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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: Among that 25% to 26% of economic inactivity, how much relates to sickness and ill health?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: Does Dr. Fitzpatrick know how that compares with the South?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: This meeting concerns the ideological approach rather than layering on the economic realities. Our guests are saying we need to get the foundations right to create a social security system. Which countries are the ideal from an ideological point of view, in Dr. Boland's opinion?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: Does Dr. Boland have data on the people he is talking about, who might take a job and then fall out of the workplace again? Does he have statistics regarding the churn? It would be important for us to see that, given he is questioning the current activation model.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: Are the data anecdotal, in that case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: They are qualitative rather than quantitative.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: I apologise for putting Dr. Boland under pressure but my time is limited. Where is he finding these people for interviews? I worked in marketing, so I understand the difference between a qualitative and quantitative approach. Where is he finding them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: In terms of activation, does Dr. Boland not see the value of the Springboard+ approach, for instance? I am a woman returner, so I have experience of the system. Does he not see any value in the activation programmes we are running?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: What does Dr. Boland mean by resources?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: Are there limits to Dr. Boland's conditionality? I hear what he is saying about the box-ticking side of compliance. Does Dr. Boland also take the same approach to whether there would be courses for interview skills or supports and things that are more positive? Would he support that or does he think people should not be encouraged and it is completely and 100% up to them to be proactive...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: It would be good to see the data on that to understand where that is happening. My last question is around the difference between the two systems and what happens if we introduce our rate of unemployment benefit. It is more than twice the rate in the UK. It is approximately 2.7 times the rate in the North. What would happen there in terms of the impact on the economy? Would the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: Okay. I thank Dr. Fitzpatrick.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: I was not here yesterday for our first day back. I was in Belfast for the Agreement 25 conference. It will go down as one of the best conferences I have ever attended. I had the honour of being in the room and in the presence of George Mitchell when he made his speech on Monday. I felt as though I was in touching distance of history. At this point, it is all the more bewildering that the...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (28 Mar 2023)

Emer Currie: I, too, welcome the Bill and the impact it will have on the costs facing families and households. It is a significant amount and it is not to be overlooked. As the Minister will know, the children's urgent care centre at Connolly Hospital is a satellite centre of the forthcoming children's hospital in the city. This fantastic service was opened in Tallaght and Blanchardstown, initially...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Planning Issues (22 Mar 2023)

Emer Currie: Since January 2020 there have been 23 section 254 licence applications for telecommunications masts in Dublin 15. These are not phone masts or telecommunication masts the size of lamp-posts; they are 15 m to 18 m or potentially up to 60 m in village and residential locations. I am not mad about The Spire, although I know other people are, but I certainly would not be okay with it turning up...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Planning Issues (22 Mar 2023)

Emer Currie: As usual, the Minister of State has gone right to the nub of the issue, which is striking the right balance and making sure that people have access to modern digital services in order that they can lead modern lives. For me, the issue is how this is managed. It does seem like the Wild West as telecommunication masts have been erected on public roads, footpaths and greens. It costs...

Seanad: Location of Victims' Remains: Motion (22 Mar 2023)

Emer Currie: I welcome the Minister. I thank Fianna Fáil for tabling the motion and giving us the opportunity to talk about the disappeared and the details outlined in the motion. In particular, I thank the family members for being here this evening. I know some of them have brought their loved ones home and others have not yet done so, but it is a fact that they are still working together and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Lord Empey (9 Mar 2023)

Emer Currie: I thank Lord Empey, who is a member of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly committee A alongside me. I have enjoyed getting to know him and working with him on our reports. I want to bring him back to the negotiations. My other questions concern the present. Regarding the North-South strand and Lord Empey's remarks on Monday about the executive function, I am familiar with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Lord Empey (9 Mar 2023)

Emer Currie: I am looking at an exchange between my late father and Mary O'Rourke at the time about Lord Empey's initial meetings with her back in 1999. My father had obviously been pressing her on areas of co-operation. They met about energy. He talked about how great it was that they met for discussions and said "long may that continue and perhaps we will soon reach the stage where nobody will pay...