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Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)

Marie Moloney: The Senator asked us to recall and in return I ask him to recall.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)

Marie Moloney: It is the Senator who does not.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (7 Nov 2013)

Marie Moloney: I, too, thank the Minister for the amount of time she dedicated to dealing with the Bill in this House, which highlights the relevance of the House. I thank the Leader for agreeing not to guillotine the debate this week on the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill, which was very productive. We all agree that painful decisions have had to be taken. It gives us no pleasure to do that but we do...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Report Stage (7 Nov 2013)

Marie Moloney: I have a breakdown of the places available that are specifically reserved for young people and additional places are also available, for which young people can also apply. Some 20,200 are specifically reserved for young people and I have the figures broken down under the headings of Youthreach and JobBridge. Under the JobBridge heading 2,000 places are reserved for young people but a...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Report Stage (7 Nov 2013)

Marie Moloney: I have it here in a report.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Report Stage (7 Nov 2013)

Marie Moloney: The Minister read out all these figures yesterday and we have got the report laid before the Houses. Does the Minister want to read out those figures and have them on the record of the House?

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Report Stage (7 Nov 2013)

Marie Moloney: If we do not guillotine it, we will fast-track it.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Marie Moloney: We amended that.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Marie Moloney: Last year, I commented on this issue during the debate on the Social Welfare Bill in the context of the number of people who are on contract and who are obliged to stop working at 65 years of age. It is fine to have the jobseeker's benefit available to them to close the gap until they reach 66 but as the pension age increases to 67 and 68, the issue will have to be revisited. The Minister...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Marie Moloney: Tomorrow.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Marie Moloney: Yesterday I spoke at length on the matter and I welcome the move made by the Minister. I can see where Senator Cullinane is coming from because I chatted to him during the break. His proposal refers to a person who has 520 paid contributions. Let us say one was disabled for life following a car crash and could never make a contribution again, which meant one would not reach 520...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Marie Moloney: The youth guarantee has been mentioned several times during this debate. The Minister has explained that it is a work in progress. She cannot really give a definite answer on the youth guarantee. It has been mentioned in the context of this amendment. I propose that we should have a full debate on the youth guarantee. Senator van Turnhout made a similar proposal during the week. If it...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Marie Moloney: We need uniformity.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Marie Moloney: I would like to refer to something that has not been mentioned during this debate. I commend the credit union movement on the role it plays in this regard. I refer to the generous grants they provide. People who have as little as €5 in their accounts are eligible for very generous grants. They do not need to have paid any social insurance. Nobody has mentioned this. Some trade...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Marie Moloney: I am getting confused about this as I believe people do not understand the meaning of a universal payment. By no manner or means is the bereavement grant a universal payment. It is not paid to everybody who suffers a bereavement in this country. It is not paid to people with a lifelong disability or to small farmers who draw farm assist because they do not have the contributions. It is...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Marie Moloney: It is certainly not a universal payment. Second, as I said yesterday, and the Minister might elaborate on this, more than half, if not 60%, of bereavement grant payments have gone into estates and been paid to the beneficiaries. Regardless of whether they were left a big house or a number of properties or savings, they also got the bereavement grant. If we want to have a social welfare...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Marie Moloney: I would say that is an offer the Senator will pass on.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Marie Moloney: Not one.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Marie Moloney: That is a cop out.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)

Marie Moloney: I apologise for having had to leave the Chamber and perhaps this point has been discussed already. Does the six-day period apply to six working days or six days of a week? A person would work from Monday to Friday, which is five days and the next day is Saturday, therefore, would the six days include those five working days and the following Monday? I have been asked this question. Does...