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- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (10 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (10 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The Deputy cannot oppose it at this stage.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (10 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: My understanding was that it was ordered this morning on the Order of Business.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (10 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: My understanding is that it was ordered this morning and that I am now proposing that it be read a Second Time.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (10 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: I am not moving the order now, I am proposing that it be read a Second Time.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (10 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: It was already ordered in the Order of Business this morning.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (10 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Deputy Stagg is his party's Whip but as a former Government Chief Whip I am well aware of the fact that once a Bill is ordered in the morning it is ordered to be taken now but that any vote on the reading of the Bill or opposition to the Bill itself, will be taken at the end of the Bill, which of course I would anticipate the Opposition would want. The order has already been taken for this Bill.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (10 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: This Bill will give legislative effect to the 2010 Budget Statement.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (10 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The Deputies voted on that this morning.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (10 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: There was a division this morning.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (10 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: This Bill will give legislative effect to the 2010 Budget Statement. As Minister for Social and Family Affairs, I am conscious of the needs of more than 400,000 people on the live register. I also fully understand that a wide range of other groups, such as people with disabilities, carers and pensioners, depend on the welfare budget for vital support. I assure the House that the...
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (10 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The main areas where reductions are being made are as follows. Child benefit is being cut by â¬16 per child per month for all children and full compensation is being provided to families who are dependent on welfare payments or receiving the family income supplement. It is important that the most vulnerable families are being protected from the cut in child benefit. The weekly rates of...
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (10 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: In considering the various options to make savings in this area we were conscious that the payment can be an important source of income for all families for various reasons. Some families rely on it to buy basics such as food and clothes. For many women, it makes it possible for them to work outside the home by helping with child care costs and even for women in high income families, it may...
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (10 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: There will also be a reduction to â¬150 per week in the rate of jobseeker's allowance and supplementary welfare allowance payable to people who have unreasonably refused offers of training or education. I wish to highlight how the family income supplement, FIS, can help low-income working families with children. It is a weekly tax-free payment available to married or unmarried employees...
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (10 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The basic rates of supplementary welfare allowance payable to new claimants aged 24 years and under is also being reduced to ensure jobseeker's allowance claimants affected by the above measure do not have recourse to a basic supplementary welfare allowance top-up, the net effect of which would be to negate the measure. The qualified adult rate for a spouse payable where the main claimant is...
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (10 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: -----qualify for the back to education allowance for pursuing a full-time second level course or post- leaving certificate-VTOS course, or participate in a full-time FÃS training course.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (10 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: A person in that category will be selected for the employment action plan after 53 days on the live register, and directed to FÃS for appropriate training, education and jobseeking interventions. It is important to note that the following people will not be affected by the measure: existing claimants, young people with dependent children, those who have paid sufficient PRSI contributions to...
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (10 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Similar provisions relating to 18 and 19 year olds, introduced earlier this year, have been effective. The aim of the measure is to ensure that the short-term unemployed and the young unemployed do not become the long-term unemployed and the old unemployed.
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (10 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The Government has also decided to limit the treatment benefit scheme, from next January, to the medical appliances scheme and the free examination elements of dental and optical benefits. The position will be reviewed annually after that. As Deputies are aware, treatment benefits are paid to insured persons from the social insurance fund, SIF. Although the SIF has operated a surplus since...
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (10 Dec 2009)
Mary Hanafin: There are more than 600 staff working in areas related to control of fraud and abuse of the welfare system. Between January and the end of October this year, more than 600,000 individual claims were reviewed. The level of fraud on most schemes is very low. As reported by the Comptroller and Auditor General, the percentage of expenditure resulting from fraud identified in the Department's...