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- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: We can be clear about the figures. The OECD report of 15 September is in the Dáil library and contains Ireland's ratings. It indicates that we rate really well, particularly given the incredibly destroyed economy that Fianna Fáil left us, together with the figure when we entered office of 330,000 people without work. The biggest element in poverty is people, particularly of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: I suppose the worst attack made on people at risk of poverty was by Fianna Fáil when it cut social welfare weekly rates.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: Fianna Fáil cut weekly social welfare rates.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: It made the decision. It could have made other decisions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: The previous Government cut weekly social welfare rates by a total of €16.40.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: That Government cut the social welfare rate for carers-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: -----and people on the blind pension by €16.40.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: Yes, and I have said that the most-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: I am saying-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Poverty Data (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: This is what I am saying. Deputy O'Dea asked about poverty-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Activation Projects (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: -----the Department has been opening all of its access programmes relating to activation on a voluntary basis at a number of offices throughout the country to see whether people come forward and whether the new employment officers can help them. I will come back to the Deputy on this point. We started it earlier this year.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Anti-Poverty Strategy (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: I will give the Deputy some of the figures. The official indicator of poverty is consistent poverty, which is the overlap of two measures, namely, at risk of poverty and basic deprivation. The basic deprivation indicator includes two items relating to the consumption of food. According to the CSO survey of income and living conditions of 2013, which contains the most recent statistics we...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Anti-Poverty Strategy (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy is wrong to attack the people who volunteer at the food bank and she should apologise to them.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Anti-Poverty Strategy (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: I was with people who work and volunteer with Crosscare. It is grand for the Deputy to make snide remarks about them. For her information, people have been involved in this work for generations. What is happening at present is that major supermarkets and other businesses are giving absolutely first-class food, which they would not otherwise be selling, in an organised way to Crosscare,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Anti-Poverty Strategy (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: You were making snide remarks.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Anti-Poverty Strategy (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: Not at all. The figures-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Anti-Poverty Strategy (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy has been one of the cheerleaders for the unfortunate things that happened to the unfortunate people in Greece this year. She suggests to us we would go down the same road.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Anti-Poverty Strategy (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: Hold on.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Anti-Poverty Strategy (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: The actual food bank movement in Ireland is a partnership between a range of companies. 10 o’clock The Deputy probably would not approve of that anyway. A range of companies have surplus top quality food or goods and the different charitable and community organisations are used as a mechanism to redistribute that to people who want that. That is instead of having it put into...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Sep 2015)
Joan Burton: What we had in this country, and we were able to maintain it during the worst crisis in the country's history, was a contributory old age pension, which extends to all-----