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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit (16 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: 260. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated number of self-employed contributors who will be eligible for the jobseeker’s benefit when introduced in late 2019 and over a full year; the estimated number of eligible contributors who will avail of the benefit in late 2019 and over a full year; the cost of extending the benefit in late 2019; the...

Living Wage: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: I wish to share time with Deputies Ó Cuív and Murphy O'Mahony, who might arrive shortly.

Living Wage: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: Fianna Fáil has tabled an amendment to the motion. We will not take any lectures from Sinn Féin regarding our commitment to the minimum wage.

Living Wage: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: We are the party who introduced the legislative basis for the minimum wage in 2000 and, more recently, through the confidence and supply agreement in 2019, we ensured the implementation of the restrictive use of the zero-hour contracts. I recall as an Opposition Deputy between 2011 and 2016 when we had little influence and people on the opposite side of the House who had long promised the...

Living Wage: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: No, that is not so. If the Minister and the Government were to accept Deputy Michael McGrath's Bill, we could force a reduction in variable interest rates, something the Government has restricted and failed to adopt. Some 10,000 people have become homeless during the time this Government has been in office. I was dealing with the case of a man who phoned me from Kinnegad. He is working...

Parent's Leave and Benefit Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: Yes. Can I come back in?

Parent's Leave and Benefit Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: Standing up for workers' rights is not incompatible with seeking to ensure that we have a fair balance, and there is no irony lost there. It is important that we have legislation that protects workers' rights while also being cognisant of the need to achieve the protection, retention and creation of jobs. If there are no jobs in the market, there is no need to worry about workers' rights...

Parent's Leave and Benefit Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: There is some agreement in terms of what we are trying to achieve. I apologise for the typographical error in the amendment. Under the rules there is a facility to change that. It should refer to "parent's leave" as opposed to "parental leave" because they derive from two different tranches of legislation. I thank the Minister of State for pointing that out. The Minister of State...

Parent's Leave and Benefit Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: I bring forward this amendment because in the ordinary course, leave legislation provides that employers are not required to make superannuation contributions during an employee's period of leave. This is the case with regard to maternity leave, as governed by section 22 of the Maternity Protection Act 1994, as amended, and parental leave, as governed by section 14 of the Parental Leave Act...

Parent's Leave and Benefit Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: To clarify, the Minister of State is saying that under current legislation, all elements of paid leave, including paid maternity leave, would have continuing superannuation payments. Is that paid by an employer, an employee or a combination of both?

Parent's Leave and Benefit Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: That process is rolled on with this legislation.

Parent's Leave and Benefit Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: Under existing legislation, unpaid parental or maternity leave would see superannuation payments suspended.

Parent's Leave and Benefit Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: I move amendment No. 6:In page 24, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following:"21.(1) Where an employee is entitled to work pursuant to section 20 but it is not reasonably practicable for the employer to permit the employee to return to work in accordance with that section, the employee shall be entitled to be offered by his or her employer suitable alternative employment under a new...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Care Packages Provision (15 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: I welcome the opportunity to raise the issue of the scandalous waiting lists for home help supports in counties Longford and Westmeath. Over 200 people are on these waiting lists. All new applications are put on a waiting list straight away, with the only exception being 3.5 hours per week provided to somebody at the end of his or her life. The qualifying criterion is that it can be...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Care Packages Provision (15 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: The Minister of State indicated that the new scheme will be centralised and that the delivery of services will be co-ordinated at local level in line with a person’s assessed needs. The 200 people in Longford and Westmeath have been assessed and deemed medically in need of this help but they are still not getting it. Does he agree with the decision in my region that people who are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: What he is saying is factually incorrect.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge Application (15 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: 141. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) did not qualify for the USC charge reduction in 2019. [41839/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Living City Initiative (15 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: 154. To ask the Minister for Finance if the living city initiative will be extended beyond current designated areas; and the costs associated with this scheme by year since it was introduced in tabular form. [42126/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Preparations (15 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: 303. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on a social partnership proposal by an organisation (details supplied); and her further views on the joint proposal by employee and employer representatives for a scheme for preservation of viable employment in the context of a disorderly Brexit. [41628/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Preparations (15 Oct 2019)

Robert Troy: 304. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on a proposal by an organisation (details supplied) to mitigate a hard Brexit. [41663/19]