Results 61-80 of 81 for pension speaker:John Lahart

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

John Lahart: ...implications with regard to measure A, B or C". In one analysis, it transpired that one budgetary measure introduced by the former Minister, Deputy Burton, regarding the provision of State pensions penalised predominantly and significantly more women than men and certainly prejudiced them. One of the recommendations in that report was that the Minister for Finance would produce a gender...

Report on Gender Budgeting: Motion (18 Oct 2018)

John Lahart: ...colleagues have made the point. As I stated earlier, when Deputy Burton was serving as a female Minister for Social Protection in 2012, she, either wittingly or unwittingly, introduced measures in pensions legislation that were particularly gender-biased and had a disproportionately significant penalising effect on women than on men, although some men were penalised by the measures in...

Report on Gender Budgeting: Motion (18 Oct 2018)

John Lahart: ...efficiency of the budget formulation process. The report said it could also help to avoid the expense and time required to reverse unequal policy measures. One such example of an unequal policy measure was the change to the pension bands in 2012, which had a negative impact on female pensions in particular. The committee's report also highlights the fact that countries with larger...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (12 Jun 2018)

John Lahart: 1255. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the efforts are being made to address issues in relation to a pension scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25420/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (12 Jun 2018)

John Lahart: 1256. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to meet the trustees of a pension scheme (details supplied) to discuss ongoing issues in relation to the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25421/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (12 Jun 2018)

John Lahart: 1257. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to secure the pensions of members of a pension scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25422/18]

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Feb 2018)

John Lahart: ...Minister was too. People in so-called good jobs came to expect these rights which were fought for over generations by trade unionists and organisations that worked on behalf of labour, including pensions, sick leave, maternity leave, compassionate leave, leave of absence and holiday pay. These are things which as a young man, and now as an older man, I took for granted. In this Bill,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Tax Forms (7 Feb 2018)

John Lahart: 108. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to allow persons in receipt of a Garda pension to have their P60 issued in January of each year (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6201/18]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Department of Finance (16 Jan 2018)

John Lahart: ...Deputy mentioned the next issue which is very close to my heart. Both the Chairman and I represent the same area and he knows the types of estates about which I am speaking. Older people who are reliant on the State pension are living beside someone in a terraced or a semi-detached house that is worth exactly the same, but the State pensioner is utterly reliant on the State pension while...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Local Property Tax and Commercial Stamp Duty: Department of Finance (16 Jan 2018)

John Lahart: On the question of inability to pay, the people on the ground, particularly older people and those on State pensions who live in their own homes, tend to mind their budgets and the idea of deferring a debt until the sale of their house after their death is anathema to them. That is a significant issue. What yield does the Department want from LPT?

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2017)

John Lahart: ...debate, to which I will return. Claimant error is quite significant. I would also like to know where is the fraud. Can it be broken down into particular categories? Is it predominantly in pensions? It does not seem to be, because internationally people over the age of 65 are least likely to commit fraud. Is it in income or employment supports? Is it with regard to illness,...

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2017)

John Lahart: This is the first opportunity I have had to congratulate the Minister on her appointment. The purpose of this Bill is to provide for amendments to the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act 2005, the Pensions Act 1990 and the Civil Registration Act 2004. Fianna Fáil does not intend to oppose the Bill on Second Stage. One of the main provisions of the Bill is to amend the Social Welfare...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Reform (11 Sep 2017)

John Lahart: 107. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether allowing holders of annuity pensions cash their lump sums and pay outstanding taxes would be more beneficial to persons that are in receipt of small monthly amounts from annuity pensions, in view of steps taken recently by the UK government regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36991/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (11 Jul 2017)

John Lahart: 728. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the options available to persons who have not attained sufficient contributions towards their contributory pensions; the circumstances under which PRSI contributions can be refunded; if a mechanism is in place to provide a person with a pro rata pension based on the number of contributions made; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2017)

John Lahart: ...suggest that this is nothing new, and that, "Oireachtas records from the 1980s show that he went as far as sponsoring a Seanad motion seeking to introduce legislation to prevent a judge from even getting a pension". In my view, coming from the type of constituency that I represent, a diverse population, people from diverse backgrounds and communities and people from diverse economic and...

Waste Disposal: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2017)

John Lahart: ...or another are in arrears. These are some of the most vulnerable and challenged communities in Ireland living in my constituency. There are large communities of senior people relying on their life-earned State pension to enable them to live from week to week. Any upward changes made to the demands on their small allowances causes much anxiety and leads to increased hardship. There is...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pensions (4 Jul 2017)

John Lahart: 589. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the assistance available for a person that is contracted to retire at 65 years of age but is not entitled to a State pension until 67 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31008/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Brexit Issues (4 Apr 2017)

John Lahart: 437. To ask the Minister for Health if persons with modest UK pensions, which entitle the recipients of the pension to a medical card here under EU law, will be affected with the onset of Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16304/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Levy (1 Feb 2017)

John Lahart: 164. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he is taking to replenish the private pensions funds of which the Government has repeatedly accessed over the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4760/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Minister of State (7 Sep 2016)

John Lahart: ...involved a middle-aged man, while the other case involved an older man, who is well into his 70s with a 14 or 15 year old car, whose premium has increased from just over €400 to more than €1,300. He is a pensioner in receipt of €230 per week who simply has been put off the road. Again, the car in question had passed the NCT and this driver's mileage is approximately...