Results 21,001-21,020 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall

Tax Code. (21 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: In her contribution in the budget debate, the Minister told us that expenditure this year in regard to the social insurance fund would exceed income by €200 million and that this shortfall is expected to increase to €900 million next year. Will she explain how it is proposed to plug that hole this year and next? Given the size of the gap, why did the Government not fulfil its...

Social Welfare Benefits. (21 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister has studiously avoided answering my question. The Vincentian Partnership carried out worthwhile research into minimum essential budgets. In this regard, it added up the weekly expenses of people in different categories and measured this against their social welfare income. It found that the cost of living for a single pensioner is equal to approximately 73% of a couple's...

Social Welfare Benefits. (21 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister is being disingenuous in what she is saying.

Social Welfare Benefits. (21 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister is being extremely disingenuous in terms of how she is dealing with this question. I asked her if she accepts the findings of the Vincentian Partnership that the cost of living for a single pensioner is equal to 73% of the cost of living for a couple. Does the Minister accept this? If she does, what is her defence of the fact that the living alone allowance has not been...

Social Welfare Benefits. (21 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: The point is the relativity between a single pensioner and a couple.

Social Welfare Benefits. (21 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister is avoiding the question.

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: That is not true.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: I seek your assistance on a matter, a Cheann Comhairle. Earlier, the Tánaiste misled the House concerning the circumstances surrounding the setting of income limits for medical cards.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: I am asking for your assistance on this matter.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Will you request the Tánaiste, now or later today, to correct the record of the House in that regard?

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: I look for your direction on this.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: What opportunity will I have to bring this motion before the House?

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: On a point of order. The Tánaiste is incorrect.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: On a point of order.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: The Tánaiste is wrong——

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: The increases to the means test for over-70s were introduced in 1999——

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: ——as an initiative under the year of the elderly.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: What the Tánaiste is saying is incorrect. The increases to the means test for over 70s were introduced in 1999 as an initiative under the year of the elderly so what the Tánaiste is saying in incorrect.

Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Róisín Shortall: It is nothing to do with the automatic entitlement.