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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Jun 2024)

Aidan Davitt: .... We have discussed this matter before and I know different grants and rebates have been of help. So much change happened at once with the increase in the cost of wages, additional sick leave and pension auto-enrolment. A plethora of different measures came in all at once. Prior to that, we had the cost of energy and all of the other associated costs that have been a big drain on a lot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Funding of Development Sector and its Role in International Development: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Colm Brophy: .... I am sure the witnesses already have done so. I always say that when it comes to international institutions, their attitudes to the development side are a bit like the personal attitude to a pension. Everybody believes it is vital but nobody wants to fund it, not realising that the implications of not funding it now are making it more expensive by trillions in the years to come. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Patricia Ryan: Regarding those factors, is the cost of living having an impact on mental health, particularly the mental health of those on social welfare or the pension?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report: Discussion (26 Jun 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

...people with the cost of living, as we have seen over the past two years. The Department also worked throughout 2023 on delivering significant policy reforms across its portfolio, including progressing areas such as pensions, automatic enrolment, pay-related benefit and PRSI. I take this opportunity to put on the record my sincere thanks to my colleagues across the Department for their...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (26 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...relating to my Department. My officials have carefully considered the report as it relates to my Department. As regards recommendations 16 and 17, the Government has agreed to retain the State Pension age at 66 years. However, to facilitate the introduction of State Pension deferral, the PRSI exemption age has increased from age 66 to 70 years with the exception of the following two...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (26 Jun 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 111. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a surviving partner (details supplied) of a long-term cohabitating couple is entitled to a widower’s pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27437/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (26 Jun 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 116. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to examine the case for a disability pension (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27602/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Adult Education Provision (25 Jun 2024)

Niall Collins: ...can learn from it. I also want to mention that this option does not apply to tutors engaged in adult self-financing programmes in FET colleges or those who are ineligible for access to public service pension schemes. There is more detail on that which I will forward to the Deputy afterwards.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (25 Jun 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...is in the Shannon area. I am familiar with the area. It is very proximate to Limerick. As I pointed out to Deputy Farrell a while ago, changes have been made to the tax people pay, whether pensioners, people with earned income, people living alone or people who would like to have a student living with them as a result of lifestyle changes. The Minister, Deputy McGrath, made substantial...

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

Patricia Ryan: Over two weeks her pay-as-you-go meter cost her €500 just to run an air-to-water heating system. How affordable is this on an old age pension? The Minister of State and I both know it is not. A young mother with the same heating system was left paying a bill of more than €3,000 to keep her house warm. It is no wonder we have food banks, and we have the Minister of State's...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (25 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: ...and crime will continue. We must stop that. Going back five or ten years ago, people were being accosted outside the local post offices by drug gangs because debts were owed by their families. The parents were paying debts out of their pensions for drugs that their children were forced to take or get. That is not good enough. It still continues and it has to be addressed. The only...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Services (25 Jun 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Paddy Burke: ...after people at home. Some family members who are looking after a loved one will require respite. The biggest problem is the inadequate number of beds. Cancellations also cause hardship. A pensioner who is acting as a carer only gets a half-rate carer's allowance, which is not very fair. The only thing that changes between being 65 years of age yesterday and 66 years of age today is...

Seanad: Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Jun 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

James Browne: ...them to remain in service for longer if they choose to do so. Following analysis undertaken by the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to examine the issue of mandatory retirement age increases and fast accrual pension terms in these sectors, a policy framework was established.Under this framework, fast accrual pensions terms will be facilitated...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (25 Jun 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...to see if we have over time reached a target group of families in those categories? Are many still to be reached, and should we be looking at measures that are targeted at low-income families or pensioners who are in particularly poor homes from an energy efficiency point of view?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (25 Jun 2024)

Cormac Devlin: 110. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on efforts to resolve the on-going issues surrounding the Córas Iompair Éireann 1951 pensions scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26803/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Freedom of Information (25 Jun 2024)

Michael McGrath: ...years 2021 and 2022, 2 requests in 2023 and has not received any requests to date in 2024. There are no staff specifically assigned to dealing with FOI requests in the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (FSPO). The FOI functions are shared amongst a Principal Officer, Assistant Principal and Higher Executive Officer within the Corporate and Communications Services Department....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (25 Jun 2024)

Seán Haughey: 150. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of the changes to public service pensions introduced for pre-1995 public servants; the number of public servants affected by these changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27124/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Public Sector Pensions (25 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: 213. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department will provide for a pension (details supplied) to be paid into an Irish bank account as no valid reason has been given as to the reason this should not be the case and there is existing precedence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26735/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (25 Jun 2024) See 2 other results from this answer

Robert Troy: 254. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the blind allowance pension is reduced when a person reaches State pension age; and if her Department will rectify this situation. [27036/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Jun 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 255. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an invalidity pension appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26730/24]