Results 701-720 of 1,090,658 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:George Lee OR speaker:Roderic O'Gorman OR speaker:Martin Kenny OR speaker:Brendan Griffin OR speaker:Colm Burke OR speaker:Peadar Tóibín OR speaker:Mary Lou McDonald OR speaker:Jim O'Callaghan OR speaker:Paul Donnelly OR speaker:Patricia Ryan OR speaker:Michael Healy-Rae OR speaker:Michael Ring OR speaker:Paul Murphy OR speaker:Matt Carthy OR speaker:Seán Haughey OR speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett OR speaker:Sorca Clarke OR speaker:Rose Conway-Walsh OR speaker:Cathal Berry OR speaker:Martin Browne OR speaker:Dara Calleary OR speaker:Colm Brophy OR speaker:Marian Harkin OR speaker:Stephen Donnelly OR speaker:Charlie McConalogue) in 'Committee meetings'
- 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...
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Seán Sherlock: The Minister has raised the issue of the interdepartmental group. She may be sick of hearing from me about-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: Overtime.
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Seán Sherlock: -----a couple where one person starts to earn overtime and then the carer loses all entitlements. If the Minister could indicate that the interdepartmental group will look at those types of cases where all entitlements are lost by dint of the earning of overtime, that would provide some comfort. Probably just a small number of people are affected by that but they are there nonetheless.
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Paul Donnelly: I appreciate that work has been done on it. As the 10% we are talking about still need that support, I will be pressing that amendment.
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: I have no problem asking the interdepartmental group. I understand what the Deputy is saying there. Overtime is not basic income; it is extra income. If we go into the means-test space, we just look at household income. I will ask the group to look at that. I am not telling the Deputy that he will get the answer he wants, but we will certainly look at it.
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Sections 1 and 2 agreed to.