Results 101-120 of 4,782 for speaker:Olwyn Enright

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Olwyn Enright: I move amendment No. 12: In page 6, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following: 3.—The Minister shall, within 1 month of the enactment of this Act, report to the Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection on the progress made in establishing an Employer Job PRSI Incentive Scheme.". On the basis that the Government finally launched an initiative on this matter last Sunday, I am prepared...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Olwyn Enright: I move amendment No. 13: In page 6, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following: 3.—The Minister shall, within 2 months of the enactment of this Act, report to the Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection on the progress made on providing a system of attachment to social welfare payments for fines and civil debt.". This amendment is perhaps more relevant to the Fines Bill 2009 but it...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Olwyn Enright: This is not about a honey pot of cash for the Department, it is about the amount of money we are spending every year on imprisoning people for not paying civil debt and fines. I am not sure we are talking about the same issue.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Olwyn Enright: Some 240 people were imprisoned last year for not paying debt.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Olwyn Enright: I move amendment No. 14: In page 6, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following: 3.—The Minister shall, within 2 months of the enactment of this Act, report to the Houses of the Oireachtas, on the progress made in reducing the processing time for social welfare payments.". This amendment is to ensure attention is paid to the length of time taken to process welfare payments. I am...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Olwyn Enright: I move amendment No. 15: In page 9, line 18, after "regulations" to insert "which shall be approved by Dáil Éireann". I raised this issue on Committee Stage. It is important the power is given to Dáil Éireann to approve decisions the Minister makes in this area. We were told this provision was inserted because of, for example, swine flu but there is no concrete reason that the Minister...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Olwyn Enright: They should still be approved by the Dáil.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Olwyn Enright: It would be better to have a full debate in the House. I cannot understand why this would not be done. We have no reason as to why the Minister needs this power and that is my real concern.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Olwyn Enright: It was never needed before.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Olwyn Enright: I will speak to amendment No. 22 in particular but I thought Deputy Ó Snodaigh's amendment No. 2 was reasonable and would have at least provided us with an opportunity to discuss what we feel needs to be out there for people. I am concerned about the amendments to jobseekers allowance and jobseekers benefit on the basis that adequate places are not available. However, people have to be...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Olwyn Enright: It will not be the exact same in terms of the hours they will be permitted to work and the Minister knows that.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Olwyn Enright: The payment is the same but the terms on the hours they can work and the opportunities they provide are different and I have a real difficulty with that. Amendment No. 22 is about appropriate training and the value of some courses. Deputy Ó Snodaigh referred to the Forfás report, as I did on Committee Stage, on the quality of some of the FÁS courses. The report clearly states that the...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Olwyn Enright: I particularly wish to speak on paragraphs (a) and (e) of the amendment, which deal with insurance companies and mortgage interest supplement. I would also like a report from the Minister on the PRSI changes and the practicality of them. Deputy Shortall is right. The summer before last, an bord snip nua looked at cuts. We do not seem to give the same emphasis to areas where savings can be...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Olwyn Enright: I shall comment briefly. Family law cases are held in camera to protect the identities of the families involved. Deputy Shortall's amendment does not suggest that information be made available to the general public or that the in camera rule be breached in any way. There has already been a great deal of discussion on this. I was a member of the committee on the constitutional amendment...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2010)

Olwyn Enright: Fine Gael supports this amendment. The cost benefit is one aspect of it which is important because it would make things easier for the Department. However, I support this principally from the perspective of the rights of the child to know both its parents. There are also genuine concerns which have been brought to my attention at different stages concerning the risk of children being in...

Written Answers — Public Service Card: Public Service Card (29 Jun 2010)

Olwyn Enright: Question 57: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide details on the public service card with photo ID to be rolled out from 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27918/10]

Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)

Olwyn Enright: What did the Cooney group get from the Department?

Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)

Olwyn Enright: It is not the fault of struggling homeowners that for various political reasons we have had four different Ministers at the Department in the past five years. The fact the Minister has been in the job for only three months is no excuse for the fact that there has been no action on this since the review group was established more than three years ago. Forget about that. The Minister used it...

Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)

Olwyn Enright: The Cooney group was established because Deputy Eamon Ryan announced it.

Social Welfare Payments (29 Jun 2010)

Olwyn Enright: Reviews do not have to be so long.