Results 1-20 of 31 for pension speaker:Sorca Clarke

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (9 May 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of people excluded from the Caranua scheme; the number of people covered by this scheme, multiplied by the contribution pension. [20949/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Apr 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 395. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for invalidity pension that were refused by her Department in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [17416/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Feb 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 438. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the maximum rate of disability allowance and State pension contribution by €14 per week from 1 September 2024. [6215/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Sorca Clarke: ...He suggested that a solution could be found, or a mechanism for making that payment could be introduced, whereby the survivor would benefit from the payment as opposed to having their rental support or pension payments, which are means-tested, stopped because this could be deemed to be earned income. That is a very important issue. It is something the Department should take on board. We...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (27 Jun 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 424. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of appeals officers assigned to assessing both applications and appeals, respectively, for the State pension (contributory). [31091/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2023)

Sorca Clarke: ...;760, a colossal amount that she simply cannot afford. She applied for an additional needs payment to help cover the cost. Shockingly, she was refused support because she put a small amount away from her pension over the past year to save for a headstone for her late husband's grave. She was forced to spend that money on the electricity bill instead of the headstone because of that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pension Provisions (21 Mar 2023)

Sorca Clarke: 1024. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made on the issue of pension provision for research staff grades who do not have access to public service pensions in higher education Institutions, particularly in relation to the technological university sector (details supplied). [13110/23]

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Sorca Clarke: ...115%. The ESRI estimates the number of households in energy poverty has increased to 29%. Everything is going up. Even when cutting back, the gaps between income and outgoings are widening. Pensioners, people with disability, carers and loan parents are the ones who desperately need this spring bonus. We also need to see the fuel allowance extended to recipients of the working family...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Revised) (10 Nov 2022)

Sorca Clarke: ..., the Minister specifically mentioned there was a net increase of 380 over the past three years since 2019, but he said it is projected 430 personnel will retire this year on a lump sum and a pension. In terms of future planning between the retirees, those who are scheduled to retire and a contingency for those who are unexpected or unplanned, what work has the Department carried out,...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Revised) (10 Nov 2022)

Sorca Clarke: I ask the Chair to give discretion and allow me ask a subsequent question. The Minister is confident that all those who are in receipt of the military pension will have some payment made to them before Christmas, with possibly a further top-up required in the first quarter of 2023. Is it fair to say that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: That is brilliant. I will ask one final question before I bring the meeting to a close. I would like to touch on the €2.4 billion in tax relief for pensions and the €15 billion Professor Murphy mentioned. This might be going slightly outside the frame of today's discussion. What is Professor Murphy's opinion on the importance of gender-based budgeting?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (29 Mar 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 290. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of persons who are in receipt of a public and civil service pension who are over the ages of 66, 68 and 70 years. [16565/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Mar 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 457. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to the Exchequer if the living alone allowance was to be extended to retired single public and civil service pension holders who met the requirements of living alone. [16566/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Consultations (8 Dec 2021)

Sorca Clarke: ...the actions that have been taken in relation to the engagement and consultation with retired workers' organisations given to Dáil Éireann during the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021; and the progress of such engagement and consultation to date. [60590/21]

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Sorca Clarke: ...with a disability payment. In advance of International Day of Persons with Disabilities today, I asked the Minister a parliamentary question regarding the removal of the means test for the blind pension and the disability allowance. With due respect, the Minister's reply was a merry dance around the topic but we got to the punchline after following up with the Ceann Comhairle's office....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (24 Nov 2021)

Sorca Clarke: 131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider removing the means tests for the blind pension and the disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58031/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes (7 Oct 2021)

Sorca Clarke: ...and Social Protection if there are plans to allow persons on community employment, CE, schemes and who are approaching retirement age to remain on those schemes until they are eligible for old age pensions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48664/21]

Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2021: First Stage (28 Sep 2021)

Sorca Clarke: ...public has a right to know must be put back at the centre of freedom of information because the public has a right to know. The public has a right to know when their tax payments are being used for pension entitlements for former taoisigh, Ministers and the President under current expenditure. There is not, nor can there ever be, justification for any period of exemption under FOI...

Freedom of Information: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2021)

Sorca Clarke: ...to ensure that little or no information is provided. We have seen FOI eroded, almost under constant threat, and altered to protect political elites. Information relating to former taoisigh's pensions is no longer included in FOI. Yet, at the same time, the Government tried to lock away the records of the mother and baby homes scandal. The recent admissions by the Tánaiste and...