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Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. 9: In page 21, to delete lines 30 to 38, and in page 22, to delete lines 1 to 10. The amendment relates to fraud, as raised by the Minister in the previous contribution. I reject the suggestions that I condone fraud under the social welfare code in any way. I repeat what I said yesterday. I have been a Member of the Dáil since 2002, and I have continuously encouraged...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, there are still two minutes left, and as the mover of the amendment-----

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There is still a minute left. The Leas-Cheann Comhairle is out of order.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed). (16 Jun 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This is Chapter 2 of Part 4 of the Bill which to my knowledge covers from section 26 to section 43 and is a detailed and complex section. From the briefing I got I do not believe I will oppose it. It provides for a transposition of EU directives or instructions regarding regulatory own funds making sure that pension funds have the required moneys to meet their liabilities and to increase...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed). (16 Jun 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Does this change the impact on existing schemes? Do schemes already in place have to retrospectively increase their reserve? Or is it just for future schemes? Even though the Minister said that it may only apply to very few pension products available in Ireland, have we any idea what kind of impact this will have? Will it impact negatively? It will impact positively in some ways because...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. 1: In page 5, line 29, after "Part" to insert the following: ""Minister" means the Minister for Social Protection and". I wish to withdraw the amendment.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. 2: In page 6, between lines 43 and 44, to insert the following: "4.—The provisions of section 3 shall apply to new jobs only.". As discussed on Committee Stage, this amendment attempts to change the provisions of section 3 to ensure, despite my opposition to the reduction in PRSI for two and a half years, that a caveat is inserted to the effect that this will only...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed). (16 Jun 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This amendment deals with the changes to the various bodies and groups authorised to use a personal public service, PPS, number for the purposes of carrying out transactions with members of the public and for sharing personal data and information among themselves. I propose the provision be extended to local authority franchise officers to ensure everyone's PPS number rather than address is...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed). (16 Jun 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This section is tied to the reduction in employers' PRSI. What is proposed is very strange, particularly in view of the fact that activation measures such as education, training, etc., are required and in light of the constraints on the public purse. It is bizarre that we are reducing the national training fund levy. The amount involved - a reduction from 0.7% to 0.35% - is minuscule in...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed). (16 Jun 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thank the Minister for her reply. However, what she said has made me even more dubious about this section. The fact that there is a surplus in a training fund when almost 500,000 people are unemployed is not acceptable. We are three years into a recession and there should not be a surplus at this stage. The funding in question should have immediately been pumped into retraining and...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed). (16 Jun 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will come back to the substance of amendment No. 13 in the future when we debate a finance Bill. It deals with a peculiar circumstance that pertains to a number of people whose companies have failed because of the economic downturn and who have tax liabilities. They cannot access their social welfare entitlements because they cannot clear their tax liabilities even though they are willing...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed). (16 Jun 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Bheadh séáisiúil dá mbeadh an dá leagan den meabhrán mínitheach ar fáil ag an am gcéanna. Ach ní dhéanann sin deighleáil leis an phríomh cheist, gur chóir go mbeadh na Billí ar fáil ag an am gcéanna. Chomh maith leis sin, faoin Aire atá sé féachaint chuige go bhfuil go leor ama idir rith an Bhille agus foilsiú an aistriúcháin. Níl aon duine chun cur i gcoinne an pá...

Order of Business (16 Jun 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is not agreed. I fundamentally oppose guillotines and the progress made on this Bill last night suggests there is no need for a guillotine for the taking of remaining amendments on the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill, or the taking of a Report Stage. Many matters have been teased out and most of what is remaining in the Bill is not contentious, although the Bill itself is. It is wrong...

Order of Business (16 Jun 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Tánaiste may want to reply.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. 11: In page 22, paragraph (b), line 24, after "Ireland" to insert "and the Local Authority Franchise Offices". This amendment is to facilitate, hopefully in the near future, the franchise office in local authorities to use the PPS number to register electors. Currently, somebody must fill in a registration form and the registers are continuously out of date as a result...

Written Answers — Programme for Government: Programme for Government (15 Jun 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 342: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps taken to date to deliver on the programme for Government promise to tightly regulate debt collecters. [15289/11]

Written Answers — Consumer Protection: Consumer Protection (15 Jun 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 106: To ask the Minister for Finance the steps taken to date to deliver on the programme for Government promise to tightly regulate moneylenders. [15289/11]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (15 Jun 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 174: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he will take to ensure that building work on a school (details supplied) in Dublin 8, which has stalled due to the contractor going into receivership, will recommence quickly to ensure that the new school building is ready in time for the new school term; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15826/11]

Written Answers — Training and Education Programmes: Training and Education Programmes (15 Jun 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 191: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of places in training and education opportunities that were in place in February 2011; and the number in place now. [15285/11]

Written Answers — Training and Education Programmes: Training and Education Programmes (15 Jun 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 192: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of the additional 15,000 places in training and education opportunities promised in the programme for Government that are currently on stream with a participant in place. [15286/11]