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- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee and Remaining Stages (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Somebody who is currently 22 who receives the full adult rate will continue to receive that full adult rate. If a new person comes in at 22 years of age, that person will receive the reduced rate of â¬150. Someone who is 18 or 19 and who remains unemployed and is not participating in education or training, will get â¬100 at 20 or 21 and â¬150 at 22.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee and Remaining Stages (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The whole intention is to ensure that these people are not unemployed when they are 24.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee and Remaining Stages (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: I am not saying that because they will receive more money when they are 22. They will move from the rate of â¬100 to â¬150. However, they will be a new 22 year old at that stage. At ages 18 to 21 they will get â¬100 and at 22 to 24 they will get â¬150, unless they are participating in education and training. What this amendment allows is that somebody who is already on the â¬100 rate...
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee and Remaining Stages (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Interesting points have been made by Deputies during the debate but to listen to some people, one would think there was not a job left in the country. We are conscious of the numbers on the live register - 413,000 - but 115,000 of those are being supported while in employment. Sometimes we ignore that fact. They are on the live register but they are working part-time or are casual workers....
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee and Remaining Stages (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Deputy O'Mahony was not even here. A total of â¬70 million was announced for the flood relief programme. This is immediate work that must be done-----
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee and Remaining Stages (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Deputy Reilly was not here either.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee and Remaining Stages (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: A total of â¬70 million was supplied for the flood relief programme and this will provide not only valuable work, but also valuable employment for people. The retrofitting scheme as part of a warmer homes programme will provide employment for an extra 5,000 people so these are all----
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee and Remaining Stages (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: ----jobs stimulus which will ensure that young people, among others, will be able to get jobs. In addition, I cite the increased money being given for tourism, the extra millions being given directly to the food industry and the employment stabilisation fund. Deputy Burton referred to the situation in which employers are unable to give full-time employment to people and they will be allowed...
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee and Remaining Stages (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: My amendments recognise that there are people who do not have sufficient education and training to be able to benefit from whatever employment is available or will be available. I recognise that there is a difference in the older age group who may be graduates and who may be very well qualified. For that reason, my next amendment includes work placement in the scheme. They may not need...
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee and Remaining Stages (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The whole work placement scheme has been completely revised because when it was launched with very good intent, employers came back to us with the case that if they were an employer of fewer than ten people, they would be unable to take someone on but now it has been changed and they will be able to do so. We have shortened the length of time which a person has to be on the live register and...
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee and Remaining Stages (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: This recognises there are people who are able to provide targeted different approaches. It is a little unfair of Deputies in talking about FÃS to criticise much of the local provision. There is no question about the need for the new legislation which the Tánaiste is introducing on reform of FÃS at the top level and its governance. However, local FÃS training offices around the country...
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee and Remaining Stages (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Community employment schemes and work experience projects play a very valuable role. The local authorities are one group of people who have offered to take people but in these circumstances one always needs the full co-operation of the trade unions. We must ensure that taking in young people does not involve job displacement because jobs must be protected. There is plenty of scope and I...
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee and Remaining Stages (Resumed) (11 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: -----to take the education, training and work placement and not to be destined to be one of the 423,000 people on the live register, but one of the 1.9 million people who are still working in this country. It will ensure that we turn that corner and get more of them back into work quickly.
- Social Welfare Cuts: Motion (15 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Tell me about it.
- Social Welfare Cuts: Motion (15 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: I wish to share time with Deputy Conlon. At the outset, I wish to state as Minister for Social and Family Affairs-----
- Social Welfare Cuts: Motion (15 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all of the words after "Dáil Ãireann" and substitute the following: "recognises the significant improvements made in recent years in supports for people with disabilities and their carers, including: â substantial increases between 1997 and 2009 in the weekly rates of payment to people with disabilities and carers and such increases have been a multiple...
- Social Welfare Cuts: Motion (15 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: This year, however, tax receipts have fallen dramatically. As a result, Ireland is now borrowing â¬400 million every week, mainly to pay for welfare, health and education. Unless we reduce our loans as a country, not only will we be obliged to pay substantial interest in the future, we will face the real prospect that international banks will not lend us any more money, on foot of which it...
- Social Welfare Cuts: Motion (15 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Nevertheless, as it is Exchequer money, it is not as though one could suddenly wipe out the rent supplement money by putting people into the RAS scheme.
- Social Welfare Cuts: Motion (15 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Savings of â¬2 million are being made through a restructuring of the regional support agencies that work with the family resource centres. As for the reductions in weekly payments to people with disabilities and carers, I accept these are highly sensitive areas. However, they should be seen in the context of the huge improvements that have been made in recent years. Welfare rates were...
- Social Welfare Cuts: Motion (15 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: It would cost â¬230 million.