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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Activation Services and Supports for the Unemployed: Discussion (14 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Activation Services and Supports for the Unemployed: Discussion (14 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: We did not mention age discrimination in the Department but we all know it. Many things are being signed into law but we all live in the real world. Returning to the statistics of a person returning to the workforce, I do not want the numbers on the unemployment register to go up, but if a person is unemployed and cannot get any social welfare payment, why are they not classed as...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Activation Services and Supports for the Unemployed: Discussion (14 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: Are they really?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Activation Services and Supports for the Unemployed: Discussion (14 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: That is hard to believe.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Activation Services and Supports for the Unemployed: Discussion (14 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: I think they must get it off Mystic Meg.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Activation Services and Supports for the Unemployed: Discussion (14 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: I think they do. I believe that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Activation Services and Supports for the Unemployed: Discussion (14 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: Does every person who goes into the social welfare office get this form to fill out? I am aware of people who have gone into a social welfare office-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Activation Services and Supports for the Unemployed: Discussion (14 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: I find that just-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Activation Services and Supports for the Unemployed: Discussion (14 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: I do not think that is a good way of doing it. I do not think we are getting the full picture here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Activation Services and Supports for the Unemployed: Discussion (14 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: I know that but I do not think we are getting the full picture here.
- Order of Business (8 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: With regard to the health reform Bill, an issue has arisen in hospitals. It has come to my notice that in hospital reception areas, staff will not give out information to priests or preachers of whatever religion because of a new rule. A register would previously have been given to a member of the clergy if required.
- Order of Business (8 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: We have all been privy to incidents with family and friends where a hand of friendship in an hour of need is gratefully accepted. Are we now to have priests and preachers walking around hospitals looking for information? Will the Minister speak to HSE managers about this? I have written to the Minister for Health.
- Order of Business (8 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: It is a significant issue.
- Order of Business (8 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: This has been done for years in people's hours of need. I am sure everybody has been in a hospital in the country when a hand of friendship from a clergyman or person of whatever religion has been gratefully accepted.
- Order of Business (8 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: This is political correctness gone crazy.
- Order of Business (1 Oct 2015)
Ray Butler: I wish to raise two items of legislation with the Tánaiste, the first of which is the apprenticeship Bill to provide for protection and responsibilities applying to employers and apprenticeships in light of the introduction of a new apprenticeship. Many Members have done apprenticeships and have seen the exploitation of certain people. Consequently, I seek the Bill's publication. When...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Student Visas Reform (29 Sep 2015)
Ray Butler: 362. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality with respect to Part 5 of her Department’s document, New Arrangements to apply to English Language Programmes from 1 October 2015, if she will clarify how the appeals process will work; the grounds on which an application may be rejected, and on which an appeal may be made; the timeline envisaged for the appeals process; and if she will...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Ray Butler: Fianna Fáil did not build social housing.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Ray Butler: Fianna Fáil only built nine social houses in Trim over 14 years.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Ray Butler: Deputy Michael McGrath touched no nerve but his own.