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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implications for Employees of Changes to Pension Age: Discussion (12 Feb 2014)

Joanna Tuffy: Can he or she do so now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implications for Employees of Changes to Pension Age: Discussion (12 Feb 2014)

Joanna Tuffy: Senator Marie Moloney mentioned the homemaker's credit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implications for Employees of Changes to Pension Age: Discussion (12 Feb 2014)

Joanna Tuffy: That it is beneficial.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implications for Employees of Changes to Pension Age: Discussion (12 Feb 2014)

Joanna Tuffy: There are many questions for Dr. Quinn.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implications for Employees of Changes to Pension Age: Discussion (12 Feb 2014)

Joanna Tuffy: We will now move to questions. I must do so in the order of the spokespersons and I will start with Senator Averil Power.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implications for Employees of Changes to Pension Age: Discussion (12 Feb 2014)

Joanna Tuffy: I invite Mr. Shanagher to make his remarks on behalf of the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implications for Employees of Changes to Pension Age: Discussion (12 Feb 2014)

Joanna Tuffy: I call the final speaker, Mr. Whelan, from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implications for Employees of Changes to Pension Age: Discussion (12 Feb 2014)

Joanna Tuffy: We are now moving to the next item of business, which is implications for employees of changes to the pension age. This is the second item for consideration by the committee today in public session. I welcome from the Department of Social Protection, Dr. Orlaigh Quinn, Ms Patricia Murphy and Mr. Niall Egan; from the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Mr. Martin Shanaher, Ms...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implications for Employees of Changes to Pension Age: Discussion (12 Feb 2014)

Joanna Tuffy: I am sorry, but there is a telephone interfering with the sound system. If anyone has a telephone on could they please turn it off?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board: Discussion with Chairman Designate (12 Feb 2014)

Joanna Tuffy: Are there any further questions? That probably concludes this session. Like everybody else, I wish Mr. O'Callaghan well in his new position.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board: Discussion with Chairman Designate (12 Feb 2014)

Joanna Tuffy: We were not too hard on you. I am sure we will have further dealings with Mr. O'Callaghan in terms of monitoring the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board. I thank him for coming before the committee and wish him the best of luck in your role. That concludes the committee's consideration of the appointment of Mr. O'Callaghan as chairperson of the Residential Institutions Statutory...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board: Discussion with Chairman Designate (12 Feb 2014)

Joanna Tuffy: We will suspend for one minute to allow the next witnesses to take their seats.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Business of Committee (12 Feb 2014)

Joanna Tuffy: At the request of the broadcasting services, I ask members to ensure their mobile telephones are switched off completely - I have done it - and that they are not left in silent mode. A policy brief for the meeting has been circulated to members. The committee will now go into private session to deal with the minutes and certain other matters.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Business of Committee (12 Feb 2014)

Joanna Tuffy: There are two items on the agenda for today. The first is our engagement with the chairman designate of the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board and the second will be a discussion with the Department of Social Protection and the ICTU in respect of the implications for employees of the changes to the pension age.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board: Discussion with Chairman Designate (12 Feb 2014)

Joanna Tuffy: I welcome the chairman designate, Mr. David J. O'Callaghan. The Government has noted the intention of the Minister for Education and Skills to nominate a new chair to the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board. The purpose of the board is to support the needs of the former residents of residential institutions, as endorsed in a unanimous motion of Dáil Éireann in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board: Discussion with Chairman Designate (12 Feb 2014)

Joanna Tuffy: I am not sure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board: Discussion with Chairman Designate (12 Feb 2014)

Joanna Tuffy: I am informed that it is just iPads which need to be turned off.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Eligibility (12 Feb 2014)

Joanna Tuffy: 107. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if people who transfer their social insurance credits to their spouse's tax free allowance are not eligible to apply for JobBridge; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7153/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Eligibility (12 Feb 2014)

Joanna Tuffy: 108. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on whether the requirement of an applicant for JobBridge to be in receipt of a social protection payment or signing on for credits might discriminate against young persons just out of school or college who do not have the required credited contributions to permit them to sign on for credits; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Reports (12 Feb 2014)

Joanna Tuffy: 201. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will consider, in consultation with the Department of Social Protection, the implementation of any of the tax relief or tax credit options suggested in the Right from the Start report for reducing the costs of child care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7190/14]