynch: I am not referring to that legislation. The â¬110 million set aside for the legislation has never been spent. Of this amount, â¬12 million was supposed to be given to health boards but the money has not come through.
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2008)
Kathleen Lynch: People are being put to the pin of their collars to ensure their elderly parents, aunts and uncles are treated properly but the Government has abandoned them.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (4 Dec 2008)
Kathleen Lynch: I apologise for being late. I was attending a presentation. I will briefly discuss the way in which we ensure that those to whom rent supplement is paid are tax compliant and that their accommodation is reasonable and good enough. In recent months, most of us have been concentrating on putting staff in social welfare offices, given the fact that many people are becoming unemployed. If...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (4 Dec 2008)
Kathleen Lynch: Tenants are being obliged to pay a greater percentage of the rent themselves.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (4 Dec 2008)
Kathleen Lynch: I must begin by acknowledging that there are many excellent landlords in the country. We have all visited homes which we believed were houses owned by the people living in them. However, we also have many bad landlords. They are the people who are giving good landlords a bad name, which is what we are speaking about today. We must ensure that accommodation is of a high standard. Many...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (4 Dec 2008)
Kathleen Lynch: I listened to all the contributions and I did not speak earlier because I would agree with everything that has been said. There is nothing surer than that research must be done on this area. As soon as the Minister leaves this House, given the figures that will be generated in the next few months on the mortgage assistance which her Department must give, there is nothing surer than that she...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (4 Dec 2008)
Kathleen Lynch: Were the back to school clothing and footwear scheme seriously examined, many savings could be made in its administration. I do not understand why someone must re-apply each year. People must fill in detailed forms before having them stamped by their schools. I understand the need to ensure the allowance's claimant has a child going to school, but the administration could be well done...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (4 Dec 2008)
Kathleen Lynch: Not paid through the school. The paperwork would be done through the school to check whether someone was still attending the school.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (4 Dec 2008)
Kathleen Lynch: The school knows. It must stamp the form.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (4 Dec 2008)
Kathleen Lynch: I support the amendment. We all pay lip-service to children and families. However, regardless of the family or other circumstances in which they live, children expect to have a certain lifestyle. Peer pressure is an extremely important factor in children's lives. When we refer to such pressure, it usually brings to mind teenagers. However, peer pressure starts at a very young age. When...