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Written Answers — Training and Education Programmes: Training and Education Programmes (27 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: Question 244: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the eligibility criteria for persons who are unemployed to undertake third level education courses under the labour market activation scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22535/10]

Requests to Move Adjournment of Dáil Under Standing Order 32 (26 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: I wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise an issue of national importance, namely the proposed loss of a significant number of jobs at the Tullamore plant of Covidien, a medical devices company which is a critical part of the plan to create a smart economy and a focus area for potential job creation, which follows on from the closure of a number of...

Death of Member: Expressions of Sympathy (26 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: I wish to join with my colleagues and with the Taoiseach in sympathising with the late Senator Kieran Phelan's family. There is shock and upset here in the House this morning at the news but it is nothing to the shock and upset that will be felt in the wider Rathdowney and Laois area. Unlike my colleagues, I did not have the opportunity of serving on Laois County Council with him but I...

Written Answers — Housing Aid for the Elderly: Housing Aid for the Elderly (26 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: Question 219: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 224 and 225 of 29 April 2010, the amount of funding that his Department provided to the Dublin and mid-Leinster region, in particular to the Laois and Offaly Health Service Executive area, in 2009 for the operation of the remaining claims under the special housing aid...

Departmental Expenditure (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: Question 32: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount that will be identified for savings within his Department in view of the instruction by the Department of Finance that departmental cuts of €3 billion must be identified within a month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21935/10]

Departmental Expenditure (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: My question was more specific than the Minister's reply suggests. I asked him to indicate the amount of savings he expects to be identified for his Department. Of the €3 billion in savings for which the Minister for Finance has asked, what specific proportion has been asked of the Department of Social Protection? If he has not been given a specific figure by the Minister for Finance, is...

Departmental Expenditure (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: The Minister said his priority is to protect the vulnerable irrespective of their age. However, recent comments of his, which he has not rowed back on, have raised concerns, particularly for pensioners. He has since provided some clarity in this regard but people remain genuinely worried. In the context of the budget for social protection, will the Minister indicate the categories of...

Departmental Expenditure (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: Who are the vulnerable in the Minister's view? He has criteria for vulnerability and some are more vulnerable than others. Who does the Minister believe are the ones that he must protect?

Departmental Expenditure (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: The elderly are a group in severe difficulties when one examines the OECD figures.

Departmental Expenditure (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: Absolutely.

Departmental Expenditure (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: From the Minister's experience, who are they?

Social Insurance (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: No.

Debt Management (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: Question 34: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the action he is taking to assist persons who are over indebted and need help and advice in coping with debt problems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21936/10]

Debt Management (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: The Minister's answer worries me if he thinks that MABS is the only solution to the debt crisis. It is part of the answer but it is not the whole solution. The Government has done nothing in terms of enforcing debt procedures, regulating debt collection and providing any sort of new system of personal insolvency. Has he any idea how many mortgage advice cases the 52 independent MABS...

Debt Management (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: It was the Minister's reply, not my question, that concentrated on MABS.

Debt Management (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: For a face-to-face meeting.

Debt Management (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: Exactly.

Debt Management (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: There is a lack of urgency in this regard. Arrears are growing by the day. People are getting farther and farther into debt and the response is not dealing with it. The Department has a role here in terms of mortgage interest supplement. There is a review that has been ongoing since I came into this position opposite the then Minister for Social and Family Affairs. We are spending €70...

Debt Management (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: I met with that committee. I am aware of it.

Debt Management (25 May 2010)

Olwyn Enright: Only a small number of those with a mortgage problem are going to MABS.