Results 61-80 of 90 for pension speaker:Louise O'Reilly

Impact of Covid-19 Restrictions: Motion [Private Members] (16 Dec 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: ..., Deputies Darragh O'Brien, Alan Farrell and Joe O'Brien, voted against paying student nurses and midwives. However, just five days later, the same Government managed to find €12 million to restore pension payments for retired taoisigh and the same Ministers who were in office during the financial crash a decade ago. On top of that it has decided to increase the pay of political...

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

Louise O'Reilly: ...their lives in low-income jobs, for whom she has precious little understanding. The Minister said she was a working woman, but as my colleague, Deputy Clarke, pointed out, the decision to increase the pension age and tell people to go on the dole at the age of 65 comes from people who sit at a desk. Builders, plasterers, waitresses, barmen and anyone else who has worked hard doing...

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

Louise O'Reilly: I move: “That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — in five weeks’ time the pension age is due to increase to 67 years of age on 1st January, 2021; — legislation needed to stop the pension age increasing to 67 in January has not been published or introduced to the House; — every worker in the State makes a considerable tax contribution throughout...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Pension Provisions (20 Oct 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 300. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to circumstances by which a person (details supplied) can re-enter the 2004 pension scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31078/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: ...mentioned the plight of carers, who have been long-neglected by this and the previous Government. I sincerely hope that she is not trying to pit carers, people with disabilities and those in receipt of the old age pension against those workers who have just lost their jobs because that would be an awful thing to do.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (21 Jul 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 477. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 723 of 14 July 2020, if the planned early retirement allowance or pension for persons aged 65 years of age will be a means tested payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17079/20]

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (27 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: ...discussion, construction has restarted. I would have thought the hospital would be a priority project. As I often say to my daughter, it is the thing that she is going to be paying for out of her pension, but we do want to see it built nonetheless. My information is that work has not restarted. Perhaps the Minister would comment on that. Will there be an additional cost for the delay...

Section 39 Organisations: Motion [Private Members] (17 Dec 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: ...know there is a recruitment and retention crisis right across the health service and it is being acutely felt in section 39 agencies because they are already in a position where they do not have comparable pension rates and now they do not have comparable pay rates to the rest of the public service. It is not fair to say to them that they are regarded as public servants for the purposes...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (10 Dec 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: ...we take with us throughout our careers and into retirement. In terms of cold hard cash, women earn less money so they consequently have less money to invest in their futures. The EU average pension gap between women and men is a massive 35.7%. There are, of course, decisions the Government can make today that would start to address poverty in work for these women. Fine Gael and the...

Development of Primary Care: Statements (29 May 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: ...all that goes with running a small business. It would mean directly employed GPs with a yearly HSE salary and all of the rights that accompany direct employment, such as maternity, paternity and annual leave and a pension. I believe this would make the profession significantly more attractive. We also need to ensure that primary care centres are properly staffed and have a full...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2019 (13 Nov 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 453. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 511 of 16 October 2018, if the additional superannuation contribution, ASC, is netted off pension costs only and not netted against pay for the 2019 health Vote on page 217 of the budget 2019 expenditure report. [47172/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2019 (16 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: ...details of subhead H of the health Vote on page 217 of the budget 2019 expenditure report and its contents; the reason no percentage changes are recorded for the subhead; the reason there are no pension lump sum payments recorded under the 2019 Estimates; the reason there were no net pension costs recorded under the 2018 Estimates; and the reason for the 24% reduction to Exchequer pensions...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Data (29 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: ...growing population in the State and the number of nurses has declined. At the rate of increase many of those people who are living in my constituency will be shuffling around looking for their pensions before they will see anything even approaching adequate community services. Meanwhile the pressures on the acute hospital sector will not be alleviated because we do not have the staff in...

Community Employment Pension Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: .... Has it considered it carefully enough? It is actually a very simple Labour Court recommendation. Sometimes they go on for pages, but this is a very simple one. These people have the right to a pension. I am acutely aware that every single one of us in here has a pension. That is all these people are here to get - a pension. They believe they are entitled to a pension. The Labour...

Section 39 Agency Staff Reimbursements: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: ...and nothing less. It is an insult to those people for the Minister of State to come to the House and read out what he read. Day in, day out they work hard. They do not have public service pensions or job security. They are entirely dependent on the block grant, as the Minister of State knows. The block grant funds everything they do. Caring for people, minding them and looking after...

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Second Stage (29 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I might be alone among the Members currently in the Chamber as having been in Government Buildings on the night the pension levy was introduced in 2009. There are many, including all the civil and public servants working tonight, who will remember that. Should they ever forget, there is a handy reminder in every pay packet they receive. At the time, we did not know what FEMPI was and...

Social Welfare Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: ...who is the product of absolute privilege. As regards the Bill, glaringly obvious in particular is the absence of any provisions to address the more than 42,000 older people in receipt of reduced State pensions due to the 2012 changes to the pensions bands and rates. Fianna Fáil, of course, did its usual: it talked an awful lot about it but, in the end, did nothing. It did not push...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (16 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 73. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to a mechanism for public servants who are members of the single public service pension scheme to access AVCs in the same way as persons on the previous scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48501/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pensions Data (16 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 74. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the numbers of civil and public servants who are members of the single public service pension scheme, by grade and by employer, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48502/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Widow's Pension Eligibility (31 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 63. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to extend the widow’s pension to unmarried couples in certain circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25934/17]