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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (25 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 238. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of pension applications for contributory-related State pension received in each of the past five years to date; the number granted, refused or pending; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18714/24]

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...it will cost at least €1,350 but we hear it will be €3,000. We do not have this in writing so it might be hearsay but how much we have to pay should be clarified. If the charge is raised very high people on pensions will not be able to pay it as they do not have the money. The cost of living for the average family anywhere in Ireland has gone through the roof.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Apr 2024)

...reform is questionable when compared with that of Denmark. Denmark's 2007 reform decentralised local government and granted local government decision-making power in key sectors such as education, pensions and healthcare. The decline in interest can also be observed through voting turnout and public opinion, with other EU countries like France achieving success through decentralisation....

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Pearse Doherty: ...them. However, there is a step change intended in the Bill regarding the new authority using the powers it has. I have serious concerns and will give an example relating to what the staff whose pensions are referred to in the amendment will have to adjudicate on. The old legislation from 1957, much of it going back to the original legislation of 1931, is so outdated it is unbelievable....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Apr 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...and those with chronic pain. To qualify for fuel allowance one must live alone or with a spouse, in a civil partnership, or with a cohabitant who qualifies the person for an increase in his or her pension or social welfare. For a couple with a qualified adult under 66 the assessable income is €642 and for other couples it is €703.10. I have a case of a retired couple, one...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024) See 7 other results from this debate

Catherine Connolly: ...adults will be a carer. A total of 52% of the people who responded were living in a household with a gross income of less than €30,000, struggling to make ends meet, struggling psychologically and struggling to pay their rent or their mortgage. Last week, the Dáil endorsed, although I did not, a pension scheme that will take an additional €40 a week out of the pocket...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Staff (24 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...feel it would actually address the pay disparity issue. Enable Ireland has expressed concern the money will not be sufficient to cover all the costs relating to the pay increase, such as PRSI and pension costs. These are ongoing issues that need to be addressed. Many of these organisations get funding only yearly and find it impossible to plan and ensure sufficient funds going...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (24 Apr 2024)

Brendan Smith: 26. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that detailed consideration is given to the issues outlined by an association (details supplied) and to have same resolved without delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18236/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 96. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider increasing the household benefits package allowance for those in receipt of a pension; and if she will remove the means test for those over 66 years of age. [18133/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (24 Apr 2024)

Robert Troy: 97. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to bring forward proposals to amend pension entitlements in order that women who had to leave work due to marriage could qualify for a pension in their own right regardless of their husband’s means. [18158/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Heather Humphreys: ...a person to return to work or self-employment and continue to receive a payment from my department. A person must be in receipt of Illness Benefit (IB) for a minimum of six months or Invalidity Pension (IP) in order to apply for PCB. The application process for the PCB is twofold. Initially, an applicant must inform my Department of their intention to undertake employment and submit an...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...of half rate CA broken down by their primary payment. Primary payment Total number of recipients One-Parent Family Payment 9,839 State Pension (Contributory) 8,718 Disability Allowance 4,877 Disability Allowance Increase for a Qualified Adult 3,716 State...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (24 Apr 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 112. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection with regard to the proposed automatic enrolment pension scheme, what analysis has been carried out regarding the consequences; if there are fewer participants than the 750,000/800,000 on which the scheme is predicated; what analysis has been carried out regarding the consequences of varying numbers of participants opting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for the Blind and Vision Impaired: Vision Ireland (24 Apr 2024)

...subsidising the State to the tune of approximately €3 million every year. The sustainability of that is coming to a rapid end because of increasing needs in terms of the WRC pay settlement, pensions auto-enrolment and a range of other governance issues in whose respect we cannot continue subsidising the State. For the other details, I will pass over to Mr. Mullaniff.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024) See 7 other results from this debate

..., not necessarily paid work. It might or might not be means tested and would be like a halfway house between a means-tested system and universal basic income. He saw it lying side by side with pensions, either universal or contributory, and other social insurance payments. It can be means tested but it does not have to be. In some proposals it is not means tested at all. In other...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024) See 5 other results from this debate

...out of college, for example. We are concerned that those jobs will be replaced by mostly precarious short-term contracts in the private sector, where workers move from short-term contract to short-term contract with no rights to things like pensions, holiday pay or maternity leave. This is an environment that especially damages women. We are fully supportive of a thriving, growing...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fire Service (23 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Ruairi Ó Murchú: No, he is not going to be affected in his pension.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...amendment No. 6, I acknowledge the role played by PhD researchers who are not classified as workers and receive none of the benefits afforded to employees, including maternity leave, sick pay or public pension contributions, including that of the Postgraduate Workers' Organisation that has been organising in universities, demanding their work is recognised. They published a report...