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- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023) Éamon Ó Cuív: I accept that the Department will get a deluge of applications and that there will be a spike. I would like to mention a case I came across. I think these cases should be fast-tracked on the inner lane. Following the death of a man who was in receipt of the fuel allowance, his wife went for the widow's pension. They were living as a couple. Obviously she has to confirm she is now living...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023) Éamon Ó Cuív: I have submitted a parliamentary question.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023) Éamon Ó Cuív: -----there should be a way of pulling them out as they are fairly straightforward.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023) Éamon Ó Cuív: I want to see the actuarial report and the report from 2017 versus what happened.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023) Éamon Ó Cuív: That will be another one for the fiction library. I will mention one thing about all of this. The Covid-19 pandemic and the 2008-10 downturn are examples of periods of time when something hit us, out of the blue, and it was very negative. The grey sky suddenly turned sunny - again, out of the blue - and the whole thing turned on its head very quickly. We are getting really fast...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023) Éamon Ó Cuív: I did not get to read all of the briefing.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023) Éamon Ó Cuív: Is it still paying?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023) Éamon Ó Cuív: Is it €10 billion?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023) Éamon Ó Cuív: The Department of expenditure must have put that together because it included two downturns and only one upturn.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023) Éamon Ó Cuív: I am thinking that we should include the boom time between 2000 and 2007.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023) Éamon Ó Cuív: In 2008, it started to go down until 2010, 2011, 2012 or 2013. Then it started to pick up again until we hit Covid-19. Some of the Covid-19 payments came out of-----
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023) Éamon Ó Cuív: We hit Covid-19 and now we have the boom time again. I think that leaving out the 2000-07 period skews it a bit. The other interesting thing was that the report of the Commission on Pensions recommended that the Exchequer should top up the Social Insurance Fund structurally, even if we went for a pension age of 68. There is very little difference between 66 and 68 in reality. It is...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (1 Feb 2023) Éamon Ó Cuív: I would like to return to the Social Insurance Fund. I found some statistics on page 66. In 2007, there was a surplus in the fund of €3 billion, most of which would have been there between 2000 and 2007. Now there is a surplus in the fund of €5 billion. That is another €2 billion. Of the €10 billion State subvention, there is €5 billion in the kitty....
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development and the Islands (Further Revised) (1 Feb 2023) Éamon Ó Cuív: I presume the CLÁR programme is still focused on areas of low population with a lack of basic services. We are still missing one basic service. It is quite scary that 10% of people are either using private wells or taking a hose out of a stream or whatever. They might think it is good water but it is never the same as the public water supply. The Minister might tackle this issue in a...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development and the Islands (Further Revised) (1 Feb 2023) Éamon Ó Cuív: I agree.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development and the Islands (Further Revised) (1 Feb 2023) Éamon Ó Cuív: I agree. Having held the Minister's position, one of the dilemmas of being Minister for Rural and Community Development is that it is actually easier and more defined. It is something that affects everybody in rural and urban settings. It is a segment of their lives. Rural people presume it is their life. It reflects all the shortcomings from rural areas. As the Minister said, in many...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development and the Islands (Further Revised) (1 Feb 2023) Éamon Ó Cuív: There is great pressure because our reservoir is at the top of the mountain.