Seanad debates

Friday, 27 April 2012

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage

 

5:00 pm

Photo of Thomas ByrneThomas Byrne (Fianna Fail)

We are dealing with the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill. These two areas are very important - social welfare payments for the present and pensions for the future. The issue of pensions is not being debated sufficiently. I appeal to the Minister that in the future separate legislation be published by the Department of Social Protection dealing with social welfare payments and pensions. It is not good enough when we have shortened debates that a particular issue gets all of the interest groups excited, rightly so, while other issues are forgotten and there are many such issues on the social welfare side. The issue of pensions deserves examination and study in its own right. Therefore, it would be worth introducing separate legislation in the future dealing with it.

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