Results 3,341-3,360 of 4,893 for speaker:Séamus Brennan
- Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)
Séamus Brennan: Deputy Rabbitte is wrong. It is â¬60 million on top of child benefit.
- Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)
Séamus Brennan: The Deputy is wrong.
- Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)
Séamus Brennan: So there is an extra â¬60 million on the new rate.
- Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)
Séamus Brennan: I thought Deputy Rabbitte would support an extra â¬60 million for child poverty.
- Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)
Séamus Brennan: That is good.
- Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)
Séamus Brennan: Hear, hear.
- Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)
Séamus Brennan: I increased the disregard.
- Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)
Séamus Brennan: I doubled it. Deputy Rabbitte should look it up.
- Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)
Séamus Brennan: I doubled it. Are we reading the same budget?
- Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)
Séamus Brennan: We have doubled the means test for fuel allowance, so the Deputy is wrong.
- Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2006)
Séamus Brennan: By any standards, this was a fairly historic budget. With a package of over â¬1.4 billion, it delivers the largest increase in social welfare spending in the history of the State. It is also a reforming welfare budget with a number of significant and fundamental reforms of social policy at its core. Total social welfare expenditure next year will be â¬15.3 billion, or â¬1 in every â¬3...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Dec 2006)
Séamus Brennan: The supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme, which is administered on my behalf by the Community Welfare Division of the Health Service Executive (HSE), is designed to provide immediate and flexible assistance for those in need who do not qualify for payment under other State schemes. Under the legislation governing the scheme, the Health Service Executive (HSE) may make a single...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Dec 2006)
Séamus Brennan: To qualify for a Christmas bonus, a jobseeker's allowance customer must have been in receipt of the payment for a minimum of 390 days prior to 22 November 2006. The person concerned was in receipt of the payment for 352 days on 22 November 2006 and therefore, not entitled to a Christmas bonus payment.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Dec 2006)
Séamus Brennan: The person concerned applied for carer's allowance on 30 August 2006. The principal conditions for receipt of the allowance are that full-time care and attention is required and being provided and that the means test that applies is satisfied. The person concerned was requested to forward a completed medical report in respect of the care recipient as well as other outstanding information...
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (7 Dec 2006)
Séamus Brennan: The state pension (transition), previously known as the retirement pension, is a social insurance payment made to persons aged 65 who entered social insurance at least 10 years before reaching pension age, who paid a minimum number of PRSI contributions at the appropriate rate and who achieved a minimum yearly average contribution rate over their working lives. In addition to satisfying the...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Dec 2006)
Séamus Brennan: The person concerned applied for an increase in her carer's allowance in respect of a second care recipient on 13 September 2006. The case was referred to an Investigative Officer of my Department to establish that all the conditions for receipt of the allowance are satisfied in respect of both care recipients. The Investigative Officer's report indicated that while full time care and...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Dec 2006)
Séamus Brennan: The back to education allowance is a second chance education opportunities programme designed to encourage and facilitate people on certain social welfare payments to improve their skills and qualifications and, therefore, their prospects of returning to the active work force. To qualify for participation in the scheme a person must be, at least 21 years of age (18 for people with...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Dec 2006)
Séamus Brennan: The person concerned claimed Illness Benefit in January 2005. Her entitlement was reviewed in November this year and, on the basis of the opinion of a Medical Assessor that she was capable of work, a Deciding Officer disallowed her claim with effect from 18 November 2006. This decision is currently under appeal by the person concerned. While Illness Benefit cannot be paid to a person who has...
- Social Welfare Bill 2006: Order for Second Stage (12 Dec 2006)
Séamus Brennan: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."
- Social Welfare Bill 2006: Second Stage (12 Dec 2006)
Séamus Brennan: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to introduce this Bill, the first of two intended to implement the largest social welfare package in the history of the State of â¬1.41 billion announced last week in the budget. This substantial investment brings total expenditure on social welfare in 2007 to â¬15.3 billion. In simple terms that means that â¬1 for every...