Results 3,681-3,700 of 12,585 for speaker:Willie O'Dea
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (18 Nov 2015)
Willie O'Dea: The Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection is acting like a frightened child. Forcing the Taoiseach to hang on over Christmas will not do her one blind bit of good.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (18 Nov 2015)
Willie O'Dea: You are an absolute disgrace and the people know it.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (18 Nov 2015)
Willie O'Dea: I move amendment No. 10:In page 15, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following:“21. The Minister shall, within 4 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay out a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas, reviewing all expenditure reductions or ceasing of payments in relation to the treatment benefits package since 2011, and setting out options for restoring those...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (18 Nov 2015)
Willie O'Dea: I move amendment No. 11:In page 15, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following:“21. The Minister shall, within 4 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay out a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas, reviewing the abolition of the bereavement grant, and setting out options for restoring those payments to their previous levels.”.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (18 Nov 2015)
Willie O'Dea: I move amendment No. 15:In page 16, after line 35, to insert the following:“26. The Pensions Act 1990 is amended by inserting a new section 48A as follows:“48A.A solvent firm shall not be allowed to close a defined benefit pension scheme except where the scheme has reached a minimum 90 per cent funding standard.’’.”. We had a discussion on this issue...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (18 Nov 2015)
Willie O'Dea: My amendments Nos. 9 to 11, inclusive, require the Government to undertake a review of different cuts in different areas of social welfare provision within four months of the passage of the Bill. The Minister of State, Deputy Kevin Humphreys, noted this morning that all the information is already available which, of course, I already know. What I am suggesting is that the information be...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (18 Nov 2015)
Willie O'Dea: That is not true.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (18 Nov 2015)
Willie O'Dea: Not true. I will give the Tánaiste a copy of our proposals.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (18 Nov 2015)
Willie O'Dea: What about free travel?
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (18 Nov 2015)
Willie O'Dea: We did.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (18 Nov 2015)
Willie O'Dea: The Tánaiste is misleading the House. We proposed a €7 million improvement in the provision for free travel, and I can supply her with the appropriate documentation to that effect. It is not just about reviewing treatment benefits and so on. A number of schemes are referred to specifically in these amendments, but there are other cuts to consider. Working lone parents, for...
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2015)
Willie O'Dea: Yesterday, the Tánaiste informed me during Question Time that it was the Government's intention to introduce legislation to deal with the issue of determination orders. These are orders made against an absent partner in respect of moneys paid by the State to lone parents where the State can recoup some of that money if the person in question is in a position to pay or contribute. When...
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2015)
Willie O'Dea: It is probably delayed in the Christmas post. The Taoiseach has not yet got back to me. In the section on housing in the programme for Government, the Government promised to introduce a probationary period for new tenants in social housing. If they engaged in antisocial behaviour during this period of 12 months, their tenancy was to be automatically terminated. Will the Taoiseach...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Willie O'Dea: Is that so?
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Report Stage (18 Nov 2015)
Willie O'Dea: I did not say that.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Report Stage (18 Nov 2015)
Willie O'Dea: It was tongue in cheek.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Report Stage (18 Nov 2015)
Willie O'Dea: No. 1. I will give it my No. 2.
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Report Stage (18 Nov 2015)
Willie O'Dea: I move amendment No. 9:In page 15, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following:"21. The Minister shall, within 4 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas, reviewing all expenditure reductions or the ceasing of payments in relation to the household benefits package, including the gas allowance, electricity allowance, telephone...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Report Stage (18 Nov 2015)
Willie O'Dea: I would not be in favour of the amendment, as drafted. The Minister of State can correct me if I am wrong, but as far as I can recollect, the cost of child benefit this year is in excess of €2 billion. There are questions around how we should proceed in the future and whether some of the current allocation should go towards direct child care provision, but, obviously, that is an...
- Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2015: Report Stage (18 Nov 2015)
Willie O'Dea: I also support Deputy Naughten's amendment, which is a very reasonable proposal. The Deputy is not asking the Government to introduce discretion on the 15 hours, he is only asking it to produce a report to examine the implications. I strongly suspect that the report would find that there is a very small coterie of cases involving real hardship on the margins. The Deputy's amendment puts...