Results 12,881-12,900 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: How can Sinn Féin stand over paying the woman in Newry â¬67.70-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: -----for her second child-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: -----while criticising this Government-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: -----for maintaining the rate at â¬140 for both the first and second children. Let me remind you that in 2012-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: -----the monthly rate for the third child in the Republic will be â¬148.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: It will be â¬160 for the fourth and each subsequent child. How come your party can manage to extract only â¬67.70 for the second child-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: -----from your paymasters in Westminster, whereas this Republic can still manage â¬140 despite being in a bailout programme?
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: Answer me that.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: Why is the child living in Lifford less deserving than the child living Strabane?
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: I appreciate that reductions in child benefit will be difficult for some families. However the provision of cash supports for children is only part of the solution to providing better long-term outcomes for our children. Ireland has comparatively generous child benefit rates but this does not guarantee that our children fare better when they become adults. We need to look at the way in...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: I propose therefore to reduce the rebate to 15%. While this may cause difficulties for some employers it should be noted that redundancy rebate payments to employers are not common in many EU and other jurisdictions. In the UK, for example, the redundancy payment is funded 100% by the employer and there is no recovery from the State. Given the low level of employer PRSI payable in Ireland,...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: This is a change to which the country will have to adapt because it is what happens in countries such as Germany. We need to learn how to retain jobs rather than incentivising redundancy. A core principle of sustainable social protection systems in advanced economies is that citizens receive benefits in proportion to their contributions. Some of the changes I will introduce today in the...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: The level of the allowance and its duration have greatly increased during the past ten years. The scheme is unsustainable, given the increase in numbers and costs and the fiscal position of the State. Of course, we will still pay the fuel allowance for the coldest six months of the year-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: -----from mid-October to mid-April. It has always been the case, and will continue to be the case, that a person in difficulty with fuel or energy costs can go to their community welfare service. This service has been integrated into my Department and it is ready to assist people in difficulty. I will reduce child benefit to â¬148 for the third child, while the rate for the fourth child...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: I will increase the minimum contribution to rent or mortgage interest supplement by â¬6 a week for a single person and â¬11 week for a couple. Curtailing access to the mortgage interest supplement scheme is consistent with the Keane report on mortgage arrears. I am determined to get value for the â¬500 million which the Department spends on rent supplement each year. The amount of...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: The budget announcement included a number of other measures which are not provided for in the Bill. Some of these measures relate to non-statutory schemes and do not require legislative amendments. Other measures will be implemented through regulations and through legislation to be brought forward early in 2012. In this regard, I specifically welcome the measures to broaden the PRSI base...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: As Members are aware, many community employment schemes provide vital community services across the country.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: In addition, there are community and voluntary sponsoring organisations which receive funding from a multiplicity of State agencies and which will be examined in terms of their ability to continue programmes with funding from the Department of Social Protection. The Department will be working closely with the Department of Education and Skills with a view to providing training for community...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: These are the measures I had proposed to reform disability allowance and domiciliary care allowance. I am sorry if these proposals caused anxiety among people with disabilities and their families. I have listened, in particular, to the concerns of families with severely disabled children and asked a barrister, Ms Ita Mangan, who chairs the advisory group on tax and social welfare issues and...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: If we achieve economic recovery, we will, I hope in a year or two, be able to review all of these changes. I have no difficulty in giving that undertaking on behalf of the Government.