Results 14,021-14,040 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Income Data (4 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 77. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the Revenue Commissioners data on the number of persons in each of the following income brackets, below €9,000, above €9,000 but below €12,000, above €12,000 but below €15,000, above €15,000 but below €20,000, above €20,000 but below €25,000, above €25,000 but below...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs-related Deaths (4 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 159. To ask the Minister for Health the number of deaths in each of the past ten years arising from a drugs overdose where methadone was one of the drugs present; and the number of deaths in each of the past ten years arising from a drugs overdose where methadone was the only drug present. [46699/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy Implementation (4 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 160. To ask the Minister for Health the basis for the decision to make naloxone more widely available; the categories of drug users to whom this will be made available; the anticipated benefits of this approach; and the evidence on which this decision is based. [46700/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (4 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 181. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of vacant local authority housing units that are in each local authority; the number in each case that will be refurbished under the 2014 funding that has been allocated; the schedule for the refurbishment and bringing into use of all remaining local authority units in each local authority. [46586/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (4 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 188. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the scheduling of the promised 75,000 housing assistant payments and rent supplement tenancies announced in November 2014; the estimated cost; and if there has there been a regulatory impact assessment carried out on the impact of this decision on the levels of rents generally. [46701/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (4 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 189. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to the announcement of social housing strategy 2020 if he will provide a breakdown of the promised 35,000 new social housing units in respect of the method of procurement; and the scheduling of same. [46702/14]

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: I move amendment No. 18:In page 4, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following:“Non-Contributory State Pension 4. The Minister for Social Protection shall review the impact of the closure or significant deterioration in the value of defined benefit pension schemes on expenditure on the State Pension (non-contributory) and produce a strategy to prevent further closures or decline...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: I will give the Minister four facts in response to what she has just said. First, many tens of thousands of people on the lowest incomes received nothing whatsoever in the budget. The very many people on the minimum wage benefited to the tune of €176 per year. If they are hit with water charges or decide to pay them, the vast bulk of it will be wiped out, leaving them with only...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: Nobody was objecting to that.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: The Tánaiste was not listening.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: Not too many of them.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: We are not discussing unemployment today.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: Yes, exactly.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: -----to the tune of €500 per year. Not only did the Minister display her true blue colours in the last budget, in which the priority was to cut the top rate of tax and benefit the better off disproportionately and do nothing for people on low incomes, but the Taoiseach also said last week that he will continue on the path of cutting the top rate of tax. The Minister should go out...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: I strongly support both of these amendments. The saying goes that what gets measured matters. Unless we are measuring the impact of budgets, those impacts will not matter. It is quite clear that those impacts about which we know anecdotally and from some other independent research simply do not matter to the Government. When the Government came into power, it promised a new open...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: I am very concerned by the Minister of State's reply to questions on the impact of a possible settlement on the surviving partners of deceased members of the Waterford Crystal pensions scheme. He indicated that in such circumstances surviving family members would be covered by the terms of the scheme to which the member belonged. Most of the schemes provide 50% cover for a surviving spouse...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: Can the Minister of State set out the timescale to which the Government is working given the last minute manner in which these amendments were brought forward? Is it expected that a resolution is imminent? Other speakers have made the point that the State has dragged its heels incredibly in relation to this matter. Not only have we had the situation that arises today as a result of the...

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: Why is there not a proper supply?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hardship Grant Scheme Applications (3 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 89. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that all local health offices are made aware of the hardship scheme and provided with the relevant application form; if he will provide a digital copy of this form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46454/14]

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: Why is the Government not doing that?