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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister and I appreciate his array of slides which have proved helpful. They support the case that he has made for a long time about the increase in student numbers. He has a strong case because he has 95,000 whole-time equivalent staff in the system and in 2013 there will be 1,235 extra staff needed at primary and second level and more than 4,000 extra students at third...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: What does the Minister mean by basic pay is 72%? Does he mean that basic pay is 72% before increments and allowances?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That could not be absolute across all primary school teachers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister for that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Is it at second level that the Minister envisages this change?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I do not understand where the saving will be. While I understand it for second level, given the extra subjects, I would like to have clarification with regard to primary level.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It needs to be clarified because it is out there at present as a kind of a throwaway statement without any substance to it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is fairly optional. That is not the way to make a regulation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (19 Sep 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Will the Minister address the issue of the pay of third level lecturers?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council Meeting: Discussion (19 Sep 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Tánaiste to the meeting. I heard what he said in response to Senator Kathryn Reilly's question about the debt. People are saying to me, and I myself feel, that Ireland is fed up being told we are the best boy in the class and that we are ticking all the right boxes for the troika while getting no reward for that. Our only reward is the imposition of property tax, water...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund: Discussion (20 Sep 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the panel. This is a good opportunity to discuss these issues. I am Fine Gael's Seanad spokesperson on social protection. It is a mind-boggling area, given that there are 64 schemes. I have made a submission to the committee chaired by the former judge, Joseph Mangan. Due to the current crisis, many more people need help than used to be the case. I apologise for being late....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund: Discussion (20 Sep 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It does not pay for child benefit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund: Discussion (20 Sep 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Which fund pays for child benefit?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund: Discussion (20 Sep 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The non-contributory pension is not paid for by the fund.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund: Discussion (20 Sep 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It is paid for by State funding.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund: Discussion (20 Sep 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The rate at which the shortfall is increasing is stunning. The shortfall is predicted to reach €3 billion by 2019 and €25.7 billion by 2066. Is there a chance that gardaí, nurses, doctors and so on who retire in ten years' time will find that, having paid their contributions, no pension exists?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund: Discussion (20 Sep 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Some groups in society, such as the self-employed who are now unemployed, are at risk. These were the people who provided employment and paid employers' as well as employees' PRSI. What is being done for them? I have raised with the Minister, Deputy Burton, the possibility of allowing self-employed people to contribute to a social insurance fund at a level which would ensure some sort of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund: Discussion (20 Sep 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I apologise.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund: Discussion (20 Sep 2012)
Fidelma Healy Eames: What is the cost?