Results 1-20 of 289 for pension speaker:Michael Creed

Written Answers — Tax Reliefs: Tax Reliefs (27 Oct 2010)

Michael Creed: Question 223: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of tax breaks for provision of private pensions in 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010; the cost to the Exchequer of these tax breaks for individuals in 2009 who invested between €1,000 and €5,000 in their pension; between €5,001 and €10,000 in their pension; between €10,001 and €20,000 in their pension; and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Pensions (10 Feb 2021)

Michael Creed: 195. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the situation regarding the restricted entitlement for pensioners to drawdown funding from private pension investments which appear to discriminate against persons that have a reduced rate of State pension relative to those that are in receipt of the full State pension (contributory); the reason the State, through its financial...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Issues (2 Oct 2013)

Michael Creed: 172. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current situation regarding the public service pension reduction as it relates to combined or aggregated pensions and the application of the 28% reduction in same as provided for in the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2010 and amended by the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (18 Jun 2013)

Michael Creed: 169. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will confirm that the 20% levy applying to public service pensions in excess of €100,000 is applicable when pension holders are in receipt of more than one public service pension or when the combined total of pensions exceed €100,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28880/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jan 2016)

Michael Creed: 89. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection why a widow or widower who is in receipt of a State pension (contributory) is not entitled, on the death of a spouse, to a widow’s, widower’s or surviving civil partner’s (contributory) pension; why such a pension is made available to the spouse of a deceased person where the deceased had an entitlement to a...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 11 - Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 41 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (15 Jan 2014)

Michael Creed: ...Minister alluded to Vote 12 on superannuation and retired allowances in the context of Deputy Fleming's questions. Perhaps the Minister will avail of this opportunity to reassure us regarding the pension liability that the State is assuming for various agencies and bodies immediately outside of the public service, for example, the IPA, the ESRI and some universities. Will he confirm that...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (2 Mar 2017)

Michael Creed: ...in 1958 under the Greyhound Industry Act, 1958, chiefly to control greyhound racing and to improve and develop the greyhound industry. Bord na gCon has informed me that the Bord na gCon DB Plan pension scheme has been in deficit since 2008. The Trustee of the Plan (Irish Pension Trust Ltd) was required to put a Benefit Reduction and Funding Proposal in place in September 2016 under...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report of the Commission on Pensions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Michael Creed: ...extraordinary body of work. I am of the Deputy Ó Cuív school, in that I am familiar with the headline details but not the minutiae of the report. The background is the decision to raise the pension age to 67 in 2021 and 68 in 2028 that was made by the Government led by then Taoiseach Enda Kenny between 2011 and 2016. A fundamentally dishonest debate was held in the midst of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (27 Sep 2022)

Michael Creed: 306. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the means test for State pension (non-contributory) as it applies to money on deposit; if she will specifically clarify the position regarding money on deposit held jointly, where one of the account holders is in receipt of a State pension (contributory) and his spouse is contemplating an application...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (30 Apr 2009)

Michael Creed: ...To ask the Minister for Finance if final details are available regarding the operation of the early retirement scheme in the public service for persons over 50 years of age; if he will clarify the pension benefit which will accrue to applicants for remaining years available to them in the public service; the rate of pension on offer for persons who retire early; the number of years...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Early Retirement Scheme (14 Jul 2016)

Michael Creed: ...to applicants who are farming, have an active herd number and have eligible land which is used for an agricultural activity. The eligibility requirements for qualifying for an Early Retirement Pension is that an applicant must have definitively ceased farming, have divested himself/herself of all UAA lands, including lands rented out and have cancelled or made dormant their herd/flock or...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (28 Feb 2023)

Michael Creed: 174. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the correspondence or communication, if any, which he has had with the board of CIE regarding the solvency or otherwise of the pension fund; if he has received a request from the board of CIE, or trustees of the pension fund, to sign or vary any statutory instrument governing disbursements from the fund; if he is satisfied that the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (1 Feb 2023)

Michael Creed: 149. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will elaborate on section 119 (b) of the Social Welfare Act 2005, as it relates to applications for the invalidity pension and specifically the requirement for class A PRSI contributions in the relevant years; the person or body that is routinely liable for paying class A PRSI contributions; the reason that all other...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (31 Jan 2023)

Michael Creed: 485. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has concluded its enquiries regarding a pension application (details supplied), and possible additional contributions being used to increase the level of pension payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4231/23]

Written Answers — Farm Retirement Scheme: Farm Retirement Scheme (25 Jun 2008)

Michael Creed: Question 203: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the plans he has to reconsider the compulsory reduction in the farm retirement pension when the beneficiary reaches age 66 and is entitled to a State retirement pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24954/08]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (7 Mar 2023)

Michael Creed: 524. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has received representations from an organisation (details supplied) regarding the pensions for members of An Garda Síochána, and in particular, regarding the implications which revised pension arrangements post-2013 are having on recruitment and retention on the force. [11484/23]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (1 Jun 2011)

Michael Creed: Question 93: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Revenue Commissioners insist that private pension lump sums can only be cashed in when the lump sum total is less than €20,000; if this provision is a pension fund or Revenue regulation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13819/11]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (1 Jun 2011)

Michael Creed: Question 94: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason public construction contracts insist on participation in a pension scheme (details supplied); if this compulsion is in breach of competition law; the reason he will not accept evidence of pension provision as sufficient; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13820/11]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (5 Mar 2009)

Michael Creed: Question 87: To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of the fact that part-time firemen do not receive a pension from the local authority, he will ensure that they are not liable for the public service pension levy as recently announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9366/09]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (8 Feb 2022)

Michael Creed: 456. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the delay in processing pension entitlements from retired workers in the section 38 and 39 health employees and the voluntary hospital sector relative to their counterparts in the HSE; and if she will expedite a pension calculation for a person (details supplied). [5939/22]