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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (14 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The following bodies operate under the aegis of my Department; The Citizens Information Board, The Pensions Authority, The Pensions Council and The Social Welfare Tribunal. There are no cases relating to the above bodies currently before Scope Section of the Department of Social Protection, for investigation or determination. Scope Section did not make any employment misclassification...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (14 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 420. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for invalidity pension in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21713/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (14 May 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...including the cost of equipment and accommodation are not included. It should also be noted that the estimated figures do not take account of potential overtime costs in excess of estimated briefing time payments or potential future pension costs. Any funding for An Garda Síochána will be decided in consultation with my Department under the estimates process, as part of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pension Provisions (14 May 2024)

Denis Naughten: 543. To ask the Minister for Health the reason health service workers who paid pension contributions in both jurisdictions cannot combine them for a HSE pension prior to retirement; if he believes that this is a barrier to the all-island approach to healthcare espoused by the Government; if there are reciprocal pension contribution arrangements with any other healthcare or any other public...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (14 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...public health sector are paid in excess of the national minimum wage, and receive pay increases as set out in the public service agreements and associated Acts such as the Public Service Pay and Pensions Act 2017. While workers employed in the health sector via an employment agency are not direct employees of the public health sector, I can confirm that Part 2 of the Protection of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (14 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...the expansion of the role of pharmacists in Ireland is evidence of my commitment to that aim. The regulations governing the pharmacy fee structure are set out in the Public Service Pay and Pensions Act 2017 (No. 34 of 2017) and in S.I. No. 639 of 2019, the Public Service Pay and Pensions Act 2017 (Payments to Community Pharmacy Contractors) Regulations 2019, which put the current fee...

Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Joan Collins: ...not been increased to reflect that need. It is not rocket science to know that when costs go up and funding remains the same, then you get problems. This goes across the board, from funding to wages, pensions and social welfare. If payments do not keep up with inflation, then ordinary people lose out. There has also been a clear failure to engage with the stakeholders who matter,...

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...more than 4,000 children, were in emergency accommodation. Since the Government took office, all categories of homelessness are up. Overall homelessness is up 59%, child homelessness is up 56% and pensioner homelessness is up 67%. Meanwhile, hundreds of people every single night sleep rough on our streets because they lack adequate emergency accommodation. Last month, the Government...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Programmes (9 May 2024)

Joe O'Brien: ...the €1 million open call and an additional staff funding call launched in 2023, implications of the increase to the minimum wage in 2024 and upcoming costs that will have to be factored in relating to the pension auto-enrolment scheme, which is successfully moving through the Dáil at the moment.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 May 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Fiona O'Loughlin: ...and Tara McManus from the Garda Representative Association. They were meeting and protesting outside Leinster House about the retirement scheme for post-2013 entrants. This is basically a new pension scheme that commenced for those who joined the public service after 1 January 2013. At present those who joined since then will receive an occupational pension on retirement but will not...

Seanad: Europe Day: Statements (9 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Gerard Craughwell: ..., the security of the State? Do they know the Government is responsible for ensuring properly resourced security services? One or two key issues are worth mentioning today. In 2013, a new pension scheme was brought in by people who clearly do not know understand the role of front-line services such as the Defence Forces, An Garda Síochána and fire services. Has anybody looked...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

...: The total income of the University of Limerick group for the accounting year 2021-2022 was just over €352 million. A total of €117 million of this comprised recurrent State grants and pension funding. Academic fees amounted to €124.4 million, with 30% of this received directly from the Higher Education Authority. Research income recognised in the year was...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: ...schools, school building programmes, school transport, the disposal of assets of religious orders, and Caranua. On 23 May we engage with the Department of Defence in relation to Vote 35 – Army Pensions, Vote 36 – Defence, and Chapter 12 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's annual report in relation to stock management in the Defence Forces. The Army Reserve has also...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (9 May 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Sorca Clarke: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of people excluded from the Caranua scheme; the number of people covered by this scheme, multiplied by the contribution pension. [20949/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (9 May 2024)

Willie O'Dea: 222. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an individual (details supplied) has an entitlement to apply for the State pension (contributory), in view of the fact that they have 244 reckonable contributions paid since 2014 and they also have mixed contributions for a number of other years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21057/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Widow's Pension (9 May 2024)

Mark Ward: 224. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in the circumstance where someone is in receipt of the widow's pension, works part-time but their job closes during the summer months, there is any additional payment to their widow's pension that they are entitled to during this period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21071/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (9 May 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Mark Ward: 319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the widow's pension is classified as reckonable income when applying for the SUSI grant, as according to SUSI, the widow's grant is not reckonable income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20994/24]

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Ivana Bacik: ...homes as they and other entities, such as the Dublin Artisans' Dwellings Company, used do in years gone by. This country once had one of the highest rates of homeownership in the EU. Our social protection, pension and nursing home care systems are all predicated on an assumption of home ownership, but that is no longer the reality for so many people. The price of a home is up 9%...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Recently, there was recognition in this House of a 43-year-long struggle for social justice. We have another one now, which is the Waterford Crystal factory pensions issue, which has been going on for 32 years. It was visited by "Prime Time" last week, which brought up new information that showed there was understanding between the Irish Pensions Trust and the factory workers, where over...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...staff at RTÉ. I am talking in particular about the practice of bogus self-employment contracts, which we know deprive hard-working staff of so much, including access to mortgage approval, maternity pay and pension entitlements. I have heard from people who cannot retire or take sick leave or holidays, all because RTÉ will not recognise that they are employees. Some of these...