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- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Question 437: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in dealing with an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13. [27813/10]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Question 438: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the basis of his comment that rent supplement supported tenancies represents approximately half of the private rental market. [27852/10]
- Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Question 579: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 357 of 11 May 2010, if she is now in a position to provide the details requested. [27797/10]
- Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: How can matters be meshed if there are not two separate reports?
- Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: No, we do not have two reports.
- Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Will the Minister please focus on the review that is now 15 months overdue? He speaks about being concerned about people in danger of losing their homes but he allows this matter to drift so there is an inexcusable delay in producing the review. Stop confusing this with the wider issues on debt, and there is no doubt that big problems exist. I am asking about the specific review...
- Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: When will it be ready?
- Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: We have been told "the next few weeks" for the past 15 months.
- Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: The difference is that we have been told "the next few weeks" for the past 15 months.
- Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: There is no sense of urgency at all on this issue.
- Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: We were told that-----
- Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: We will wait and see.
- Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Nobody is saying that.
- Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister should stop putting up straw men. The Minister was asked-----
- Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: Delay, delay, delay.
- Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: What happens in the meantime?
- Social Welfare Appeals (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: The average processing time for social welfare appeals is now 24 weeks, almost six months. Unlike delays in other areas such as the passport office, getting redundancy payments and so on, delays in social welfare appeals are costing the State money because some 40% of appeals are disallowed and in the meantime people receive a payment.
- Social Welfare Appeals (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: They receive a supplementary welfare payment in most cases.
- Social Welfare Appeals (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: In most cases it is true, and the Minister gave us that reply when we asked about it.
- Social Welfare Appeals (29 Jun 2010)
Róisín Shortall: At a conservative estimate the delays in processing social welfare appeals is probably costing the State approximately â¬10 million per year. What is the Minister going to do about that? He told us he will take on part-time retired social welfare appeals officers, which amounts to three additional staff in the office. Why is the Minister not making the case to the Minister for Finance...