Results 27,881-27,900 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2024: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I am not talking about that. I take the gross number of people who get widow's pensions, and take out the people over 66, because most of those would have an underlying payment of a contributory pension. Normally, when you get to 66 you are entitled to a State pension.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2024: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The number of widows under 66, as you would expect, is quite small in the total. It is likely that the subset of those who are divorced is very small. It would be useful to get a measure of that because it is always good to know.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2024: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It would be great to have the figure for this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2024: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Can we get something for that? You know yourself. The Department thinks about cost. We think about the number of people coming into the constituency clinics - the hard luck cases.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2024: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I know, but Mr. Duggan gets my point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2024: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: We have to think of cost this side as well because we have to vote the money through.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2024: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: What about adopted children?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2024: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The two years, yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2024: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: What if they were adopted by a single person who then started cohabiting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2024: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: If they did, would they be considered?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2024: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: If they had children before they started cohabiting, are they still okay at two years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2024: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I probably did not put it clearly enough.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2024: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, but they had the children five years ago.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2024: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2024: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I was curious about why that distinction was made? It is based on another Act, but was there any rationale for the two and five years and not going for bust and saying two years in all cases? It would be quite simple. It is not relevant because it is handier for the Department to hang it on another Act but was there any reason the other Act had two and five years rather than just saying...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2024: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, I was curious about why they came up with that regime. The officials do not know.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (4 Jul 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I welcome the announcement of the acceleration of the extension of the Luas line to Finglas. I will ask the Minister a straightforward question. Is it intended to give the same acceleration to the reopening of the railway line from Athenry to Claremorris?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (4 Jul 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá áthas ar an Roinn Airgeadais anois.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (4 Jul 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Does the Minister agree that, as the Deputy has said, the conditions of the scheme were ludicrous? People in areas such as west Connemara were refused on the basis that there were already taxis in the area. Taxi drivers who lived in rural areas and who went to the towns or cities to provide a service were considered to be providing a local service. As the Deputy has said, many areas have...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (4 Jul 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It is not happening a lot of the time.