Results 3,201-3,220 of 4,085 for speaker:Dan Boyle

Pension Provisions. (27 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: I ask the Ceann Comhairle to pardon my phraseology. I am trying to phrase my questions in such a way as to fit the omnibus reply the Minister put together which moves away slightly from my original question. The report is expected to deal with tax reliefs, which is significant in light of my question about when it will be published because we are approaching the budget and the Finance Bill....

Pension Provisions. (27 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: That is more than we pay out.

Pension Provisions. (27 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: Perhaps beyond the means of the Minister.

Departmental Staff. (27 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: I thank the Minister for his answer. Will he accept that the sick leave rate in his Department is relatively high within the public service outside of the Prison Service? One of the factors to explain this might be the fact that Department staff must deal with the public, who themselves are sometimes in distressed states, which would cause the staff a great deal of stress. What support...

Social Welfare Benefits. (27 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the action he has taken in response to the notice of infringement issued by the European Commission to the Government regarding the extent to which welfare benefits are being denied to EU migrant workers here. [31104/05]

Social Welfare Benefits. (27 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: I am none the wiser as to whether the Minister expects the European Commission's opinion to prevail in this situation. Many of us on this side of the House warned that this is exactly what would happen when the regulations were introduced by his predecessor, Deputy Coughlan. We said that the regulations had too many inconsistencies. One of the groups that found themselves being discriminated...

Order of Business. (27 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: With reports indicating that average personal debt is likely to be 160% of average income and the effect of the Government policy of controlling the national debt by transferring such a debt onto individual citizens, what is the position in regard to consolidating the financial services Bills? That might present an opportunity for this House to suggest measures to control that debt in terms...

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (26 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 106: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount of funding which he has made available in the first six months of 2005 to the RAPID area Cork-Togher-Mahon. [30688/05]

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (26 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 136: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if, in view of the 2005 allocation under the scheme of community support for older persons he will formalise earlier application deadlines to allow applicants to henceforth benefit sooner each year. [30689/05]

Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (26 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 197: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if, in relation to the refund of withheld pensions to residents in welfare homes, the basis of justification and legality of granting exemptions to these refunds [i]vis-á-vis[/i] the position of similar pensioners who were not resident in welfare homes during the period and are thus subject to the normal means test and the...

Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (26 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 198: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his proposals to ring-fence payments in a manner that will allow his officials to determine the source of the assets in future reassessments of means of the pensioners concerned especially after their deaths in relation to the refund of withheld pensions to residents in welfare homes. [31027/05]

Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (26 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 199: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a decision has been made as to whether the same ring-fencing will be put in place in the case of the estates of deceased pensioners who have been resident in welfare homes during the period and are not entitled to refunds in relation to the refund of withheld pensions to residents in welfare homes. [31028/05]

Rural Social Scheme. (26 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 87: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on the findings of the Comptroller and Auditor General's annual report 2004 on the wrongful procedures followed in the introduction of the rural social scheme. [30779/05]

Rural Social Scheme. (26 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: The Minister has reiterated a section of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report and has posited the defence that this is a procedural matter. The matter is one of the smallest references in the report but the three paragraphs dealing with it raise other questions. Does the use of this mechanism indicate that the rural and social scheme was thought up quite quickly in advance of the...

Rural Social Scheme. (26 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: The Minister is aware the Comptroller and Auditor General is precluded by law from speaking on policy. The question I raise relates solely to policy. The use of the dormant accounts fund for initial funding of the rural social scheme was inappropriate. General funding from the Department's Estimate should have been used. I have asked if this money will be reimbursed and if the future funding...

Rural Social Scheme. (26 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: Will this happen for future funding?

Rural Social Scheme. (26 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: The effect of the Minister's policy is to dilute the fund for other purposes. I could argue the Minister's policy opposes giving further funding to voluntary groups because that is its effect.

Rural Social Scheme. (26 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: It is a limited fund and the more it is used the less remains. That is the effect of the Minister's policy.

Rural Social Scheme. (26 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: It is the Minister's job to get more money from the Minister for Finance.

Charitable Trusts. (26 Oct 2005)

Dan Boyle: Question 89: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when the findings of the report he has commissioned on the impact of regulation on charitable trusts will be published. [30780/05]