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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (23 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: My Department provides a suite of income supports for those who are unable to work due to an illness or disability. These include contributory payments based on PRSI contributions, such as Illness Benefit and Invalidity Pension, and non-contributory payments based on a means test, such as Disability Allowance and Blind Pension. Disability Allowance is the only Social Welfare payment which...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (23 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: To qualify for state pension (contributory) a person must have at least 520 full-rate social insurance (PRSI) contributions paid since entering insurable employment. 520 full-rate contributions equate to 10 years of full-rate insurable employment. According to the records of my department, the person concerned has a total of 61 full-rate contributions. From the information provided to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: There is a range of supports provided by the Community Welfare Service (CWS) under the Supplementary Welfare Allowance (SWA) scheme. These supports can consist of a basic weekly payment, a weekly or monthly supplement in respect of certain expenses, as well as single Additional Needs Payments (ANPs). The Department may make an ANP to help meet essential expenditure which an eligible...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Carer’s Support Grant (CSG) is an annual payment made to full-time carers who satisfy certain conditions. The person claiming the CSG must: Be aged 16 or over and ordinarily resident in this State Care for the person on a full-time basis Care for the person for a continuous period of at least six months – this period must include the first Thursday in June (1st June...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (23 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: State pension (non-contributory) is a means-tested payment for people aged 66 and over, who have a legal right of residence and habitually reside in the state, and who do not qualify for a state pension contributory, or only qualify for a reduced-rate contributory pension based on their social insurance record. Following previous representations from the Deputy in this matter, on 19 June...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (23 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Disability Allowance is a weekly allowance paid to people with a specified disability who are aged 16 or over and under the age of 66. This disability must be expected to last for at least one year and the allowance is subject to a medical assessment, a means test and Habitual Residency conditions. As previously advised to the Deputy, the financial position of the person concerned has been...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Reports (23 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 305 to 308, inclusive, together. The Department of Rural and Community Development has overall policy responsibility for the Control of Dogs Acts 1986 to 2014. Local Authorities have responsibility for all operational matters under the Control of Dogs Acts including licensing and enforcement. Local Authorities are well placed to target measures in their...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (23 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Scheme (ORIS) is funded by my Department under Our Rural Future. The scheme provides funding for the development and enhancement of outdoor recreational infrastructure such as walking trails, cycleways and blue ways throughout rural Ireland. Since the launch of the scheme in 2016, funding of over €113 million has supported more than 1,700 projects...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Advertising (23 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: My Department's total expenditure in relation to online advertising from 2019 to date is laid out in the table below. The costs outlined for 2024, for the year to date, relate to costs incurred for online/digital media platform advertisements as part of a wider campaign. The final costs may be subject to change depending on the final outputs for that element of the campaign. ...

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Systems Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (22 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I expect to have the legal advice by the time the Bill goes to the Seanad. On a second point, it is not just the UK. There was a similar increase in the take-up of occupational pensions in New Zealand and Australia. I expect that will be the case here.

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Systems Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (22 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I thank the Deputies for their co-operation and support. This is transformational legislation. It will affect many of the workers of tomorrow and of today. I was speaking to a group of schoolchildren this morning. They were 16 and 17. It will impact on their lives down the road. It will also impact future generations. It took 25 years to get this far, so I compliment everyone on...

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Systems Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (22 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I acknowledge the amendments tabled by Deputy Ó Laoghaire, but the auto-enrolment scheme will not be invested in through private pension providers. That will not happen. It will be invested in through investment providers in the same way the NTMA invests the State's money. This will involve the savings of members of the scheme. It is set up in such a way as to protect members. It is...

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Systems Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (22 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I move amendment No. 24: In page 50, line 22, to delete "Part" and substitute "Act".

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Systems Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (22 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I move amendment No. 25: In page 51, line 11, to delete "contract" and substitute "investment management contract between the Authority and that person".

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Systems Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (22 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I move amendment No. 26: In page 52, line 2, to delete "and".

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Systems Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (22 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I move amendment No. 27: In page 52, line 6, to delete "section." and substitute "section, and".

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Systems Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (22 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I move amendment No. 28: In page 52, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: "(d) without prejudice to paragraph (c), the extent to which a scale and methodology, and custom and practice, referred to in that paragraph take into account climate-related risks.". This amendment comes about in response to an amendment tabled by Deputy Ó Cathasaigh on Committee Stage....

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Systems Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (22 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I move amendment No. 29: In page 54, line 33, to delete "may" and substitute "shall". This is another amendment that arises as a result of an amendment that Deputy Ó Cathasaigh put forward on Committee Stage. I said I would see how we could cater for it on Report Stage. Members should not that the amendment has not been grouped with the previous amendment because that one relates...

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Systems Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (22 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I move amendment No. 30: In page 58, line 6, to delete "and published by the Authority" and substitute "by the Authority and published by it on a website maintained by or on behalf of the Authority".

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Systems Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (22 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I move amendment No. 31: In page 59, line 23, to delete "and publish" and substitute ", and publish on a website maintained by or on behalf of the Authority,".