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Seanad: Life-Limiting Health Conditions in Children: Motion (26 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Would she and the other Independent Senators consider a stay of execution for a number of months?

Seanad: Life-Limiting Health Conditions in Children: Motion (26 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This is September. Can I take it that the Minister, Deputy Reilly, is willing to sit down with the organisations within one month?

Seanad: Life-Limiting Health Conditions in Children: Motion (26 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I appreciate that and will conclude. I do not fully understand what the Minister of State means. An urgent meeting between the Independent Senators and the Minister should be held to address this issue. If we support Senator Mary Ann O'Brien in ensuring that the meeting is held in October at least, will she consider not pushing the matter to a vote? If she ever needed to retable the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: My question is related to the same matter rather than the Minister having to go back to it again. I welcome in principle the concept of the youth guarantee scheme. For a long time, we have been talking about youth unemployment and we have not heard of anything to target it. We are at least starting to talk and think about it. Obviously, the important detail must be worked out. I have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Are precise data available on how long graduates stay on the live register?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: One of my questions relates to the Minister's recommendation on child poverty, child well-being and the production of a social package. Is there a proposal to tie welfare into vaccinations, for example? The overwhelming evidence is that vaccinations protect children and that is a service. We know that a small group of people disagree with vaccinations. Also on the issue of child...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: They are because they are related to child poverty.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: My final point relates to the pensions issue. Last week officials from the Department of Social Protection outlined to the committee that the social insurance fund is down by €1.5 billion, which relates to increasing pension payments.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: My questions are as follows. What is the view of the European Commission on this? Could this mean that people who have been contributing will not have pensions in the future?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I did not get an answer to my question on the social insurance fund and the shortage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Unfortunately I must leave, although I would love to hear an answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I asked about the Social Insurance Fund, the fall-out in that regard, the €1.5 billion we are lacking, what the Commission has to say about that and the effect that will have on people who are contributing to the fund. Will pensions be in place for them in the future? There is a section in the Minister's paper called, Ensuring work pays, about which I have questions. Is there a cap...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Has provision been made for such a scenario?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Is it possible to do that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is not the issue. We are discussing people who fall out of employment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The payment of a carer's allowance is not in argument.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: A carer was one issue I did not mention, because carers work for their money.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: There is another question related to that. Has a cap on the number of payments going to any one household ever been considered?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It may not be a family in question at all, but a question of five or six people who are renting together.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am not suggesting that at all. I am talking about the cumulative social welfare intake into a particular household.