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- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
John Brady: There are no costings whatsoever. It appears in a small byline without costings. Fianna Fáil did not even see fit to raise the reversal of the 2012 changes with the Taoiseach or the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Deputy Regina Doherty, during the deliberations on budget 2018, despite its protests to the contrary. Mentioning the issue somewhere along the line,...
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
John Brady: In December 2016 Sinn Féin brought forward a pension equality and fairness motion, calling on the Government to restore the pension bands and rates to their pre-September 2012 position. It was the very first motion I brought forward and, as it was such a serious matter, I felt the need to do it. Our friends in Fianna Fáil refused to support the motion and we can see their...
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
John Brady: Ten months later we have a motion from the same Fianna Fáil Party calling for the same treatment that they refused to support in a motion tabled last year. The Minister has stated that in every complex system there are winners and losers and that in this system there is an anomaly that disadvantages a very small number of people relative to the large number of pensioners we have....
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
John Brady: In December 2016 Sinn Féin brought forward a pension equality and fairness motion calling on the Government to restore the pension bands and rates to their pre-September 2012 position. It was the very first motion I brought forward as a new Deputy in the House.
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
John Brady: Perhaps you thought ours was the Government party. We will be.
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
John Brady: The Deputy is saying nothing about the wine he might drink.
- Topical Issue Debate: Coastal Protection (18 Oct 2017)
John Brady: I listened with intent to the Minister of State's response. Clearly, the local authority has identified this as an area of grave concern. While there was some limited flooding in the area during Storm Ophelia, there are commercial and residential properties in it that are at risk of serious flooding. There are several problems, one of which is the fact that the current structures are being...
- Topical Issue Debate: Coastal Protection (18 Oct 2017)
John Brady: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Seán Kyne, for taking this question. Unfortunately, it is not the Minister of State, Deputy Kevin "Boxer" Moran. Arklow, like a number of towns in County Wicklow, is susceptible to serious flooding, and there have been some very serious flooding events in Arklow over the recent years, both in terms of river flooding and coastal flooding....
- Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Oct 2017)
John Brady: On Monday night the Spanish high court jailed without bail two Catalan civil society leaders. They are being prosecuted for organising peaceful demonstrations in the run-up to the 1 October independence referendum. This is totally reprehensible and a serious escalation of the Spanish state's clampdown on the Catalan people. As the Bills that had been scheduled for today have been cleared,...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2017)
John Brady: I beg your pardon. It was raised by us in our pre-budget submission.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2017)
John Brady: The Taoiseach is misleading the House.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2017)
John Brady: Women understand it, though.
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Humanitarian Assistance Scheme (17 Oct 2017)
John Brady: 582. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will amend the humanitarian assistance scheme in County Donegal to ensure that affected families who lost items such as children's toys, play and entertainment items and garden equipment are adequately compensated for their loss. [43870/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Services Programme (17 Oct 2017)
John Brady: 583. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the funding removed from a company (details supplied) by Pobal is still available for other interested parties or organisations in the area to apply for; if she will clarify same; the person in her Department who is responsible for processing a new application for support under the Pobal community services programme....
- Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)
John Brady: There are elements of this budget to be welcomed but in reality much of the social protection measures are the reintroduction of old payments that Fine Gael either cut or abolished, announcements of new schemes without any substance as to what they actually are, and name changes. Only Fine Gael could bring about a situation where for the second budget in a row, lone parents will be better...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Data (3 Oct 2017)
John Brady: 600. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of completed tenant purchase scheme applications by each local authority since its introduction in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41274/17]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)
John Brady: I will find it hard to contain my questions in five minutes. I hope to have a second opportunity.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)
John Brady: My first point concerns the gender pay gap. The Minister's refusal to look at this is disappointing when there has been so much talk of the gender pay gap. The changes introduced in 2012 are unacceptable and the impact that these have had on 40,000 people, most of them women, is disgraceful. A change in this situation will cost money, absolutely, but we in Sinn Féin have been able to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)
John Brady: We will not get into that. She said at any rate that she would find it difficult to live on. Our young unemployed people are expected to live on €102.70 a week. I ask the Minister to examine this and to end the discriminatory practices in the Department-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)
John Brady: Can I just finish this point?