Results 841-860 of 1,842 for speaker:Marie Moloney
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (26 Nov 2013)
Marie Moloney: I welcome the Minister. She is becoming a regular visitor. I hope she will come before us on a few more occasions prior to Christmas in order to take Committee and Report Stages of this Bill and engage in a debate on the youth guarantee. Defined benefits mean exactly what they imply, namely, when one finishes making contributions - more than likely the point at which one will also finish...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Nov 2013)
Marie Moloney: Can the Department be asked to allow the self-employed to make credited contributions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Nov 2013)
Marie Moloney: I understand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Nov 2013)
Marie Moloney: Is that not discrimination? Other people can sign on or draw illness benefit but still receive a credited contribution.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Nov 2013)
Marie Moloney: People can sign for credited contributions once a year. If they do so, they will get a year's worth of contributions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Nov 2013)
Marie Moloney: I appreciate that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Nov 2013)
Marie Moloney: That provision is gone a long time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Nov 2013)
Marie Moloney: I appreciate this but it is very difficult to administer. PAYE workers know when they are due to work but other people might get a phone call in the evening to tell them go to work the following day and they do not have time to inform the local social welfare office. It is very difficult to administer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Nov 2013)
Marie Moloney: Is Ms Kennedy stating if someone got a day's work, he or she does not have to inform the Department?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Nov 2013)
Marie Moloney: They are for PAYE workers and not for self-employed workers. We are discussing self-employed people drawing jobseeker's allowance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Nov 2013)
Marie Moloney: If they do not inform the Department and they are caught working, the penalty will be quite harsh.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Nov 2013)
Marie Moloney: I appreciate this but let us be realistic. A PAYE worker can draw on his or her benefit and it is not means-tested. Very few PAYE workers would not receive a short-term payment for a few days off or illness benefit. If it comes to it and they are out long-term and must go onto jobseeker's allowance, I know they are means-tested but I am speaking about short-term problems.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Nov 2013)
Marie Moloney: Once a self-employed person accesses jobseeker's allowance he or she cannot get a credited stamp so there is a gap in their contributions for pension purposes. What cost would there be in allowing these people put up a credited stamp? I cannot understand why they cannot do so.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Nov 2013)
Marie Moloney: The witness said that a self-employed person qualifies for jobseeker's allowance if his or her employment ceases. For many, the employment does not cease. For example, a plumber or carpenter may get a call for a day's work to fix a leak or whatever is wrong with a house. That person may get a few hours work or a day's work now and again. In that case, their employment would not have...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Nov 2013)
Marie Moloney: Are the figures based on 2010?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Nov 2013)
Marie Moloney: I hope Ms Kennedy is not here to tell us that the Department is bringing PAYE workers up to that percentage as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Nov 2013)
Marie Moloney: I welcome the witnesses and thank Ms Kennedy for her presentation. I have been involved for quite a while in the campaign for benefits for the self-employed, many of whom are struggling. I am speaking in this regard not of people who own large companies but about small contractors such as plumbers, carpenters and mechanics and so on who are getting only minimal amounts of work. It is hoped...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Nov 2013)
Marie Moloney: That is good. It is regrettable that, as announced in the recent budget, PRSI contributions are to increase from January next. Ms Kennedy spoke about the means-tested jobseeker's allowances if a person's business ceases. While I accept that is happening, I have come across cases of people who were self-employed, but did not have accounts because the business went so bad they could not...
- Seanad: Adjournment Debate: Water and Sewerage Schemes Status (19 Nov 2013)
Marie Moloney: I thank the Minister of State for her reply although, as she acknowledged, it is not exactly what I wanted to hear. She clarified one particular issue, however, namely, that the report is still not with the Department, notwithstanding the assurances we received locally that it had been sent. Somewhere along the line, it seems to have fallen through the cracks. The Minister of State's reply...
- Seanad: Adjournment Debate: Water and Sewerage Schemes Status (19 Nov 2013)
Marie Moloney: As of last Wednesday, the council claimed the report was with the Department. Was the further information requested after that date?