Results 721-740 of 1,842 for speaker:Marie Moloney
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Marie Moloney: We all want it and agree at this committee that the self-employed have got to be helped in one form or another. It is a question of how we achieve this, not of whether it should be achieved. Perhaps it would be no harm for the delegates to contact their members to determine how many would actually be in favour of the proposal.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Marie Moloney: Could we find out how many of the delegates' members are in agreement? We could end up doing something here only to find out they will not opt in at all. There might be nobody.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Marie Moloney: During our in-depth discussions with the officials on the issue of a voluntary contribution they were adamant that could not and would not happen. Where the owner of a small business which employs five people takes ill and is unable to work but his or her employees continue to operate the business and generate income, how in the witnesses' opinion would this be monitored?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Marie Moloney: A benefit is a benefit. If Mr. Fielding became ill and his wife was working and earning a fortune he would still be entitled to the benefit. Regardless of a person's estate and so on he or she is still entitled to the benefit. It is an issue that requires further consideration.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Marie Moloney: Were the witnesses members polled in regard to how many of them would opt-in to the scheme? In other words, do they have any idea of how many of their members would be prepared to make the contribution, on a voluntary rather than mandatory basis?
- Seanad: Beef Industry: Motion (26 Mar 2014)
Marie Moloney: The proposer, that is, the Fianna Fáil Party, replies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Marie Moloney: My father died young at 55 years of age. When he passed away, he was working for the health board. We all expected that my mother would receive a pension from the health board but when we delved into the matter, we discovered that my father had opted out of the widows and orphans scheme. He probably only saved £2 or some similarly small sum per week by doing so. If people are given...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Marie Moloney: Yes, but it is assessed in the same way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Marie Moloney: It depends on the nature of the business in which they are involved.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Marie Moloney: The same formula is used to assess both.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Marie Moloney: For nine months.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Marie Moloney: Is Mr. Fielding in a position to outline the rates which apply in the countries to which he refers?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Marie Moloney: Will he provide an indication of what are those rates?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Marie Moloney: Do self-employed people in those countries have access to the other benefits enjoyed by their counterparts here?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Marie Moloney: I am telling Mr. McArdle that the recommendation from the expert group that came to this committee was that this would be the amount paid to bring them up to full benefits, the same as an employee. We discussed that in full at the committee. I never said it; it was the recommendation from the expert group.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Marie Moloney: I did not say that. It was Deputy Butler.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Marie Moloney: I wish to clarify that I did not make the comment about the PAYE workers that Mr. McArdle attributed to me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Marie Moloney: I did not. I never said it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Marie Moloney: Deputy Butler has rather stolen my thunder by asking all the questions I meant to ask.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA (26 Mar 2014)
Marie Moloney: It is no problem. Since he and I were appointed to the committee, we have constantly raised the situation of the self-employed. We have always fought their case in this forum. I thank the delegates for their presentations. As Deputy Butler has covered most of the ground, I have only a couple of issues I would like clarified. The portrayal we have had today of the self-employed versus...