Results 18,361-18,380 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Social Welfare Appeals (2 Nov 2010)
Róisín Shortall: That is the demand this year and the Minister is not meeting it.
- Social Welfare Appeals (2 Nov 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Is nine months acceptable?
- Social Welfare Appeals (2 Nov 2010)
Róisín Shortall: What if it is not awarded?
- Social Welfare Appeals (2 Nov 2010)
Róisín Shortall: This costs â¬600,000 a month.
- Social Welfare Benefits (2 Nov 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Will the Minister accept this scheme is in need of urgent reform? The Department's view is that everything is okay as long as it is treading water. The fact is there is a huge demand for places on this scheme. What on earth is the reason for not allowing people to participate in third level courses after being unemployed for three months? There seems to be a mindset in the Department that...
- Social Welfare Benefits (2 Nov 2010)
Róisín Shortall: That is the very point we are making.
- Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)
Róisín Shortall: I refer to items of promised legislation. The first concerns the growing problem of sham marriages for the purposes of circumventing the residency laws. The Latvian authorities have been in touch with the Government on a number of occasions, going back to 2006, expressing grave concern for the welfare of many of their citizens who engage in, or are enticed into participating in, sham...
- Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)
Róisín Shortall: May be?
- Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)
Róisín Shortall: The matter has been raised with the Minister by many eastern European governments.
- Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Is it not the case that the laxity in the law is in this country?
- Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)
Róisín Shortall: A serious issue arises about the welfare of their citizens.
- Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Is there no timescale?
- Marriages of Convenience (2 Nov 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Question 46: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the action he will take to address the problem of sham marriages [39266/10]
- Marriages of Convenience (2 Nov 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Does the Minister accept that all of the indications are that this is a significant problem? The registrar suggested recently that as many as 15% of civil ceremonies could be sham marriages. We also know that there has been a huge increase in the number of non-EU citizens applying for residency based on marriage to an EU citizen. I understand the figure is over 1,000 in the first six...
- Marriages of Convenience (2 Nov 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Minister-----
- Marriages of Convenience (2 Nov 2010)
Róisín Shortall: I told the Minister that. I am asking him to answer the two specific questions I asked.
- Marriages of Convenience (2 Nov 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Is it a criminal offence?
- Marriages of Convenience (2 Nov 2010)
Róisín Shortall: I did not ask for any of that.
- Marriages of Convenience (2 Nov 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Will the Minister answer the two questions?
- Marriages of Convenience (2 Nov 2010)
Róisín Shortall: It is in regard to the Attorney General's intervention.