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- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Is this a Second Stage speech?
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The rich are getting away.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The idea of giving a half rate was to try to support people who paid their contributions. As Deputy Boyd Barrett has said, â¬400 a week is not a big income. Am I correct in thinking that the loss of income through this change is as follows? For a family with four children half of the rate per child is â¬15, if we ignore the 20 cent on the full â¬29.80. If we multiply that by four it...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Why did the Minister not put it at â¬800?
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I know that.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I wish to focus on a simple point. Of course, there are very rich pensioners who have not been touched.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister decided not to touch the payments to the huge swathes of rich pensioners around the country. When in opposition, she always talked about poverty traps, but she has created a great new one and I will explain how. If one's spouse is earning â¬380 a week and the amount increases to more than â¬400, one will lose â¬70. There is no tapering of this measure. If the Minister said...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Ar eagla na heagla.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: We are discussing the widow's pension. Becoming a widow or widower normally happens as an unforeseen event. This provision mainly affects young widows and widowers. I welcome the reduction from ten years to five years in the amendment. If a person's spouse dies before he or she has five years - it used to be three years - of contributions, there is no contributory pension. It affects the...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: That has nothing to do with widows.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It was to be capped at-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Of course I did not.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: What is the saving?
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: What is the saving?
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It was not.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Of course I did not.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: She asked me a question.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Could the Minister get that information for us?
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Could the Minister get the information for us?
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: If she does not have it today, could she get it for us?