Results 1,081-1,100 of 1,979 for speaker:Nicky McFadden
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Nicky McFadden: It is only for first years.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Nicky McFadden: What about second years?
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2010)
Nicky McFadden: What about second and third years?
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)
Nicky McFadden: I oppose Schedule 1.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)
Nicky McFadden: Not to touch children.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)
Nicky McFadden: This social welfare Bill will go down in history as the harshest and cruellest of them all. I ask the Minister how, in God's name, she can consider she is incentivising young people in taking 50% of their payment from them. Why does she think pensioners have not been affected? She has said they have been protected. What a very nice word to use when, in fact, they have lost their Christmas...
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)
Nicky McFadden: That is not funny.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)
Nicky McFadden: People will have a cut of â¬8.80 per week.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)
Nicky McFadden: I thank the Minister for her comprehensive reply and while I accept most of what she said, during my constituency work, all the people on rent supplement I meet are seeking help to go straight into rented accommodation and to apply for the rent allowance because they do not have an alternative. They try to obtain a deposit from the local authority and then apply to the CWO immediately before...
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)
Nicky McFadden: On a point of order, the CWOs in Athlone were fantastic.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)
Nicky McFadden: There is no local authority housing.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)
Nicky McFadden: The reason so many avail of rent supplement is 400,000 people are on the live register, all of whom are entitled to rent allowance. The Minister is quite removed and disconnected in stating that. Where will they live if the local authorities do not build houses? They need support. I cannot stand over this provision; it is cold, removed and callous.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)
Nicky McFadden: Other criteria will be added, whereby to qualify for rent supplement, a person must reasonably have afforded the rent at the commencement of the tenancy or have been residing in homeless accommodation. However, some have not and this is their first port of call.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)
Nicky McFadden: They were living at home or in college or they had emigrated. We are exporting many of our people and they are returning to no jobs. Where do they live?
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)
Nicky McFadden: This issue has been discussed. On the habitual residence clause, a social welfare appeals officer found that under five criteria certain individuals were entitled to receive child benefit on the basis that they were in the asylum trap for an excessively long time. To be fair to the Minister, this problem is not part of her portfolio but comes within the remit of the Minister for Justice,...
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)
Nicky McFadden: It is â¬19.10 per week.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)
Nicky McFadden: That is untrue.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)
Nicky McFadden: This section applies to rent allowance. It is another one of the slash-and-burn cuts being made by the Government, which proposes to save â¬2 million in this area. It has not indicated how it is proposed to save the money. The personal contribution has been increased by 85% in the past two budgets. Some 91,000 tenants benefit from rent supplement, which is an increase of 52% since the...
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)
Nicky McFadden: This section deals with self-employed people who reach the age of 66 and declare additional income that changes the number of contributions on their record. This may result in a higher rate of a State pension contribution. Previously, lump sum payments were backdated to the age of 66. I understand this section eliminates that back payment, which is grossly unfair. How many people will...
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)
Nicky McFadden: What if a person overpays? Is there a limit, similar to the provision of the Bill we discussed previously, if a self-employed person overpays?