Results 21-31 of 31 for pension speaker:Sorca Clarke

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys and Update on Afghanistan: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (31 Aug 2021)

Sorca Clarke: ...If so, when did that take place? Does the Minister now accept, understand and relate to the level of hurt and insult caused to many people who are carers in this State or who are in receipt of State pensions by the flippant and throwaway remarks made concerning a nominal salary of €15,000 a year? That is more than our State pensioners and carers get. I would like to back up a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (30 Jun 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 83. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost per annum if the PAYE tax credit was reapplied to the qualifying adult dependent element of the State pension (contributory). [35138/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (31 Mar 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 658. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff by grade engaged in processing applications for both the State pension (contributory) and State pension (non-contributory). [16518/21]

Insurance (Restriction on Differential Pricing and Profiling) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Feb 2021)

Sorca Clarke: ...on the website. The Central Bank must be able to enforce regulations to govern the ban. The code of practice needs to be drawn up and it has to be fit for purpose for the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman and for the Courts Service. The Central Bank must be given powers to sanction insurance companies that continue to use dual pricing and to rip off consumers.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension (20 Jan 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 356. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of invalidity pension applications received by her Department in 2020; the number of applications that were approved; the number of applications refused; and the number of applications still ongoing. [2929/21]

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

Sorca Clarke: ...had the choice to listen to the people in February when they made the retirement age an election issue. The Government chose to ignore them and chose to bulldoze ahead with a proposal to raise the pension age, right up to the eleventh hour. It chose to try to placate the public by kicking this issue down the road, a move that is swiftly becoming a recurring theme with this Government....

Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Statements (19 Nov 2020)

Sorca Clarke: ...grandparents since they were 16 years old. All aspects of their lives have been formalised through their grandparents. They have registered for medical cards based on their grandparents’ State pensions. Their Revenue account is based at their grandparents as well the details required by their GP and bank. This is the case with everything they have. This year they received 423...

Health (Amendment) (Professional Home Care) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Sep 2020)

Sorca Clarke: ...become more widely known is that there is a vast disparity of working conditions among carers in the public and private sectors. Those employed directly by the HSE have guaranteed hours of work, sick pay and pensions. On the other hand, those employed by private care are often on low pay and have precarious if-and-when contracts. The Home Care Coalition estimates that while there has...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Personnel (30 Jul 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 609. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason Defence Forces pensions are abated at the State pensionable age unlike other public sector pensions. [20861/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (30 Jul 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 981. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the age at which Coillte pensions are payable [20860/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Pensions Data (28 Jul 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 412. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of persons in receipt of a Defence Forces pension. [18688/20]