Results 22,921-22,940 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: Included in that spend for this year is an extra €190 million for the additional numbers of people who are reaching retirement age.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: It was very late last night when the Deputy referred to me as Wonder Woman and I took it as a compliment.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: The Deputy should not start calling anyone Wonder Woman this early in the morning.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: Some Deputies have proposed that PRSI for employers and employees should be increased. In the context of Deputy O'Dea's amendment relates to the broadening of the PRSI base, which is what is set out in section 3. The measure in section 3 is a result of the demographic changes to which I have just referred and which, happily, mean that there are pensioners and that retired people are living...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: What we are doing now is engaging in a modest expansion whereby people with other incomes of less than €3,174 will not be charged the additional amount of PRSI.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: That is a statistical fallacy. There were more men on the register in the first place.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: The Deputy is referring to a statistical fallacy. If I get the chance, I will go into the-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: The Deputy knows that more than 100,000 men lost their jobs in construction.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: Happily, many of them are going back to work.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: Absolutely. I will make it again today if the Deputy chooses.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: Absolutely, and it is correct.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: The situation concerning maternity benefit is that, like other such payments, it is paid out of the social insurance fund. When Deputy Donnelly examined those statistics he will have seen that there was a fall of about 250,000 people in employment, most of whom were men. The consequence of that reduction is that more men are going back to work because construction has begun to pick up...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: For the information of the House, although this may not have been shared with Deputy Healy, I offered to be here for much longer today. More importantly, I offered to be here next week.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: Deputy Healy should take the issue up with his own Whip.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: I offered to be here next week.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: Briefly, in respect of the Deputy's concern------
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: I want to reply to the facts of the amendment.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: I wish to respond briefly to the amendment the Deputy tabled. We already have extensive and appropriate investigative powers for the appointment of authorised and designated officers who have the power to obtain information from financial institutions without the consent of the customer where there are reasonable grounds for believing that a person has been fraudulently claiming a social...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: ----- that are proportionate and judicious.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: I believe those measures are appropriate in the current circumstances.