Results 101-120 of 12,563 for speaker:Louise O'Reilly
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: There has to be a change.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: The Taoiseach has failed those children.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: Hear, hear.
- Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Business of Joint Committee (20 May 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: Apologies have been received from Deputy David Maxwell. Before we proceed, I have a few housekeeping matters to go through. The first is that I make the following declaration. I do solemnly declare that I will duly and faithfully engage and, to the best of my knowledge and ability, execute the office of Cathaoirleach of the Joint Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen without...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (20 May 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: 346. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated first year and full year cost of increasing the home carer tax credit to €2,000. [25922/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (20 May 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: 604. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware that entitlement to survivor's pensions was expanded to included divorced people as part of a suite of measures in the mid-1990s to ensure that "no spouse would lose out in terms of his or her social welfare entitlements on becoming divorced" (details supplied); if he still supports that policy position; the...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (20 May 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: 605. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware that people who suffer the loss of a second spouse or civil partner may access their original survivor's pension or rate of pension pursuant to section 124(4) of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005; if he is aware that the original policy rationale behind this provision was to ensure that the "pension...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (20 May 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: 606. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware that divorced and separated people whose former partner dies after the enactment of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025 (as currently drafted) will no longer have an entitlement to a survivor's pension; if his Department has undertaken any risk assessment or poverty-proofing process...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (20 May 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: 607. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department has undertaken any human rights and equality impact assessment concerning the proposals to reduce the social welfare entitlements of divorced and separated people whose former partner has died in the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025; if he is aware that undertaking such an assessment...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (20 May 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: 610. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline any estimates or projections available to his Department concerning the annual cost to his Department, the Exchequer and the Social Insurance Fund of expanding the scope of widows, widower's or surviving civil partner's (contributory) pension schemes to include qualified cohabitants (as per the Social Welfare...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (20 May 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: 611. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline any estimates or projections available to his Department concerning the annual savings to his Department, the Exchequer and the Social Insurance Fund of reducing the scope of widows, widower's or surviving civil partner's (contributory) pension schemes to exclude divorced people, separated people and people who...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (20 May 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: 608. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people who were divorced or separated from their former spouse or civil partner at the time of their death who then began receiving a widows, widower's or surviving civil partner's (contributory) pension in each of the years 2019 to 2024; the number of those claims included an increase in respect of a...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (20 May 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: 609. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people who suffered a second bereavement and who re-commenced receipt of a widows, widower's or surviving civil partner's (contributory) pension (or higher rate of pension) pursuant to section 124(4) of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 in each of the years 2019 to 2024; the number of those claims...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (20 May 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: 618. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated first year and full year cost of the back-to-school clothing and footwear allowance. . [25907/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (20 May 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: 619. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated first year and full year cost of the fuel allowance. [25908/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (20 May 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: 620. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated first year and full year cost of the fuel allowance for 2025. [25909/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (20 May 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: 626. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people currently in receipt of the fuel allowance. [25915/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (20 May 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: 621. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated first year and full year cost of child benefit for the year. [25910/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (20 May 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: 635. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated first year and full year cost of a €1 increase in the child benefit monthly rate. [25925/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (20 May 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: 622. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated first year and full year cost to recruit and pay an annual salary to a single welfare officer. [25911/25]