Results 61-80 of 169 for pension speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (9 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 546. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the commitments made in October 2020 to regularise the employment, terms and conditions and pension rights of school caretakers; the status of the progress of this commitment made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42205/21]

Workplace Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (2 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...Europe. It is seen in the prevalence of low pay, the growth of precarious employment, the widespread abuse of migrant labour and young workers, the spread of bogus self-employment to evade paying sick pay, pension or other entitlements, the attacks on pension rights and defined benefits schemes and the absence of a statutory sick pay scheme. Ireland is one of five countries in the EU...

Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: .... There is an extremely long list of them that is too long to read out. There is a crucial context to the Bill, which is often apparent in the Dáil. That context can only be described as a war on pensions. It has been going on for a number of decades. Defined benefit scheme after defined benefit scheme has either been scrapped or downgraded to a yellow-pack defined contribution...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 367. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider changing the regulations to allow the blind pension to be paid concurrently with the invalidity pension given that it is means-tested (details supplied). [34737/21]

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

Paul Murphy: ...any of what was proposed, in my opinion. The Minister of State, Deputy English, said in his opening statement that the Government will vote in favour of the motion, which is very clear in terms of the pension age coming back to 65, but simultaneously he said something that entirely contradicts that, that is, the Government is in favour of the Pensions Commission continuing its work and...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...few or no internal flights. We should instead invest in a proper high-speed rail network so people can get around the country. That is not a call for any airline workers to lose their jobs, wages, pension benefits or working conditions. That is the point of a just transition. A just transition means that those workers whose jobs become less or whose jobs will no longer exist as a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (21 Apr 2021)

Paul Murphy: 1114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person in receipt of either the disability allowance, an invalidity pension or other disability payment from her Department is permitted to take up a Ph.D. scholarship or bursary without the loss of his or her disability allowance, invalidity pension or other disability payment, or any part thereof. [18364/21]

Caring for Carers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (31 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: .... The closure of respite centres and day services hit them hard in the past while, as did the previous cutbacks to these services. Despite promises, they continue to be left in limbo when it comes to pensions. Carer's allowance and carer's benefit are simply inadequate, with low income disregards and unnecessary barriers for those who are self-employed. It is very simple: they need...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (3 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: 148. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he will sign the Statutory Instrument to implement the enhanced benefits to the CIÉ regular wages scheme pension as proposed by the WRC in December 2019 and agreed through secret ballot by the CIÉ worker-members of the regular wages scheme in June 2020. [11746/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (3 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will make provision in the Statutory Instrument regarding the changes proposed by the Workplace Relations Commission to the CIÉ regular wages scheme pension in order that those members of the scheme who have retired since the date of the members ballot in June 2020 which agreed to those WRC proposals receive back payment of the enhanced...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (9 Dec 2020)

Paul Murphy: ...very well for the Government's professed opposition to divisive politics. How does it square with that? On top of the bill for advisers and refusing to pay student nurses is the decision to restore the pensions of the likes of Bertie Ahern and Enda Kenny who are former taoisigh. How can this be justified?

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

Paul Murphy: ...today produce 300% of the wealth they produced in 1971, while their real wages have only increased by about 50%. The difference went into massive and bloated profits. The attempt to increase the pension age is purely and simply an attempt to rob workers of their deferred wages by refusing to make corporations pay for them through taxation. The Government was prevented from increasing the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Council (24 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: 552. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to ensure that the Pension Commission includes representation of those who would be most affected by an increase in the State pension age by including representation from organisations (details supplied) in the membership of the commission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37998/20]

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Budget Statement 2021 (13 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: ...over the past six months and who were rewarded with a clap on a Thursday night. There is not an extra cent or euro for young people on social welfare, for the core rates of social welfare or for those on the State pension. There is nothing for renters, no ban on evictions and no rent control. There is almost nothing for youth services, which are so important at this time. There is a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: ...is not willing to allow a decent pay rise to a living wage. The Taoiseach earns ten times their wage. He takes home €4,000 per week compared to their wage of €400 per week, not to mention the Taoiseach's pension. Given the overwhelming public support for front-line workers and those who have kept our society running at this time, how can the Government refuse to give a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (6 Oct 2020)

Paul Murphy: 285. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will amend the measures which provide for staycation payments to render them payable as a grant rather than as a tax rebate in order that persons on pensions or other benefits whose incomes are below the tax threshold can also avail of the grant. [28785/20]

Taoiseach a Ainmniú (Atógáil) - Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (27 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: ...crisis, and as a Government which represents the rich, landlords and big business. It will be a hated Government. Remember what issues dominated the election, namely, healthcare, housing and the pension age. Since the election, a pandemic has shown us the weakness of our public health system and the possibility of incorporating in it the private system. Instead of a commitment to build...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (20 Feb 2020)

Paul Murphy: ...aside. They should abstain today and allow an alternative minority Government to be formed. People want an end to the cycle of their rule and want a Government that will improve people's lives, returning the pension age immediately to 65, cutting rents, implementing a rent freeze immediately, increasing the minimum wage and removing restrictions on the rights of workers to organise and...

Supporting Children out of Emergency Accommodation and into Homes: Statements (21 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: ...by the answer given by the Tánaiste during Leaders' Questions when he described the rent increase for council tenants as modest. The Tánaiste thought that an increase of €13 per week for old age pensioners on low and fixed incomes is modest. He clearly thinks that an increase of €3 per week for everybody else is nothing. That is the cost of a latté for the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2019)

Paul Murphy: ...is hitting with an across-the-board increase of €3 per week on a rent that is based on 10% of income. Now everybody is hit with a rise of €3 per week. Does the Tánaiste agree with hitting old-age pensioners with an increase of €10 per week on top of that? Does he agree with increasing their rent by €13 per week? If he does, how on earth can he say all...