Results 1-20 of 37 for pension speaker:Victor Boyhan

Seanad: Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Bill 2017: Second Stage (18 Jul 2017)

Victor Boyhan: .... I acknowledge the broad consultation on this Bill. We have had much debate and discussion around this legislation and for that I thank the Minister of State. The financial services and pensions ombudsman is a statutory officer who deals independently with unresolved complaints for consumers about their individual dealings with all regulatory financial service providers. The statutory...

Seanad: Houses of the Oireachtas (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2021)

Victor Boyhan: .... We need to review the whole matter, with a new title, grade and pay scale for the job. That is an important point to make. I have some figures to hand in regard to the annual occupational pension entitlements of secretarial assistants. For someone who has five years' service and whose pension is calculated at €6,827.30, his or her annual occupational pension will be...

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Victor Boyhan: ...was ongoing consultation. The choreography looked great. I am somewhat surprised. A woman stopped me as I was crossing the street to discuss several issues and asked what good is a fiver for an old age pensioner and what is anyone doing about the local property tax and the hundreds of euro that a widow has to pay because the previous Administration introduced that tax, which is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service: Discussion (9 May 2019)

Victor Boyhan: ...up, I would like to suggest three things that her agency might consider in its next audit. These are only suggestions, because I have no statutory function in all of this. The value and cost of pensions to local authorities is a ticking bomb.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Pensions: Discussion (12 Jul 2017)

Victor Boyhan: ...that men who put their lives on the line to defend and secure the State and its citizens are now here publicly having to make a case for what should be a legitimate expectation to have some benefits of pension. Clearly, the members of the committee in private session will make decisions. I am mindful of what Deputy O'Callaghan said. It is important that out of all this there are...

Seanad: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (8 Dec 2021)

Victor Boyhan: ...from all parties across the House and they seem to share the same view and concern. Their pay is nothing short of a disgrace, particularly and more importantly when one puts it up against the pensions. Politicians on all sides of both Houses have been criticised time and time again by the media and other people outside with regard to our pensions. I took the time today to look at the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Public Services Card (27 Feb 2019)

Victor Boyhan: ...of State will be very familiar given that he represents a rural community. Particularly when rural post offices close, people are being asked to have alternative arrangements to have their pensions or whatever to be transferred through a bank. A particular elderly lady from Galway contacted me. She has no passport and will not have a need for one. She does not think it is right that...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Victor Boyhan: ...time. This is democracy at work. People in rural constituencies are giving it to politicians in the neck, so well done. The devastation caused by this fungus has a major impact on the incomes of pension funds, investors, farmers and foresters. That is why I cautiously welcome the package. Quite frankly, it is not enough. A farmer and county councillor from County Roscommon wrote to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Property Tax (10 Nov 2020)

Victor Boyhan: ...than the real average but we can use it as the figure - this equates to €4 million gone that the local authority could do with. I will read an extract from a letter in The Irish Timesthe other day from a pensioner. It states: I believe in paying my fair share but this is unjust. I urge the Government to modify this local property tax in a fair and just manner, and to have regard...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Dec 2021)

Victor Boyhan: ...the new year. I appreciate the difficulties the Leader has but she has been an advocate and I want to acknowledge that. Senator Kyne was talking about the Civil Service needing to know and determine its pensions. We will have a debate later on today about secretarial assistants and I will not tell the House what they can expect because I have it in front of me and I will put it on the...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)

Victor Boyhan: ...party had a slogan a few years ago that it was the wrong tax at the wrong time. It is the wrong tax at any time as it is grossly unfair. My next door neighbour who is widow in receipt of a basic pension pays the same amount in property tax as I do. This is something that needs to come into the light in public debate within days, not months. This is a very appropriate juncture in...

Seanad: Cost of Living: Motion (15 Jun 2022)

Victor Boyhan: ...and I know, and I do not wish to give her or the Members of this House a history lesson, that the cost of renting a home is too high and it is nigh impossible for most people to purchase a home. Pension and social welfare payments are not sufficient to meet the costs of living. Too many people simply cannot survive on the minimum wage and it has failed to keep pace with the cost of...

Seanad: Ábhair Ghnó an tSeanaid - Matters on the Business of the Seanad (5 Nov 2020)

Victor Boyhan: ...to reform the LPT. I am opposed to this tax in principle. I am not opposed to bringing in income to local authorities but the system used is very unfair. A neighbour of mine is a very elderly pensioner on a very low income. She is paying the tax. I spoke to two professionals recently who live in Foxrock and who have an income in excess of €200,000. They do not pay the LPT....

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Harbours and Piers (26 Oct 2016)

Victor Boyhan: ...items of correspondence as well. I shared some information on the matter in the House previously and I will say what I have already said again. There are legal issues, human resources issues and pension issues in respect of this company. I furnished some information to the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport last week and I received a letter from the Department in reply. Indeed,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...the table. I will continue to advocate strongly for a level playing pitch for Coillte, State forestry projects and the private forestry sector, which makes a huge contribution and in which many of our pension plans are involved. We need a balanced debate about public and private forestry. We need a focused debate on the challenges around ash dieback and how we are going to deal with...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2020: Second Stage (14 Dec 2020)

Victor Boyhan: ...is, however, that people on the islands are experiencing difficulties and are at a slight disadvantage. I ask the Minister to keep this matter under review going forward into next year. Finally, the repeal in respect of the increase in the State pension age under section 17 is positive. I heard a previous speaker stating that they had an issue with the Commission on Pensions. I welcome...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Property Tax Review (14 Feb 2019)

Victor Boyhan: ...it. It is not a correct or fair tax. I will cite again the case of a neighbour, a widow, who pays the same amount in property tax as I do. That is ridiculous. She has no income other than her pension. She sought to have some changes made in that respect but did not get support. We have a tax on people in their homes. This is a woman who has lived in her home for nearly 40 years....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Dec 2020)

Victor Boyhan: ...will have received numerous emails this week to the effect that people of 65 years of age are obliged to apply for jobseeker's allowance until they are 66 years of age and qualify for the State pension. Senators will recall that during the elections and the political promises, there was a promise on an interim payment that seems to be forgotten, and that this would issue for the period...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (28 Mar 2017)

Victor Boyhan: ...that the reduction in the cap on the "sick tax", as it described it, announced today was good news and Age Action hopes it is a step in the right direction to its abolition. It cautioned that lone pensioners would not benefit greatly as they are unlikely to be paying more than €20. I will circulate the views of Age Action in case the Minister is not familiar with them. I wish to...

Seanad: Statement by the Taoiseach (1 Feb 2018)

Victor Boyhan: ...not scrapped. This money could be ring-fenced to increase funding for public housing, water services, public health care, particularly mental health care, and for education. The gap between the pension funds of private and public sector employees needs to be addressed. There is a huge gap and it is unsustainable. Perhaps, through some reform of the USC and PRSI, we can address the...