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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2017-12-06/51/
6 Dec 2017 -
I am focusing on lone parents in particular and of all the different groups, the poverty statistics among...This is a disincentive for people among the poorest group in society to earn a little extra income which...It is a classic poverty trap....In many cases, they do not have any room to rent out....In other cases, the disincentive is so strong that it is just not worth their while to do it.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2017-12-06/52/
6 Dec 2017 -
I am focusing on lone parents in particular and of all the different groups, the poverty statistics among...This is a disincentive for people among the poorest group in society to earn a little extra income which...It is a classic poverty trap....In many cases, they do not have any room to rent out....In other cases, the disincentive is so strong that it is just not worth their while to do it.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2010-12-14/34/
14 Dec 2010 -
A total of €420 million in rent supplement is being paid to private landlords at present but there is...no system in place to ensure that those landlords who are recipients of rent supplement are tax compliant...The Labour Party proposes that rent supplement would not be paid to any landlord unless that landlord...For all kinds of reasons, it makes absolute sense to have radical reform of the rent supplement system...poverty trap.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2010-12-17/5/
17 Dec 2010 -
If, however, a property is occupied by rent supplement tenants, it must meet the minimum standards....Regulations were introduced that allowed the HSE to refuse rent supplement for a property that does not...supplement tenant....When the issue is resolved, the tenant simply leaves taking the rent supplement money....At the moment, rent allowance acts as a disincentive to work.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1997-09-30/279/
30 Sep 1997 -
Child benefit is an effective means of tackling poverty, as it channels resources directly to families...takes up employment and is not assessed as means for other secondary benefits such as differential rents...Child benefit, therefore, does not act as a disincentive to taking up employment or improving wages.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1999-02-02/21/
2 Feb 1999 -
It is effective in tackling poverty as it channels resources directly to families with children and is...unemployed parent takes up employment or assessed as means for other secondary benefits such as differential rents..., medical cards, etc., it does not act as a disincentive to taking up employment or improving wages....I should also mention that the family income supplement, FIS, scheme has been enhanced as a means of...This measure significantly increases the supplements payable under the scheme, thereby increasing the
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2005-06-23/142/
23 Jun 2005 -
Brennan) In its policy statement, Ending Child Poverty, which I launched recently, the Combat Poverty...countries, is a comprehensive, wide-ranging and valuable contribution to the ongoing drive to ending child poverty...been introduced across the social welfare system to make them more employment friendly by removing disincentives...are disregarded; farm assist — 30% of earnings from self-employment are disregarded; family income supplement...— 40% of net earnings are disregarded; retention of rent-mortgage interest supplement and other secondary
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Debate: Select Committee On Finance And General Affairs
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_finance_and_general_affairs/1993-05-25/3/
25 May 1993 -
Doyle The Minister referred to the poverty trap and the scenario which gives rise to this — net pay...On the question of poverty traps, the Minister, in addition to examining the threshold limits, should...threatened loss of a medical card, on which so much more than medical services now hinge, is an enormous disincentive...In my health board area a medical card and rent allowance are not given to anyone at work....This would go some way towards eliminating poverty traps for people on low pay.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2007-12-19/7/
19 Dec 2007 -
An unacceptable number of children remain in consistent poverty and the Government remains focused on...further substantially reducing child poverty....was asked by the Department of the Taoiseach to examine the feasibility of merging the family income supplement...Such a payment would be aimed specifically at targeting child poverty by channelling resources to low...income families without creating significant disincentives to employment.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1996-10-16/40/
16 Oct 1996 -
The report sets out comprehensively the poverty traps and work disincentives in the present tax and social...traps and work disincentives....and disincentives to work....The second option is child benefit supplement, a payment in respect of children which would be related...the expert group is to retain the broad structures of the existing system but to reform family income supplement
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1997-04-16/123/
16 Apr 1997 -
loss of child dependant allowances by social welfare recipients on taking up employment, can act as a disincentive...Child benefit remains one of the most effective means of tackling poverty, as it channels resources directly...takes up employment and is not assessed as means for other secondary benefits such as differential rents...Therefore, it cannot act as a disincentive to taking up employment or improving wages.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1998-02-04/48/
4 Feb 1998 -
First, in the area of income support measures, such as child benefit and family income supplement and...secondly, in the introduction of measures aimed at removing disincentives to taking up employment....A further initiative which impacts on children was the amendment of the family income supplement scheme...; income limits were increased and eligibility for the supplement is now based on net income....Child poverty is perhaps the greatest single justification for a national anti-poverty strategy, NAPS
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2009-04-30/17/
30 Apr 2009 -
children aged under five and has lost an additional €4,000 through the abolition of the early child care supplement...In her response the Minister briefly mentioned the issue of disincentives which would be my biggest concern...There are already several poverty traps in the social welfare system which create disincentives for people...is the Minister's concern that introducing means testing or a tax might create the greatest of all poverty
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1999-03-04/7/
4 Mar 1999 -
universal, not taxable and not assessed as means for other secondary benefits such as differential rents..., medical cards etc., it does not act as a disincentive to taking up employment or improving wages....A key factor in combating the incidence of poverty, and child poverty in particular, relates to the adequacy...In addition, the 1999 budget provided for an increase in the family income supplement threshold of £8...years towards the provision of increases in child benefit represents a tangible move towards removing disincentive
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1997-11-26/12/
26 Nov 1997 -
As he said, a married person with three children in receipt of a family income supplement and a wage...Otherwise these poverty traps and disincentives to employment will continue.
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Debate: Joint Committee On Social And Family Affairs
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_social_and_family_affairs/2005-02-08/2/
8 Feb 2005 -
frozen for 11 years CDAs do not warrant the same treatment as in 1994 when it was held they acted as a disincentive...indicator when considering the issue of poverty....We have little with which to compare the consistent poverty rate....The rate of consistent poverty is not down to 0% or 2%....Such persons are often not eligible for the medical card or rent supplement if in the private rented
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2013-05-01/27/
1 May 2013 -
One group of tenants is in particular danger - those who are in receipt of rent supplement or on the...Families who are in receipt of rent supplement and on the rent allowance scheme are, by definition, those...Those in receipt of rent supplement are prevented from working....This perpetuated the existence of a poverty trap even in boom times....Why are they refusing to accept the rent supplement? What is happening is outrageous.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2004-02-11/20/
11 Feb 2004 -
Sustaining Progress, we are looking particularly at the interaction between CDAs and family income supplement...years it is obvious that all of the policy people who have visited this House have seen that a CDA is a disincentive...We must however ensure, particularly through family income supplement, that those who join the workforce...Opposition benches believe, child benefit is the best and most progressive way of looking at a child poverty...not be completed over the next few weeks, but if we can see a more targeted second tier family income supplement
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1999-03-04/38/
4 Mar 1999 -
It is effective in tackling poverty as it channels resources directly to the main carers of children...unemployed parent takes up employment or assessed as means for other secondary benefits such as differential rents..., medical cards, etc. it does not act as a disincentive to taking up employment or improving wages....In addition, the income thresholds for eligibility to family income supplement were increased by £8 per
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Debate: Joint Committee On Social And Family Affairs
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_social_and_family_affairs/2010-01-20/3/
20 Jan 2010 -
Colm Rapple which examined the financial disincentives to cohabitation and marriage....The essential issues are housing, the loss of rent supplement and access to affordable child care services...The fear of falling into poverty has increased because of it.
