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- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Nov 2008)
Róisín Shortall: This budget's cuts target children and I have already highlighted the cuts in child benefit. I will move on to another area in which the budget and this legislation have been very disappointing. I refer to children who could be described as the poorest of the poor â the 96,000 children under the age of 14 who are living in consistent poverty. I am thinking particularly of those children...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (11 Nov 2008)
Róisín Shortall: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "That" and substitute the following: "in view of the series of measures announced in budget 2009 and proposed in the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008 which target the unemployed, children, the poor and people with disabilities resulting in the fact that unemployed people will lose over â¬2,500 due to changes to jobseekers...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Order for Second Stage (11 Nov 2008)
Róisín Shortall: On behalf of the Labour Party, I oppose the taking of Second Stage of this Bill. It provides for savage cuts on the most vulnerable people in our society, and it deliberately targets the poor, the unemployed, children and people with disabilities.
- Child Support. (11 Nov 2008)
Róisín Shortall: Question 91: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the consideration she has given to the implications of the proposed removal of child benefit in respect of 18 year olds for the participation of poorer children in their final year in secondary school or in further education. [39946/08]
- Child Support. (11 Nov 2008)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister has not answered my question. I asked her a straightforward question about the consideration she has given to the implications of withdrawing child benefit for 18 year olds. The reason I asked that question was because she, of all people, should know the implications of withdrawing child benefit for 18 year olds, given her experience in the Department of Education and Science....
- Child Support. (11 Nov 2008)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister does not seem to appreciate it. What is the basis for the hit?
- Child Support. (11 Nov 2008)
Róisín Shortall: Many are over 18. Does the Minister want them to drop out of education?
- Child Support. (11 Nov 2008)
Róisín Shortall: The majority of low income teenagers are dropping out of school before leaving certificate.
- Child Support. (11 Nov 2008)
Róisín Shortall: It is the majority in any disadvantaged area.
- Child Support. (11 Nov 2008)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister is being fundamentally dishonest. There is a sizeable number of teenagers who are still in school after the age of 18 years. In view of what the Minister knows about educational disadvantage and the fact there are scandalously low levels of participation in education up to leaving certificate in low income families and disadvantaged areas, on what basis did she decide that low...
- Child Support. (11 Nov 2008)
Róisín Shortall: They are not.
- Child Support. (11 Nov 2008)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister is being dishonest. There are transitional arrangements for two years.
- Child Support. (11 Nov 2008)
Róisín Shortall: After the two years, how do they make up the â¬38 per week?
- Child Support. (11 Nov 2008)
Róisín Shortall: The Ministerââ
- Child Support. (11 Nov 2008)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister is being dishonest in her replies.
- Child Support. (11 Nov 2008)
Róisín Shortall: What happens when they are finished?
- Child Support. (11 Nov 2008)
Róisín Shortall: It is too bad for them. Is that what the Minister is saying?
- Departmental Staff. (11 Nov 2008)
Róisín Shortall: Why? Who does it now?
- Departmental Staff. (11 Nov 2008)
Róisín Shortall: So it was the agency's fault the Government ignored it.
- Departmental Staff. (11 Nov 2008)
Róisín Shortall: Whereby the Government can muzzle them.