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- Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)
Aindrias Moynihan: The next item is the motion regarding gender-based violence - tairiscint maidir le foréigean ar bhonn inscne. Roimhe sin, ba mhaith liom fáilte a chur roimh Natasha O'Brien, atá linn sa Ghailearaí. Tá fáilte roimpi. I welcome Natasha O'Brien. I call Deputy Bacik. The opening speaking slot is 20 minutes.
- Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)
Ivana Bacik: I move: That Dáil Éireann: commends the courage of Natasha O'Brien and the powerful advocacy that she has provided on behalf of victims and survivors of violent crime since Thursday, 20th June, 2024; resolves to address the epidemic of gender-based violence, and the re-victimisation that is experienced by so many survivors as a result of criminal justice processes in some cases...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (3 Jul 2024)
Mary Butler: I, too, congratulate my colleague, Deputy Lawless, on his promotion to the position of Minister of State in the Departments of Transport and the Environment, Climate and Communications. I have no doubt this will be the first of many times he will be in the House for Topical Issues.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (3 Jul 2024)
Catherine Connolly: What a sentence.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (3 Jul 2024)
Seán Sherlock: Not a bad start.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (3 Jul 2024)
James Lawless: Two out of four ain't bad.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (3 Jul 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Tá an t-ádh dearg ort inniu. You are lucky today because there are just three Topical Issues.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (3 Jul 2024)
Mary Butler: There were meant to be four.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (3 Jul 2024)
Catherine Connolly: So I understand.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (3 Jul 2024)
James Lawless: Two out of three is even better.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (3 Jul 2024)
Mary Butler: Two out of three ain't bad.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (3 Jul 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Beidh sos beag againn.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (3 Jul 2024)
Cuireadh an Dáil ar fionraí ar 9.50 a.m. agus cuireadh tús leis arís ar 10.01 a.m. Sitting suspended at 9.50 a.m. and resumed at 10.01 a.m.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (3 Jul 2024)
Seán Sherlock: First, I congratulate the Minister of State, Deputy Lawless, on his appointment. I am sure his relations in Mitchelstown, Baile an Mhistéalaigh, will be very proud of his elevation.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (3 Jul 2024)
James Lawless: They are indeed.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (3 Jul 2024)
Seán Sherlock: I will quote for the record the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donnell, who replied to a Topical Issue on this subject when Deputy Duncan Smith and I raised it 12 months ago: on 9 March 2023, An Post wrote to the Department seeking consent to the second phase of their current pay agreement which provides for a 2% increase in pay from 1 January 2023. In addition to this, on foot of a recent...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (3 Jul 2024)
James Lawless: I thank both Deputies for their kind wishes. I appreciate them. In response to Deputy Sherlock, John, Billy and Auntie Alice O'Brien and all the Mitchelstown clan are very proud indeed of my appointment. I thank him for acknowledging them. I welcome the opportunity to outline the position on this matter. I have not had sight of the response the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donnell,...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (3 Jul 2024)
Seán Sherlock: This is a paraphrasing of the same reply we received 12 months ago, in essence, using NewERA and saying it is kicking the tyres on this 12 months later. Does it take 12 months for NewERA to kick the tyres on such a proposal? The members of the scheme want and are entitled to answers. We want certainty from the Government on whether this will be paid.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (3 Jul 2024)
Duncan Smith: The response, which is very similar to the response received 12 months ago, mentions section 46 setting a minimum level of parity between the An Post scheme and the scheme that applied to staff members as it stood on the day and that it does not provide that the conditions in the An Post scheme "must continue to match any subsequent improvements in pension conditions". However, as the former...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (3 Jul 2024)
James Lawless: I have listened with interest to the Members’ responses. I appreciate and understand the degree of frustration the Deputies and those they represent feel. I will take this away, read into it further and revert to them. The one point I will make is that I am told An Post engaged with the Department in April 2024 and again in June 2024 seeking approval for these increases. On that...