Results 7,081-7,100 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: If Members on the other side of the House keep their contributions short, I guarantee I will keep my contributions short.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The figure is â¬341 million.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: All of this amounts to â¬341 million.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: No, the percentage has decreased.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: We would never do that.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: There is no right for anybody to stop anybody from applying.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Under the social welfare code anybody can apply for any scheme he or she wants.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Whether a person qualifies then is a matter for adjudication. Nobody can stop anybody from completing a form and submitting it. If a form is submitted it must be processed.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Any social welfare officer telling any person that he or she has no right to complete a form is in dereliction of his or her duty. I ask the Deputy to give me the names of the officials who are telling people they cannot make an application, I will immediately arrange for them to be informed that everybody and anybody can make an application on a form to my Department and it must be processed.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: If they believed they were entitled they should have applied.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It does not happen.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The Deputy keeps perpetrating this lie against the officials of my Department.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It does not happen.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It casts a serious slur on the officials of the Department to allege they are not applying the law. I can absolutely assure the Deputy that both the appeals office and the officials in my Department do this on an objective basis. No instruction is given and it would not be legal to give one, other than that this is done in accordance with the law. The Deputy keeps repeating this allegation...
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Come on. It is obvious they do not want to discuss the Bill.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Does the Deputy suggest the Government abolish PRSI for employers?
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: What would be the lower rate?
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Such a measure would create an incentive to employers to pay the minimum wage rather than a higher rate.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The Deputy is arguing that if an employer employs someone at the new minimum rate, he or she should not pay employers PRSI, whereas if he or she employ someone on the old minimum wage rate, he or she would pay PRSI. That is a crazy idea.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Éamon Ó Cuív: One would have to give up the income base in that case.