Results 1,781-1,800 of 5,046 for speaker:Paschal Mooney
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)
Paschal Mooney: I applaud the Minister for her comments following my colleague, Senator Power's contribution on breast feeding. They say that men should not engage in this debate, but it is a wider national health issue.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)
Paschal Mooney: I fully support this concept. My wife breast fed all of our children and I understood from my late mother that I was also breast fed, as were all of her children.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)
Paschal Mooney: Perhaps that is the reason. It obviously had some beneficial affect on my health in the long term, thankfully, and it will continue. Fewer than 50% of mothers in Ireland breast feed in the immediate days after birth. In the UK, which is our nearest comparator, the average is almost 80%. Anything that can be done by the Minister, as a woman and as head of a Department which deals with a...
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)
Paschal Mooney: For the record, last year the Minister indicated that she was reducing the statutory redundancy from 70% of two weeks per year to zero or increasing the sick pay leave, as in the Bill now. The Minister has now done both. From that point of view, some businesses that have been downsizing over recent years because of the economic recession are now caught on the double. This is an extra...
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)
Paschal Mooney: I move amendment No. 2: In page 6, line 29, after "income' " to insert "in excess of €6,000".
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)
Paschal Mooney: This section provides for an increase in the waiting period for entitlement to illness benefit from three days to six, with the change to take effect from January 2014. I understand this will result in a saving of some €22 million, but it also places another burden on small businesses by transferring the cost of sick pay onto them. There are 200,000 small businesses in Ireland...
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)
Paschal Mooney: Can I ask a question-----
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)
Paschal Mooney: Can the Minister indicate the effect this proposal will have on the Social Insurance Fund? She spoke generally about the deficit in the Social Insurance Fund. What impact will this particular measure have or are there figures for that?
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)
Paschal Mooney: Keeping in mind that the amount is modest, would the Minister not see some merit in the case put forward by Senator Power that there would be more clarification on the particular point she has made to ensure one could separate unearned income from actual loss, as she has illustrated?
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)
Paschal Mooney: Am I right that the current threshold for unearned income is €3,174?
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)
Paschal Mooney: Therefore, there is nothing to stop the Government or any future one from reducing it to bring more people into the net, which seems to be the trend that is developing here.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)
Paschal Mooney: While many people may pay more PRSI, as the Minister has said, they will not accrue any additional benefits. Therefore, the self-employed will continue to remain outside the net in this regard. This has been an ongoing difficulty, particularly for those self-employed people who had worked for some time in the construction industry whose income in the past three or four years has been...
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)
Paschal Mooney: No better woman. Senator Moloney should be sitting where the Minister is sitting, in case she gets incapacitated.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)
Paschal Mooney: I move amendment No. 1: In page 6, line 21, after “income” to insert “in excess of €6,000”.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)
Paschal Mooney: I will wait to hear the Minister.
- Seanad: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2013)
Paschal Mooney: I do not think that is a point of order.
- Seanad: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2013)
Paschal Mooney: The Minister is responding to a point raised in the debate.
- Seanad: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2013)
Paschal Mooney: I would advise that the Minister should be allowed to respond in the manner in which he wishes to respond.
- Seanad: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2013)
Paschal Mooney: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?
- Seanad: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2013)
Paschal Mooney: The Minister, without interruption.