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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Low Pay (1 May 2025) See 1 other result from this debate

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...introducing the living wage, on enhancing paid sick leave entitlements, on abolishing the subminimum rates of youth pay, on increasing the minimum annual remuneration for employment permits and on pension auto-enrolment. The Government has reneged on all of these progressive measures. I know the Minister will say that these are just delayed but the word used is "postponement". Without...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Job Losses (1 May 2025)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...is where the next decade of jobs is coming from. We need a calm, strategic response in this regard. What we do not need, in this period of economic instability, is to row back on commitments to pension enrolment, wages and sick leave. The staff, as the Minister rightly said, must be front and centre. All of these staff members have families who are living and trying to cope with in the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Programme (1 May 2025)

Peter Burke: ...in the Spring Session – The Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Bill 2025, which will introduce measures that allow, but do not compel, an employee to stay in employment until the state pension age; The Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2024, which encompasses the necessary amendments to the Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 addressing the matter of equitable...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (1 May 2025) See 1 other result from this answer

Mark Wall: ...ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to the fact the programme for Government commitment to allow parents aged over 66 receiving the State pension, who are caring for a child with a lifelong disability, to retain a full-rate carer's allowance discriminates against other carers, such as those caring for a spouse; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (1 May 2025)

Dara Calleary: ...to support CE sponsors in their recruitment and retention of participants. These changes include: A provision to allow CE participants who reach 60 years of age to remain in CE until they reach state pension age. Some flexibility granted to CE sponsors to retain existing participants for extended periods in cases where a replacement can’t be recruited immediately. Changes to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (1 May 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: ...for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his progress to date in the planned modifications or changes to support women who currently fall outside the existing schemes to qualify for a State pension, as committed to in the Programme for Government. [21725/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (1 May 2025)

Dara Calleary: ...potential application of the benchmarking approach to other welfare payments". The roadmap also includes a commitment to develop a benchmarking approach for use in adjusting the value of State pension payments. It is worth noting that indexing weekly social protection rates to only one measure, such as inflation, presents a challenge as it can widen the income gap between those...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (1 May 2025)

Erin McGreehan: 131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware that ongoing pension reviews of the over 80’s are causing great anxiety and distress; if he will act to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21717/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (1 May 2025)

Dara Calleary: ...x20ac;50,000 are assessed on a proportionate basis only. Other measures include: The weekly means threshold for those aged under 70 was also increased by €80 to €200 above the appropriate rate of Contributory State Pension. Disablement Benefit and Half-rate Carers Allowance payments are now disregarded when assessing means for Fuel Allowance purposes. Disablement Benefit...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (1 May 2025)

Dara Calleary: ...Social Protection, I am fully committed to making the case for a fair budget that protects the people most in need in our society - particularly families on low incomes and those people, including pensioners and carers who are dependent on social welfare payments.As part of Budget 2025, a €2.6 billion Social Protection package was secured. This was, for the third year in a row, the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (1 May 2025)

Dara Calleary: ...has a commitment to an annual level of control reviews and operates an ongoing continuous schedule of control and review activity for scheme recipients, including those in receipt of disability or pension payments. The objective is to ensure that customers continue to receive their correct rate of payment over the lifetime of their claim. Reviews can arise from customer requests for a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (1 May 2025) See 1 other result from this answer

Louise O'Reilly: ...for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware that qualified surviving cohabitants bereaved before January 22nd 2024 are not entitled to receive retrospective bereaved partner’s pension payments from before that date; if the Minister is aware of the number of qualified surviving cohabitants in this situation; if he is aware of the hardship endured by qualified...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Artificial Intelligence (1 May 2025)

Dara Calleary: ....Separately, the Department has for many years automated its processes as much as possible by programming scheme rules into its IT systems. This enables flow-through processing of claims including Pension, Back to School Clothing and Footwear and Child Benefit claims. It is important to note that no claim is disallowed using these automated systems. Any claim that is not awarded on a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (1 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 154. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will give an update on the pension auto-enrolment scheme; when it will be rolled out; the cause for recent delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21762/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Inquiries (1 May 2025)

Dara Calleary: ...in receipt of DA and their spouse, civil partner, or cohabitant, property (except their own home), or an asset that could bring in money or provide them with an income, for example occupational pensions, or pensions or benefits from another country. Under the means assessment arrangements introduced from 26 September 2007, a spouse's earnings are calculated as gross earnings less PRSI,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (1 May 2025)

Cathy Bennett: 279. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the PRSI pension contributions recorded for women who are absent from the workforce while caring for children; his proposals to alleviate the undue financial hardship incurred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21857/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (1 May 2025)

Colm Burke: 286. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm that consideration will be given to amending the rules surrounding pension entitlements so that women who had to leave work due to marriage could qualify for a pension in their own right regardless of their husband’s means (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21995/25]

EU Regulations: Motion (30 Apr 2025)

Gary Gannon: ...or social. When creditors are protected workers must be protected too. When insolvency allows debts to be cleared safeguards must be in place to ensure it is not done at the expense of wages and pensions or with disruption to communities. While Ireland is aligning our framework with Europe, we should take the opportunity to ask whether our domestic insolvency system is fit for...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Apr 2025)

John McGuinness: ...at the finance committee regarding the Butler family, who had difficulties with their particular loan and circumstances. I note that the draft legislation suggests that the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman, and the complaints that that office has, will be transferred to a resolution office. Will the Taoiseach ensure that the outstanding cases before the FSPO or the Central Bank...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...the Government's shameful decision to postpone the introduction of a living wage. Improvement in sick leave for ordinary workers has also been put on the chopping block. In a triple whammy, plans to introduce pension auto-enrolment have also been kicked down the road yet again. While all across the county people are struggling to make ends meet, keep their homes heated, rent paid and...