Results 81-90 of 90 for pension speaker:Louise O'Reilly

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: ...Mr. Nugent does not have the information to hand but could he provide the committee with details of pay rates, the numbers of staff by grade directly employed, the outsourcing of functions and the pension arrangements for staff? I am specifically interested in the pension arrangements for all staff. Like Mr. Fitzgerald, I have experience of both the public and private health care systems...

Pension Equality and Fairness: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: ...". He told me he was not on the dole but had retired after 50 years of working. When the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Leo Varadkar, was here earlier he tried to give us a lecture about what pensions were and how they operated but I will take no lecture from the Minister or anybody else about how pensions operate because I know, and so does Paul. His was an integrated pension...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (15 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: ...some staff receive permanency whereas others, mainly non-academic staff, have recourse to only one-, two- and three-year fixed-term contracts; the number of these staff that have had permanent and pensionable contracts provided to them since 2009; the years in which they were provided; the relative grades; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34566/16]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: ...nurses indicates there is a significant number of retirements coming up so the figure given by the witnesses has factored in all the retirements and the differences relating to the preserved pension age. I am sure Dr. O'Halloran is more than acutely aware of this. Some can go at 55 while others can hang on. Is the number based on all of them hanging on until 60 or is the Department...

Public Sector Pay: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: ...€100 a week to buy a bit of brasso for their brass necks. This is exactly what people will think when watching us this evening. They will see people who earn €87,000 a year and who lecture pensioners and tell them to be grateful for a fiver accept a €100 a week pay increase. I was sent to the Dáil not to make a large amount of money but to stand up for people....

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: ...different story. A total of 164 nurses was the target in the agreement reached with the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation in December 2015. It was to provide no holds barred, permanent and pensionable contracts for graduate nurses, perhaps because some people thought the three month contracts on offer were not attractive. How many accepted them? The target figure was 164, but the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Sep 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: I am keen to expand on the point. My question relates to trustees. In my previous life as a union organiser I had many dealings with people acting as pensions trustees. It became harder to get anyone interested to put their hands up to become trustees. As Mr. Farrelly has just described, they took the view that their necks were on the block in the event of questions being asked. In the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Insolvency Payments Scheme Payments (16 Sep 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 709. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was denied access to the insolvency pension fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25010/16]

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: ...history. Let us recall the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009. In 2009 Apple was paying far less than its fair share. I recall the words of the late Brian Lenihan, who said that the pension-related deduction "is a reasonable and reasoned measure to deal with the serious imbalances which have emerged in the public finances". He went on to further assure Members...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (8 Jul 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: ...to FEMPI and become shorthand and common currency within the public service and public lexicon. It was one of the greatest travesties perpetrated on public servants because it was called a pension levy by Fianna Fáil. It could not have been a pension levy because it was applied to the people I was representing at the time who were paid on an hourly rate as home helps. It could not...