Results 27,461-27,480 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: ââeven after this budget, and things look set to get much tougher in the North where it is estimated that the loss to people on social welfare benefits in the North is likely to be as much as â¬700 million a year by 2014.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: On the specific savings I am bringing forwardââ
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: On the savings from the five specific measures, first, I am reducing from 60% to 15% the rebate for companies which make staff redundant. Second, the fuel allowance in future will be payable for 26 weeks, a reduction of six weeks. The level of the allowance and its duration has greatly increased in the past ten years. The scheme is unsustainable, given the increase in the numbers of...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: It has its own Mattie McGraths.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: It has been removed from the Bill.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: It has been removed.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: The provision generally applies to adults at work who have an accident. It does not usually relate to children.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (13 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: No. It is for people who have accidents at work or that prevent them from working.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: No. It is five.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: It is five years and not ten. There was an error in the original Bill which is corrected by one of the amendments.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: No. It is being increased by two years in line with the increase in the age of the State pension to bring it from three to five years. There was an error in the Bill and the correction is reflected in the amendments.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: It is amendment No. 1.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: It is the most generous regime anywhere in the world.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: I thank all Deputies for their contributions, some of which were more robustly made than others. A lot of valid points were made. I will try to deal with them as best I can. I reiterate that savings had to be made in the social welfare budget. There were no easy options. Every cut or change affects someone now or in the future. We must balance our national income and expenditure....
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: I reduced those cuts to â¬475 million. I could not abolish all of them but what I did do is-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: For the first time in three years, there will be no cut in overall rates. Deputy Healy-Rae's former party introduced a cut of â¬8 per week in all the primary rates, other than for old age pensioners. I made a strategic decision-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: -----to maintain the primary rates to give pensioners, people on jobseekers benefit, lone parents, people on invalidity and disability allowances, certainty about their primary income rate. As such, there is no cut in rates. However, savings of â¬475 million must be made and, in addition, the social welfare system must be reformed to make it easier for people to be supported in education,...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: No Deputy McGrath, it is not.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: There is no cut-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Joan Burton: There is no cut-----