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- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: I welcome the improvements in the budget as regards PRSI for self-employed persons, although we are starting from a low base. When the crash came, employees were rightly able to get supports. They had paid in, as had their employers. However, a self-employed person with a van – a plasterer, welder, fitter, block layer or whatever – got nothing. While I accept that a lower...
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: I thank the Deputies for raising those points. A group of current and former Members have brought a High Court action seeking to have class K contributions payable as public officeholders declared unconstitutional. The matter is subject to legal proceedings, so maybe I had better say no more. I do not want to-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Michael Creed: Has the Minister received legal advice on the matter? We do not need to know what that advice is.
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: We can always get legal advice, but as far as I am concerned, it was an austerity measure taken during difficult times. It is now a simple question of whether we should reverse that measure.
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Michael Creed: Retrospectively.
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: Yes. The benefits available to the self-employed have been expanded considerably over the years. They get maternity benefit, paternity benefit, parent’s benefit, treatment benefit, the contributory pension, jobseekers’ benefit for the self-employed, the invalidity pension and the partial capacity benefit. They do not get illness benefit. That can be considered, but are...
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Seán Sherlock: I am conscious of the time and that other colleagues have tabled amendments, so I will be brief and speak specifically to my amendment. Where people lose office or cease to be Members, they can find themselves in the invidious position of having no payments due to them. Notwithstanding High Court actions or otherwise, the question also arises as to whether the Minister can, by statutory...
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Michael Creed: It is not my duty to reply, but I can imagine the headlines if it did not receive all-party support. Will the Minister confirm whether self-employed people will have access to carer’s benefit as a result of this budget?
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: Yes, they will now be able to apply for carer’s benefit, which is-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Michael Creed: To be welcomed.
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: It will help some people’s situations. My point remains the same. Deputy Sherlock knows well enough that it is a case of all for one and one for all on this matter.
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Amendment put and declared lost.
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Section 5 agreed to.
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Sections 6 and 7 agreed to.
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
NEW SECTIONS
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Amendments Nos. 7 and 8 are related and will be taken together.
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Paul Donnelly: I move amendment No. 7: In page 4, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following: “Report on extending parent’s leave and benefit 8. The Minister shall prepare and lay a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas on extending the full duration of parent’s leave and benefit by 4 weeks and that the report shall be presented to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on...
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Heather Humphreys: I thank the Deputy for tabling this amendment. Regarding extending parent’s leave and benefit, the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth has responsibility for parent’s leave policy and I have responsibility for the associated benefit payment. Parent’s leave and benefit are available to eligible parents within the first two years following...
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Amendment No. 4 not moved.
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Section 4 agreed to.