Results 1-20 of 219 for pension speaker:Marc MacSharry

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Business Supports (3 Oct 2023)

Marc MacSharry: ...manufacturing costs with those huge energy increases. The increases in wages over the past years have, of course, put pressure on them but we have also had statutory sick pay, the auto-enrolment for pensions, and the enhanced protective leave entitlements that will come. In certain sectors there were other operational and capital expenditure pressures. In the retail sector now, for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Nov 2022)

Marc MacSharry: 361. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will have a decision on their invalidity pension claim; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56112/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (8 Nov 2022)

Marc MacSharry: 630. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will abolish the means test for persons in receipt of a State pension who have a disability, in view of the unprecedented increase in energy costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54108/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Sector Pensions (18 Oct 2022)

Marc MacSharry: ...clarify the reason An Post does not propose to comply with Paragraph 8 of DPER Circular 16/2021 in relation to the submission of its request for Ministerial approval of the 2% increase due to its pensioners from 1 January 2023 (details supplied); if he will ask An Post to undertake the necessary processing well in advance of the payment due date; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (18 Oct 2022)

Marc MacSharry: ...the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide greater clarity in writing for the reason for refusing an application by a person (details supplied) for an invalidity pension; if the person’s application was made inside the required one year since becoming continuously incapable of work; if she will provide a list of the qualifying contributions paid by...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (11 Oct 2022)

Marc MacSharry: 515. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address the anomaly whereby a person (details supplied) who is in receipt of a State pension and who fulfils the means criteria for receipt of the fuel allowance is ineligible for the allowance if they are residing with a pensioner who is not in receipt of a qualifying payment from the Department, but are in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (6 Oct 2022)

Marc MacSharry: .... To ask the Minister for Health if he will allow persons with dependent children who held a medical card prior to qualifying for the widow's, widower's or surviving civil partner's (contributory) pension on the death of a partner or spouse to retain the medical card for three years if they subsequently take up new employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49360/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (14 Jun 2022)

Marc MacSharry: 1103. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim will receive a decision on their application for the State pension (non-contributory); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29524/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Jan 2022)

Marc MacSharry: 401. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the legislation governing the invalidity pension means test for claiming an increase for a spouse, civil partner or co-habitant to assess income net of USC, PRSI and PAYE, instead of the gross income of the latter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2920/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (24 Jun 2021)

Marc MacSharry: 195. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 219 of 8 June 2018, if the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman can now consider older cases under the Financial Services and Ombudsman Act 2017 from persons that were of the view that they were mis-sold payment protection insurance in cases in which the conduct being complained of occurred during or after 2002;...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Key Priorities for Sport Ireland and Impact of Covid-19 on Sports Sector: Sport Ireland (18 Nov 2020)

Marc MacSharry: I will look for a second lot before 4 p.m. if that is okay. Is it not the case that the pension scheme is the same?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Marc MacSharry: ..., but the Department has outdone itself. In the post-Covid environment, the Department will probably be under savage pressure because expectations will be exponentially higher. On invalidity pensions, 2% were reviewed and 68% of those reviewed had resulted in an overpayment. That is very high. It is an insurance-based scheme and qualification is in regard to contribution conditions....

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments (12 Nov 2020)

Marc MacSharry: That is fine. Are medical reviews of invalidity pension claimants carried out at any stage during the life of the claim?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment (12 Nov 2020)

Marc MacSharry: ...the qualifying schemes for awarding credits; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that this has a knock-on effect for the person in that they cannot qualify for the widow’s contributory pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35925/20]

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Accounting for Capital Assets
Chapter 5 - Accounting for Allied Services (22 Oct 2020)

Marc MacSharry: The principal officer from the public service pay and pensions division is present. Is that not something that would have come across his desk?

Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: ...small family business in Sligo, run by a husband and wife, which employed 13 people. Eleven of them qualified for the payment but as the owners were both over 66 and in receipt of the contributory pension, into which they had paid for more than 40 years, the system adjudged them to have had enough. For those over 66 who are still making such a contribution to society, it would be only...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Records (7 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: ...(details supplied) that requires this information in order for the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection to carry out a review of the rate of payment of widower’s contributory pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14160/20]

Health (Covid-19): Statements (2 Apr 2020)

Marc MacSharry: ...aged over 66 years who are self-employed are not entitled to the €350 payment because they are in receipt of something that is deemed to be a primary social welfare payment, the contributory pension of €248 a week. The Minister needs to consider paying the difference between those sums. Another problem is that people who choose to work part time for lifestyle reasons are...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Applications (17 Dec 2019)

Marc MacSharry: 703. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a decision on an application for an invalidity pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53042/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Applications (26 Nov 2019)

Marc MacSharry: 500. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will receive a decision on an invalidity pension application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49083/19]