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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Rates (14 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: Self-employed workers who earn €5,000 or more in a contribution year, are liable for PRSI at the Class S rate of 4%, subject to a minimum annual payment of €500. This provides them with access to the following benefits: State pension (contributory) and widow’s, widower’s or surviving civil partner’s pension (contributory), guardian’s payment...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (14 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect on the 25th May 2018. This is the one of most significant developments in European data protection law in over 30 years. The GDPR strengthens the rights of data subjects and will have many implications for my Department. Accordingly, the Department has established a dedicated unit to prepare for the implementation of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Appeals (14 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: Determinations made by Designated Persons in relation to claims made under Section 201 of the Social Welfare (Consolidation Act) 2005, i.e. Exceptional Needs Payments can be reviewed by a SWA Reviewing Officer under Section 323 of that Act. As the Deputy has requested that a review be conducted, the relevant review officer has been notified of your request and they will now commence the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Appeals (14 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: Determinations made by Designated Persons in relation to claims made under Section 201 of the Social Welfare (Consolidation Act) 2005, i.e. Exceptional Needs Payments can be reviewed by a SWA Reviewing Officer under Section 323 of that Act. As the Deputy has requested that a review be conducted, the relevant review officer has been notified of your request and they will now commence the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (14 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: Prior to reaching age 66, the person concerned was in receipt of a mixed insurance pro rata state pension (transition), based on a combination of full-rate and modified contributions. The person concerned is currently in receipt of state pension (contributory) with effect from 19 April 2013, their 66th birthday. According to the records of my Department, the person concerned has a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (14 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: On 23 January, the Government agreed to a proposal that will allow pensioners affected by the 2012 changes in rate bands to have their pension entitlement calculated by a new “Total Contributions Approach” (TCA) which will include up to 20 years of a new HomeCaring credit. Unlike the current Homemakers scheme, this credit will apply to periods both before and after 1994. This...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (14 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: Carer's allowance, CA, is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing fulltime care and attention to a person who has such a disability that they require that level of care. A person can be considered to be providing fulltime care and attention where they are engaged in employment, self-employment or on training...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Applications (14 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: To qualify for a contributory state pension a person must have at least 520 full rate paid contributions. According to the records of my Department, the person concerned has a social insurance record of 412 reckonable contributions which is insufficient to qualify for the contributory pension. They have no recorded contributions for the tax years from 1975 to end December 2016 inclusive. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Applications (14 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned was issued with a supplementary welfare allowance, SWA, exceptional needs payment application form on 6February 2018. As of yet, the completed application form, together with any supporting documentation that may be required, has not yet been received by the designated person. Once a completed application form has been received it will processed as quickly as possible....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Widow's Pension Applications (14 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: According to the records of my Department, an application for widow, widower or survivor’s contributory pension has not been received from the person concerned to date. The person’s entitlement can only be assessed on receipt of a completed application form. Application forms for both widow, widower or survivor’s contributory pension and one-parent family payment, to...

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: As set out in the response to the Deputy's parliamentary question, there will be a lengthy public consultation on this matter during which we will conduct meetings and negotiations with all of the public stakeholders and all of the people who have not yet retired. The purpose and the premise of the contributory State pension is to provide for people in their retirement. We have no intention...

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: Deputy Breathnach does not want to get involved in it because Fianna Fáil is responsible for what happened.

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: To whom did he complain?

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: Not true.

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: I am sorry but I cannot let the Deputy say that.

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: It is not true.

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: I appreciate the views that have been expressed today and yesterday. They have been useful for me and my officials, and I am looking forward to what will obviously be a humdinger of a debate when we get to Committee Stage. Everyone inside and outside the House will agree that every worker and, indeed, human being has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We have a right to...

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: We need to get past that issue. To that end, I will conduct a very large advertising campaign this year. People should not be afraid. I am not saying the scary examples the Deputy gave are not true, but in that case I need to do more to make sure people are not afraid. The penalisation measures included in the Bill, with what is in place in the scope division, will be complementary to...

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Referral to Select Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: I move:That the Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017 be referred to the Select Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection pursuant to Standing Orders 84A(3)(a) and 149(1).

Report on Lone Parents: Motion (15 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: I am pleased to have an opportunity to speak on the report on the position of lone parents in Ireland produced by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection and thank the committee for its extensive body of work. I had a chance to speak on this in the Seanad last October and welcome the opportunity to debate this further in the Dáil this evening. There...