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

Róisín Shortall: In spite of the sympathetic noises from the ministerial benches and backbenches, if people believe in the rights of the workers involved in the IASS, they should stand up for them and support this amendment, which would ensure those rights were upheld.

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

Róisín Shortall: No.

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

Róisín Shortall: It is disappointing that the Tánaiste did not deem it necessary to stay in the House to discuss these amendments.

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

Róisín Shortall: She has spent very little time on this important issue, which affects a huge number of people. That is the difficulty.

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

Róisín Shortall: It affects 15,000 people.

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

Róisín Shortall: Excuse me. I have the floor.

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

Róisín Shortall: Given that this issue affects 15,000 people in the Irish airlines superannuation scheme, the least the Tánaiste could have done was stay to engage in some kind of meaningful debate about what is going on. I spoke earlier about the unfair pensions regime in this country. The Government promised to reform it but is has backed off on those reforms. We saw that happening last year. The...

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

Róisín Shortall: They will come up later.

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

Róisín Shortall: The strength of feeling expressed last week and here today about the myriad problems arising in respect of current employees and current and deferred benefit pensioners within the IASS highlights and underlines the hotch potch of policy underpinning pension policy in this country. I suppose it is because of the failure of successive governments to take responsibility for this area and to...

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

Róisín Shortall: That is not in the group.

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

Róisín Shortall: On a point of order, is there a formal amendment from the Minister?

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

Róisín Shortall: About the amendment that you mentioned.

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

Róisín Shortall: Yes, but is it going to be circulated?

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

Róisín Shortall: From a procedural point of view, is there an actual amendment to that?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (9 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 141. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will extend the Christmas bonus to persons who are currently in receipt of long-term illness benefit under the pre-2008 rules; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47022/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (9 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 135. To ask the Minister for Social Protection with regard to the assessment for the half rate of carer's allowance the reason contribution-based payments such as the contributory pension are treated in the same manner as non-contributory payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46962/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (9 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 136. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to set out the reason a person in receipt of the contributory pension who is caring for a spouse, who is not in receipt of a payment from her Department, is not eligible to receive the full rate of carer's allowance, in view of the fact that the combined household means would be the same if the roles were reversed. [46963/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (9 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 320. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the resource allocation model developed in his Department in 2012; if his will commit to using this model in allocating new staff posts, in view of the significant staff under-resourcing in areas of socio-economic deprivation, relative to affluent areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46970/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Policy (9 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 328. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the recently restructured administrative and functional areas of the Health Service Executive in respect of the hospital groups and community healthcare organisations with geographic locations and population numbers in the case of each; the reason these areas are not coterminous; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47018/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (9 Dec 2014)

Róisín Shortall: 415. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the basis of the identification for the need for 35,000 additional properties for social housing as prepared by the Housing Agency on page 13 of the Government's Social Housing Strategy; if he will publish the analysis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46798/14]