Results 7,281-7,300 of 8,196 for speaker:Alice-Mary Higgins
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 15:In page 14, after line 18, to insert the following: “Report on jobseeker’s transitional payment supports 20.The Minister for Employment and Social Protection shall, within eight months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas on the employment, training and educational opportunities and supports currently...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 16:In page 14, after line 18, to insert the following: “Report on State Contributory Pension 20.The Minister for Employment and Social Protection shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas on the following matters: (a) the potential extension of the Homemakers Scheme to include claimants from...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: We can expect a report in respect of the 2012 changes then. There is also an underlying anomaly in how we calculate our pensions which needs to be addressed, and I hope there is scope to do so. I have some concerns. Yesterday in this House we heard about the move to the new supplementary pension system, about which the Minister has spoken previously. I refer to the new auto-enrolment...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I thank the Minister. I very much welcome her comment on the care credit, which is something I have pushed for years since my time with Older and Bolder and the National Women's Council of Ireland. I am very happy this is on the agenda in terms of the total contributions approach, which is good to hear. I am also glad to hear in regard to the auto-enrolment model that the Minister is...
- Seanad: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Statements (13 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I want to begin by addressing some of the misapprehensions that have been suggested today. The first is that those who have concerns about or are opposed to PESCO are in some senses less committed to Europe or anti-Europe. I am extraordinarily pro-Europe. I have campaigned for Europe. I work with European NGOs. Right across Europe there is concern and it is partly my European citizenship...
- Seanad: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Statements (13 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The legislation was-----
- Seanad: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Statements (13 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Yes, but it was not-----
- Seanad: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Statements (13 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: -----agreed at that time.
- Seanad: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Statements (13 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Yet last week-----
- Seanad: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Statements (13 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am sorry, but I must make a correction.
- Seanad: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Statements (13 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Last week, the Minister of State said that no Member had raised it with him.
- Seanad: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Statements (13 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: This is outrageous.
- Seanad: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Statements (13 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The Minister of State has acknowledged that I raised it with him.
- Seanad: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Statements (13 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am sorry, but this is misleading and unfair.
- Seanad: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Statements (13 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It has been directly-----
- Seanad: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Statements (13 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Excuse me but, through the Chair,-----
- Seanad: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Statements (13 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Excuse me. I have had statements very clearly directed to me that are inaccurate,-----
- Seanad: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Statements (13 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: -----so I need to have them corrected.
- Seanad: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Statements (13 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Excuse me, but I have had statements addressed directly to me. The Minister of State has been staring straight at me and saying, "You did not." Let me be clear - I did raise this issue. I raised it well in advance. I raised it by way of a Commencement matter. The problem is that it was not brought to the Dáil Business Committee until the week in which it was pushed to a vote.
- Seanad: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Statements (13 Dec 2017)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Please do not attempt to distract attention from that error.