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Health Bill 2008: Second Stage (10 Dec 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Health Bill 2008: Second Stage (10 Dec 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: The Government is pulling out the plug instead of turning off the tap.

Written Answers — Departmental Statistics: Departmental Statistics (4 Dec 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 10: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason his Department claims to compile statistics on primary schools on a county basis, as in Parliamentary Question No. 173 of 20 November 2008, yet cannot compile statistics on the number of prefabs each school has; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44341/08]

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (4 Dec 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 36: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of prefabs currently in use by primary schools on a county basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44347/08]

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (4 Dec 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: I concur with what the previous two speakers said. One can sit down and do the simple mathematics here, taking the case of a couple, both on old age pensions. One can see that, in comparison to somebody on a pension living alone, their circumstances are astronomically better. Nobody suggests for one minute that where there is a couple living together on a pension they should suffer in any...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (4 Dec 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: This is one of the common sense amendments that has been tabled to the Bill. The amendment must work out cost neutral. Even if it was not cost neutral, the Minister would still have to pay the allowance in the future to people interested in returning to education, whether at second or third level. The money must be paid anyway. Therefore, I cannot understand why the Government will...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (4 Dec 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Were the back to school clothing and footwear scheme seriously examined, many savings could be made in its administration. I do not understand why someone must re-apply each year. People must fill in detailed forms before having them stamped by their schools. I understand the need to ensure the allowance's claimant has a child going to school, but the administration could be well done...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (4 Dec 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Not paid through the school. The paperwork would be done through the school to check whether someone was still attending the school.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (4 Dec 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: The school knows. It must stamp the form.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (4 Dec 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: I support the amendment. We all pay lip-service to children and families. However, regardless of the family or other circumstances in which they live, children expect to have a certain lifestyle. Peer pressure is an extremely important factor in children's lives. When we refer to such pressure, it usually brings to mind teenagers. However, peer pressure starts at a very young age. When...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (4 Dec 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: The arguments in this respect are fairly straightforward. Which one of us as a politician looking for votes would argue against mothers being given extra money in whatever way? That was probably the reason this measure was introduced in the first instance. In the run up to the election, following which the early child care supplement was introduced, child care provision was the issue of...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (4 Dec 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: I listened to all the contributions and I did not speak earlier because I would agree with everything that has been said. There is nothing surer than that research must be done on this area. As soon as the Minister leaves this House, given the figures that will be generated in the next few months on the mortgage assistance which her Department must give, there is nothing surer than that she...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (4 Dec 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: I must begin by acknowledging that there are many excellent landlords in the country. We have all visited homes which we believed were houses owned by the people living in them. However, we also have many bad landlords. They are the people who are giving good landlords a bad name, which is what we are speaking about today. We must ensure that accommodation is of a high standard. Many...

Order of Business (4 Dec 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Four months ago, a Supplementary Estimate for €12 million was introduced to the House in order to relieve the pressure on health boards arising from nursing home subventions for the elderly. I understand that none of this money has reached the health boards and, because of the derisory sums involved, it will effectively be worth between €14 and €16 per person when it is distributed.

Order of Business (4 Dec 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Now that the Minister for Finance is sitting beside the Tánaiste, I ask him to introduce a supplementary budget in order to relieve the pressure on families.

Order of Business (4 Dec 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: I am not referring to that legislation. The €110 million set aside for the legislation has never been spent. Of this amount, €12 million was supposed to be given to health boards but the money has not come through.

Order of Business (4 Dec 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: People are being put to the pin of their collars to ensure their elderly parents, aunts and uncles are treated properly but the Government has abandoned them.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (4 Dec 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: I apologise for being late. I was attending a presentation. I will briefly discuss the way in which we ensure that those to whom rent supplement is paid are tax compliant and that their accommodation is reasonable and good enough. In recent months, most of us have been concentrating on putting staff in social welfare offices, given the fact that many people are becoming unemployed. If...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (4 Dec 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: Tenants are being obliged to pay a greater percentage of the rent themselves.