Results 1-20 of 169 for pension speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (22 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...of older persons falling into poverty as a direct result of the cost of living increases; if her attention has been further drawn to the fact the value of the €5 increase agreed for the State pension in Budget 2022 has already essentially been wiped out with the rise in carbon taxes, fuel costs and cost of living; if she will commit to a secured annual increase in the State pension...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: 400. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether it is now an appropriate time to reverse the unjust reduction to the State pensions of 36,000 older people which were cut due to changes in the State pension system in 2012, given that they have not had their pension rates restored in light of the current situation of rising prices (details supplied);...

State Pension Age: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...any of what was proposed, in my opinion. The Minister of State, Deputy English, said in his opening statement that the Government will vote in favour of the motion, which is very clear in terms of the pension age coming back to 65, but simultaneously he said something that entirely contradicts that, that is, the Government is in favour of the Pensions Commission continuing its work and...

Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: .... There is an extremely long list of them that is too long to read out. There is a crucial context to the Bill, which is often apparent in the Dáil. That context can only be described as a war on pensions. It has been going on for a number of decades. Defined benefit scheme after defined benefit scheme has either been scrapped or downgraded to a yellow-pack defined contribution...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: AIB (13 Nov 2014)

Paul Murphy: Pensions do not necessarily transfer. The kind of pension one would have in AIB would not compare with that in a small outsourced place.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 367. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider changing the regulations to allow the blind pension to be paid concurrently with the invalidity pension given that it is means-tested (details supplied). [34737/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Semi-State Bodies (1 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 79. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is satisfied that outstanding increases to pensions for semi-State workers are being authorised and paid over to pensioners by all Departments and State agencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11498/22]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Funding (11 Feb 2015)

Paul Murphy: 39. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if consideration will be given to reversing cuts to the pensions and other rights of persons participating in community employment schemes contained in section 7 of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6272/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Permanent TSB (12 Nov 2014)

Paul Murphy: I will begin with some questions about staff and their conditions in PTSB. Is it fair to say staff took a major hit following the liquidation of the defined benefit pension scheme in the past year or so in terms of the value of their pensions being slashed by perhaps one third?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (30 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: 214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in relation to calls from the board of CIÉ to award a pension increase as soon as possible, his views on the need for this increase; and if he will take action to ensure this is granted to retired workers who have not had a pension increase since 2008. [19331/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Council (24 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 552. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to ensure that the Pension Commission includes representation of those who would be most affected by an increase in the State pension age by including representation from organisations (details supplied) in the membership of the commission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37998/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 Jan 2023)

Paul Murphy: 835. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she agrees the decision not to extend the one-off payment of €500 to those in receipt of the State pension is discriminatory, given those in receipt of the State pension are also in need of financial support; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63201/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 1114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person in receipt of either the disability allowance, an invalidity pension or other disability payment from her Department is permitted to take up a Ph.D. scholarship or bursary without the loss of his or her disability allowance, invalidity pension or other disability payment, or any part thereof. [18364/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (20 Sep 2023)

Paul Murphy: 201. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, given that the 7,000 An Post pensioners awaiting increases to their pension have been left waiting for nearly nine months for same, he will provide the final approval to allow these increases to take effect as a matter of urgency (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39782/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 155. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that roughly 2,260 CIÉ retired salaried staff have not received a pension increase since 2008; if he will ensure that the board of CIÉ assign adequate funds to the CIÉ Superannuation Scheme 1951 to pay increases to CIÉ pensioners in line with the-cost-of-living; and if he will make a statement on the...

Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)

Paul Murphy: ...discovered. The Minister, Deputy Joan Burton, knew it at the time. There is a very good article in the Irish Examiner from 2014 entitled "No country for old women as females bear the brunt of pension cuts" which highlights how, as Minister, Deputy Burton had access to research from her Department which illustrated precisely how this would impact on older people and disproportionately on...

State Pension Age: Motion [Private Members] (1 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: ...today produce 300% of the wealth they produced in 1971, while their real wages have only increased by about 50%. The difference went into massive and bloated profits. The attempt to increase the pension age is purely and simply an attempt to rob workers of their deferred wages by refusing to make corporations pay for them through taxation. The Government was prevented from increasing the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Pensions Reform (13 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: It is now a year and a half since our Bill on provisions in respect of pension entitlements for retired workers passed Second Stage in the Dáil. The Bill states that retired workers cannot be ignored and have their pension pots raided without consultation. It passed Second Stage, but the Government put a 12-month stay on its progress in order to have a consultation period. We are now...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Service Superannuation (Age of Retirement) Bill 2018: Committee Stage. (11 Dec 2018)

Paul Murphy: ...of the individual, we are not forcing people to retire if they want to continue to work, and so on. However, it does take place in a social context, and that is the social context of attacks on pensions and cuts in pensions over years. What starts out as something voluntary, and in this case voluntary and with the agreement of the Minister, can over time morph into something that becomes...

Public Services Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2017)

Paul Murphy: I will be very brief. I support the amendment and oppose the section and the following ones because in reality what is happening is that what was set up as an emergency measure, a pension levy, which was all about demonising public sector workers and suggesting they had something for which they had not paid, which was not the case as they had paid for it and continue to do so, has been made...