Results 19,481-19,500 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I wish to focus on a simple point. Of course, there are very rich pensioners who have not been touched.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister decided not to touch the payments to the huge swathes of rich pensioners around the country. When in opposition, she always talked about poverty traps, but she has created a great new one and I will explain how. If one's spouse is earning â¬380 a week and the amount increases to more than â¬400, one will lose â¬70. There is no tapering of this measure. If the Minister said...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Ar eagla na heagla.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: We are discussing the widow's pension. Becoming a widow or widower normally happens as an unforeseen event. This provision mainly affects young widows and widowers. I welcome the reduction from ten years to five years in the amendment. If a person's spouse dies before he or she has five years - it used to be three years - of contributions, there is no contributory pension. It affects the...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: That has nothing to do with widows.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It was to be capped at-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Of course I did not.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: What is the saving?
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: What is the saving?
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It was not.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Of course I did not.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: She asked me a question.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Could the Minister get that information for us?
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Could the Minister get the information for us?
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: If she does not have it today, could she get it for us?
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: We are agreeing to the withdrawal of the section.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: There is a very clear ceiling and a person would be in a household that does not have rich people as they are all excluded. This is a household payment to people we are certain have limited income. As I noted, the limit is the contributory pension plus â¬100 per week. The Government cut that specific group by 19% with regard to fuel and electricity allowance. On the other hand, all the...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: If the Minister of State does this, I will be the first-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I explained the approach I took when I was in the Cabinet. If the Minister of State does what I suggest, I will be the first to say one of the greatest abilities in life is to accept one got something wrong and that one is going to put it right. It would be to the considerable credit of the Government if it were to accept it has made mistakes, that it did not think things through properly...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
Éamon Ó Cuív: By which pensioners?