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Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2011)

Marie Moloney: That is provided for in a different section.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2011)

Marie Moloney: It is contained in section 9.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2011)

Marie Moloney: While the necessary number of contributions will increase next year, it certainly will not rise to 520.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2011)

Marie Moloney: The Minister has made provision that it will not increase to 520 contributions which would equate to ten years' work. Applicants for widow's pension have always been assessed very generously when compared with those applying for old age pensions. There is no yearly average or anything like it, as it simply depends on the number of contributions paid in the year before the death occurred or...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2011)

Marie Moloney: That is a personal remark.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2011)

Marie Moloney: That is a spurious and personal remark.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2011)

Marie Moloney: I just have to respond to the remarks by Senator White.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2011)

Marie Moloney: I will try to keep my tone of voice civil. Anybody who knows me knows that is the way I always speak. I always try to be of a happy disposition. Nobody can argue that. As a Labour Party Senator, it is very hard to stand over the cuts that are being made and it does hurt, but I know it has to be done, as I know most of the Opposition——

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2011)

Marie Moloney: I wish to reply to the comment levelled at me by a Senator who said: "She seems to be happy with it, [the budget] in her tone of voice." If I must change the tone of my voice, I will. When I listen to what is played back on radio, I run, as I have never thought my voice is that nice.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2011)

Marie Moloney: On a point of information, the Senator has moved to another section.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2011)

Marie Moloney: Senator Darragh O'Brien's proposal on informing people was a good one. It is easy to refer to the Money Advice and Budgeting Service, MABS, and Citizens Information, but one might not be up to speed on social welfare provisions if one is at home looking after kids. Unless a spouse is terminally ill, no one knows when he or she will become a widower or a widow. It could be me or any other...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2011)

Marie Moloney: To qualify for a widowed parent's grant, one must qualify for contributory survivor's pension. Will the qualifying criteria move in line with the requirement to have made 260 contributions?

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (15 Dec 2011)

Marie Moloney: They will move.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)

Marie Moloney: No, it will not.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)

Marie Moloney: I, too, join my colleagues in wishing everybody a happy new year. I wish to speak about the staff of Vita Cortex in Cork, having visited that plant during the Christmas period and having met with the staff in a dark, lonely and cold plant where they were spending their Christmas. This is a much wider issue than Vita Cortex alone. The same situation is going on all over Ireland, in every...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)

Marie Moloney: No, this a separate issue from that raised by Senator Clune on the Adjournment. The minute the money is paid out, the €900,000 is gone because the company has claimed inability to pay despite making money across the country. Will the Leader ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to intervene to break the impasse and assist the workers in question?

Seanad: Report of Advisory Group for Small Business: Statements (11 Jan 2012)

Marie Moloney: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and I wish him a happy new year.

Seanad: Report of Advisory Group for Small Business: Statements (11 Jan 2012)

Marie Moloney: The Senator's time has concluded.

Seanad: Report of Advisory Group for Small Business: Statements (11 Jan 2012)

Marie Moloney: The Senator is way over time.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2012)

Marie Moloney: More penalty points were recently introduced for 16 further road traffic offences. Will the Leader get clarification from the Minister on the penalty point for failure to ensure a proper view from a vehicle windscreen? It strikes me as an urban-based decision. A car with a Dublin registration is more valuable than a rural-registered car because it does not have to encounter potholes full...