Results 361-380 of 2,017 for speaker:Anthony Lawlor

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Anthony Lawlor: There has been discussion around self-employed people being able to make a voluntary contribution, in terms of PRSI, which would entitle them to benefits.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Anthony Lawlor: Ms O'Brien was instrumental in a report I brought forward in regard to people who are in short term or casual work accessing social welfare benefits. We need to push that proposal more.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance (13 Nov 2012)

Anthony Lawlor: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the average processing time for rent supplement application from County Kildare; the number of applications for rent allowance currently awaiting processing from persons in County Kildare; the reason there appears to be an inordinate delay in processing these applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49635/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Lending to Small Business: Discussion (13 Nov 2012)

Anthony Lawlor: Is the initiative just from Mr. Farrell’s office or does it have the support of the entire banking sector?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Lending to Small Business: Discussion (13 Nov 2012)

Anthony Lawlor: That is positive.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Lending to Small Business: Discussion (13 Nov 2012)

Anthony Lawlor: History has a habit of coming back to haunt one. I will read a quote from four years ago: "The banking sector will not be found wanting in providing increased support for its business customers in these very challenging times." It has taken four years to come full circle from the position then to the fact that small businesses were not getting any support at all. I have a couple of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Lending to Small Business: Discussion (13 Nov 2012)

Anthony Lawlor: On that point, Mr. Farrell did not give me an answer on how the banks would feel about someone who comes back to them having already failed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation and Sustainability: Discussion with Chambers Ireland (13 Nov 2012)

Anthony Lawlor: We are trying to put together a brochure on the available schemes. Did the Chairman say he would do that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation and Sustainability: Discussion with Chambers Ireland (13 Nov 2012)

Anthony Lawlor: I agree with the Chairman's idea about using Government resources, but the negative side is that cranks will ask us about why we are wasting them. There will always be negativity but the idea is a good one. A ready-made database would be useful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation and Sustainability: Discussion with Chambers Ireland (13 Nov 2012)

Anthony Lawlor: Fianna Fáil used to announce plans as well.

Order of Business (14 Nov 2012)

Anthony Lawlor: On the issue of car clamping which is widespread around the country, have the heads of the Bill on the regulation of vehicle immobilisation been approved yet?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Tackling the Black Market and Retail Crime Report: Discussion (15 Nov 2012)

Anthony Lawlor: The witnesses mentioned that on average 30% of cigarettes were smuggled, with a figure of 40% for Waterford. Does Mr. Gleeson have statistics for each county nationwide?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Tackling the Black Market and Retail Crime Report: Discussion (15 Nov 2012)

Anthony Lawlor: That would be good.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Tackling the Black Market and Retail Crime Report: Discussion (15 Nov 2012)

Anthony Lawlor: It might have something to do with the demographics of the individual counties.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Tackling the Black Market and Retail Crime Report: Discussion (15 Nov 2012)

Anthony Lawlor: Mr. Gleeson might provide me with other information.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Tackling the Black Market and Retail Crime Report: Discussion (15 Nov 2012)

Anthony Lawlor: Newbridge is in the top three? That is not my constituency.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Narcolepsy Disorder (20 Nov 2012)

Anthony Lawlor: To ask the Minister for Health when he proposes to put a paper to the Government on foot of the recommendations of the final report of the National Narcolepsy Study Steering Committee which concluded that the increased incidence of narcolepsy in children and adolescents in Ireland since 2009 came as a result of the a side affect of the Pandemrix vaccine administered for the H1N1 virus; when a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (20 Nov 2012)

Anthony Lawlor: Will there be a delay? Developments are obviously rapid in Burma at present and its democratic process is changing. We would not want to hold this up for too long.

A Framework for Junior Cycle: Motion (22 Nov 2012)

Anthony Lawlor: I spent a short time as a teacher and I was very lucky to be involved in curriculum development - albeit curriculum development in agriculture the South Pacific. No course had been established when I arrived and we set one up for the entire country based completely on continual assessment because we wanted people to have some practical experience of the subject they were dealing with when...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Appeals (22 Nov 2012)

Anthony Lawlor: To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medical card application has been refused in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51988/12]