Results 5,841-5,860 of 8,196 for speaker:Alice-Mary Higgins
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The timeline for introduction is 2020. As indicated by the Taoiseach we are potentially facing an election in May 2020. One of the key tasks and areas of work this term for the Government has been the review of the total contributions approach in line with the pensions roadmap. The Minister has indicated that she hopes to conclude deliberations on this matter by the end of this year. I do...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: What I am asking is that there would be a report within three months.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: We then do not expect to have clarity within three months. Let us be clear about what is being asked for. I am asking for estimates of a number of potential costs, including the cost of a 30-year scheme, and the impact on individuals and a comparison of the likely difference between a 30-year contribution scheme and a 40-year contribution scheme in terms of weekly income levels for those...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: My policy concerns policy, not legislation.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I will not press the amendment but I would say that I do not think there is much assurance in what the Minister said.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Yes.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 32:In page 14, after line 7, to insert the following: "10. The Minister shall, within three months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas a report on:(a) policy options around the extension of jobseeker’s transitional payment to include one parent families with a child up to eighteen years of age; and (b) policy options...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Do the millions referred to by the Minister relate to an increased level of income disregard? I am curious where the millions come from. Do the millions relate to working lone parents with 15, 16 and 17 year old children accessing a higher level of income disregard?
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I disagree with the Minister. I know we simply disagree. I do not believe it is a measure that encourages lone parents into education. Encouraging lone parents into education is something we have supported but is a separate issue. What the Minister is talking about is the income disregard. A lone parent who is managing to work and has a child is entitled to an income disregard of...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I will press it.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is my hope that if a report was prepared it may be available to a future Government to implement such a policy.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Lone parents have waited a very long time for substantial action.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Yes.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Vótáil.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: In fairness, we had not moved on.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I said I was pressing the amendment.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: We have not actually moved on to amendment No. 33.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I would say to the Chair that I had indicated my intention to press the amendment.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am not seeking to press amendments for the sake of it. There are certain amendments that I believe are of real significance. This is the first vótáil I have sought to call on any of the amendments. We are on amendment No. 33 and I have had 22 amendments which I have either withdrawn or subjected to a voice vote. This is the first one on which I have called a vote. I put it to...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2019)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It may have been a presumption and, therefore, the speed of moving on may have been perhaps faster than it should have been.