Results 61-80 of 193 for pension speaker:Paul Murphy

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...of voting rights at the International Monetary Fund, IMF, which is the biggest holder of Ukrainian debt. It is due to pay over €2.5 billion this year, which is equivalent to 16.5 million average pension payments in Ukraine. In exchange for this money, the IMF imposed conditionalities on Ukraine, including liberalisation and promotion of foreign trade, the removal of price controls...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (5 Apr 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...of Ukrainian society, the refusal to go after the wealthy and horrendous conditions imposed by the IMF. The IMF repayments this year alone are the equivalent of 16.5 million average pension payments in Ukraine. That is 12% of the total state expenditure. The debt needs to be cancelled. That is a concrete measure that can be taken now. Second, did the Taoiseach raise with President...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (5 Apr 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...their own policies regarding the assessment of means in this manner; and his views on whether it is appropriate or correct for a local authority to assess capital or savings, including inheritance, pension lump sums and redundancy payments when considering an application for social housing support. [17961/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...and capital of social housing support applicants and the recent implantation of same by South Dublin County Council whereby applicants have been refused on the basis of savings, inheritance, pension and redundancy lump sum and other amounts held in financial institutions. [14344/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Semi-State Bodies (1 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 79. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is satisfied that outstanding increases to pensions for semi-State workers are being authorised and paid over to pensioners by all Departments and State agencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11498/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (22 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...of older persons falling into poverty as a direct result of the cost of living increases; if her attention has been further drawn to the fact the value of the €5 increase agreed for the State pension in Budget 2022 has already essentially been wiped out with the rise in carbon taxes, fuel costs and cost of living; if she will commit to a secured annual increase in the State pension...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (8 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...later, the pandemic bonus was gone and then Tesco went on the offensive. It attempted to push through a very bad deal for workers which would scrap their Sunday premiums, convert a defined benefit pension into a defined contribution pension for new entrants and maintain a two-tier wage structure. The workers have resoundingly rejected those proposals, voting an incredible 88%...

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...their jobs or move to part-time jobs as a result, with no idea - and this is part of what is scary for them - as to how long the condition will last. At the moment, however, they are not eligible for occupational injury benefit, disability allowance or invalidity pension because long Covid is not included on the list of conditions covered. In other cases, they do not qualify because we...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (16 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: 391. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the issue concerning the formula for averaging the qualifying period for the State pension (contributory) (details supplied). [55839/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Nov 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...work in homeless clubs, homeless services and homework clubs and I could go on. They do this work on the cheap from the point of view of the State. Many of them are precariously employed with no pension cover or sick pay and they have suffered from pay cuts since 2008. The least they deserve is a 3% pay rise. Will the Taoiseach agree to meet their unions and will the Government agree...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: .... As we explained and outlined clearly yesterday, this is a budget for banks, landlords and developers. It is not an exaggeration to say there is less than nothing in it for renters, workers, pensioners, carers and the unemployed, all of whom will be worse off in real terms this time next year because what is being given is less than the rate of inflation. I gave a general speech...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...it was forced to do both. It was forced to introduce a pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, at a level designed so that people could survive on it. It is back to normal now. Payments for carers, pensioners and unemployed people are at a level below the poverty line. It is national fiver day. The Government wants a pat on the back for giving all these vulnerable groups of people a...

Energy Prices: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...that many households could be facing an increase in heating and electricity costs of more than €500 annually as a result of the energy price increases; — that the Fuel Allowance is only paid to 380,000 households, which means a majority 1727 of pensioners as well as low paid workers do not receive it and are not protected from these increases; — that the low level of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (23 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: 263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the provision of public sector pensions to school secretaries and caretakers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45715/21]

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

Paul Murphy: ...jobseeker's benefit over the school summer holidays and other school breaks despite the commitments made in October 2020 by the Government to regularise the employment, terms and conditions and pension rights of school secretaries (details supplied); the status of progress in relation to the commitment made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42139/21]

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...