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- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: There are 92,000 lone parent families in Ireland, which is a larger number than in other European Union countries. There are about 154,000 children in lone-parent families. The purpose of this particular section is to end the current transitional payment to lone parents who take up employment where they have an income of more than â¬425 per week. This transitional payment to lone parents...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: I do not think they are. Some people decide to get married or cohabit after they have had children. There is much personal choice and we have many different types of families about which we have learned more in recent years. To return to what Senators were saying, the one great difficulty is the fact that with regard to an income-poor lone parent who does not receive an opportunity,...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: If somebody is earning â¬425 a week his or her exposure to income tax is relatively low and in the budget the universal social charge was alleviated somewhat for those on very low incomes. I need information and data on it and I will return to the Senator separately.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: I must apologise. I need to leave the House for ten minutes but I will return. I hope the Senator does not mind. My colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy McGinley, will be here in my place.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
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- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: No. A family with twins gets three payments for the two children. There is no change in that at all.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: Yes, but that is what it always has been.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: There is no change to families with twins or triplets on the additional payments they receive.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: The rate for the third child is â¬148 and the rate for the fourth child is â¬160.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: No.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: That is a tricky one.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: It is genetic.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: That was a mistake.
- Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (11 Jan 2012)
Joan Burton: The primary purpose of the redundancy payments scheme is to compensate workers, under the Redundancy Payments Acts, 1967 to 2007, for the loss of their jobs by reason of redundancy. Compensation is based on the worker's length of reckonable service and reckonable weekly remuneration, subject to a ceiling of â¬600 per week. It is the responsibility of the employer to pay statutory redundancy...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Jan 2012)
Joan Burton: The National Internship Scheme provides internship opportunities of either 6 or 9 months for unemployed individuals on the Live Register, in organisations in the private, public and community voluntary sectors. The scheme is limited to individuals who are currently on the Live Register and have been in receipt of Jobseekers Allowance/Benefit or are signing on for credits for at least three...
- Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (11 Jan 2012)
Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 334 and 336 together. The primary purpose of the redundancy payments scheme is to compensate workers, under the Redundancy Payments Acts, 1967 to 2007, for the loss of their jobs by reason of redundancy. Compensation is based on the worker's length of reckonable service and reckonable weekly remuneration, subject to a ceiling of â¬600 per week. It is the...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Jan 2012)
Joan Burton: The range of complex issues associated with the possible introduction of a system of Statutory Sick Pay will be the subject of a consultation process with stakeholders with a view to assessing the feasibility and potential impacts of such a scheme. No decisions in relation to this matter will be taken by Government before this consultation process, which will commence in February of this...
- Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (11 Jan 2012)
Joan Burton: The saving of â¬81 million is based on an average claim value of â¬6,600 and an estimate of 45,600 claims being processed in 2012, of which some rebates will be at the 60% rate and some at the new 15% rate. The expected full year savings in 2013 are â¬121 million, based on an anticipated processing level of 35,000 claims per annum. â¬104 million is the expected rate of savings based on...
- Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (11 Jan 2012)
Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 338, 407 and 419 together. Responsibility for the processing of claims under the Redundancy Payments Scheme transferred from the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to the Department of Social Protection in January 2011. The purpose of the Redundancy Payments Scheme is to compensate workers, under the Redundancy Payments Acts, 1967 to 2007, for the...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (11 Jan 2012)
Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 26 August 2011. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by or on behalf of the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought. These papers were received in the Social Welfare Appeals Office on 13...