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- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Heather Humphreys: I am happy to continue but it is up to members.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Heather Humphreys: As am I.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Heather Humphreys: I am happy to keep going and get through all the amendments.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Heather Humphreys: There are not that many more amendments.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Heather Humphreys: I, too, am happy to push on.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Heather Humphreys: Yes, and then we can have a long lunch.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Heather Humphreys: My answer in this case is the same as for the previous amendment. This issue will form part of the review of means testing, which I will have for the committee at the beginning of next year. We can look at it then. I do not know why we should treat self-employed people differently from employed people. We can have a look at it and it will be part of the means test review, if that is okay.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Heather Humphreys: I am familiar with this case. It is a case that arose last year. I spoke to the parent involved. I have sympathy for this particular instance where people do not get the payment and it is cut off straight away. It is fair to say a collection agent is only there to collect the payment for the actual recipient and they are not the intended person to get it. I absolutely understand the case...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Heather Humphreys: I know the Deputy does not. I am trying to work with him. I accept what Deputy Ó Laoghaire is saying and we do need to do something about it. We will have a report in 2024 without the need to put it into legislation, if that is all right.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Heather Humphreys: Illness benefit is intended to provide an income replacement for insured persons during short spells of incapacity or illness when they cannot work because of a disability or medical condition. This amends the current legislation to ensure a person cannot be entitled to statutory sick leave and get illness benefit. We are making a change whereby we are increasing the number of days of...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Heather Humphreys: It is the normal two years. People get it for two years.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Heather Humphreys: That is it. If people cannot work, they should go on an invalidity pension.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Heather Humphreys: There is an appeals mechanism. I am not changing anything in that. That is the way it is.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Heather Humphreys: Yes.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Heather Humphreys: I do not know whether it is harder than it was but it is not easy to get it.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Heather Humphreys: People have to go through a fairly-----
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Heather Humphreys: Share options in certain employment are seen as income. This is because people get preferential treatment. I do not have the rate at which PRSI is charged off the top of my head. I am told it is the same rate as other income.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Heather Humphreys: It provides that employed contributors born after 1 January 1958 who do not claim the contributory State pension between the ages of 66 and 70 are liable. The over-66s will have to pay it if they get share options, because they pay PRSI to get a higher pension when they retire. If you work longer, you get a higher pension. If they have to pay PRSI, we have to make sure they pay it on...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Heather Humphreys: Is that on the share option?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Heather Humphreys: Yes.