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- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: It is not my telephone.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: In the case of a person who dies, there is a range of supports-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: -----available from the Department of Social Protection which are very valuable and more valuable than the bereavement grant.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: Many speakers spoke about pensioners. If one partner of a pensioner couple dies, their spouse continues to get the social welfare payment of the deceased spouse for six weeks. That is worth roughly €1,200 to €1,400 depending on the rate the person receives. The second and the biggest payment the Department makes is in respect of a person who becomes widowed who is entitled to...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: These payments are far more significant than the €850 payment.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: For instance, in Tipperary the average payment - Deputy Healy is possibly not aware of this but I suspect he is very aware of it - by the community welfare service-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: -----in supporting funerals so far this year has been about €1,300.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: The suggestion that this State, through its spend of €20 billion-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: The suggestion that this State-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: -----does not support people who have expenses arising out of bereavement is utterly and completely wrong.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: We are spending and will continue to spend very large sums of money. Deputy Naughten spoke about-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: -----people celebrating the death of the deceased person.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: I am happy to say, Deputy Nulty, that if he reads the entitlements of------
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: -----the people he was talking about that the very large amounts of money we spend are maintained intact.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: I hope Deputy Nulty will be decent enough to acknowledge that.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: Yes.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: It has gone out by way of circular.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: What I said is correct.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: I thank all the Deputies who contributed to this debate. As a House, we should have ambitions for our young people. If the extent of the ambition of some of the Deputies here is to have young people signing on at 18 and staying like that for a long period of time, that is wrong. Deputy Catherine Murphy had the honesty to say that her preference was for education, training and employment...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)
Joan Burton: Can I continue? In a very tight budget, I have committed multiples of the savings made by this measure to additional training, education, work experience and work placement positions.