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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...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (3 Jul 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I am happy to clarify. The reply from the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donnell, stated exactly the same thing in 2023.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (3 Jul 2024)

James Lawless: April and June 2024 are after 2023, not to state the obvious, so there has obviously been some progress in that time at least.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (3 Jul 2024)

Seán Sherlock: The workers have not been paid.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (3 Jul 2024)

James Lawless: They have not been paid, but their paymaster has now engaged with the Department, which seems to be progress. They cannot be paid without someone asking for them to be paid and someone else approving that. There is a workflow and some of the steps, I am told, were only taken in April and June 2024.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (3 Jul 2024)

Seán Sherlock: It is an undue delay, to be fair, by any administrative standards.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (3 Jul 2024)

James Lawless: That is since June 2024, when the question was received from An Post. I hear the Members' points. I am not abreast of the issue of the class D PRSI contributions, but perhaps the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Humphreys, could advise on that issue, which was raised by Deputy Duncan Smith. I understand there are frustrations and I share the Deputies' admiration of the post...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Airport Policy (3 Jul 2024)

David Cullinane: I commend the Minister of State on his appointment and thank him for taking this Topical Issue. The problem is that this has been an issue for the better part of ten years. I know that, in reality, this was substantially moved in June 2019 when former Minister, Shane Ross, and the Cabinet signed off on a proposal for €5 million. I accept the costs have escalated since. One of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Airport Policy (3 Jul 2024)

James Lawless: I thank the Deputy. A couple of matters arise. He characterised this as not quite a six-year delay, but a five-year delay from 2019 to 2024. It is fairer to say that it is a six-month engagement, given that a business proposal was received by the Department in December 2023. Elements were missing from that, which required revisiting in April 2024 and further information was received at...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Airport Policy (3 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Déanaim comhghairdeas leis an Aire Stáit as a ardú céime. Go n-éirí leis ina ról nua mar Aire Stáit.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Airport Policy (3 Jul 2024)

James Lawless: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (3 Jul 2024)

Pension Provisions

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (3 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Ar aghaidh anois go dtí an tríú Saincheist Tráthúil in ainmneacha na dTeachtaí Seán Sherlock agus Duncan Smith: to discuss the non-payment of pension increases due to retired An Post workers. As the Deputies are sharing time, they have two minutes each.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (3 Jul 2024)

Duncan Smith: I congratulate the Minister of State on his elevation and new appointment. Deputy Sherlock and I are here 12 months after bringing this issue up previously regarding the treatment of pensioners in An Post. It is always topical and it has come to our attention again, given developments in pay increases for An Post workers announced in recent months and other issues. What is rooted in all...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Urban Development (3 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: The Minister of State said community safety is everybody's responsibility, and it is, but when something is everybody's responsibility, it can quickly become nobody's responsibility, particularly with Departments passing the buck from one to the other. That is why we need a multiagency task force to pull everyone together, as has worked effectively in other areas facing similar problems....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Urban Development (3 Jul 2024)

Mary Butler: On behalf of the Minister, I thank the Deputies again for raising this issue. As I and both Deputies have said, community safety is a whole-of-government responsibility and it requires a multiagency approach. I agree with the Deputies that there are great communities in the area. They spoke of the role of sports clubs, which are important. I agree on addiction and dual diagnosis issues,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Airport Policy (3 Jul 2024)

Airport Policy

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Airport Policy (3 Jul 2024)

David Cullinane: In 2019, as an Oireachtas Member, I attended a meeting with the then Minister for transport, Shane Ross. The Minister of State, Deputy Butler, was at that meeting as well. Mr. Ross essentially at that point signed off on State investment for Waterford Airport. We were told at that meeting - and I had been of the view for some time - that the airport had reached a crossroads and either the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Airport Policy (3 Jul 2024)

James Lawless: I thank the Deputy for his Topical Issue. As the new Minister of State at the Department of Transport since last Thursday, I am delighted to have the opportunity to address the House on this matter and engage on the Deputy's issue. The matter is as close to the Minister of State's, Deputy Butler's, heart as to the Deputy's and is of interest to the south-east region, public representatives...