Results 241-260 of 4,782 for speaker:Olwyn Enright
- Debt Management (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: They do not feel they are able to get all the advice they need because MABS is not resourced to give them that extra sort of advice.
- Debt Management (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: When will we see action on that?
- Debt Management (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: We are not far from agreeing.
- Social Insurance (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: Question 35: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties self employed persons experience in claiming jobseeker's allowance under the current system; if he has any plans to reform the PRSI system in order that self employed persons can benefit from adequate support when they become unemployed or when their business fails; and if he will make...
- Social Insurance (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: There are two strands to the question, how to deal with the persons who were self-employed who now find themselves in a position where they no longer have employment and then to look at the PRSI contributions to ensure that down the road more self-employed persons do not find themselves in this position because they paid only the class S rate. To deal with the more immediate problem, no doubt...
- Social Insurance (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: With respect, the Minister has not answered my question; he has just elaborated on my question. The Minister stated in interviews that he regards this new scheme as being particularly useful for people who formerly worked in the trades and in the construction sector to facilitate them in gaining employment. How will this scheme specifically help the category of formerly self-employed...
- Social Insurance (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: The Social Welfare Bill will be taken in two weeks time.
- Social Insurance (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: The Minister said specifically in an interview that this new scheme would be suited to the self-employed.
- Social Insurance (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: That is all I am asking. He is not answering my question.
- Pension Provisions (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: The Minister is asking a question.
- Pension Provisions (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: The Minister is asking a question.
- Pension Provisions (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: The Minister gives the impression that he turns up at Cabinet meetings to discuss the budget and brings the entire Estimate for the Department of Social Protection, which is then gone through line by line. Is it not the case, however, that he will bring to the Cabinet his recommendations for cuts in his Department? Is that not the reality of how it will happen? The Minister for Social...
- Pension Provisions (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: We do not agree with how the Minister addresses that aspect.
- Pension Provisions (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: That is not something that happens too often on the Government side of the House.
- Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: The Minister described the context to us of where we are and where we were. It is very difficult to deal with a couple before one in a clinic who cannot pay their mortgage or ESB bills and whose telephone has been cut off, who cannot afford to clothe and properly feed their family because they are waiting for their application to be processed. One cannot just tell them that due to the...
- Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: -----not working there? Deputy Feighan will probably raise the same matter of difficulties in the Boyle office. The Minister is failing utterly to tackle the problem in specific areas. What does he intend to do about that?
- Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: How can that be paid out in a week by a community welfare officer who still has to be fairly sure that the claimant is entitled, yet it can take a significant length of time to make an application through the Department?
- Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: The Minister still has not given the information.
- Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: There are many empty buildings in the town that could be used.
- Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2010)
Olwyn Enright: We have asked general questions as well.