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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024: Department of Social Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am not talking about the case here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024: Department of Social Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The question was generic.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024: Department of Social Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This is important because a person with adult and child dependants in that employment would suffer a huge loss of income because he or she will lose the family income support as well. That going to finish presumably. People cannot get family income support if they are on jobseeker's benefit. They will lose the wages and they will go to flat rate jobseeker's benefit. The committee will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024: Department of Social Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I used to have this argument in Departments. The average size of a farm and the average size of a person. If I had a very tall Minister and took the average size of a person and if we both could only get the size that fitted the other person, the clothes would not fit us. If it is only 5%, it is not much of a cost to sustain their incomes for families which is very important, particularly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024: Department of Social Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I know it is not the purpose of this but this increase in pensions was mentioned in the briefing we got. One point I cannot get my head around is the fact that from an actuarial point of view, the best value is the self-employed at 4% compared to the 14% for employees. It is by far the best even when it was purely pensions because pensions are the most expensive contingency the Department...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024: Department of Social Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is the rate going to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024: Department of Social Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: So it is only going up at the same rate-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024: Department of Social Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is a bit surprising because an actuarial analysis would show you-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024: Department of Social Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Even when it was purely pension, the advice from the Department that on an actuarial basis, it was much better value. If somebody who was self-employed earning €100,000 and paid 4%, it was much better from an actuarial point of view than if he or she was earning €100,000 and the employer and employee were paying 14% between them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024: Department of Social Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is Mr. Duff sure it was not 2011?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024: Department of Social Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It was €350 and then went up. My understanding was that the commission that looked at the pension age recommended that 75 go up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024: Department of Social Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: On a technical point, Mr. Duff is saying it is going up from 1 October, which I thought was a funny date to pick because lots of people do their accounts from 1 January to 31 December. When they do the calculation, for example, for their tax return for this year, will they have to calculate what profit and loss they have and if it is on the calendar year, will they have to calculate what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024: Department of Social Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will never understand the number of crinkles we create in the system. It is petty stuff that you would play around with, particularly for people with very small incomes from self-employment. It is mind-boggling, particularly for those who are doing manual accounts, many of whom are in the small fishing and farming community who do not always have computerised accounts system. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Social Welfare (Pay-Related Social Insurance and Jobseeker’s Pay-Related Benefit Provisions) Bill 2024: Department of Social Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes but it will hit someone sooner rather than later.

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak on this issue. It is fair to say that there has been a lot of misunderstanding and misinformation. The reality is that of all the people who come to the country, people seeking international protection make up a very small number. For example, we give out between 30,000 and 39,000 work permits depending on the year to people outside the EU. Of...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Island Communities (30 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 106. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the progress made to date with the development of the pier in Inis Meáin, which is urgently needed, following the study carried out by the Marine College in Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3955/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Island Communities (30 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 115. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the piers on islands and serving islands that are being progressed by her Department in tandem with local county councils towards design and construction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3956/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (30 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 369. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an appeal for a State pension contribution for a person (details supplied) will be processed and a decision made; the reason for the delay in processing this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3823/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (30 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 374. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an appeal for invalidity pension lodged on 8 May 2023 will be decided (details supplied); the reason for delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3959/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (30 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 375. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of invalidity pension appeals awaiting a decision for eight months or more; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3960/24]