Results 11,561-11,580 of 16,023 for speaker:Robert Troy
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, may I have the floor, please? I am raising a serious issue.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: Banks have closed in many smaller towns. Garda stations have also been closed and sold. Post offices have to be protected and enhanced. Department of Social Protection payments account for 30% of the business of the post office network. The spin-off value of people buying other items is as high as 50%. The contract for making social protection payments is worth €25 million per...
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: The Tánaiste will have an opportunity to respond. Whether it is accepted by her, there is genuine concern among postmasters that their businesses will end up being closed, mainly due to the fact that the Department of Social Protection is issuing forms instructing people to change their method of collection to their bank accounts.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: The concerns of postmasters have been independently verified in a report commissioned from Grant Thornton in 2014. The Tánaiste has taken many policy decisions which have irked particular groups across the country.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: Her decision, however, to send forms to people to select bank accounts in which to receive social protection payments threatens to lead to the closure of up to 400 post offices.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: Postmasters are simply asking for a level playing field, but they are not getting it. The Tánaiste is undermining the future and viability of post offices. Will she confirm that it is the Government’s intention to maintain the current network at 1,150 post offices? Will it invest the much needed funding to allow post offices to develop an electronic transaction account which...
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: It was declared in the register of Members’ interests and during the general election.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: 72. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied). [29863/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: 76. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied). [29966/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: 77. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied). [29967/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: 78. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied). [29968/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud Data (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: 87. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of fraudulent payment claims identified in each of the past four years; the monetary value of these; the percentage of these that were claimed, through the post office; through electronic funds transfer. [29981/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: 94. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a review under the carer's allowance scheme in respect of a person (details supplied). [30095/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: 95. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [30096/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: 96. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [30097/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: 97. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application under the domiciliary care allowance scheme by a person (details supplied). [30098/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: 98. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an appeal under the carer's allowance scheme by a person (details supplied). [30099/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: 102. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [30150/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: 127. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to reduce carbon tax on Bord Na Móna products to ensure future sustainability. [30191/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (16 Jul 2015)
Robert Troy: 304. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount paid, of single farm payment, disadvantaged areas scheme, rural environment protection scheme in counties Westmeath and Longford, and nationally. [29648/15]