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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (1 Oct 2014)

...disability are five times more likely to be at risk of poverty. Families where the head of the household is not at work due to illness or disability experienced an 11.3% drop in their disposable income in the period 2010 to 2012. Therefore there is a need for the Government and the Departments involved here today to use this budget to deliver on their pre-election commitment to protect...

Housing Provision: Motion [Private Members] (23 Sep 2014)

Michael Kitt: ...shortage in the private sector. We are falling way behind on the estimated 25,000 units needed per annum. We hope the Government will, as the Minister has undertaken to do, implement a new home building programme through the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, transfer National Asset Management Agency units into social housing, develop housing associations and encourage sustainable levels...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)

Joan Burton: ...overview of some of the structural reforms to the Department since I became Minister and to quickly go through the key points in the briefing in order to inform and begin our discussions. I welcome the views of members and and look forward to their engagement and our discussion. The service traditionally provided by the Department of Social Protection in providing income supports has...

Public Health (Standard Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2014)

Peter Mathews: ...school classes. Cigarette and pipe smoking has been an accepted behavioural pattern in society for more than 100 years. Compare this with asbestos, which was the accepted way of insulating buildings in the 1960s and 1970s. Asbestos had its own brands and trademark names, but as soon as it was discovered that it could cause asbestosis, a form of cancer that developed many years after...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Second Stage (26 Jun 2014)

Joan Burton: ...reduce overall welfare expenditure, the safety net has been protected and maintained. This year, we will spend an estimated €19.6 billion on social welfare. Research has consistently shown that Ireland's system of social transfers is among the best in the EU in terms of preventing poverty. The best long-term protection against poverty is, of course, fairly paid and secure work....

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Joan Burton: ...The time available between the publication of Bill and progressing through the Oireachtas is, therefore, dictated by when the annual budget is announced, and when the various budgetary measures are to come into force. As has been said in recent years, these time pressures have been eased somewhat by bringing the budget day back to mid-October, at the latest, instead of early December....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations: Discussion (10 Jun 2014)

Richard Bruton: ...It is able to look across other countries. From a micro-examination of what we are doing, it sees trends and patterns, and that is helpful. Before the Government came into office, and particularly before Joan Burton came to the Department of Social Protection, the OECD had said for many years that we did not have sufficient labour market activation within our welfare system. It said that...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Second Stage (4 Jun 2014)

Joan Burton: ...finances in check. Research conducted by the Economic and Social Research Institute, in tandem with my Department, and published last December shows that approximately 87% of all households in Ireland receive social transfers, such as jobseekers' payments, pensions and child benefit. We pay child benefit in respect of every child, we have a strong support system for those unfortunate...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (13 Mar 2014) See 1 other result from this debate

Phil Hogan: ...and making an important contribution to economic and physical regeneration, social and community development and environmental protection. I have led an extremely ambitious programme of reform since coming to office, with a major focus on strengthening our democratic system, improving the environment and ensuring effective and efficient services for the public. We have put people first....

Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Mar 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: ...reiterated that point in their contributions. The Bill will bring the Vote of the HSE, which was established under the Health Act 2004, into the Vote of the Office of the Minister for Health. It builds on the Health Service Executive (Governance) Act, which was passed by the Oireachtas last year and designed to improve the HSE's level of accountability. It is not, as Deputy Kelleher...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (5 Mar 2014)

Ruairi Quinn: ...time with the Minister of State, Deputy Tom Hayes. I am pleased to have the opportunity to participate in this debate on the Government's priorities for the year ahead. I acknowledge and welcome the presence in the Chamber of the Sinn Féin parliamentary spokesperson on education and skills. When we entered government, I spoke about how Fianna Fáil had lost our economic...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)

Joan Burton: ...sustained creation of jobs can we enhance their prospects, prosperity and participation. Three years on, I can report that we are on the right road. The troika has checked out for the last time; Ireland has exited the bailout; the economy is growing again and, crucially, we are getting people back to work. In the year to the end of December, employment increased by 61,000 or 3.3%, to...

Seanad: Economic Growth and Job Creation: Statements (4 Mar 2014)

Michael Noonan: ...will know, the situation was very bad, businesses went bust, property prices declined, the banks went bust, hundreds of thousands lost their jobs, and others emigrated so we have a long way back to come. We are out of the bailout but we have a huge amount of work to do yet. I would hate if any kind of feeling emerged that because we were out of the bailout that we had succeeded or that...

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: ...outside Dublin for something that is affordable. Calls from constituents are more frequent following the introduction of the rent assessment scheme as people are finding that their landlord is coming back to sell the home. They have been advised to hold on to the leases because they have nowhere else to go in Dublin because of rent increases. In the past three months in the Dublin 8...

Recent Flooding: Statements (Resumed) (19 Feb 2014)

Phil Hogan: .... Orange warnings applied to other parts of the country, and these were upgraded as the actual impact of the storm became apparent in the south. The storm caused huge damage. Roofs were torn from buildings; schools and workplaces were forced to close; hundreds of trees were toppled; there were electricity outages to more than 260,000 customers; and water treatment and communications...

Seanad: Youth Guarantee: Statements (5 Feb 2014) See 1 other result from this debate

Joan Burton: ...the Senator will agree that it has transformed the social welfare experience. We are converting it into a public employment service. An Intreo-serviced office is a place where people can get income supports, including jobseeker's payments, but it is primarily a place where everybody can be placed on the first step back to work, education or training. I hope this service can be rolled...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Guarantee (28 Jan 2014)

Joan Burton: ...unemployed or leaving formal education.” In agreeing this recommendation, the EU accepted that the Guarantee would need to be implemented over a period of time on a phased basis in countries such as Ireland facing very significant fiscal constraints. The development of an implementation plan for the guarantee was led by the Department working with the support of an...

Planning and Development (Transparency and Consumer Confidence) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Dec 2013)

Joan Collins: ...which I was not familiar. It was alien to me, as a citizen, what that process was about. I looked at it and tried to gain experience in and knowledge of the matter at that end point of the plan coming into effect. My first experience of the connection not only between the local authority officials and developers, but politicians right across the board - it was not only Fianna Fáil...

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (5 Dec 2013)

Joan Burton: ...defined benefit context as it currently stands. Last year, for example, I brought in legislation introducing a risk reserve into defined benefit pension schemes and that legislation was broadly welcomed. The risk reserve is essentially a mechanism to ensure schemes do not take on too much risk and to prevent the same difficulties from arising again. It is worth remembering that the...

Seanad: Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (4 Dec 2013)

Jim Walsh: ...which cost £40 in Irish pounds a year. The decision was not terribly popular but my local council felt that it was the right thing to do. Interestingly, a subsequent Labour Minister removed the water charges in a state of panic when Joe Higgins threatened to take the seat from Joan Burton. Subsequently she lost her seat and water charges were removed. I am not in favour of...