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Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Joan Burton: The Deputy introduced the terminology.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Joan Burton: He is an adult and chose to use that phraseology.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Joan Burton: He chose to use that phraseology.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Joan Burton: Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle. While I may have it wrong, I believe it has been the tradition in this House that if somebody uses seriously wrong language, he or she normally has the politeness to withdraw. It is a clever way of putting-----

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Joan Burton: May I address the provisions of section 178B?

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Joan Burton: Legislative changes were introduced in the one-parent family arrangements in the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2010. These came into effect on 27 April 2011 and reduced the maximum age limit of the youngest child for the receipt of the one-parent family to 14 years. Transitional arrangements were put in place for existing one-parent family customers at the time with the age...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Joan Burton: I do not know if the Deputies got them, but I did make arrangements for this.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Joan Burton: To be clear, we gave the Deputies full and detailed copies.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Joan Burton: Yes. I understood it had been circulated.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Joan Burton: Of course I will make it available to the Deputies. I understood they had it already; I apologise. Alongside the provision of free third level education, in 1995, my then colleague, the Labour Party Minister Niamh Bhreathnach, started the first universal preschool education system in Ireland, which was called Early Start and which was particularly targeted at communities in which there was...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Joan Burton: I move amendment No. 10: In page 5, line 41, to delete "section 178A(7)" and substitute "section 178C".

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Joan Burton: I move amendment No: 11: In page 6, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following subsection: "(4) The Principal Act is amended by inserting the following new sections: 178B.—(1) This section applies to a person who— (a) immediately before 27 April 2011 was in receipt of oneparent family payment, and (b) would have continued to receive that payment— (i) immediately after 26 April...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Joan Burton: I appreciate the concerns expressed by Deputies. However, one must bear in mind the interests of those who have unfortunately found themselves without a job or, as in many cases, with a job but who have difficulty repaying their mortgages. As Minister, I am very conscious that the Department of Social Protection will pay more than €50 million this year addressing mortgage interest arrears...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Joan Burton: The example the Deputy gave is very important because I think it was suggested that the State has paid this money for two years through my Department.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Joan Burton: The State, the Department of Social Protection and MABS cannot engage in detail in everything, but what we can do is work to a better framework. Perhaps the person is semi-permanently in difficulty and that, hopefully, he or she will eventually get work. I do not know what the circumstances are. However, if he or she is two years in this process, perhaps he or she needs a better long-term...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Joan Burton: It was a Fianna Fáil Government which legislated for it.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Joan Burton: You provided for it.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Joan Burton: Fianna Fáil introduced the primary legislation.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Joan Burton: We are not curtailing it.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Joan Burton: Poor Fianna Fáil is like the Bourbons. It remembers everything but learns nothing. As Deputy Fleming was on the backbenches when Fianna Fáil was in government, perhaps the actions of the former Taoiseach from his own constituency escaped his attention. The reason we have a problem is because Fianna Fáil decided to guarantee the banks, with the support of Sinn Féin, as the cheap...