Results 20,561-20,580 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (3 Feb 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 267: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on an application by a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if in view of the delay already experienced he will expedite the decision. [3101/09]
- Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (3 Feb 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 348: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding amending legislation to ensure that the Private Residential Tenancies Board can make detailed information on landlords available to the Revenue Commissioners, allow automatic access by the Revenue Commissioners to the PRTB's landlord database and provide for automatic reporting by the...
- Written Answers — Energy Regulation: Energy Regulation (3 Feb 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 367: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will amend legislation to compel the energy regulator to review and set electricity prices to customers on a quarterly basis rather than on an annual basis as at present. [3418/09]
- Social Welfare Code. (3 Feb 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 102: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will review the rules applying to jobseeker's allowance for the assessment of self-employed persons and contract workers to social assistance payments in view of the sudden drop in income affecting both sets of workers. [3534/09]
- Social Welfare Code. (3 Feb 2009)
Róisín Shortall: I wonder if the Minister is aware of the scale of the problem. In recent years, a significant number of people were forced to become self-employed. In many cases self-employment is not a matter of choice. For example, it has been difficult to secure regular employment in the building industry because contractors have insisted that those working for them are treated as being self-employed....
- Social Welfare Code. (3 Feb 2009)
Róisín Shortall: That is not the case. I have details of two cases. One of these relates to an IT worker living in south Dublin who was obliged to be self-employed last year when his income amounted to â¬306 per week. When work dried up he applied for assistance and is being assessed as having income this year of â¬306 per week. Although the man in question does not have any income or any prospect of...
- Social Welfare Code. (3 Feb 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Will the Minister issue new guidelines to deciding officers?
- Social Welfare Benefits. (3 Feb 2009)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister said it was a target.
- Social Welfare Benefits. (3 Feb 2009)
Róisín Shortall: In her reply, the Minister made no reference whatsoever to what is happening in branch offices. That is where the longest waiting times are, whether for unemployment benefit or unemployment assistance. It is all very well talking about having extra staff at local offices but that will do nothing to improve the situation in branch offices. What does the Minister intend to do in order to...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Jan 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 125: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in County Dublin who is applying for mortgage interest supplement has been required to produce a letter stating his or her father's role as guarantor of his or her original mortgage loan; the relevance of same to the application for mortgage assistance; the further reason he or she...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Offices: Social Welfare Offices (29 Jan 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 126: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will open a social welfare office in Ashbourne, County Meath to meet the needs of social welfare claimants in Ashbourne, Ratoath and Dunshaughlin in view of the large increase in population in these towns in recent years and the significant number of people in this area who have lost their jobs and have to travel to...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (29 Jan 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 127: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the arrangements, when there is a sharp appreciation of the euro, to allow for a review of the means of claimants who are in receipt of a pension or social security payment from a non-eurozone country and a reduced rate allowance payment from her Department; the way the rate is set in respect of sterling; the regularity with...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Jan 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 128: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of claimants whose allowance payment is reduced because they are also claiming payment, pension or income from the UK. [2888/09]
- The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (29 Jan 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Does that mean it is our patriotic duty again?
- The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (29 Jan 2009)
Róisín Shortall: What utter hypocrisy.
- The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (29 Jan 2009)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister would not know what fairness was if it bit him on the nose.
- The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (29 Jan 2009)
Róisín Shortall: That is hypocrisy again. All the talk of working together is hypocrisy.
- The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (29 Jan 2009)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister should stop pretending that the Government intends to do things fairly. It has never done so in the past so why should it do so now?
- The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (29 Jan 2009)
Róisín Shortall: The Government created this mess and until it recognises that, nothing will change.
- The Economy: Statements (Resumed) (29 Jan 2009)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister cannot even get his sums right. The amount in question is â¬400 million.