Dáil debates

Tuesday, 7 November 2017

  • Social Welfare Benefits (9 speeches)
    54. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports she is putting in place to support self-employed persons if, for example, the business fails or closes due to...
  • Unemployment Levels (7 speeches)
    55. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to explain the reason the summer economic statement projects the unemployment rate to remain unchanged at 5.5% from 2019 to...
  • Pension Provisions (13 speeches)
    57. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to bring forward measures to address the anomaly whereby persons here dependent on a British state pension are...
  • State Pension (Contributory) (10 speeches)
    58. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to re-examine the situation where women who were in the workforce and left in earlier years for family duties are...
  • Legislative Programme (7 speeches)
    60. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the heads of the Bill regarding protection for persons on insecure low hour contracts will be published; when the Bill...
  • Citizen Information Services (5 speeches)
    61. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the Citizens Information Board's refusal to appear before the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Employment Affairs...
  • State Pensions (9 speeches)
    64. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actions she is taking to address the ongoing discrimination against over 35,000 older persons in the calculation of their...
  • Working Family Payment (4 speeches)
    65. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason she no longer plans on introducing a new working family payment, as committed to in the programme for Government;...
  • State Pensions (8 speeches)
    66. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to reinstate the State transition pension; her further plans to prevent persons forced to retire at 65 years of age...