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Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

John Brady: I am.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

John Brady: I move amendment No. 14:In page 12, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: "Review of carer’s allowance payment 13.The Minister shall conduct a review and lay a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas on the financial hardship faced by carers who must provide full-time care in order to receive carer's allowance restricting them from taking up other work to supplement...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

John Brady: Everybody here acknowledges the work carers do, the savings for the State and the issues that affect them. I have been struck over the last number of years by the number of young people who are providing a caring service for family members. The restrictions there are affecting them over the long term as well because they cannot study for more than 15 hours a week. There are also long-time...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

John Brady: I am not putting myself down.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

John Brady: Does the Deputy want me to amend it now?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

John Brady: I will withdraw it and resubmit it with six months on the understanding that we will receive the Deputy's support. Otherwise, we will have to press it. To respond to the Minister on lone parents, some of the issues have been addressed but one of the key recommendations in that report was the establishment of a child maintenance service, and I have tabled an amendment regarding child...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

John Brady: I move amendment No. 16:In page 14, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following:“Benchmarking of social welfare payment rates 17. The Minister shall consult with stakeholders on examining ways in which social welfare rates are increased with the aim of ensuring adequacy for all recipients and shall do so in quarter 1 of 2019.”. This asks the Minister to engage with the...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

John Brady: I welcome that fact the Minister will accept the amendment. We need to move away from that system for all the reasons I outlined. All the organisations and, more importantly, the people who are in receipt of any type of payments, not simply pensions, want certainty. Phenomenal work is being undertaken by groups such as the Vincentian Partnership for Social Justice to examine minimum...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

John Brady: Yes. This is also important and I would like the Minister to comment. All the non-governmental organisations with which I have engaged support the establishment of such a commission. I realise it is moving away from the amendment-----

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

John Brady: -----however, it cuts to the heart of it.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

John Brady: I move amendment No. 17:17. In page 14, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following:“Review of means testing of child maintenance payments 18. The Minister shall conduct a review and lay a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas on the financial effect of the consideration of child maintenance payments as household income in the means test for various social welfare payments...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

John Brady: The Minister and I will probably never see eye to eye on this. When one looks at the statistics, it is evident that Deputy O'Dea is correct. People on disability payments and those in lone parent families are two of the categories where we have the highest poverty levels. It is difficult for a one-parent family to even try to get maintenance in the first instance. I will deal with that in...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

John Brady: Yes, I have to leave.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

John Brady: I am leaving but Deputy Martin Kenny is stepping in for me.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

John Brady: If there is agreement that I can withdraw the amendment and resubmit it on Report Stage with a change to the timeframe from three months to six months, I will do so?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Committee Stage (22 Nov 2018)

John Brady: I will withdraw it and resubmit on Report Stage.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (20 Nov 2018)

John Brady: 396. To ask the Minister for Health the position of a person (details supplied) on the waiting list to see a clinical psychologist at the Cherry Orchard CAMHS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47896/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance (20 Nov 2018)

John Brady: 635. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) will not receive the Christmas bonus in 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48356/18]

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Second Stage (14 Nov 2018)

John Brady: We cannot discuss this Bill this evening without referring to the 2017 Bill, which has been at a complete standstill for over a year. This is ridiculous. That Bill was debated here 13 months ago, on 4 October, yet it still has to progress to Committee Stage. I understand the Minister has attributed this to provisions in the Bill concerning defined benefit pension schemes and protections...

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Second Stage (14 Nov 2018)

John Brady: I thank the Minister. With regard to the earnings disregard for recipients of the working family payment towards housing costs, child maintenance should be regarded as an income for the child and not as household income. I questioned the Minister on this yesterday. She does not agree with me. In not agreeing with me, she does not agree with the organisations that represent real people....