Showing results 1 - 10 of 49 for the category: Poverty and social inclusion.
Strategies against poverty
Willie O’Dea (FF, Limerick City) challenged the government’s record on food poverty in the course of questions to the Minister for Social Protection (Dail Eireann, Debates, 29th May 2013, 493-5). According to Safefood, he said, one in ten people was…
1 Debates: Food poverty
John Halligan (ind, Waterford) raised the issue of food poverty (Dail Eireann, Debates, 25th April 2013, 5-7). The Combat Poverty Agency, when it existed, as well as Social Justice Ireland and the Society of St Vincent de Paul had described…
Poverty of the self-employed
Patrick O’Donovan (FG, Limerick) raised the problems of poverty of the self-employed, who had been described by the Society of St Vincent de Paul as ‘the new poor’ (Dail Eireann, Debates, 20th March 2013, 31-3). Their businesses had collapsed and…
Warning of repossessions
Several deputies warned of the dangers of repossession as a result of new guidelines on insolvency (Dail Eireann, Debates, 26th March 2013, 657-679; 27th March, 122-145). According to Finian McGrath (ind, Dublin NC), there was a huge mortgage arrears crisis…
Emer Costello announces EU food aid
In the course of a Seanad address, Emer Costello MEP announced the European Commission proposal of €2.5bn for food for the poor where she would be the Parliament rapporteur (Seanad Eireann, Debates, 28th February 2013, 622-627). It would provide food…
1 Debates: Senators press again for poverty debate
Senators continued to press for a debate on poverty (Seanad Eireann, Debates, 14th February 2013, 156, 162-3). Katherine Zappone (ind, Taoiseach nominee) drew attention to the most recent statistics on poverty by the Central Statistics Office, which showed that…
Social welfare amnesty
Aengus O Snodaigh (SF, Dublin SC) moved a Bill to amnesty social welfare recipients who, through no fault of their own, had been in receipt of overpayments (Dail Eireann, Debates, 18th January 2013, 962-987). His party had presented a…
Deepening poverty, unemployment
John Halligan (ind, Waterford) (Dail Eireann, Debates, 17th January 2013, 8, 9) asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Brendan Howlin, to agree to a task force to make an impact study of the serious health problems associated with…
Poverty impact of budgets 2012, 2013
Asked about the impact analysis of the 2012 budget, the Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton told Stephen Donnelly (ind, Wicklow) that her department had analyzed its distributive and poverty impact of the budget and the tax and welfare package,…
Poverty impact assessments
Asked about poverty impact assessments, the Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan, told Stephen Donnelly (ind, Wicklow) and Thomas Broughan (ind, Dublin NE) that the programme for government gave a clear commitment to require public bodies to take note of equality…
