Results 1-20 of 33 for pension speaker:Ossian Smyth

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Conservation (14 May 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ...that throughout the period of high energy prices, Government has continued to support energy consumers to stay warm and well. This includes a €2.2 billion suite of cost-of-living supports to assist families, pensioners, carers and people with disabilities as part of budget 2024. My Department is currently developing a revised energy poverty action plan and I would encourage all...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Pension Provisions (14 Feb 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ...Craughwell for bringing this important matter to the House. As the Senator will be aware, the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, has overall policy responsibility in relation to public service occupational pension schemes payable to retired public servants. For all new entrants to the public service on or after 6 April 1995, the date of the introduction of full social insurance for public...

Seanad: Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2023: Second Stage (8 Nov 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...of an extensive package of measures introduced in budget 2024 to support households. Budget 2024 introduced a suite of once-off cost-of-living supports worth a total €2.2 billion to assist families, pensioners, carers and people with disabilities. This includes a lump-sum payment of €300 to all fuel allowance recipients this month. The Commission for Regulation of...

Seanad: Budget 2024 (Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform): Statements (10 Oct 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...support payment will be paid in January to all qualifying social protection recipients and a special once-off payment of €400 will be made before Christmas to those who receive the carer’s support grant, disability allowance, blind pension, invalidity pension or domiciliary care allowance. A double payment of child payment worth an additional €140 for each child will...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Pension Provisions (6 Jul 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...of An Post, staff representatives and the trustees of the schemes. The 1983 Act requires that, for civil servants who transferred to An Post on vesting day, that is 1 January 1984, An Post’s pension scheme must provide for not less favourable conditions than those to which the members of staff were entitled immediately before the vesting day. It is a transitional provision which...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Mortgage Interest Rates (6 Jul 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...can result in the Central Bank using its range of powers, including administrative sanctions, procedures or legal action where appropriate. A consumer has recourse to the Financial Service and Pension Ombudsman, FSPO. If a consumer is not satisfied with how a regulated firm is dealing with him or her in relation to the handling of his or her mortgage, he or she can make a complaint...

Support for Household Energy Bills: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...Government introduced a €2.4 billion package of supports during 2022, and an additional package of once-off measures worth €2.5 billion was included in Budget 2023; — in February, the Government announced a €1.2 billion package to help families, businesses, pensioners, carers and people with disabilities, including: — families with children will...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (23 Feb 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...the midlands have historically been very important in Ireland's energy production. Bord na Móna was a large part of that, as was the ESB, and many people derived a living, an income and, later, a pension from Bord na Móna and the ESB. I know that is significant. The great efforts the Deputy went to secure just transition funding at the EU and national levels and in the...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (21 Feb 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...and geothermal energy development. Appropriations-in-aid are income receipts of the Department other than from the Exchequer and total €10.6 million in 2023. Receipts are mainly comprised of mining income, amounting to €5 million; additional superannuation contributions payable by public servants on their pensionable pay, amounting to €3.3 million; and miscellaneous...

Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Dec 2022)

Ossian Smyth: ...a provision to advance funds from the Central Fund to the Paymaster General's supply account to facilitate payments due in the initial days of January 2023. This provision will ensure the necessary funds are in place for salary, pension and social welfare payments at the start of 2023. Section 3 will provide for up to €355 million to be advanced for this purpose. The need for...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Ossian Smyth: ...Vote will bring the total 2022 Estimate for that Vote to €786.6 million gross and €353.4 million net. The Supplementary Estimate arises mainly due to higher costs than forecast for the year under the pension scheme for established civil servants as a result of a higher number of retirements than anticipated for 2022. Expenditure in this regard is dependent on the number and...

Energy Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (16 Nov 2022)

Ossian Smyth: .... The measures introduced under budget 2023 also include a €400 lump sum payment to fuel allowance recipients in addition to the payment of €33 per week for 28 weeks; a total of €924 each year. Moreover, a €200 lump sum payment will go to pensioners and people with a disability getting the living alone increase, a €500 cost-of-living lump sum payment...

Seanad: Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Oct 2022)

Ossian Smyth: ...to €140 per customer, which will directly help people. There is also the reduction in VAT from 13.5% to 9%. There is the €400 lump sum payment for fuel allowance recipients; the €200 lump sum payment for pensioners and people with a disability getting the living alone allowance; a €500 cost-of-living lump sum payment to all families getting working family...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Ossian Smyth: ...will table amendments on that Stage. I look forward to seeing them and they will all be considered. The €400 lump sum payment to fuel allowance recipients is not the only targeted measure. There is also a €200 lump sum payment for pensioners and people with disability getting the living alone allowance that will be payable in the week commencing 14 November. There is a...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Oct 2022)

Ossian Smyth: ...€2.5 billion in once-off measures for households. Budget 2023 provides a number of targeted measures, including: a €400 lump-sum payment to fuel allowance recipients; a €200 lump sum payment for pensioners and people with a disability getting the living alone increase; a €500 cost-of-living lump sum payment to all families getting the working family payment;...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Living Wage (4 Oct 2022)

Ossian Smyth: ...breach exists that cannot be remedied by the other means provided. A sectoral employment order, SEO, fixes the statutory minimum rates of pay and other conditions, for example, sick pay and pension entitlements, for persons employed in a given economic sector. An employer in that sector has a legal duty to comply, at a minimum, with those terms. The 2021 SEO for the construction...

Seanad: Budget 2023 (Public Expenditure and Reform): Statements (27 Sep 2022)

Ossian Smyth: ...in November worth €140 per child in addition to the normal monthly payment; a payment of €500 in November to those who qualify for the carer's support grant; and a one-off payment of €500 in November to those who qualify for disability allowance, invalidity pension or the blind pension. The Government has also announced the extension of the 20% reduction in public...

Freedom of Information Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Feb 2022)

Ossian Smyth: ...produce the opposite of the intended effect or no effect at all. In addition, each proposal would require significant further work from a policy perspective. Section 2 proposes to insert an additional category of pension payments to former taoisigh, Ministers and Presidents paid out of current expenditure to the definition of personal information at section 2 of the Freedom of...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Ossian Smyth: ...supplement may be paid to assist people in certain circumstances who have special heating needs, for example, in the case of ill health. This is in addition to increases in basic welfare and pension rates. Adjustments to income tax bands have also been introduced primarily as a response to the cost of living increases more generally, driven in part by higher energy prices. Having regard...

Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2021: Second Stage (16 Dec 2021)

Ossian Smyth: ...into 2022. The passage of the Appropriation Bill 2021 allows continued funding, in the period before the 2022 Estimates are approved, of social welfare payments from the social protection Vote, Exchequer pay and pensions and other voted expenditure. If the Bill were not enacted before the end of December, there would be no authority to spend any voted moneys in 2022 from the start of...