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- 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.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: We have made considerable changes but we are on a journey. We have to do more. I accept that but we cannot do everything on the one day. We have made substantial changes to the carer's support grant. It has been increased. The carer's allowance is now a qualifying payment for the fuel allowance. Domiciliary care allowance has been increased; I have increased it by €50 during my...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Verona Murphy: Talk is cheap.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: It is not talk. You are wrong.