Results 361-380 of 5,573 for speaker:Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The Minister said it is in some occupations. It is not necessarily all, from what she said.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Rightly so. Does that apply across the board or are there exceptions? I know some of that relates to the Finance Bill but will PRSI be paid on, generally speaking, all share options from now on? How much will that generate?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That is fine. Maybe I should know this but I am trying to understand what the picture is for the whole population. Will the Minister clarify that?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: For the majority of the whole population, is employer’s PRSI paid on share options?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: My understanding is you stay on class J and pay no PRSI if you do not draw it down. Am I right?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I request the same note.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will address amendments Nos. 8 and 9 when we reach amendment No. 12.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I move amendment No. 12: In page 23, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: “Report in ensuring people aged 65 years of age have right to retire on State Pension Contributory 45. The Minister shall prepare and lay a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas on restoring the option on the right to retire for those aged 65 years of age on a State Pension Contributory and...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: My apologies, the Minister is right, but it is paid at a lower rate.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Everyone who wishes it.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Yes, if they want it.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Like a lot of these matters, it is not so much a report I am looking for as for the Minister to do it, but I have to put down my amendment in that way.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I gave an example last week of a floor-layer I know. I did not quite get it right in the Chamber last week but I was talking to him about the details again. He does a full week's work and he has to take the first two or three days off the following week. He is just not able for two solid weeks in a row and he is 63 so he still has a good bit to go as things stand. If the Minister is...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I wish to check one or two things. I asked some of these questions at the briefing and I think I have it right but I want to double-check. Hereafter, when the budget is announced, there will be two primary sets of figures for the pension, namely, a rate for the 66-year-olds; and three different rates for the 67, 68 and 69-year-olds. Each of those people will follow a trajectory that would...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It is pegged to the base rate, so once the Government keeps the base rate paced with inflation that will be addressed.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The big stabiliser is the-----
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will be very brief. I want to flag an issue and, if possible, the Minister might give a brief response. The point has been made to me that decisions taken with regard to other parts of the budget - that is, an increase in the minimum wage, which is welcome - have meant that the comparative advantage of the wage subsidy scheme has been a bit lost. It has not kept pace. I suppose that...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It was increased about 18 months ago, I think.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Yes, if it cannot keep pace, it should be pegged to it realistically.
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Offshore Islands (29 Nov 2023)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 165. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the strategic objectives underpinning the provision of subsidies for the transportation of freight to the offshore islands. [52724/23]