Results 1-20 of 54 for pension speaker:Jackie Cahill

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

Jackie Cahill: ...Affairs and Social Protection what options are available to an individual, who has retired after 30 years of service but does not yet meet the minimum age requirement to be in receipt of a pension and does not want to draw jobseeker’s payment; if she has any plans to not treat those who are retired after 30 years of service and are not aged 66 years as jobseekers; and if she will...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Feb 2024)

Jackie Cahill: ...about the age limit that applies to school bus drivers. Under a recent change, people can hold a driver licence up to the age of 75 years without a medical report. School bus drivers are pensioners in the vast majority of cases. Driving a school bus part-time is excellent for their mental health and financially. They can drive a tourist bus from Donegal to Cork but they cannot drive a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (17 Jan 2024)

Jackie Cahill: 374. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on his work to ensure that retired members of An Garda Síochána retain pension parity in line with increases awarded to serving members of An Garda Síochána; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56339/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (17 Jan 2024)

Jackie Cahill: 375. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to ensure that members of An Garda Síochána who retired after 1995 on full service receive the same rate of pension as those who retired prior to 1995; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56340/23]

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Jackie Cahill: ...has its own problems and issues. We need extra gardaí. We have to make it more attractive and beneficial for gardaí to remain in the force. We have to look at pay, working conditions and pensions of our gardaí. We need to make it crystal clear what gardaí can do when they find themselves in difficult situations in order that they will not fear being prosecuted for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (24 Oct 2023)

Jackie Cahill: 64. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department is undertaking a review of the criteria for qualification for the State pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46415/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Oct 2023)

Jackie Cahill: ...for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will advise on the best procedure for an individual planning to return to work on a part-time basis after being in receipt of the invalidity pension for a number of years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44552/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Forestry Sector (28 Sep 2023)

Jackie Cahill: ...losses. They have lost a very lucrative crop but, unfortunately, that is water under the bridge. We cannot restore that crop; it is gone. However, if they got what would, in effect, be a pension payment for them, the vast majority of those who have lost out would be reasonably content - I will not say satisfied - that the plight they have suffered, over which they had no control, was...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Environmental Policy (28 Jun 2023)

Jackie Cahill: 95. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to ensure that the new fund being created through the auto-enrolment pensions scheme will not invest in fossil fuel companies; if she intends to enshrine this in law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31392/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Mar 2023)

Jackie Cahill: ...and more and more people have been affected. The warmer homes scheme is supposed to provide fully funded home upgrades for those on some social welfare benefits but we are seeing instances of pensioners and people with disabilities being told they will have to wait a minimum of two years to have their energy upgrades carried out. I have one case in County Tipperary of a pensioner in his...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (8 Dec 2022)

Jackie Cahill: 261. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is an additional pre-Christmas payment being made to pensioners who suffer with an illness related to their chest and who have to take medication for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61505/22]

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (29 Sep 2022)

Jackie Cahill: ...principle of a levy on concrete and that such a levy has to be imposed, I urge the Government to postpone it until a date later than April 2023 to allow costs to come back into line. The Minister for Finance gave the example of what a pensioner living alone and in receipt of the fuel allowance will gain from budget 2023. He said it will total €2,374. In my lifetime, I have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback and its Impact on the Private Forestry Sector: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Jackie Cahill: ...have lost as much as 25 years' worth of growth. Many people grew ash and usually it is grown on better land. Many people used to think that the revenue generated from growing ash would be their pension pot but now that has disappeared. The idea of replanting ash and waiting 70 or 80 years for another income to be generated means there will be no return from the land for three...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (21 Jun 2022)

Jackie Cahill: ...further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 630, 631, 632 and 633 of 22 March 2022, if the administrative arrangements to implement the community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors pension scheme, as agreed with unions, have been finalised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32654/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Jackie Cahill: ..., I cannot understand why this rule is being imposing. The scheme is working well and has great benefits for rural communities, similar to the CE scheme. I acknowledge the fact that when people are near pension age they will not be taken off the scheme, which is an improvement. However, in my constituency for example a young man in his forties is on a rural social scheme. He is looking...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Relations (14 Jun 2022)

Jackie Cahill: ...and Employment the status of his Department’s commitment to a consultation process with the retired workers’ organisations in relation to the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29167/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Relations (14 Jun 2022)

Jackie Cahill: ...that the voices of all retired workers and not just employees will be heard during the consultation process with organisations in relation to the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29168/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (24 May 2022)

Jackie Cahill: 639. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a person (details supplied) was not provided with a pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26179/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation and the Forestry Sector: Discussion (13 Apr 2022)

Jackie Cahill: ...to premiums going forward for 15 years if they replant their land. They have suffered significant financial hardship. They have lost 20 to 25 years of timber growth, which was going to be a pension pot for many of the growers. In a lot of cases, ash was put on reasonably arable land that would not normally be used for forestry. It was done by people who wanted to provide a pension for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (20 Jan 2022)

Jackie Cahill: 315. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will engage with Coillte and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform with a view to increasing the pension payments for retired workers considering their pensions have not been increased since 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2700/22]