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- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: I am sure that is needed as well. The motorway is also an important piece of critical infrastructure.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)
Gary Gannon: Social Justice Ireland, the ESRI, the Growing Up in Ireland report, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and One Family have all made statements on the budget and each have highlighted the fact child poverty has increased dramatically during the Minister's time in government. It has increased so dramatically there was a 30,000 increase in children experiencing deprivation just last year. Over...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: I thank the Deputy. The Government is keenly aware of issues in relation to child poverty and these issues formed a critical input into the development of the budget, which included the largest social welfare package in the history of the State. It provided €2.6 billion to assist households. The analysis published by the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)
Bríd Smith: There is a lot of talk about pensioners, their rights, their poverty and the way they live, but there is another aspect to pensioners we are losing sight of, that is, they are retired workers and many of them have pensions they are entitled to have and to have increases in. A cohort badly hit by the austerity in 2011 and 2012 is public sector pensioners. I am not talking about the...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: I thank the Deputy. I will certainly raise that with the relevant Minister. I do not know why; I cannot answer that question. I have been supporting pensioners through the Department of Social Protection. I acknowledge some public sector workers do not get a contributory State pension when they retire, but my focus has been to increase that. The €12 increase this year, along with...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)
Matt Shanahan: I raise an issue that has been raised by me and other Waterford Deputies over a period, namely, the Waterford Crystal pension fund. The Minister is well aware these workers were excluded from a future pension annuity and essentially it was said they had signed their rights away. That has been vehemently denied, as the Minister knows, by the workers by affidavit and in 30 years no...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We have to have silence in the Gallery, please. I call the Minister.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: I do not know if the Deputy reads all the papers but carers welcomed the changes I made in the budget.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Verona Murphy: Those who get it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please let the Minister answer.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Verona Murphy: But it is a means test.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please let the Minister answer.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: The changes I made in the budget mean more will get it. I meet them and have talked directly to them. I fully-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Verona Murphy: Does that mean some do not deserve it because they cannot get it under the means test? Is that what the Minister is saying?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Mary Butler: You have had your time.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Please, Deputy Murphy, you are out of order. Will you let the Minister answer?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: I see first-hand the challenges that carers face.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Verona Murphy: Then abolish the means test.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: There is a mother in the Gallery and I know the challenges she faces because she told me. It is not easy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Verona Murphy: Abolish it.