asked the Minister for Social Welfare the full year saving to the Exchequer of: (a) the abolition of child benefit for the first child (b) the abolition of child benefit for all recipients earning in excess of the PRSI ceiling (c) the taxation of short term disability benefit (d) increasing the number of paid or credited contributions for (1) unemployment benefit (2) maternity benefit and (3) disability benefit from 39 to 52 (e) increasing the number of paid or credited contributions for dental benefit from 207 to 260 and the number of credited contributions in the claim year from 39 to 52 (f) increasing the pay related benefit floor from £68 per week to £72 and no increase in the ceiling (g) (1) reducing the 12 per cent pay related benefit rate to 9 per cent (2) abolition of pay related benefit for (a) disability benefit (b) unemployment benefit and (c) maternity benefit (h) increasing the PRSI ceiling to £17,500 (i) reducing the private rent payment under supplementary welfare allowance by £1.50 per week (j) increasing the number of waiting days for disability benefit from three to six (k) shortening of unemployment benefit duration from 15 months to 12 months (l) increasing the rate of PRSI contributions by 1 per cent for employees and employers (m) the termination of all alleviating equal treatment payments (n) the freezing of child benefit in 1989 (o) a reduction in the live register of 1,000 in respect of unemployment related payments and (p) the increase of 4 per cent in 1989-90 of PRSI contributions for the self-employed.
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