Results 1-15 of 15 for indecon speaker:Claire Kerrane

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (4 Oct 2023)

Claire Kerrane: 176. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, with regard to the Indecon report entitled Review of Certain Aspects of the Irish Horse Racing Industry, he will provide an update on the provision of a seat on Horse Sport Ireland for a northern representative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43016/23]

Cost of Disability: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2022)

Claire Kerrane: ...report is really important. It was published seven months ago and we still have not seen that implementation plan. Of course, this is not the first cost of disability plan to be published. Indecon published one 18 years ago. There was one published 36 years ago in 1986. This upcoming budget cannot leave out the cost of disability payment and a recognition of that. I welcome what was...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (10 May 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 542. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to the Exchequer of a weekly cost of disability payment based on the Indecon report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23015/22]

Social Welfare (Payment Order) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Feb 2022)

Claire Kerrane: ...had a devastating impact on lone parent families. The Minister of State does not have to take our word for that. We saw it a number of years ago in an amendment through social welfare legislation on the basis of an Indecon report which showed that the significant reforms had a major impact on lone parent families and it put more of them into deprivation and poverty. That was the impact...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Claire Kerrane: I want to ask the Taoiseach about the Cost of Disability report that was published by Government, an Indecon report, in December. This is not the first report to recommend the introduction of a cost of disability payment. There was one by Indecon 18 years ago this month. There was another one as far back as 1986, 36 years ago. The latest report, we are told, is now going to become part of...

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Claire Kerrane: ...International Day of Persons with Disabilities. It is also important on such a day that we hear about more than just the disability allowance itself. I would like to see movement on the cost of disability. In 2004, Indecon did a report on the cost of disability and acknowledged that costs exist. Everybody who has a disability lives with increased costs on a daily basis. The reports...

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Claire Kerrane: ...clubs or that they are dismantling them. The Government is getting rid of the current services that exist in the local employment services and the job clubs. The Minister said my reference to the Indecon report was selective. Yes, the Indecon report put forward open procurement, but where did it refer to the change in model? That is the problem. If the legal advice and the EU...

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Claire Kerrane: ...from Job Clubs and LESs to examine the current services, identify issues of concern and bring forward solutions that will allow current services to be maintained; — examine the possibility of merging Job Clubs in their existing structure and LESs, as recommended by the 2018 Indecon International Economic Consultants reports which commended both services; and — divert...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Claire Kerrane: ...sure that is actually working for our carers when it comes to the calculation of the State pension. I want to also mention the disability allowance and the fact that we need to see the cost of disability payment introduced. We have an Indecon report from 2004 telling us this payment needs to be introduced. The Government is now looking at more research and more reports. We all know...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions and Considerations (Resumed): Irish Local Development Network (19 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: ...the arrival of Covid. That will be of major concern as we move forward. It is important that we acknowledge the wonderful work of local employment services. This was reflected in the 2018 Indecon report. It showed the excellent relationships services have with local employers and with those who use them. We also have to acknowledge local employment services are unique in that they...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Support Services (18 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: ...for each jobseeker referred to the service. That is a move away from what local employment services are doing well. I am glad that the Minister recognises this, as they are reputable. The 2018 Indecon report showed how well got they were in the communities they served, their good relationship with local employers and how they worked well and efficiently with those who came through their...

Family Leave and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Mar 2021)

Claire Kerrane: ...their parent as babies in two-parent families. That is a great shame. We saw the changes that were made to the one-parent family payment back in 2012, and we saw the consequences of that in the Indecon report which showed those very changes made life harder for lone parents in respect of poverty and deprivation. I hope we will not make the same mistake with this Bill, which we will if...

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2020)

Claire Kerrane: ...time. The Minister said in relation to the earlier amendment that carers work 24-7. I appreciate what the Minister said in relation to reports but a couple of years ago, I recall that we asked for a report which Indecon produced. It was on the 2012 changes to the one-parent family payment for lone parents. When that report came back, it showed precisely that Government policy had an...

Social Welfare Commission Bill 2020: First Stage (25 Nov 2020)

Claire Kerrane: ...seven on the one-parent family payment as well as the cut to the earnings disregard at that time, that policy would not have gone ahead and lone-parent families would not have suffered as greatly as they did. An Indecon report on the impact of those changes taken by Fine Gael and the Labour Party that we secured in the Social Welfare Bill in 2016 concluded that the evidence indicated it...

Child Poverty: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2020)

Claire Kerrane: ...The Minister's amendment welcomes increases in the earnings disregard for the one parent family payment. We remember that was done after it had been previously cut and the age reduced to seven. Indecon reported on the impact of those very changes on lone parent families, which were made by Fine Gael and the Labour Party. We secured in the Social Welfare Act in 2016 an independent...