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- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Dec 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Question 81: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of rent supplement claimants for longer than 18 months in receipt of a jobseeker's payment and living in Dublin; the number that are single, single with children, a couple without children and a couple with children [46743/10]
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Róisín Shortall: What about protecting the people?
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Plenty of other things could have been done with regard to pensions.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Róisín Shortall: They are not our partners.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister is still giving them three weeks in which to grab their lump sums.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Róisín Shortall: What is the justification for that? Some â¬1.3 million can be taken out without paying tax.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Yes.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Róisín Shortall: At the top end.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Róisín Shortall: That is entirely disingenuous. The Minister knows right well what are our tax proposals. He should, therefore, stop trying to distort the issue.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister should not mislead people.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister should just account for himself.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Proportionately, it affects the lower paid more.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Does the Deputy call â¬298 a wage?
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Now they are being treated even more badly.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2010)
Róisín Shortall: No. The Minister has not.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2010)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister's Department has never been able to distinguish between the two.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2010)
Róisín Shortall: We are out of time.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Róisín Shortall: We said we would not tolerate any welfare cuts.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister should be fair.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Róisín Shortall: We are not going to sit here all day.