Results 1-20 of 42 for pension speaker:Maurice Quinlivan

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Employment (Restriction of Certain Mandatory Retirement Ages) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...employment (restriction of certain mandatory retirement ages) Bill 2024. The objective of the Bill is to align mandatory retirement ages in existing and future employment contracts with the State pension age. The aim of the measure is to restrict the enforceability of mandatory clauses in employment contracts where the employee wishes to continue in employment. As recommended by the...

Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (20 Mar 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...detailed analysis of the impact of Government policy interventions on business costs. The report includes analysis of the impact of statutory changes such as the right to request remote work, statutory sick pay, pension auto-enrolment, parent’s leave and parent’s benefit, the additional public holiday, and the transition to a living wage. These are all measures which Sinn...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (17 Jan 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: 888. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what plans are being considered to allow unmarried partners to qualify for the widow's pension upon the death of their partner; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56815/23]

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2023)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...going to pay, and some residents have spoken to me about needing to take out loans to pay for these essential services. It is not good enough that citizens, particularly those depending on modest pensions, are facing such stark choices when it comes to paying their bills. As I said, energy costs are sky-high, and families are struggling to afford them. People who are facing huge bills...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 May 2023)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...her views on the case of a person (details supplied) who received the April bonus payment of €200 but did not receive a second payment of €200 for their spouse, who is a qualified adult on his pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21219/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 May 2023)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...the status of the case of a person (details supplied) who received the April bonus payment of €200 but did not receive a second payment of €200 for their spouse, who is a qualified adult on his pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21260/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sectoral Employment Order (Construction Sector) 2023: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (26 Apr 2023)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...replaces the previous system, known as registered employment agreement. The intention of the legislative framework governing the SEO is to establish minimum rates of pay, sick leave provision and pensions provisions for a particular sector. The Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment has received a draft SEO for the electrical contracting sector and laid it before the House of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business of Joint Committee (26 Apr 2023)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...to the opening statement of Mr. W. Croke and Mr. J. M. Hearne that was read out during the committee's detailed scrutiny hearings relating to the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021 on 25 January 2023. The committee has not engaged in making any assessment as to the correctness or otherwise of any allegations made by any party...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...the Leinster House complex only. Apologies have been received from Senator Gavan. Today we will undertake detailed pre-legislative scrutiny on the industrial relations (provisions in respect of pension entitlements of retired workers) Bill 2021. It is a Private Members’ Bill that provides for amendments to industrial relations and pensions legislation to allow for retired persons...

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

Maurice Quinlivan: ...(details supplied) who has been unsuccessful in their application for free travel, despite being inhibited by multiple sclerosis, MS, requiring a walking aid, and despite being in receipt of a pension, and whose application been declined due to their being under 66 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55203/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Payments (19 Oct 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...the Department in a timely manner. That is the problem I am trying to raise. There are people waiting 12 weeks for decisions on initial applications for long-term payments such as the invalidity pension, the disability allowance and the carer's allowance, and people waiting up to ten weeks for an exceptional needs payment. These are good people who, in many cases, have never contacted...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (20 Sep 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: 240. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to update rule 4(1)(b) of the Pension Declaration Rules 1966 regarding an eligible witness to include additional persons such as elected members of both the Houses of the Oireachtas and local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45468/22]

Rising Food Prices: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (31 May 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...;780 will be spent on groceries next year by consumers due to the cost of living. This is a huge increase for those on lower incomes and those depending on State support payments such as the old age pension. When it is coupled with other excessive prices for electricity and gas it is an increase that cannot be managed. People in my city often turn to Depaul Ireland, the Simon...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Company Liquidations (22 Mar 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...and appropriate training, if required, following this receivership? The Minister of State will be well aware that employees have told us they do not know whether money they paid into their pensions, or money they paid to private health companies, is there. All this stuff needs to be clarified. For us, the core of all this is protecting the workers and their families.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Feb 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: Two years ago, the Government finally committed to ensuring pay equality and pension entitlements for school secretaries and caretakers. They are invaluable members of our schools and communities and often work above and beyond their job commitments. They work on the front lines and are the first port of call for parents and students. Without them, our schools would not function. Despite...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sectoral Employment Order (Electrical Contracting Sector) 2021: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...the previous system known as the registered employment agreement, REA. The intention of the legislative framework governing the SEO is to establish minimum rates of pay, sick leave provisions and pension provisions for a particular sector. The Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment has received the draft SEO for the electrical contracting sector and has laid it before the Houses...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (30 Nov 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: 393. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reasoning behind the proposed exclusion from the pension-related once-off gratuity scheme for community employment supervisors of those who received a statutory redundancy payment from their scheme as compensation for being made unemployed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58680/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Reform (16 Nov 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: 217. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to update rule 4(1)(b) of the Pensions Declaration Rules 1966 regarding an eligible witness to include additional persons such as elected members of both the Houses of the Oireachtas and local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55867/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (16 Nov 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason community employment supervisors who have received statutory redundancy are excluded from the gratuity payment upon reaching State pension age while retired community employment supervisors are eligible to apply; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55944/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (16 Nov 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...) in relation to community employment supervisors will preclude those who were provided standard statutory redundancy payments from the once-off gratuity payment in lieu of a community employment pension that was committed to by the Labour Court in 2008; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55945/21]