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Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: I am beginning to guess that a person would need to earn more than €425 to be removed from the system fully. One could have income of €300 from outside employment and be in receipt of a reduced one-parent family payment. We are discussing the figure above which one can earn and continue to receive some level of payment. According to the Minister, if one earns more than €425, one...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: I know. We have discussed the gist of the issue. I wish to address the Minister's reply to one of my previous comments. Amendment No. 11 runs for more than three pages in the book. It is longer and has more substance than the entire section as published. Part 2 of the Bill deals with amendments to the Social Welfare Acts. It starts at the bottom of page 3 and runs into page 6, amounting...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: That is exactly the point, if you will allow me to finish. You specifically-----

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: I asked the Minister to explain in simple detail the amendment she published yesterday morning.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: Let me finish my point. I asked her to explain in simple English to help us to understand-----

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: I know, but we will all get an opportunity. The Minister made a reference. I have asked for a breakdown on a particular amendment that is longer than three pages and was introduced by the Minister yesterday morning. When I asked her to explain the amendment, she told me to ask my predecessor. He did not introduce this amendment.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: I will conclude through the Chair.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: I asked a simple question, namely, that the Minister explain this amendment, but she told me to ask my predecessor. That is not an appropriate way in which to consider legislation.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: I thank the Minister.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: I received a briefing. The Minister might recirculate the copies.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: On a point of information, we received a briefing document. What the Minister is reading is extensive and detailed information on this amendment, which I do not recall seeing. She might arrange to recirculate it, one way or another.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: I am talking about what the Minister just read out.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: Amendments Nos. 9 and 10 are short technical amendments but I will concentrate on amendment No. 11 which is more substantive. We have opposed section 4 of the Bill and these measures in section 5 are connected so I will be opposing section 5 which deals with practical transition arrangements. Amendment No. 11 is three pages long I ask the Minister to explain the proposals in simple English,...

Order of Business (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: No. Proposal No. 1 deals with the Dáil sitting later than 5.45 p.m. as Oral Questions and the Topical Issue debate are to commence after 3.42 p.m., which is the time that the Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages of the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill are to conclude. I object to that time of 3.42 p.m. in proposal No. 1 in regard to the guillotine on the Social Welfare Bill....

Order of Business (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: I will clarify it for you, a Cheann Comhairle.

Order of Business (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: No, the Tánaiste read it out.

Order of Business (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: I will read out the motion before us that the Tánaiste read out.

Order of Business (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: And shall adjourn at the conclusion-----

Order of Business (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: May I read motion No. 1 from the sheet?

Order of Business (26 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: The Tánaiste read out a different motion from what you-----