Results 15,201-15,220 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: The Deputy's party members in the North, despite being only 90 miles from here, do not have a problem with the relevant age there. We are spending â¬1 billion in this area. There will be no savings as a result of this measure. It is not a savings measure.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: We are trying to open up wider and better horizons for people who are parenting on their own and for their children. This will in time to come be seen as a positive step. The Labour Party improved second level education and increased access to third level education, both of which transformed Irish society in different decades. There are 92,000 people in this country parenting on their own....
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: No.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: No.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: I read out the conditions for what I brought in last year. They will get it. Maybe the Deputy was not here when I read them out.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: I brought in that legislation last year.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: On a point of information, in case the Deputy is making parents worried, when we brought in the legislation last year we made special arrangements for deaths in families. The Deputy might not have been here when I read out those arrangements.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: The arrangements apply when there is a death in a family.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: He or she would be entitled to a jobseeker's payment.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: On a point of information, if the person was in a job, he or she will be able to avail of benefit.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: It would be very rare for such a person to go onto the lone parent payment.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: If you have made contributions, you can receive benefit.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: The person you are describing-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: You are wrong.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: They will be eligible.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: They will go into jobseeker's system or elsewhere in the social welfare system.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: They will simply go onto a different payment.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: No. I believe I have contributed sufficiently.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: I move amendment No. 9: In page 5, line 8, to delete "section 178A(7)" and substitute "section 178C". The Bill provides for the age limit of the youngest child for receipt of one parent family payment to be reduced to age 12 in 2012, age ten in 2013 and age seven in 2014 for new lone parent claimants. It is standard practice when introducing such changes to put in place transitional...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2012)
Joan Burton: Generally speaking, many people in such circumstances would be survivors. I refer to widows and surviving cohabitants, etc., under the rules. At the moment, some 82% of one-parent family payment recipients are Irish. Some 18% of payments are made to non-nationals. In the circumstances, perhaps they might be more affected by this. Many Irish people would be widows, widowers, surviving...