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- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Sector Pensions (8 Nov 2012)
Joan Burton: My Department does not hold the specific details being sought by the Deputy in respect of retired departmental staff. Payment of a pension to retired civil servants including staff of the Office of the Pension Ombudsman is made by the Paymaster General's office. In this regard, I understand that my colleague, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform is providing the details being...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Joan Burton: Creating jobs and tackling poverty are two of the key challenges that Ireland now faces and it is essential that our tax and social protection systems play their part in addressing these issues. To this end and in line with commitments contained in the programme for Government, I established last year the advisory group on tax and social welfare, with the aim of harnessing expert opinion and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Joan Burton: The Deputy will be aware that when he was a member of the Government-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Joan Burton: -----one of the first actions of the Government of which he was a member in the context of the crisis it brought onto the country when it introduced the fatal bank guarantee was to cut child benefit.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Joan Burton: As I stated, child benefit is an important support, particularly for parents. It is paid to the caring parent. There is strong recognition in Ireland that it is an important payment to families because we do not recognise children in the tax system in terms of tax allowances. Child benefit accounts for a sum of €2 billion. Family income supplement accounts for another €200...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Joan Burton: That is also true of the other payments to children. It is wrong of Fianna Fáil to decide that it is not even possible, given the way Deputy O'Dea is exclaiming here, to review or examine the entire set of payments to children and families to see if we can spend money in a way that is more targeted while retaining a strong universal element. We are trying to determine whether we can...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Joan Burton: I am just looking at Fianna Fáil's record, which shows that in 2010 its spend in government on child benefit was €2.2 billion. In 2011, the figure was €2 billion, and this year-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Joan Burton: I ask Deputy O'Dea to allow me to give him the figures-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Joan Burton: -----because he is a bit free and easy with information which is potentially misleading.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Joan Burton: The spend by Fianna Fáil in 2011 was €2.076 billion and the estimated spend-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Joan Burton: The estimated spend-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Joan Burton: The Deputy should not be getting agitated. If we are going to have a debate-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Joan Burton: I urge the Deputy to try to calm himself.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Joan Burton: His blood pressure must be sky high. He should try to calm down.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Joan Burton: This year under the Labour Party-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Joan Burton: The Deputy should calm himself.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Joan Burton: The Deputy will scare the children of the country if they are looking in.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Joan Burton: The Deputy should try to calm himself. This year under the Labour Party, expenditure on child benefit has increased.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Joan Burton: The total is now €2.078 billion.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Benefit Rates (13 Nov 2012)
Joan Burton: They are the statistics. Fianna Fáil and the Deputy, in particular, have always been afraid of statistics.