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- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I rise to condemn the immoral move by the banks to remove tracker mortgages from homeowners in difficulty. One of the conditions of the mortgage arrears resolution process, MARP, is that a person's tracker mortgage cannot be touched. I would like to know from the Minister for Finance what such homeowners will get in return. What is next? How safe are other people's tracker mortgages if...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I will suggest how it can be done.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes. We need a real debate on this issue. A huge amount of money is being spent on special educational needs in this country. This is critical to ensure a level playing field for children. We must find a new way of managing resources to ensure all children are treated fairly. This may require expert additional training for our resource and classroom teachers and, in particular, special...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Not true.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Because the Fianna Fáil budget-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Like the express passports.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Is there any chance that my questions will be answered?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It cannot be offset.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That lack of understanding is probably why there are so many ineligible. There are 75,000 children sitting the leaving certificate this month. They will all chance applying but 30,000 are ineligible. There should be some type of information board with more clarity to help SUSI reduce some of the work.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I asked whether SUSI communicated directly with students to ensure that the students were not being disadvantaged. We definitely got some commitments in this regard.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Is Mr. Conroy aware of any colleges that prevented students from accessing libraries and from getting their exam results?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: What does that mean?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The threat was withdrawn.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: This is the third time SUSI has appeared before the committee. All of the questions and issues raised by Deputy Dooley were raised in the previous two committee meetings. I commence by saying it was a crisis. Once it gave the exact contact numbers for Deputies and Senators I saw a huge improvement. I state categorically that Mr. John Conroy helped me with the most complex case that ever...
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Is the Minister confident the system is adequately foolproof?
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Twice the population.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is a priority of the Minister's Department, as it is for us all, to prevent and curb social welfare fraud. Is she confident that the electronic signature and photograph that will be contained on the new public services card are foolproof? If so, does she agree that we should not also have gone down the road of fingerprinting?
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Is there a link with child benefit in this regard? Child benefit payments cease the day the child turns 18 years. Does the payment continue for one-parent families until the child reaches 22 years?
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank Senator Cullinane for this amendment. I see merit in having a time limit on appeals because we get many queries on this issue and some of the waiting times last months. I know of one case where it was 18 months. To limit it to 21 days would be dangerous if it cannot be met. The Minister might say something about this issue and what she might consider reasonable. The waiting times...
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister is welcome. These are two very useful amendments-----