Results 21,001-21,020 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is a lot of potential for reform and the Minister of State, Deputy Finneran, and I are dealing with the issue. We hope to produce a headline agenda. I hope the House will consider the small changes to be made with regard to PPS numbers as one small step in introducing a comprehensive set of reforms. I have always believed in the jigsaw approach, with many small pieces forming a...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If we have a system that makes such practices nearly impossible, we can be almost sure they will not be followed. Assisting people to get back to work and return to education in order that they will not sit on jobseeker's payments is very important to me. All of the medical and sociological evidence indicates that unemployment is very bad for people, for whom it is not a natural state. In...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If he did, he did not speak to me about it. I thought I mentioned in September the approximately 10,000 places which many believed had disappeared. People said I had forgotton about them, had not succeeded or was in trouble. I love to say when people have given up that I have got something. We should now fill these places. I was a little surprised by the comments made on the disability...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: These are the circumstances experienced by real people, those who visit our clinics, and they do not conform to some sociological theory. Under the proposal, a person will be able to avail of an exemption for one year for training and so forth. If, at some point during this year, he or she wishes to work, a medical assessment as opposed to a social or other form of assessment will be done....

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It will be done by the Department. I have asked the Joint Committee on Social Protection to invite the chief medical officer of the Department, who is an expert on occupational medicine, to come before it to explain in detail how the medical assessment is carried out. Senator McFadden should note, however, that the Department already makes a fine call when deciding whether an applicant is...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ba mhaith liom cur síos a dhéanamh ar chuid de phríomh ghnéithe an Bhille seo. I propose to outline some of the main provisions of the Bill which provides for some dramatic changes that will result in a significant development in services. The Bill provides for the full transfer of the employment services and community services programmes of FÁS from the Minister for Education and...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is because we are renting too many units. The State supplies half of the rental market and may be keeping rents up.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is not the evidence we have.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We undertake detailed analysis of rent payable around the country.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If the Senator was in government for 12 years, she would have done nothing more after ten years. As her party was never in government for 12 years, she would not know.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We already have 60.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Míneoidh mé sin nuair a thabharfaidh mé mo fhreagra.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: In many cases, it is being levelled downwards. Traditionally, two individuals of the same sex received individualised payments, whereas a married couple only received one and two thirds.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: They are better off.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Senator should check his facts. The carer would receive his or her individual payment, as well as a half-rate carer's allowance.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am trying to help.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Did the Senator say that everyone who is not able to work should be given the full allowance?

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I do not know who they are.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There are people in that group who have the capacity to work.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: On the last point, I fully agree with Senator Buttimer. I suggested to my Department and to FÁS that a compendium of the assistance available to employ people with disabilities should be compiled. I have asked for the production of a single document to include-----