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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (10 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: To take that example, if a work contract states a person can work to 66, he or she cannot take up the options the Minister is offering to work beyond 66 because the employer's contract will trump the right to take up the social welfare option. There needs to be some innovative thinking, between the Minister’s Department and the spending Departments, to come up with some workable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Employment (Restriction of Certain Mandatory Retirement Ages) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: I probably rank as one of the cheapest Deputies to elect. In terms of pension rights, it is probably a good saving for the State. I have been doing a bit of work for a Fine Gael policy lab that we have on positive ageing and I think it is not just an issue for older people. This is actually an issue for people of all ages as to what exactly their arrangement is. I would like to explore a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Employment (Restriction of Certain Mandatory Retirement Ages) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: You are saying the onus is on the employer to initiate this conversation about someone retiring at a certain age when that person thinks he or should be able to work on but his or her employer feels that is not the case. If there is diminishing productivity or whatever, then how is that conversation to be framed? You cannot just say we are changing the law and it is up to you to sort it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Employment (Restriction of Certain Mandatory Retirement Ages) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: No, you are saying both change that and remove the idea that 66 is the mandatory age. So you are removing the mandatory age of retirement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Employment (Restriction of Certain Mandatory Retirement Ages) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: How is that to be managed? How is that to be framed legislatively in a way that is fair to both sides of the contract? It seems to me quite a tricky thing for an employer, and a small employer particularly, to manage a situation where that is completely gone.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Employment (Restriction of Certain Mandatory Retirement Ages) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: The converse of that is the question of what employer will take me on when I am 60 with the prospect that I have a contract for life, effectively, if I wish to operate it. Are there unintended consequences of this? That is what I am trying to probe. I am quite sympathetic to the change, but we could end up with people who are approaching retirement age just being locked out of the jobs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Employment (Restriction of Certain Mandatory Retirement Ages) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: Yes, but it would become a norm almost. Most people would prefer to work on. I think a figure of 60% was given for the number of people who would prefer to work on. It will almost become the norm that there will have to be an unfair dismissal at some point. I am playing devil's advocate here. If we go down the road suggested, how do we frame the legislation in a way that would be workable?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Employment (Restriction of Certain Mandatory Retirement Ages) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: If the witnesses can, they might send us what the Australians, New Zealanders and Canadians have done to see how they framed their legislation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Employment (Restriction of Certain Mandatory Retirement Ages) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: To clarify the point made by Ms Murphy, is she stating that the equality legislation I read out there does not apply to mandatory pension age? The way it read in the blurb sounded like there was still a right of action if someone said that a person should retire at 67 but that if the employer cannot justify that on objective grounds, a person can challenge that.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (10 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 20. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered the extent of unclaimed tax allowances and other benefits; if he would consider establishing a cross-Government initiative to promote better take-up of such benefits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15263/24]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Data (9 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will indicate the life expectancy at birth and at age 65 in 1950, 1970, 1990, 2010 and the most recent year for which data is available. [13516/24]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Data (9 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the numbers of people aged 65-74, 75-84, and 85+ in 2000, 2022, and projected for 2040, and the corresponding ratio each represents as a proportion of those of working age in those years. [13517/24]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Data (9 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the ratio of those aged 65+ to the population of working age in each local authority. [13518/24]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Data (9 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 4. To ask the Taoiseach the numbers of people at work who have pension coverage beyond the social insurance pension, and the number who do not, distinguishing the pattern for male versus female workers, and for those aged under 50 years, and those 50+ years. [13519/24]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Data (9 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 5. To ask the Taoiseach the number of people aged 65-69, 70-74, and 75+ who are still in employment. [13520/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (9 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the planning for a new secondary school (details supplied), and if her Department has had an update on new developments under construction or in the pipeline which will drive pupil numbers. [14944/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (9 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the masterplan for the new build for a school (details supplied) in Swords; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14945/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Development Contributions (9 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 714. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered extending the deadline for the temporary waiver of development fees, as many applicants were unable to complete the process within the short timeframe given. [15376/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 787. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered the costs for a homeless family being rehoused in unfurnished accommodation; whether the present ceiling of €3,000 for establishment costs adequately reflects the true cost of a family setting up home; and if she would consider establishing a higher limit. [14742/24]