Results 1-20 of 277 for pension speaker:Brendan Smith

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (10 Apr 2024)

Brendan Smith: 97. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will bring forward amending legislation to address the anomaly whereby retrospective payment to pension claimants is limited to six months, even though her Department has been in possession of all the facts relating to the claimants' eligibility from the date of pension application; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Mar 2024)

Brendan Smith: 121. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons who are foster parents are eligible for contributions to be included under the homemaker’s scheme for pension purposes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10917/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Brendan Smith: ...social security network has been established. We can learn so much from one another and take what is good in our system and transpose it, hopefully, to Northern Ireland andvice versa. With regard to pensions, something that is often overlooked is that we speak about Britain funding pensions in this country but we fund a huge number of pension of Irish people domiciled in Britain and that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pensions Reform (28 Mar 2023)

Brendan Smith: 85. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date on introducing a total contributions approach, aligning a person’s contributory pension more closely with the contributions they make; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15139/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pensions Reform (28 Mar 2023)

Brendan Smith: The programme for Government 2020 commits to the introduction of a total contributions approach aligning a person's contributory pension more closely with the contributions they make. This will include a provision for credit contributions, ensuring that people who take time off work to care for loved ones are not disadvantaged. Will the Minister outline to the House the progress to date in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pensions Reform (28 Mar 2023)

Brendan Smith: ...who came to Dublin and worked in a pub for two weeks at 17 or 18, went to England, had no insurance contributions and then paid contributions for more than 20 years. When that person applied for a pension, it went back almost 40 years or more and he had a very poor average contribution. He had got work experience for two weeks with a publican in Dublin, who was a neighbour and a family...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (9 Nov 2022)

Brendan Smith: 90. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address the concerns outlined in detail in relation to the pension entitlement of a person (details supplied); if she will have the decision to reduce the pension payment reviewed as a matter of urgency, taking into account all of the relevant data; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55716/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (17 May 2022)

Brendan Smith: 130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the findings of the Commission on Pensions report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24675/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (22 Mar 2022)

Brendan Smith: 24. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the timescale for the Government response to the recommendations of the Pensions Commission with particular reference to an essential ending of forced retirement at 65 years of age; the consultations that have been carried out to date by her Department with relevant interest groups; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (22 Mar 2022)

Brendan Smith: 80. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the report of the Commission on Pensions; the expected timescale for Government decisions on its recommendations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14869/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (9 Mar 2022)

Brendan Smith: 141. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the timescale for the Government response to the recommendations of the Pensions Commission with particular reference to an essential ending of forced retirement at age 65; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13162/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (22 Feb 2022)

Brendan Smith: 620. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if persons employed by education and training boards (details supplied) will receive increments and pension entitlements in respect of their employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9972/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (27 Jan 2022)

Brendan Smith: 244. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a former member of the Defence Forces currently in receipt of an Army pension based on 31 years service will be entitled to retain that full pension payment along with a full State contributory pension when they reach pension age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4118/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Victim Support Services (16 Dec 2021)

Brendan Smith: 364. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are plans to introduce a pension payment for the victims and survivors of terrorist activity related to the era of the Troubles between 1966 and 2010 for persons injured in this State similar to the payments scheme introduced in Northern Ireland and Britain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62788/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (14 Dec 2021)

Brendan Smith: 437. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to enable persons to buy voluntary contributions towards entitlement to a contributory old age pension if they do not have 520 paid contributions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61437/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Insurance (25 Nov 2021)

Brendan Smith: 67. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons who have reached pension age can continue to make PRSI payments to improve their pension entitlements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57996/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Insurance (25 Nov 2021)

Brendan Smith: The programme for Government makes a welcome commitment to help people improve their social insurance contributions beyond pension age. What strategy has the Minister put in place to enable that much-needed reform to be implemented?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Insurance (25 Nov 2021)

Brendan Smith: I welcome that this important issue has been covered by the Commission on Pensions and referred to the Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands. As we all know, people's insurance contributions can be interrupted for a myriad of reasons. A person may take time off to rear a family or care for a family member. In some instances, a person may have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Insurance (25 Nov 2021)

Brendan Smith: I welcome the Minister's commitment to advance these necessary reforms, which are generally for people who have contributed to society and want to ensure they have a decent pension when they decide to cease employment. I sincerely hope these new measures and reforms can be introduced in a realistic timeframe.

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

Brendan Smith: 67. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to concerns of customers of some financial institutions that were mis-sold mortgages and the failure of the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman to pursue legitimate complaints; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57959/21]