Results 20,161-20,180 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (22 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: We are not so aware.
- Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (22 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: How many?
- Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (22 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: A handful of people.
- Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (22 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Why?
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Second Stage (22 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Such a brass neck.
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Second Stage (22 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister is simply making statements. She should be honest about this.
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Second Stage (22 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: This is so disingenuous.
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Second Stage (22 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: It is to save money, that is the only reason it is being done.
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Second Stage (22 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: I wish to share time with Deputies Upton and Costello.
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Second Stage (22 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: The Social Welfare Bill 2009 is about social welfare in name only. It is unashamedly about extra taxes and reduced benefits with hardly any measures that will actually improve our social security system, help the poor or those struggling in the recession. For the most part, it is a finance Bill in disguise. What concerns me most is how families will be able to afford many of its measures,...
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Second Stage (22 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: I welcome that indication. A similar dilemma presents itself for young people in transitional accommodation. The wisest course of action is for the Minister to be provided with powers in the Bill to exempt by regulation certain categories of unemployed teenagers from these provisions. This would allow the Minister to establish a period of public consultation and reflection on this measure...
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Second Stage (22 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister should tell us what other figures she has.
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Second Stage (22 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: She should give us that information. She came to the House tonight and quoted the Daft website.
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Second Stage (22 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister should make that information available to us.
- Social Welfare Bill 2009: Second Stage (22 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Daft does not keep any figures on rents at the lower end of the market. I am talking specifically about poor quality bed-sits where many young people, including those at risk, stay. As far as I know - perhaps the Minister can tell me the contrary - no information is available on what is happening to rents in that category. The anecdotal information would suggest that because of harder...
- Written Answers — Parliamentary Questions: Parliamentary Questions (9 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 11: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will clarify her statement in reply to a recent parliamentary question (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15031/09]
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (9 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 107: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason there is no legal protection for the pension entitlements of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; the further reason the Pensions Board cannot assist a person in these circumstances as confirmed by them and the Pension Ombudsman cannot help a person in these circumstances as confirmed by that office; and the...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (9 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 108: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps she is taking to ensure that persons with high monthly mortgage repayments such as a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 are not better off by remaining on the live register rather than working as a result of the way in which the means testing of jobseeker's allowance and mortgage interest supplement currently...
- Written Answers — Housing Statistics: Housing Statistics (9 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 120: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if statistics are held by his Department on the number and percentage of current household mortgages that are fixed, variable and split; and if he will provide these figures. [15081/09]
- Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Given the ending of the capital allowance relief on health facilities announced in Tuesday's budget and the abandonment of the main plank of health policy regarding co-location, why is the Minister for Health and Children still in Cabinet?