Results 2,241-2,260 of 4,782 for speaker:Olwyn Enright
- Social Welfare Benefits. (14 May 2008)
Olwyn Enright: What about an overall reform review?
- Social Welfare Payments. (14 May 2008)
Olwyn Enright: I welcome the clarification on the campaign that will be undertaken, particularly measures to contact people, raise awareness etc. There was genuine concern about the move to this new type of payment, particularly among the small and diminishing numbers who are not used to the electronic world at present. I want to ask the Minister two supplementary questions on this matter. Has she any...
- Social Welfare Payments. (14 May 2008)
Olwyn Enright: I am not suggesting they are not.
- Social Welfare Payments. (14 May 2008)
Olwyn Enright: It is a card for payment that will allow a person to get a full entitlement that week at the post office, or wherever. My concern is that elderly people might be vulnerable. Can the Minister clarify exactly how a payment can be collected by an agent? At the moment, a person can sign one, two or seven cheques and allow somebody else to cash them and bring back the money. Therefore, the...
- Social Welfare Payments. (14 May 2008)
Olwyn Enright: I know there will be an agent facility, but I am concerned about the checks ensuring the payment goes to the intended recipient at the end of the day. I am not convinced the checks are there for the swipe card, which is something we need to ensure.
- Social Welfare Payments. (14 May 2008)
Olwyn Enright: I am concerned about facilitating the person who is entitled to the payment, not the agent.
- Departmental Records. (14 May 2008)
Olwyn Enright: It was the issue regarding the banks that prompted me to put down this question. In recent years, eight items have been taken from officials of the Department of Social and Family Affairs. Five of those items were laptops taken from civil servants, three of which were taken in the home, one from a car and one from public transport. Were any of these items recovered? Did these events...
- Departmental Records. (14 May 2008)
Olwyn Enright: The data is out there.
- Departmental Records. (14 May 2008)
Olwyn Enright: Does the Minister have a figure for the number of laptops issued to staff in her Department? Bearing in mind that sensitive information is not stored on them, what type of work are laptops used for? Is there a grade of civil servant issued with a laptop or do community welfare officers have them?
- Social Welfare Benefits. (14 May 2008)
Olwyn Enright: Deputy Barrett had hoped to take this question but he is in a committee meeting. The Minister listed the Ministers responsible for various areas but who is the appropriate Minister for older people? With the appointment of 20 Ministers of State yesterday I hoped we would have clarity on the appropriate person. According to the Taoiseach, the Minister of State dealing with older people is...
- Social Welfare Benefits. (14 May 2008)
Olwyn Enright: Is the Minister of State, Deputy Hoctor, the person who will co-ordinate that?
- Social Welfare Benefits. (14 May 2008)
Olwyn Enright: Will the Minister of State deal with income support for older people within the Department of Social and Family Affairs or will she deal with strategy?
- Social Welfare Benefits. (14 May 2008)
Olwyn Enright: The Minister's response, through no fault of her own, has caused me to be more rather than less concerned for the future of rural post offices. I accept An Post does not come within the remit of her Department. However, 500 post offices have been closed in the past eight years. This, coupled with a halving in the past ten years in the number of social welfare payments paid through post...
- Social Welfare Benefits. (14 May 2008)
Olwyn Enright: It was 80% ten years ago.
- Social Welfare Benefits. (14 May 2008)
Olwyn Enright: That is a big change.
- Live Register. (14 May 2008)
Olwyn Enright: That is cold comfort to those in Portlaoise.
- Live Register. (14 May 2008)
Olwyn Enright: How many of them were appropriate?
- Live Register. (14 May 2008)
Olwyn Enright: Some 50%.
- Live Register. (14 May 2008)
Olwyn Enright: There is no embargo in the Minister's Department.
- Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (13 May 2008)
Olwyn Enright: Question 180: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if funding has been provided by her Department to child contact centres (details supplied); if so, the amount of funding given to same since their inception. [18291/08]