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Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (13 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 12 November 2011. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Social Welfare Services on the grounds of appeal be sought. When received, the appeal in question will be referred to an Appeals Officer for...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: I thank the Senators who spoke and made such detailed and thoughtful contributions. I appreciate that people from all political parties have acknowledged the reality of the very difficult financial situation in which the country finds itself. As stated earlier, events in the eurozone may make the difficulties with which we must deal even more intense. It is not generally well known but...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: Regarding lone parents, who Senator Mooney and a large number of Senators mentioned, the ESRI published a report last night which is referred to in the newspapers today. Senator Bacik raised this question also. The lone parents structure was changed forever in Ireland by the work done by Frank Cluskey, a former leader of the Labour Party, in the early 1970s when he introduced what was then...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: That is something on which we will all have to work, and organisations are correctly concerned about the poverty that loan parents and their children are experiencing in some cases. This would be an appropriate area to discuss and investigate to see if we can make the outcomes better. Today's ESRI report, which this House might have an opportunity to examine separately, is a good...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: If somebody has significant other incomes and additional social welfare payments are being made, the problem with the social welfare budget is that, given that we only have €20.5 billion to spend, if we are to be able to live within that budget we must find savings in some areas. The most important issue in social welfare is that we build a modern welfare state. The values of a welfare...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: And education.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: That is for accidents at work, a completely different thing.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: That relates to occupational injury, it does not relate to children.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: It applies to those applying for disablement benefit who may still be in work. I will send the Senator a note on the issue.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: It is a slightly different one.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: No.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: It has moved from 156 to 260. It is three years to five years.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: It is the other way around.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: No. I will explain.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: No.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: I will explain it later.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: I am conscious that, as we speak, momentous events are taking place in Europe, particularly within the eurozone, which will have enormous economic consequences for everyone. The impact of those consequences will probably far exceed that of the measures contained in the Social Welfare Bill 2011. The Bill, which has been referred to the Seanad by Dáil Éireann, is an important item of...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: ——for the third child and €160 per month——

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: ——for the fourth child even after this measure.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)

Joan Burton: The mother of the child from Dundalk will still be getting much more child benefit than the mother of the child in Newry——