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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Mortgage Interest Supplement Applications (11 Dec 2014)

Joan Burton: According to the records of this Department the person concerned did not make an application for a mortgage supplement. In August 2014 the person concerned applied for and was refused rent supplement as she was deemed not to meet the eligibility criteria for this support. Should the circumstances of the person concerned have changed, it is open to her to submit a fresh application rent...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Applications (11 Dec 2014)

Joan Burton: While the client concerned returned some of the documentation requested by the Department on 21 November 2014, a request for remaining outstanding documentation was issued by the Department on 3rd December 2014 and again on 10 December 2014, and has not been received to date. On receipt of this information the client's entitlement to Rent Supplement can be assessed.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (11 Dec 2014)

Joan Burton: Rent Supplement, including arrears, will issue to the client concerned on 23rd December 2014.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (11 Dec 2014)

Joan Burton: The client's concerned are in receipt of their full entitlement to Rent Supplement based on their monthly rent, weekly income and family composition.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)

Joan Burton: I move amendment No. 29:In page 4, to delete lines 22 to 24 and substitute the following: “Short title, construction and collective citations 5. (1) This Act may be cited as the Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Act 2014.(2) The Social Welfare Acts and this Act (other than section 4) shall be construed together as one Act. (3) The Pensions Acts 1990 to 2014 and section 4shall be...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)

Joan Burton: I thank the Deputies. I understand that the issues we have debated in recent times are very difficult. There has been a very intense negotiation of mediation with the Waterford Crystal workers. I had been attempting to have mediation done on the matter over a protracted period. I was not able to bring forward the amendment which I tabled on Report Stage before then because the mediation...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)

Joan Burton: I repeat for the benefit of the House that the arrangements in the legislation are designed to get the maximum number pension funds, which for a variety of reasons have come into very serious deficit, over the line. Earlier I addressed the matters which Deputy Ryan and Clare Daly raised in relation to what happened to this particular pension fund. I listened carefully to everything Deputy...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)

Joan Burton: I move amendment No. 22:In page 4, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following:“Amendment of Pensions Act 1990 4. The Pensions Act 1990 is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 48A (inserted by section 10 of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2013):“Payment of moneys by Minister for Finance in respect of liabilities accruing under certain...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)

Joan Burton: I am aware of the issues arising around the IAS Scheme and recently met, as have several people here, with representatives of the deferred members’ groups. They articulated very clearly their concerns arising from proposals to address the significant deficit which I referred to earlier that has unfortunately arisen in this pension fund. That is the source of the difficulties and the...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)

Joan Burton: I do not propose to accept the amendments in the names of Deputies Willie O’Dea, Róisín Shortall, Joan Collins, Aengus Ó Snodaigh, Thomas P. Broughan and Clare Daly. They broadly entail placing a debt or obligation on employers to secure or guarantee a level of scheme funding, changing the manner in which the assets of the pension scheme are distributed in the event of...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)

Joan Burton: In regard to the points made by Deputy Brendan Ryan, he expressed his concerns about the different people, including the 5,000 people at work who are affected by the different changes and who have decisions to make on the changes proposed by the company and the trustees in respect of the IASS pension fund. I refer also to a very important matter Deputy Clare Daly raised the last day when she...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)

Joan Burton: Two Deputies made quite valid comments. I believe I am answering those comments. Other Deputies made valid comments also and I am going to try to answer them. The power of the authority can be exercised. I ask Deputies Ryan and Daly to formally bring any concerns that either of them have in regard to the conduct of the trustees to the attention of the Pensions Authority. I think Deputy...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)

Joan Burton: I am addressing the specific Sinn Féin amendment in the name of Deputy Ó Snodaigh.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)

Joan Burton: It is amendment No. 23.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)

Joan Burton: Under the rules of the House, Deputy Ellis is entitled to speak about an amendment which has been ruled out of order and I am entitled to comment on the point he raised.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)

Joan Burton: I am referring to the one to which Deputy Ellis referred. The Deputies seem very reluctant to allow anybody's points to be addressed. That is a pity.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)

Joan Burton: It was done last week, Deputy.

Other Questions: European Court of Justice Rulings (10 Dec 2014)

Joan Burton: Yes.

Other Questions: European Court of Justice Rulings (10 Dec 2014)

Joan Burton: No, Ireland intervened at the Court of Justice of the European Union along with several other countries in support of the German authorities since it was considered that the outcome of the case could seriously affect our ability to refuse assistance to non-employed European Union citizens who had arrived in the country never having been in employment here, with no resources and never having...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Domiciliary Care Allowance Review (10 Dec 2014)

Joan Burton: I am happy to that because co-operation exists on both sides of the House on the reviews of the domiciliary care allowance and there is a number of groups, including a stakeholder group, in the Department addressing this issue. The stakeholder group includes parents, obviously, and they help with the design of the forms, which is important. Parents in receipt of the domiciliary care...