Results 3,001-3,020 of 5,046 for speaker:Paschal Mooney
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (13 Jun 2013)
Paschal Mooney: What about actors?
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (19 Jun 2013)
Paschal Mooney: Does that reduce the amount of time devoted to this Bill?
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (19 Jun 2013)
Paschal Mooney: Are we coming back to it today?
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2013)
Paschal Mooney: Senator Cullinane will attend if he is invited.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2013)
Paschal Mooney: I would appreciate the Minister's guidance on the following. Does the section extend PRSI contributions to people with an income from a trade or profession? There is a view that the provision may prove contentious given the lack of extra entitlements that will accrue to those individuals despite the extension. My party believes that the provision does not address the long-term deficit of...
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2013)
Paschal Mooney: May I clarify that this applies to hospital consultants only, not the wider self-employed sector?
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2013)
Paschal Mooney: Yes, but the provision does not extend to the self-employed in the commercial sector, those who run their own businesses or who, owing to the economic downturn, have perhaps lost businesses.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2013)
Paschal Mooney: I presume there is no indication that those in the self-employed sector would be against the notion of making a contribution. The argument is about the fact that they are denied that option.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2013)
Paschal Mooney: This is one of the few opportunities I will have to talk about benefits. We have discussed section 9, but given that we are talking about jobseeker's allowance for lone parents, the Minister should be aware that on Second Stage I referred to the circumstances of members of Irish Equity, the representative body for the acting profession. I have received further information on this issue and...
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2013)
Paschal Mooney: I am grateful. I was not aware of the new arrangement. FÁS was the training authority, but responsibility now seems to have shifted to the Irish Film Board. Therefore, the Department of Social Protection seems to be out of the loop.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2013)
Paschal Mooney: I refer to up-skilling within the industry.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2013)
Paschal Mooney: I move amendment No. 8: In page 17, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following:"(6) Recipients of any Public Services Card shall not be subject to a charge for the issue of such card.".".This amendment relates to the new identification requirements. My understanding is that in extending these requirements to all social welfare payments, the cost of rolling out the public services card...
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2013)
Paschal Mooney: I recall the Minister speaking on another occasion about alleged fraud under the free travel scheme. That is totally unacceptable and I support her in any efforts she makes to address it. I am anxious, however, that any such efforts would not in any way endanger the entitlement to free travel. I accept the Minister's publicly stated commitment to the scheme, but I would hate to see...
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2013)
Paschal Mooney: I reiterate my concern that there is nothing in the legislation to prevent a charge being imposed. I am not suggesting that the Minister is of a mind to do it, but there is nothing to prevent a future Minister from so doing. Does she agree that is the case?
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2013)
Paschal Mooney: The former Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív, took the initial steps to introduce it.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2013)
Paschal Mooney: I am pressing the amendment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Olympic Games 2012 and Funding for Sporting Organisations: Discussion (19 Jun 2013)
Paschal Mooney: I endorse the welcome from my colleagues. I have a bit of an inside track as I have been a sports journalist for most of my working life. I have been at an Olympics, and I saw John Treacy at the 1980 games. That resonated yesterday with the passing of Mr. Tim O'Connor, a former head of television sport who was very instrumental in getting RTE to focus on many sports during his period...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Olympic Games 2012 and Funding for Sporting Organisations: Discussion (19 Jun 2013)
Paschal Mooney: I am sorry, but I must attend a vote in the Seanad. I mean no disrespect.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2013)
Paschal Mooney: I second the amendment to the Order of Business proposed by our party leader in the House, Senator Darragh O'Brien, and wish to expand a little on his very trenchant and accurate comments on the most recent savage cut introduced by the Government. Why is it that it always seems to go for the soft touch? This comes just 24 hours after reading in the national media that the Minister for...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2013)
Paschal Mooney: Hear, hear.