Results 1-20 of 161 for pension speaker:Paul Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (30 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: 214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in relation to calls from the board of CIÉ to award a pension increase as soon as possible, his views on the need for this increase; and if he will take action to ensure this is granted to retired workers who have not had a pension increase since 2008. [19331/24]

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...magic year of 2041 finally arrives and the State is finally to be allowed to spend this money, there is nothing in this Bill to specify what the future Ireland fund is to be spent on. There is no mention of capital investment or pensions, even though that is how the Minister is selling this fund in the media. All it says is that the money can be drawn down by the Exchequer. There is no...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Feb 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...education tutors who will gather in large numbers outside the Dáil today at 1 p.m. For years they have been fighting for pay parity, for an end to discrimination and for proper contracts and pensions but they continue to be denied these by the Government. Effectively, the Government is trying to get away with not providing proper incremental payscales, is offering piecemeal pensions...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Schemes (25 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...about some of the poorest households in the country. I refer to working families on poverty wages who get the working family payment, carers, single parent families, people with disabilities and pensioners whose incomes are low enough to allow them to qualify for the fuel allowance. These are the people who are living in energy poverty right now and who are faced with a choice between...

Social Welfare (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Second Stage (18 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...this country have the same wealth as 50% of the country or half the entire population. That €9 billion alone would pay for abolishing childcare fees, increasing all basic social welfare payments and pensions to €350, and making medicines and public transport free. A wealth tax would raise much more funds to abolish child poverty than placing attachment orders on people's...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (6 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...if she will reverse her decision in relation to the Ministerial approval of RTÉ's request to transfer the administration costs of the superannuation scheme from RTÉ (scheme sponsor) to the pension fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54052/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: 155. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that roughly 2,260 CIÉ retired salaried staff have not received a pension increase since 2008; if he will ensure that the board of CIÉ assign adequate funds to the CIÉ Superannuation Scheme 1951 to pay increases to CIÉ pensioners in line with the-cost-of-living; and if he will make a statement on the...

Mortgage Interest Rates Cap Bill 2023: First Stage (18 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: Last month was the 24th month in a row that saw inflation of more than 5%. Basic human requirements such as food and energy continue to rise even higher, while wages, benefits and pensions have seen only meagre increases, which means that people are suffering real cuts in income, week by week and month by month. For those with mortgages, this is an extra burden. There have been over ten...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...rates of payment are slipping, bringing people further and further into poverty. The Government is papering over the deepening deprivation of ordinary people who are reliant on a fixed income, be they pensioners, people with disabilities or unemployed people. The problem is poverty, deprivation, inequality and the housing and health crises are not once-off. None of those things goes...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Just Transition (27 Sep 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...disabled enough" to get the support needed. If the Government is genuinely concerned about persons who are long-term sick, it should change the current conditions to qualify for the invalidity pension. If someone's medical condition deems them permanently incapable of working, they should be automatically entitled. If there is a real desire to help people with disabilities into the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (26 Sep 2023)

Paul Murphy: 361. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she or officials from her Department will meet with representatives of a group (details supplied) regarding their pensions. [41452/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (20 Sep 2023)

Paul Murphy: 201. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, given that the 7,000 An Post pensioners awaiting increases to their pension have been left waiting for nearly nine months for same, he will provide the final approval to allow these increases to take effect as a matter of urgency (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39782/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pensions (20 Sep 2023)

Paul Murphy: 282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 674 of 11 September 2023, if she will ensure that parental leave is included in the calculation of pensionable service for the purpose of the 55/35-year threshold, given that this system discriminates against mothers, as they are more likely to avail of parental leave; and if she will make a statement on...

Apprenticeship and Further Education and Training: Statements (22 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...security within the construction sector. A state construction company which offered quality permanent employment, properly paid apprenticeships, improved wages and employee benefits (e.g. improved pension provisions, early retirement schemes, sickness pay, and death-in-service compensation), better regulation, and improved safety and quality standards. The private sector is not set up...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...of being disabled. Many things need to be done. We need investment in housing and ratification of the optional protocol. Specifically, though, I wish to ask about the disability allowance, the blind pension and the invalidity pension. During Covid-19, the Government recognised that the minimum anyone required to survive-----

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...Commissioner said, while it is still very small, it is, unfortunately, a growing far right that has a very significant hand in some of the protests and some of what has been taking place. This week a pensioner in his 70s was hospitalised at a protest in Corofin. A couple of weeks ago, the tents of asylum seekers were burned down in Sandwith Street in Dublin. Wherever one goes, in very...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (3 May 2023)

Paul Murphy: 257. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will advise in relation to a person (details supplied) who has been refused invalidity pension and supplementary welfare allowance, given they have been without any payment since December 2022; and how her Department can provide them with the support needed. [20664/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (18 Apr 2023)

Paul Murphy: 989. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality in relation to section 15 of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2014, which allows for gardaí to be seconded as social welfare inspectors, and 1D which allows them to swap and become gardaí again if necessary; if he will advise if there are guidelines on how to regulate when and how they can swap between these two...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (7 Mar 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...of members of the CIÉ '1951 Scheme' because the '1951' Committee of Trustees' independent actuary has confirmed that the '1951 Scheme' now meets the minimum funding standard provisions of the Pensions Act 1990 and is solvent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10819/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (7 Mar 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...of the failure of the CIÉ board to act in a timely manner in relation to investment decisions from the end of March 2020 to 13 May 2020 and which led to as yet unspecified financial loss to the pension scheme it was responsible for. [10821/23]