Results 421-440 of 4,782 for speaker:Olwyn Enright
- Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (2 Mar 2010)
Olwyn Enright: Question 218: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will instruct the Health Service Executive to draw up new performance indicators together with supporting up-to-date data to enable accurate monitoring of the national mental health budget; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10250/10]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Fraud: Social Welfare Fraud (23 Feb 2010)
Olwyn Enright: Question 333: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she is satisfied with the method of recording and calculating fraud control savings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9237/10]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Feb 2010)
Olwyn Enright: Question 94: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of families eligible for the family income supplement; the number of families in receipt of the family income supplement; her views on the low uptake of the family income supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8965/10]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Feb 2010)
Olwyn Enright: Question 332: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons claiming rent supplement more than 18 months; her views on the speed of transfer of persons from rent supplement onto the rental accommodation scheme; the steps she has taken to speed up this transfer; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9236/10]
- Social Welfare Benefits. (23 Feb 2010)
Olwyn Enright: Approximately 40% of them are unemployed.
- Social Welfare Code. (23 Feb 2010)
Olwyn Enright: I am interested in the Minister's statement that "community welfare officers have been reminded" to record information on the number of applications that are granted or refused. Having spoken to community welfare officers and those representing them, I understand they have been collating this information for years-----
- Social Welfare Code. (23 Feb 2010)
Olwyn Enright: -----but have not been asked for it. When will we see this information? It is not enough to remind the officers to compile it. As the Department is paying this money, it has a duty to provide details on who is applying for it, who is getting it and who is being refused it. When will we get such information? I do not know how the scheme can be reviewed in the absence of information on...
- Social Welfare Code. (23 Feb 2010)
Olwyn Enright: Yes.
- Social Welfare Code. (23 Feb 2010)
Olwyn Enright: What about the third group the Government promised to establish?
- Social Welfare Code. (23 Feb 2010)
Olwyn Enright: The record starts from the first missed payment.
- Social Welfare Code. (23 Feb 2010)
Olwyn Enright: What about those who missed their payments 12 months ago?
- Social Welfare Code. (23 Feb 2010)
Olwyn Enright: Yes, but that could have been 12 months ago.
- Social Welfare Code. (23 Feb 2010)
Olwyn Enright: People are still losing their homes in the meantime.
- Social Welfare Code. (23 Feb 2010)
Olwyn Enright: The Minister should go down to the courts in the morning to see what is happening in the area of mortgage arrears.
- Social Welfare Code. (23 Feb 2010)
Olwyn Enright: Another reason community welfare officers are turning people down is because they claim the mortgage was too high in the first place. What guidelines has the Minister given to community welfare officers to make that decision? From figures I have from around the country, it seems the assistance is decided arbitrarily. Whether the officers have the qualifications to determine what was too...
- Social Welfare Code. (23 Feb 2010)
Olwyn Enright: Yet people are still losing their homes.
- Order of Business (23 Feb 2010)
Olwyn Enright: They are becoming experts at it.
- Departmental Records. (23 Feb 2010)
Olwyn Enright: To which Department?
- Employment Support Services. (23 Feb 2010)
Olwyn Enright: Question 66: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her plans to intensify activation measures within her Department and in co-operation with FÃS in order that unemployed persons are fully supported in returning to work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9230/10]
- Employment Support Services. (23 Feb 2010)
Olwyn Enright: I am glad to see the Minister is in a position to get such detailed answers to questions. We are in a bizarre situation when the Opposition is not able to get answers to parliamentary questions from the Department of Social and Family Affairs on behalf of constituents, while the Minister is still able to bring us that level of information. This begs a further series of questions. I return...