Results 561-580 of 7,024 for speaker:Willie Penrose

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Burial Grounds (14 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: 266. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a burial site (details supplied) of historical importance can be accessed by members of the public for historical review in view of the fact that it is apparently landlocked and is situated on private land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47439/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Process (13 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: 80. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when it is planned to introduce the Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017 in Seanad Éireann; and the amendments she plans to make to the Bill. [46881/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Process (13 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: When does the Minister intend to introduce this Bill in the Seanad? We passed it in this House last July. The legislation is urgently needed.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Process (13 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: I thank the Minister and I am glad to see this important legislation will progress. We will all put our backs behind it to make sure it is accelerated and becomes law. I am aware that the Minister reviewed a number of aspects of the Bill as passed by the Dáil. Has she re-examined the various arguments made in the Dáil by Labour Party Deputies and colleagues in the other parties...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Process (13 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: There is an urgent need for these provisions, giving hope and dignity to a cohort of workers who need to be brought in from the cold and given some hope for the future. We in the Labour Party have certainly not changed our policy or views on if-and-when contracts. My colleague, Senator Ged Nash, will table amendments to the legislation in the Seanad to address this problem. Particularly,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Process (13 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: It is like the dance. We should come up a good bit of the way and the Minister might go and meet us.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pensions Reform (13 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: I appreciate that the Department must examine the balance and other such matters. We had a detailed discussion with ICTU and the various unions, including SIPTU and Unite. All the trade unions are of one voice on this. We want the legislative changes brought forward and the Pensions Act 1990 significantly amended. There will be funding obligations coming forward that will curtail the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pensions Reform (13 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: 75. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of her plans for legislative changes in pension law; when amendments will be tabled to the Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017; the reason for the delay of more than a year; and when the Bill will be progressed. [46879/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pensions Reform (13 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: What is the status of plans to legislate for changes to pension law? When will the amendments be tabled to the Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017? What is the reason for the delay of more than a year?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pensions Reform (13 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: I thank the Minister for her reply. It is now a year and a half since the legislation was introduced. Deputies O'Dea and Brady and I have introduced Bills in this area. The one I am asking about is a distillation. Each of us had a Bill with more lofty objectives. The aim was to ensure the protection of workers who are being thrown sacrificial lambs, even with well-to-do employers running...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Illness Benefit Payments (13 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: I think the Minister would agree that it is not acceptable for somebody to be left holding on for 90 minutes when they make a phone call. That is not good enough. There are staff in the Department who work very hard and I concur with the Minister because I saw them working there. If the Minister does not put enough people on to man or woman the lines – women do an awful lot of this...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Illness Benefit Payments (13 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: Politicians sometimes exaggerate to make a particular point. I will deliberately refrain from doing so. Instead, I will set out my point by reading from a letter that some of us have received from a person who continues to serve this country in a very important role. He speaks for everyone in the letter, which reads:I am close to a complete breakdown due to a system which is clearly even...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Illness Benefit Payments (13 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: 74. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have been impacted on by delays in the payment of illness benefit; her plans to address the matter; the number delayed; and the number of persons who have received supplementary welfare payments as a result of delays. [46896/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: However, 20,000 have been refused.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (13 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: 104. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of cases received and then investigated following the publicity campaign on false self-employment; if she is satisfied with the outcome to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46882/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Parental Leave Expenditure (13 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: 99. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date in 2019 from which parental leave will be paid under the budget forecasts; the number of persons expected to apply in 2019 and 2020; the full year cost; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46883/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (13 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: 102. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to establish a community advisory forum for community employment schemes; and her further plans to increase the payments that support these schemes and the participants. [46880/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Gambling Sector (13 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: 189. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in the context of the recent increase in budget 2019 raising the betting tax from 1% to 2%, he will consider the alternative proposal that will achieve greater action in the Exchequer by levying the tax payable upon gross profit retail increased online and 25% commissions, rather than the current proposal which is levied upon total turnover, and which...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (13 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: 244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria applicable to schools admissions following the enactment of the Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018 with particular emphasis on family and sibling connections to schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47088/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (13 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: 481. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if, in the context of his recent announcement concerning the eel fisherpersons support scheme and in particular in respect of the criteria outlined therein, it is the intention of the scheme to exclude fishermen who were fishing during the appropriate period and had prepared audited accounts for taxation return...