Results 1-20 of 34 for pension speaker:Ossian Smyth

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Pension Provisions (14 Feb 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ...Craughwell for bringing this important matter to the House. As the Senator will be aware, the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, has overall policy responsibility in relation to public service occupational pension schemes payable to retired public servants. For all new entrants to the public service on or after 6 April 1995, the date of the introduction of full social insurance for public...

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

Ossian Smyth: ..., not all of whom are still present in the Chamber. In response to Deputy Martin Browne, I wish to put it on the record that there is a member of the board of the NWCI who is also on the Pensions Commission. In response to Deputies Seán Crowe and Munster, the Government has no plans in place to increase the State pension age at all. The Government removed the legislation that...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Pension Provisions (6 Jul 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...of An Post, staff representatives and the trustees of the schemes. The 1983 Act requires that, for civil servants who transferred to An Post on vesting day, that is 1 January 1984, An Post’s pension scheme must provide for not less favourable conditions than those to which the members of staff were entitled immediately before the vesting day. It is a transitional provision which...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Ossian Smyth: ...Vote will bring the total 2022 Estimate for that Vote to €786.6 million gross and €353.4 million net. The Supplementary Estimate arises mainly due to higher costs than forecast for the year under the pension scheme for established civil servants as a result of a higher number of retirements than anticipated for 2022. Expenditure in this regard is dependent on the number and...

Seanad: Public Service Pay Bill 2020: Second Stage (14 Jun 2021)

Ossian Smyth: Of course. Senator Horkan raised the issue of pensions for councillors, which I did not expect to hear about and which is not covered by this Bill, a point Senator Horkan made. He also raised the case of secretarial assistants, who fall between two stools as they work in the public sector but are not public sector employees. Their pay was not cut by FEMPI, but it was already incredibly low...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Living Wage (4 Oct 2022)

Ossian Smyth: ...breach exists that cannot be remedied by the other means provided. A sectoral employment order, SEO, fixes the statutory minimum rates of pay and other conditions, for example, sick pay and pension entitlements, for persons employed in a given economic sector. An employer in that sector has a legal duty to comply, at a minimum, with those terms. The 2021 SEO for the construction...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Climate Change Policy (7 Dec 2021)

Ossian Smyth: ...’s support for Kieran Mulvey to the senior Minister. The roles of Bord na Móna and the ESB have been critical in the midlands. They have been very significant employers and have provided pensions for many people. Many people I have met when I was travelling the midlands have been involved in energy infrastructure. My feeling is the ESB and Bord the Móna will continue...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Mortgage Interest Rates (6 Jul 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...can result in the Central Bank using its range of powers, including administrative sanctions, procedures or legal action where appropriate. A consumer has recourse to the Financial Service and Pension Ombudsman, FSPO. If a consumer is not satisfied with how a regulated firm is dealing with him or her in relation to the handling of his or her mortgage, he or she can make a complaint...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Conservation (14 May 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ...that throughout the period of high energy prices, Government has continued to support energy consumers to stay warm and well. This includes a €2.2 billion suite of cost-of-living supports to assist families, pensioners, carers and people with disabilities as part of budget 2024. My Department is currently developing a revised energy poverty action plan and I would encourage all...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (23 Feb 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...the midlands have historically been very important in Ireland's energy production. Bord na Móna was a large part of that, as was the ESB, and many people derived a living, an income and, later, a pension from Bord na Móna and the ESB. I know that is significant. The great efforts the Deputy went to secure just transition funding at the EU and national levels and in the...

Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2021: Second Stage (16 Dec 2021)

Ossian Smyth: ...be aware that the passage of the Bill is required to ensure that it is possible to make payments in 2022 in respect of services that were funded from voted expenditure this year, including the jobseeker's allowance, disability allowance, non-contributory State pension, nurses' pay, Garda pay, teachers' pay, all other pay and pensions funded from voted money, and payments to suppliers of...

Seanad: Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Oct 2022)

Ossian Smyth: ...to €140 per customer, which will directly help people. There is also the reduction in VAT from 13.5% to 9%. There is the €400 lump sum payment for fuel allowance recipients; the €200 lump sum payment for pensioners and people with a disability getting the living alone allowance; a €500 cost-of-living lump sum payment to all families getting working family...

Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2021: Second Stage (16 Dec 2021)

Ossian Smyth: ...into 2022. The passage of the Appropriation Bill 2021 allows continued funding, in the period before the 2022 Estimates are approved, of social welfare payments from the social protection Vote, Exchequer pay and pensions and other voted expenditure. If the Bill were not enacted before the end of December, there would be no authority to spend any voted moneys in 2022 from the start of...

Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2020: Second Stage (18 Dec 2020)

Ossian Smyth: ...to continue into 2021. The passage of the Appropriation Bill allows, in the period before the 2021 Estimates are approved, continued funding of social welfare payments from the social protection Vote, Exchequer pay and pensions and other voted expenditure. If the Bill was not enacted before the end of December there would be no authority to spend any voted moneys in 2021 from the start...

Seanad: Budget 2023 (Public Expenditure and Reform): Statements (27 Sep 2022)

Ossian Smyth: ...in November worth €140 per child in addition to the normal monthly payment; a payment of €500 in November to those who qualify for the carer's support grant; and a one-off payment of €500 in November to those who qualify for disability allowance, invalidity pension or the blind pension. The Government has also announced the extension of the 20% reduction in public...

Rising Costs and Supply Security for Fuel and Energy: Motion [Private Members] (10 Nov 2021)

Ossian Smyth: ...2022, including increases in the Fuel Allowance, Qualified Child payment, Living Alone Allowance and Working Family Payment, amounting to €146 million on a full year basis with a substantial proportion of this funded through the carbon tax; these measures are in addition to adjustments to basic welfare and pension rates; adjustments to income tax bands have also been introduced...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Energy Policy (22 May 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ...the period of high energy prices, the Government has continued to support energy consumers to stay warm and well. This includes a €2.2 billion suite of cost-of-living supports to assist families, pensioners, carers and people with disabilities as part of budget 2024. The Department is currently developing a revised energy poverty action plan which will be published in the coming months.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Fuel Poverty (28 Sep 2021)

Ossian Smyth: ...more than €109 million in 2021. The fuel allowance has also increased from €20 per week in 2014 to €28 per week in 2021, and it is paid to people receiving long-term social welfare payments, including pensioners, people with disabilities, those parenting alone and jobseekers. The allocation for the retrofitting of social housing has increased, with €65 million...

Support for Household Energy Bills: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...Government introduced a €2.4 billion package of supports during 2022, and an additional package of once-off measures worth €2.5 billion was included in Budget 2023; — in February, the Government announced a €1.2 billion package to help families, businesses, pensioners, carers and people with disabilities, including: — families with children will...