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Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I support the amendment, even though I oppose this section as a whole, because the amendment at least will capture those who are pregnant and planning their maternity leave and possibly their unpaid leave thereafter. People make those assumptions, and justifiably so, because when one pays tax or PSRI one has some expectation that there will not be a substantial change in one's lifetime. As...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not know whether it was an order of the House which decided how much time each of us will get, but even though it is seven minutes, I will try to be brief. This section deals with the injury benefit and Deputy Creighton's interesting proposal does not relate to the specifics of this section, but is an insertion of a different issue altogether. We have already had a very brief...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I heard Deputy Boyd Barrett echo a point made by other Members about the cradle to the grave. In fact, the cuts extend from the womb to the tomb, because they also encompass those cuts to maternity benefit with which Members dealt earlier. This particular measure is one of the saddest cuts with which any government could come up. It targets those who are bereaved, for whom some relief had...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I tabled two amendments dealing with section 9 but they come under section 10 for some reason. They are amendments Nos. 15 and 16 but they relate to section 9. This provision is discriminatory. The Government is adding to what the Fianna Fáil Administration did in the 2010 budget. I recall members of the Minister's party, which was in opposition at the time, leaping up and down and...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That submission by FLAC had a very interesting quote from the programme for Government 2011-2016, which noted that "making greater use of mortgage interest supplement to support families who cannot meet their mortgage payments ... [is a] better and cheaper option than paying rent supplement after a family loses their home". The Minister has just taken away one of the supports available to...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister is saying that people will be locked into a situation. I have demonstrated that the new system is not working. The Government's solutions have not worked to date. If in a year's time the Minister can show that they are working, then perhaps one could consider it. As with the unemployment trap the Minister mentioned, will she come in here next year and propose getting rid of...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This is another retrograde step. I opposed the change to the State transition pension at the time because it was not logical and forced pensioners of 65 years to apply for the jobseeker's allowance and all that entails. While the Minister announced that some of the requirements attaching to the jobseeker's allowance will no longer apply to those aged over 62 years, which is a welcome step,...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. 19:In page 14, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following:“(c) the value of any credited contributions assigned to an injured person as a result of the personal injury up to the date of the issuing of a statement of the recoverable benefits.”.I will try to be brief but I have tabled several amendments and I want to raise some of my concerns about this...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have a number of concerns in respect of section 15. There was a bit of disturbance in the Chamber so I did not hear.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This is one of the provisions in this Bill that is highly technical. Given the shortness of time, I have not managed to get my head around its implications in the two days since it was published. By the looks of it, other people have not managed to either. I received an e-mail from the Irish Senior Citizens' Parliament which has concerns. It was advised that it was a technical measure....

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thank the Minister for her response. I think I have got to grips with the issue. She is addressing the anomaly between the ages of 65 years and 66 years. I expect that in several years' time she will have to address the next gaps when the State pension age changes to 67 years and 68 years. Is this not an opportune time to address those gaps in the Bill before us? It would have been...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is not agreed.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Given there are cuts to core social welfare payments in this Bill, contrary to the programme for Government, we should have a manual vote.

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Tá daoine nach dtuigeann é.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Services Regulation (5 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 68. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the research he has gathered in relation to multi-disciplinary practices as he proposes with the Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011. [45971/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (5 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 96. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of direct meetings he has held with representatives of the legal profession and other interested parties in relation to the Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011. [45970/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Budget 2014 (5 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 435. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the research produced by or commissioned by her Department that informed the reduction in jobseeker's allowance to persons aged between 22 and 25. [45758/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Budget 2014 (5 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 436. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the advice or opinion given by the European Commission on the reduction in jobseeker's allowance payments to the 22 to 25 year olds in Budget 2014. [45759/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Budget 2014 (5 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 437. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of jobseeker's allowance claimants that her Department estimated will be affected by the changes to jobseeker's allowance for the 22 to 25 age group in Budget 2014 each year for 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. [45760/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobBridge Internship Scheme Eligibility (5 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 471. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a breakdown by county and in the case of Dublin by post-code of the number of persons who have participated in or are currently participating in the national JobBridge scheme per year since the scheme was introduced; the number of participants who participated or are currently participating on their JobBridge scheme with a...