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Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I move amendment No. 6: In page 11, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: "Report on assessment of self-employed people in receipt of Blind Pension and Disability Allowance 21.The Minister shall review the way in which self-employed people including Artists and people employed in creative industries are assessed regarding Blind Pension and Disability Allowance and the impact...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I move amendment No. 7: In page 11, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: “Report on extending the provision of Disability Allowance to agents in case of bereavement of child 21.The Minister shall review the rule regarding the continuation of Disability Allowance payment where a person is the collecting agent for their child who passes away and prepare a report on...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The Minister said that as though I had the power to put it in the legislation. I should wish to have that power.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Section 31 deals with share options and employers' PRSI contributions. What is the situation? At what rate is the employer's PRSI contribution paid on share options at present?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The Minister said it is in some occupations. It is not necessarily all, from what she said.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Rightly so. Does that apply across the board or are there exceptions? I know some of that relates to the Finance Bill but will PRSI be paid on, generally speaking, all share options from now on? How much will that generate?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That is fine. Maybe I should know this but I am trying to understand what the picture is for the whole population. Will the Minister clarify that?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: For the majority of the whole population, is employer’s PRSI paid on share options?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: My understanding is you stay on class J and pay no PRSI if you do not draw it down. Am I right?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I request the same note.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will address amendments Nos. 8 and 9 when we reach amendment No. 12.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I move amendment No. 12: In page 23, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: “Report in ensuring people aged 65 years of age have right to retire on State Pension Contributory 45. The Minister shall prepare and lay a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas on restoring the option on the right to retire for those aged 65 years of age on a State Pension Contributory and...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: My apologies, the Minister is right, but it is paid at a lower rate.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Everyone who wishes it.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Yes, if they want it.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Like a lot of these matters, it is not so much a report I am looking for as for the Minister to do it, but I have to put down my amendment in that way.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I gave an example last week of a floor-layer I know. I did not quite get it right in the Chamber last week but I was talking to him about the details again. He does a full week's work and he has to take the first two or three days off the following week. He is just not able for two solid weeks in a row and he is 63 so he still has a good bit to go as things stand. If the Minister is...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I wish to check one or two things. I asked some of these questions at the briefing and I think I have it right but I want to double-check. Hereafter, when the budget is announced, there will be two primary sets of figures for the pension, namely, a rate for the 66-year-olds; and three different rates for the 67, 68 and 69-year-olds. Each of those people will follow a trajectory that would...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It is pegged to the base rate, so once the Government keeps the base rate paced with inflation that will be addressed.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The big stabiliser is the-----