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- Written Answers — Departmental Offices: Departmental Offices (23 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: Question 175: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her views on whether the social welfare office in Lucan, County Dublin is large enough and has adequate resources to deal with the growing number of people signing on for jobseekers allowance and benefit in the locality. [36651/08]
- School Staffing (22 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: I am disappointed the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, did not remain in the House for another five minutes to listen to this issue because it is important. We have just had a vote about protecting the vulnerable in society and this is another issue whereby the vulnerable are being made pay for the waste of this Government. Eight primary schoolchildren from across counties...
- School Staffing (22 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: That is the problem.
- School Staffing (22 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: Do the children in question not deserve to be prioritised?
- School Staffing (22 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: The Government's cut excludes and isolates the children in question. It is pathetic.
- Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: The Minister of State will be getting more business.
- Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: I would like to share time with Deputies Gregory, Reilly and Kenny.
- Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: In the good times, the House got used to budgets being produced on the back of an envelope. When the Government introduced the early child care supplement, it had no idea that it would need to pay for children whose parents were in this country while the children were not resident here. It cost millions of euro more than expected.
- Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: When the Government announced decentralisation, it chose a pick and mix of towns around the country, no deal was negotiated with the public service unions, it cost a fortune and it was not delivered. The same applies to the over 70s medical card. On the news last Friday night, the Taoiseach stated that it was originally to have cost â¬15 million but by the end of the year it cost â¬51...
- Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: Now that we are in recessionary times, our budgets are still being written on the back of an envelope. The Government is making it up as it goes along. The Minister of State, Deputy Moloney, believes that the confusion has mainly been caused by the Opposition. This decision was announced in last Tuesday's budget, it was explained later in the day by the Minister for Health and Children, it...
- Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: All that the Government can tell us is that it regrets the confusion and fear. It is the Government's incompetenceââ
- Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: ââthat has whipped up this fear. The real fear is that the Government is still supposedly in charge. The Taoiseach further muddied the water in the House yesterday when he failed to give a clear answer to Deputy Kenny on the other free schemes. He told Deputy Kenny that anyone with a cursory knowledge of social welfare knows that it is the entitlement to pensions that provides the...
- Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: The Minister of State's false regrets and speeches show that he does not listen and understand. When he walks up the steps tonight, he will show people that he does not care.
- School Staffing (22 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: Who is taking the Adjournment matter?
- Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: The Deputy is doing Fianna Fáil's dirty work now. She got that outside in the corridor from Deputy Michael Kennedy.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (21 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: Question 121: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of applications in respect of child benefit waiting to be processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34491/08]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (21 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: Question 137: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the average length of time for processing applications in respect of child benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34490/08]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (21 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: Question 412: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding the recently proposed reforms to assist lone parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36039/08]
- Social Welfare Benefits. (21 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: Question 106: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason for the delay in processing applications in respect of jobseeker's allowance and jobseeker's benefit; the reason there are variations in processing times across the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36035/08]
- Social Welfare Benefits. (21 Oct 2008)
Olwyn Enright: It is clear the measures being taken are not working because the figures the Minister gave me for October more or less correlate to the figures I have for September. Therefore the measures taken are not decreasing the queues. The Minister said failure to supply all pertinent information can be one of the reasons for the difficulties. Are the people of Galway or Navan particularly incapable...