Results 6,201-6,220 of 7,024 for speaker:Willie Penrose

Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: I move amendment No. 4: In page 5, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: "1.—The Minister shall within 6 months from after the passing of this Act prepare and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas a report on a statutory indexation of disregards.". The Minister replied to Deputies Stanton and Seán Ryan on this issue on Committee Stage, stating that the increases have been...

Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: While I do not want to pursue it I want to ensure that the failure to examine disregards for a considerable time, more than ten years on occasions, does not happen again. I accept the Minister's commitment on that.

Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: I move amendment No. 5: In page 5, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: "1.—The Minister shall within 6 months from after the passing of this Act prepare and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas a report on the clawback policy by the State from the estates of the deceased of non-contributory pensions where the assets were accrued exclusively or partly from savings for...

Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: The Minister has made a good point. I wonder whether the €10,000 has to do with the inheritance tax structure as opposed to where an agreed figure might be disregarded.

Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: Nevertheless——

Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: It is a good concept and the Minister is correct. In that context I have no hesitation in withdrawing the amendment.

Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: I move amendment No. 6: In page 5, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: "1.—The Minister shall within 6 months from after the passing of this Act prepare and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas a report on the social insurance treatment of self-employed people in receipt of the carer's allowance who are looking after ill spouses.". I am pleased the two amendments are being...

Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: Deputy Ring must have been giving out that day.

Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: Is it mandatory to give 12 months' notification or is there some room for discretion? This is where the provision could fall down because people may not know about its existence. I know that notification cannot be open-ended but is there room for discretion? I hope Department officials treat such cases with a measure of discretion. I know that the 12-month notification rule exists because the...

Social Welfare Law Reform and Pensions Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: I thank the Minister.

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: They are so smug over there, they do not want to hear anything.

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: Hear, hear.

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: The Minister for zero beds.

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: It is a most serious matter.

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: On the same issue——

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: Of course there is. The Tánaiste is here to provide an explanation.

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: It is not a debate. We are asking questions.

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: Can the Tánaiste properly explain why people in Counties Longford and Westmeath had to wait nine and a half years for 103 additional beds in Mullingar General Hospital? Is not the root cause of the problem the failure to provide beds?

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: That is why people are in corridors and on trolleys. It is a disgrace. Members of the Government arrive for photograph opportunities, then disappear like snuff at a wake. Staff, including nurses, attendants and ambulance drivers, are left to carry the can for this Government. It is time for it to stop engaging in its hypocritical cant.

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)

Willie Penrose: The Tánaiste is blaming everyone in the world except herself.