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Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2023)

Paddy Burke: How will this work on the ground? I will outline a couple of scenarios. The first relates to people who may wish to retire at the age of 66 and draw a pension and maybe work two or three days a week. Will such people pay PRSI on their earnings afterwards? Is there no PRSI on it? Can they opt to pay PRSI on earnings and then get a higher pension when they stop work completely? On the...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2023)

Paddy Burke: I wish to raise an issue with the Minster. It is not entirely in her Department but the job seeker part of it is and is under this schedule. The Minister for public expenditure comes into it as well, but it relates to members of An Garda Síochána who joined the force after 1995. They do not retire on the same pension as gardaí who joined prior to 1995. They can make up the...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2023)

Paddy Burke: I thank the Minister.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2023)

Paddy Burke: Now.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2023)

Paddy Burke: This is very generous legislation which makes very generous contributions to people. I congratulate the Minister on it and wish her will with it.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Dec 2023)

Paddy Burke: The Road Safety Authority is responsible for compiling official statistics on road traffic accidents. It receives collision data from An Garda Síochána and produces official statistics to help to develop evidence-based road safety interventions. The statistics it produces in respect of accidents detail the time the accident occurred, the day of the week on which it occurred, the...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Dec 2023)

Paddy Burke: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I thank the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, for the Bill. I commiserate with her on the recent death of her mother. I presume that is the reason that she is not here today. I would like to pick up on the Minister of State's last point. Regardless of the age at which a person draws down his or her pension - it may be 66 or 70 - if a person has ten...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Dec 2023)

Paddy Burke: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Dec 2023)

Paddy Burke: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Dec 2023)

Paddy Burke: When is it proposed to sit again?

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Dec 2023)

Paddy Burke: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Paddy Burke: This is a very helpful debate and has been so for the past two and a half hours. Heretofore, years ago, if there was a need for an extension to a wastewater treatment plant or water services, the local authority put forward a plan and the Department funded it, if it saw fit to do so. The Minister probably signed off on that. How is it possible to now get an extension to the wastewater...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Paddy Burke: I am still mystified, I think. Does the local authority have any say in this? Does the local authority put a plan or proposal to Uisce Éireann? If a developer wants to develop an area and the water and wastewater services needed are not available, does he go to Uisce Éireann or does he go through the local authority? How does the whole process work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Paddy Burke: If the capacity is not there, is there Government aid to do it or does the developer have to cough up the cost of upgrading the system to facilitate extra development?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Paddy Burke: If there is a village that has no sewerage or wastewater provision, who would put forward a proposal in that regard? Would it be the local authorities? How does Uisce Éireann receive the inquiry? Who then decides if the work should go ahead and who should bear the cost of it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Paddy Burke: To Mr. Joyce, I pose a question concerning the likes of the situation in Murrisk and Louisburgh. When the extension to Murrisk is done, Louisburgh comes in after that. Is that what is being said? It is in the pipeline now. Is it the Government that funds that, is it the local authority, or how is it funded?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Paddy Burke: Is there a timeframe for that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Paddy Burke: I thank Mr. Joyce. Are any grants available for district heating systems? Who evaluates whether a scheme is eligible to be joined up through ESB Networks? Is the heat exported or must there be batteries? How do the district heating systems work? Is ESB Networks in favour of them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Paddy Burke: The other part of that issue is domestic wind turbines. There are very few in Ireland. It should be an area of growth, but it does not seem to be. I wonder why no one has taken the bull by the horns and said we have an abundance of wind and we do not have any small domestic wind turbines.