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- Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Dec 2023)
Joe O'Brien: ...this week to over 1.3 million recipients. There will be another double payment for those recipients in January 2024 as well as one-off payments for recipients of working family payment, disability and carers' payments, living alone allowance, fuel allowance and child benefit and those in receipt of an increase for qualified children. These measures do not require primary legislation and...
- Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Dec 2023)
Paddy Burke: ...on days for which statutory sick pay is paid by a person's employer. The Bill also provides for certain reforms to the State contributory pension, provides in certain circumstances for long-term carers to qualify for the State contributory pension and introduces flexibility to the State contributory pension to allow a person to defer claiming the State contributory pension up to the age...
- Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Dec 2023)
Catherine Ardagh: ...let people know this is there and they have to log in and find the time to do it. It is a welcome change. I thank the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, because I know she worked hard to get this over the line. It is wonderful for carers. It is not just politicians who have been campaigning for this but a lot of civic society groups. It is a really good day for them as well. It was one of...
- Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Dec 2023)
Lynn Boylan: ...welfare Bill. What we will focus on is the timely delivery of increased payments to workers, individuals and families. In our alternative budget we allocated €1.7 billion to increase payments for pensioners, carers, people with disabilities and others who depend on social welfare for a wide range of reasons. This is significantly above what the Government is proposing in its...
- Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Dec 2023)
Mark Wall: .... The Labour Party will support it and make sure it passes through this House as quickly as possible. However, I wish to raise a number of issues with the Minister of State. I will start with carers. The first issue I wish to raise is those who may now qualify from the welcome increase in the means test will have to wait until June 2024 before they receive that payment. The Minister...
- Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Dec 2023)
Seán Kyne: ...-off payments are welcome, whether they be the lump sums for those on the fuel allowance; the living alone lump sums; the working family payment lump sum; the double payment of child benefit; the carer's support grant; the disability allowance, the blind pension, and invalidity cost-of-living lump sum; the increase to be paid per qualified child and the Christmas and January cost-of-living...
- Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Dec 2023)
Joe O'Brien: ...add further to the evidence base on the relationship between MESL and poverty thresholds. At this stage we do not propose to set up another commission. Senator Wall had a lot of good questions. The carer's allowance means test changed last year. Some €50,000 of capital is still allowable to get the full carer's allowance. The carer's benefit and the domiciliary care allowance...