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Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: And bond holders and the bankers.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: There is an awful lot of shouting. Senator O'Malley was Acting Chairman earlier and she was trying to stop us all.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: Self-employed people or those paying PAYE who go into State employment are not aware that they can make voluntary contributions. Is there a mechanism whereby they can back pay their voluntary contributions to qualify for a State pension as they approach retirement age? There may be people who were not aware that they could pay voluntary contributions on arriving in this House or going into...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: This section deals with mortgage interest relief. The Minister might explain what the section proposes in respect of mortgage interest relief and the supplementary welfare allowance.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: This section provides for the introduction of the cut in jobseeker's allowance and to bring the supplementary welfare allowance in line with the cutbacks in that area. We have spoken at length about the cutbacks in benefits for young people. The cuts in benefits envisaged for young people is a recipe for emigration. They are not being given any hope of employment. The schemes advocated...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: That is not true.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: What about secondary school teachers?

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: It is 104.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: They have not gone to get a sun tan.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: The Department of Social and Family Affairs is practically acting like a housing authority. Much community welfare officer time is taken up with trying to sort out rent allowance, rent supplement and everything else. It was announced a number of years ago that we would have this area transferred to local authorities. It is partially transferred in the form of RAS and this should be...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: Give them the money to count frogs.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: There is a better way.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: Different choices.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: Not vulnerable.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: How you did it.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: People will have to switch off the lights.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: We are objecting to the cuts being imposed on carers and on blind people. The Minister should not misinterpret our policy.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: The Minister is not telling the truth about this.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: What about the cap on PRSI?

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2009)

Maurice Cummins: I raise the delay in opening a section of the M9 from Carlow to Kilcullen. Those of us who use this road, as I do regularly, are held up for half an hour as we travel through Castledermot. The Minister for Transport has instructed the National Roads Authority not to open this new section of road. While local business people who want a spur provided from the motorway into the locality have...