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- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Amendment No. 5 not moved.
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
NEW SECTION
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Seán Sherlock: I move amendment No. 6: In page 3, after line 25, to insert the following: “Maternity benefit – members of the Houses of the Oireachtas 5. The Minister shall, within 3 weeks of the passing of this Act, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas on the payment of maternity benefit to public office holders who are members of either such House and who cease to...
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: You cannot win.
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Seán Sherlock: I make the case for my colleagues, for all colleagues in the Houses of the Oireachtas, in putting forward this amendment.
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Thank you for championing the cause. Does anyone else wish to speak on this matter? No.
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: I absolutely understand the point the Deputy is making. I have had this debate in the Seanad a number of times. The best solution I could find was for them to come forward with a proposal on an all-party basis via a Private Member's Bill and I am still waiting for it. If there is all-party agreement on it, I will be happy to take it, but there will have to be all-party agreement and no...
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are a few of them.
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: Well that one is still there.
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Michael Creed: We have the increments as well.
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: I am just saying it as it is. I have sympathy for Oireachtas Members, especially those who lost their seats during the Covid-19 pandemic because they could not take up employment. Things were closed down. They had no income. I grant that there is a termination payment when Members leave these Houses. Having said that, I take the Deputy's point on maternity leave. We are bringing...
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Michael Creed: Perhaps it falls to those of us who are departing to raise without fear a concern regarding the inequities of the social welfare code as they apply to Members of the Oireachtas. Deputy Sherlock has done so quite eloquently and I agree with him. I heard the Minister's response and her requirement for the cover of all parties coming together to say this is not a tenable situation. It is...
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Paul Donnelly: I move amendment No. 3: In page 3, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following: “Report on introducing the proposed changes to carers allowance means test thresholds from 1 January 2025 4. The Minister shall prepare and lay a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas on introducing the changes to the income disregards from 1 January 2025 as opposed to July 2025.”.
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Amendment put: The Committee divided: Tá, 49; Níl, 74; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Paul Donnelly and Sean Sherlock; Níl, Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Cormac Devlin.
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Tá Chris Andrews, Ivana Bacik, Mick Barry, Richard Boyd Barrett, John Brady, Martin Browne, Pat Buckley, Holly Cairns, Seán Canney, Joan Collins, Michael Collins, Catherine Connolly, Rose Conway-Walsh, Réada Cronin, Seán Crowe, David Cullinane, Pa Daly, Paul Donnelly, Dessie Ellis, Mairead Farrell, Michael Fitzmaurice, Gary Gannon, Johnny Guirke, Marian Harkin, Danny...
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Amendment declared lost.
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Amendment put: The Committee divided: Tá, 48; Níl, 74; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Paul Donnelly and Sean Sherlock; Níl, Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Cormac Devlin.
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Tá Chris Andrews, Ivana Bacik, Mick Barry, Richard Boyd Barrett, John Brady, Martin Browne, Pat Buckley, Holly Cairns, Seán Canney, Joan Collins, Michael Collins, Catherine Connolly, Rose Conway-Walsh, Réada Cronin, Seán Crowe, David Cullinane, Pa Daly, Paul Donnelly, Dessie Ellis, Mairead Farrell, Michael Fitzmaurice, Gary Gannon, Johnny Guirke, Marian Harkin, Danny...
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Amendment declared lost.
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: I propose to speak to the three amendments together. I make the same point that I would rather not put requests for reports into legislation. However, I will definitely do one of them if that is all right. I will explain. I recently signed the commencement order confirming that the new jobseeker's pay-related benefit scheme will be available from 31 March. The priority is to launch the...