Results 20,981-21,000 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Employment Support Services. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: Nobody is talking about that.
- Employment Support Services. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister knows that is not what I am talking about.
- Employment Support Services. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: I am not talking about 18 year olds.
- Employment Support Services. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: What is the reason for the time lag?
- Employment Support Services. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: What about the people who do not get statutory redundancy?
- Employment Support Services. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: Many people do not get statutory redundancy.
- Employment Support Services. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: The Government has done that for people who get statutory redundancy.
- Employment Support Services. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: Yes.
- Employment Support Services. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: Many people losing their jobs now unfortunately do not get statutory redundancy.
- Employment Support Services. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister is penalising them further by forcing them to wait.
- National Carers Strategy. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: There has been considerable slippage in the delivery of the Government's undertaking. Is it a case of the Government not giving adequate priority to the work of carers? The programme for Government states: "Ensure a National Carers' Strategy focusing on supporting informal and family carers in the community will be developed by the end of 2007." That is a delay of ten months. It would be...
- National Carers Strategy. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: The Government knew that when it drew up the programme for Government.
- National Carers Strategy. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: It seems that it slipped off the Minister's desk.
- National Carers Strategy. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: Did the Government not know that when the programme was drawn up?
- National Carers Strategy. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: It was stated in the programme for Government that the strategy would be published by the end of 2007.
- National Carers Strategy. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: I want both questions answered.
- National Carers Strategy. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: My question relates to the carers strategy. When can we expect it to be published?
- National Carers Strategy. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: There is no sign of it after ten months.
- National Carers Strategy. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: I will repeat my question. When does the Minister expect to be in a position to publish the carers strategy, which is now ten months late? It is not good enough to suggest that the strategy can wait because the Government is, in the meantime, taking steps to improve the position of carers. That is not the case. The budget for 2009 provides carers with the smallest increase, a mere 3%, out...
- National Carers Strategy. (21 Oct 2008)
Róisín Shortall: Will the Minister indicate in what year she expects it to be published?