Results 19,961-19,980 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Written Answers — Private Rented Accommodation: Private Rented Accommodation (6 May 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 502: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the penalties applying when a landlord declares a certain rent to the Private Residential Tenancies Board but seeks a top-up from his or her tenant. [18064/09]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 176: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the action she will take to address the waiting times at many social welfare offices. [17306/09]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 17: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will improve expenditure control measures by requiring nursing homes to notify her Department once a patient has been in their full-time care for a month or more. [16978/09]
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (30 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 55: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that workers in a company (details supplied) who are to lose their jobs in 2009 will also lose their pension entitlements despite the fact that some of them have made the full 40 years worth of contributions; the action she is taking to protect the pension entitlement of such workers;...
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (30 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 125: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, under the Revised Estimates under equality, E.7 gender mainstreaming and positive action, he will provide the breakdown of the â¬4.982 million under the gender mainstreaming and positive action Estimate; the allocation for the implementation of the national women's strategy; the budget for the equality for women...
- Social Welfare Benefits. (30 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: I welcome the fact that an appointments system has been put in place in some offices and I am glad that the Minister took on our suggestion. This should have happened earlier. I accept that there has been a dramatic increase in the number of people applying and that has put serious pressure on the system but the Minister has failed to gear up the Department to deal adequately with that....
- Social Welfare Benefits. (30 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: State expenditure of approximately â¬500 million per annum on rent supplement highlights the complete failure of the Government's housing strategy. An additional 1,000 places in the rental accommodation scheme is a drop in the ocean because the vast majority of people at the lower end of the private rented sector should be in the scheme. The Minister has failed to move quickly to address...
- Social Welfare Benefits. (30 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: It is involved in the contract through the form and tax compliance requirements.
- Social Welfare Benefits. (30 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: What will be the position if landlords refuse to reduce rent? How will the tenant be fixed in such circumstances? Will the Department continue to pay rent supplement until he or she finds alternative accommodation? These are important questions because they relate to real people who will find themselves in very difficult circumstances.
- Social Welfare Benefits. (30 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Landlords can keep deposits. The Minister did not answer my questions.
- Social Welfare Benefits. (30 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: We know that.
- Social Welfare Benefits. (30 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: I again ask the Minister to clarify today what the position is for people who are on rent supplement, go to their landlord to try and negotiate and the landlord refuses to reduce the rent? Many people on rent supplement are in very vulnerable circumstances and do not have the kind of choices people in the private sector have. They may have children at a local school and cannot move to...
- Social Welfare Benefits. (30 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: People will end up homeless unless the Minister allows some time for them to find alternative accommodation. She needs to clarify what the reasonable period is with community welfare officers because otherwise people will be turfed out and will end up on the street as a result of this cost-cutting measure.
- Social Welfare Benefits. (30 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: How long will the Minister give people to find alternative accommodation?
- Social Welfare Benefits. (30 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Community welfare officers do not know where they stand on this. This is an arbitrary decision made by the Minister.
- Pension Provisions. (30 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the way she will proceed in terms of pensions policy in order to address the outstanding issues; and when she will bring her full proposals to Cabinet. [17305/09]
- Pension Provisions. (30 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: The reality is that we have been waiting years for this Government to address the pensions crisis facing the country. It is 19 months since the Green Paper was published and we are still awaiting a White Paper on the way forward. The minor changes the Minister made in December and this week amount to nothing more than robbing Peter to pay Paul. She is not doing anything fundamental in...
- Pension Provisions. (30 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: This has nothing to do with tax compliance, but rather with the cost to the Exchequer. I put it to the Minister that unless she is in a position to provide information on what the different types of pension relief are costing the taxpayer, her framework document will have no credibility. She should kindly get the figures and let us know how much tax reliefs to certain categories of pension...
- Pension Provisions. (30 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: Does the Minister accept that is not the case at present?
- Pension Provisions. (30 Apr 2009)
Róisín Shortall: I am just asking-----