Results 21-40 of 165 for pension speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (21 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 487. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will increase the State pension by at least €11 as called for by an organisation (details supplied); if she will review all social protection payments to ensure that no one on social welfare is forced to live in poverty; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8783/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...phrase "Nothing about us without us" sums up this issue. As someone made the point earlier - I think it was Mr. Collins - we are dealing with deferred wages in this case. That is what occupational pensions are. The reality as it is at the moment is that Mr. Collins's deferred wages and those of the hundreds and thousands of retired workers represented by the association can be changed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Paul Murphy: I will make one other point about that. The suggestion made earlier, which is often made in this debate, is that this is really about the underfunding of pension schemes. It seems to me that is a conflation of two issues. Sometimes there may be an overlap of those two issues. I understand this can arise in situations where there is no question of underfunding of pension schemes...

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]

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

Paul Murphy: ...Stage in the House, but the Minister of State is just saying that we will have a consultation. Does he accept it is a problem that six months after a person who has paid into an occupational pension scheme for all his or her working life retires, that person has no say in any proposed changes, has no access to an effective mechanism to air issues or seek redress and that, in effect, his...

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

Paul Murphy: ...Minister of State indicated that the consultation process has taken place. Does he accept that there is a fundamental problem here, and that it is fundamentally unjust that workers have had their pension schemes raided, both by the Government and by private sector employers and that deals done have had profound impacts on retired workers at a vulnerable stage of their lives, on which they...

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

Paul Murphy: ...of representation for retired workers groups and specifically proposed measures to give them access to the Workplace Relations Commission and rights to consultation prior to any changes to their pension entitlements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62118/22]

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...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: 268. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending the one-off payment of €500 to those in receipt of the State pension; and if not, the reason therefore. [61440/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (6 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: 362. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the criteria to qualify for the State pension provision for long-term carers which is due to be introduced from January 2024; and when the criteria will be published. [60631/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Directives (27 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...Department's position on the proposed EU corporate sustainability due diligence Directive, including the size of the companies that should be covered, applicability to the whole value chain and to pension funds and alternative investment funds; and if the Government will move to legislate on these issues in advance of the Directive as some other EU countries are doing. [53849/22]

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...cities around the world already offer some form of free public transport. All the evidence shows that abolishing fares significantly increases public transport use, thereby reducing carbon emissions. Ask the pensioners in Ireland who avail of the free travel scheme if they would still use public transport to the same extent if it was not free or if instead they would drive more. We must...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (19 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will include industrial school survivors in the redress scheme, which would see them also receive a State pension (contributory) and medical card. [52248/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (19 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: So that could be a possible model. Another major part of attempting to water it down is to exclude pension funds and alternative investment funds like hedge funds. That is very relevant for Ireland, as a centre of finance capital with the IFSC. Could the witnesses outline why it does not make any sense to exclude these companies from responsibility for what happens?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (6 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: 272. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 318 of 27 September 2022, if a series of issues in relation to the pension payment will be clarified (details supplied). [49230/22]

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...assignee relief programme, SARP, continues for the super-high-income people and the knowledge development box continues the corporate tax haven. Contrast the billions for big businesses with the pennies for pensioners, carers and unemployed people. They needed €27 per week just to keep their incomes steady in real terms. Instead, they got €12. To add insult to injury,...

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

Paul Murphy: 318. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will ensure that all of those in receipt of the State pension receive the same increase in Budget 2023, guaranteeing that there are no penalties for those who took time out of their working life for caring responsibilities; and if she will confirm that this will be the case for a person (details supplied). [47003/22]

Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...a guarantee of a timeline for a meaningful referendum about public ownership of water in a real sense, and if the workers are not satisfied on the various issues they are raising about conditions and pensions, then on 1 January there is likely to be a significant problem. The workers will be absolutely justified in engaging in industrial action to state they will not be transferred to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Sector Pensions (14 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 112. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he will confirm a date to authorise the payment of an agreed 2% increase to An Post pensioners, effective from 1 January 2022; and if he is unable to expedite the payment, if he will meet with members of an organisation (details supplied) in order to address their concerns laid out to him in correspondence dated...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Defence Forces (6 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...to 60%. It was clear, and we warned at the time, that these workers would be needed again in the future but the DAA, being run on a commercial basis by a guy on close to €400,000 a year, including pension entitlements, was focused on getting rid of unionised, directly employed workers and replacing them with contracted agency staff on lower wages and less favourable conditions. ...