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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1992-07-03/3/
3 Jul 1992 -
The Social Welfare Bill, introduced within weeks of his taking up office, was indicative of things to...For example, in this year's Social Welfare Bill those earning more than £25,000 per annum had their entitlement...Everyone is concerned about the overall cost of social welfare....However, it has to be said that social welfare is not a charity....A litany of the victims of his cuts, which started with his 1992 Social Welfare Bill, would take ten
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-05-20/45/
20 May 2021 -
the Social Welfare Appeals Office, the Ombudsman and the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission....Turning to the Bill itself, section 2 sets out high level principles to be adhered to in the social welfare...Sections 3, 4 and 5 make provision for the preparation of a social welfare charter....Sections 6, 7 and 8 make provision for promotion of social welfare take-up....Section 9 provides for a support person to accompany a person during a social welfare interview.
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Debate: Select Committee On Social And Family Affairs
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_social_and_family_affairs/2010-06-28/2/
28 Jun 2010 -
shall, within one month of the commencement of this section, report to the Oireachtas Committee on Social...Protection on the progress made in reducing the social welfare appeals office waiting list."....What provisions in this Bill will reduce the waiting times that people must go through?
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1978-11-28/28/
28 Nov 1978 -
Haughey Public service employees will continue at their existing level in social welfare.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-12-12/6/
12 Dec 2001 -
Ahern Social welfare benefits have increased by 50% in the period.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1995-06-15/12/
15 Jun 1995 -
Minister of State at the Department of Social Welfare (Mr. Durkan) Hope springs eternal.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2012-04-25/27/
25 Apr 2012 -
Deputy Joan Burton They will go into jobseeker's system or elsewhere in the social welfare system.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1951-07-05/50/
5 Jul 1951 -
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Social Welfare (Mr.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2013-11-05/13/
5 Nov 2013 -
Senator John Kelly There is no area in social welfare in which one will not hurt somebody.
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Debate: Select Committee On Social And Family Affairs
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_social_and_family_affairs/2010-06-28/2/
28 Jun 2010 -
Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív The social welfare figures do not seem to indicate that.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1977-11-30/4/
30 Nov 1977 -
Colley The Bill makes it quite clear what the functions are....least portion of the section because she referred to two of the five functions containing the word "social
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1993-12-07/20/
7 Dec 1993 -
Welfare refused to accept it....Welfare refused to accept our contributions....In some cases the Department of Social Welfare has refused to accept A1 contributions and in other cases...Total confusion exists in relation to the treatment of crewmen and the social welfare code....the class A1 rate may use this Bill to avoid continuing to pay it — and legally they might be correct
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1985-07-03/3/
3 Jul 1985 -
amendment No. 8: In page 7, lines 34 and 35, in the Table to the section, to delete "section 12 of the Social...Welfare (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 1984", and substitute "section 12 of the Social Welfare (No. 2) Act
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2000-10-03/40/
3 Oct 2000 -
In this regard, a Bill providing for the establishment of the National Pensions Reserve Fund was published...The proposed new fund will part pre-fund both social welfare and public service pension costs from 2025
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2003-12-18/8/
18 Dec 2003 -
Ms Feeney: Under this Government and its predecessor social welfare payments have outpaced inflation
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2003-12-18/8/
18 Dec 2003 -
very strong case to put to the Minister for Finance, Deputy McCreevy, regarding the allocation for the social...welfare budget.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1951-06-28/38/
28 Jun 1951 -
Flanagan The Minister for Social Welfare is now very anxious and very eager that this 2/6 should drop
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1951-06-28/38/
28 Jun 1951 -
Flanagan The Minister can recall that when he was Minister for Social Welfare on a previous occasion
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Debate: Select Committee On Family, Community And Social Affairs
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_family_community_and_social_affairs/1999-03-09/3/
9 Mar 1999 -
Ms Shortall It is strange that the Social Welfare and Taxes Consolidation Acts are the only two Acts
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1972-06-28/4/
28 Jun 1972 -
My remarks are related to the payment made by the Department of Social Welfare to unemployment assistance
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2001-03-21/4/
21 Mar 2001 -
It will be made in advance and that refers to all social welfare payments, not just child payments.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1987-04-02/20/
2 Apr 1987 -
Woods It would be against the general recommendations of the Commission on Social Welfare because there
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1951-07-05/50/
5 Jul 1951 -
This is not his Bill at all....This is not the Minister's Bill at all....the Social Welfare Bill would do....He promised that on the Second Stage of that Bill....I formulated and submitted to this House in my capacity as Minister for Social Welfare.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1992-03-25/4/
25 Mar 1992 -
First, when the Department of Social Welfare give examples indicating what increases will mean they tend...Welfare Bill has been disposed of....Welfare but that the Department of the Environment will take £1.50 of this, so the net increase is £1.20...welfare in receipt of £47 or £50 per week....By giving increases of 4 per cent and 3 per cent it sounds as if social welfare recipients are getting
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2012-12-19/20/
19 Dec 2012 -
In recent years the Judiciary has taken a very serious view of any fraud or abuse of the social welfare...welfare system, penalties have been imposed, including jail time....welfare system....That is not a matter for today in the context of this Bill....welfare fraud are pursued and that the fraud is stopped.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2001-12-18/6/
18 Dec 2001 -
I have no difficulty with the increases gained by social welfare recipients....welfare recipient received....welfare....When one looks at the figures the increases may not seem very good for people on social welfare but relatively...I regard the focus on the social insurance fund as a joke.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1977-11-09/11/
9 Nov 1977 -
But it is also one with, perhaps, the greatest potential for achieving social change in Ireland and also...of responding to the rapid social change that there has been....We, in the Labour Party, welcome this Bill as a limited measure which is the result of protracted discussions...One must preface a contribution on this Bill by saying that with regard to both of these essential prerequisites
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1987-12-17/5/
17 Dec 1987 -
of social welfare is extremely important....For that reason alone any Bill dealing with social welfare, improvements, tightening up or otherwise...Social welfare is divided into many categories....That is what social welfare is for....Any other changes in Social Welfare Bills which make it more difficult or make it impossible for them
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1979-03-14/4/
14 Mar 1979 -
Because the Social Welfare Bill can be introduced in the House separately from the Finance Bill the House...There are a great deal of other major items in the social welfare field which still have not been attended...The people who fare best under the social welfare code are, as the Minister was at pains to point out...I outlined at the beginning of my contribution how social welfare beneficiaries fell behind during 1978...welfare beneficiaries were merely to return to the relative position they held in 1977.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2014-06-05/27/
5 Jun 2014 -
of social welfare and pension reforms....The legislation proposes to address the problem of social welfare payments being fraudulently claimed...The second objective of the Bill is to strengthen control of social welfare overpayments and extend the...I am glad to see that the area of identification by social welfare recipients has been improved upon...The Bill also includes changes in liability for PRSI to broaden the PRSI base, thus supporting the Social
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1964-06-24/5/
24 Jun 1964 -
An Leas-Cheann Comhairle It is not a matter for the Minister for Social Welfare.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2018-11-29/35/
29 Nov 2018 -
Deputy Joan Collins The social welfare appeals office.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1951-04-04/54/
4 Apr 1951 -
Minister for Social Welfare (Mr. Norton) It will reverse that policy.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1989-05-25/5/
25 May 1989 -
Minister for Social Welfare (Dr. Woods) In a previous Government.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1988-03-09/25/
9 Mar 1988 -
Minister for Social Welfare (Dr. Woods) The figure is 15,000 and they are not in.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1972-07-06/3/
6 Jul 1972 -
Minister for Social Welfare (Mr. J. Brennan) It is £35.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1975-03-05/23/
5 Mar 1975 -
Minister for Social Welfare (Mr. Corish) On Tuesday, by agreement.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2010-07-06/7/
6 Jul 2010 -
Senator Dan Boyle I have one minute to change the social welfare system. I am grateful for that.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1981-03-11/3/
11 Mar 1981 -
The Deputy is prepared to jeopardise the payment of the new rates of social welfare payments——
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1981-03-11/3/
11 Mar 1981 -
Minister for Social Welfare (Dr. Woods) No, it is not true.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2005-12-14/37/
14 Dec 2005 -
Stanton Now that Deputy Penrose has given us a full run through the social welfare code——
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2010-12-09/17/
9 Dec 2010 -
Deputy Joanna Tuffy The Labour Party identified savings that could be made that did not involve social...welfare cuts.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1988-03-08/17/
8 Mar 1988 -
Minister for Social Welfare (Dr.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1978-11-09/4/
9 Nov 1978 -
An Leas-Cheann Comhairle Certain health benefits come under social welfare, such as glasses, teeth
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1952-03-25/17/
25 Mar 1952 -
Minister for Social Welfare (Dr.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1979-03-07/3/
7 Mar 1979 -
Minister for Social Welfare (Mr.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1980-11-18/25/
18 Nov 1980 -
Leas-Cheann Comhairle All the Chair is worried about is that we will get into a full-scale debate on social...welfare.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1984-03-28/4/
28 Mar 1984 -
The Minister should send a further reminder to offices throughout the country about this aspect of social...welfare.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1991-03-14/3/
14 Mar 1991 -
welfare....I welcome the Minister's proposal under section 54 that deductions be made from social welfare payments...and passed on to the ESB or local authority to cover bills....People in receipt of social welfare benefits find it extremely difficult to put together monthly instalments...of the Commission on Social Welfare.
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Debate: Select Committee On Social Protection
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_social_protection/2016-11-17/3/
17 Nov 2016 -
welfare payments and shall bring forward a report to the Committee on Social Protection on same within...3 months of this Bill being enacted...Protection on same within 3 months of this Bill being enacted...Protection on same within 3 months of this Bill being enacted...Protection on same within 3 months of this Bill being enacted
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1989-03-07/26/
7 Mar 1989 -
Wallace I am pleased to have this opportunity to speak to the Social Welfare Bill, 1989....lowest social welfare payments....have made a range of improvements in the social welfare system....This is a real transfer of resources to those in receipt of social welfare payments....position of those in receipt of social welfare payments.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-03-12/4/
12 Mar 1986 -
Minister for Social Welfare (Mrs....a long debate on it when the report of the Commission on Social Welfare is brought before us....Of course the state of the public finances has had its impact on social welfare payments....the very many social welfare regulations which now exist....We had the Social Welfare Consolidation Bill of 1981 and much legislation since.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1994-03-02/5/
2 Mar 1994 -
In addition, a wide range of improved and new social welfare payments are proposed....The 10 per cent increase in social welfare payments for those in receipt of disability or unemployment...system in that, where necessary, they allow access by social welfare inspectors to employment records...While means tests are necessary for the proper implementation of social welfare systems they have often...A certain degree of complexity cannot be avoided in drafting social welfare provisions because of the
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1992-04-03/3/
3 Apr 1992 -
I have asked my officials since I took up office in the Department of Social Welfare to find a social...This has to be examined regardless of who is Minister for Social Welfare....Welfare Bill are quite small but I am not afraid to put down a marker to indicate the way things will...The gross cost of social welfare and the net cost to the Exchequer are growing enormously....Welfare Bill.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-02-22/7/
22 Feb 2001 -
welfare payments and the different arrangements made for carers in the tax and social welfare systems...I accept the structural problems within the social welfare system cannot be remedied in one Bill....Has the Minister a view on the individualisation of social welfare payments?...Does the Minister have an equality strategy for social welfare?...There is no coherence in the Bill between social welfare and tax policies on caring.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-02-21/21/
21 Feb 2001 -
Obviously, if there are fewer people to pull from the social welfare budget, then those on social welfare...The £850 million package provided by the Government in budget 2001 for social welfare improvements is...This means that people dependent on social welfare will benefit, this year, from increases of between...This Bill highlights the Government's continuing commitment to those in society who depend on social...I congratulate the Minister for his work in reforming and improving our social welfare system.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2015-11-04/25/
4 Nov 2015 -
welfare....Portugal and Greece were in a similar situation and many of their social welfare payments have been cut...In comparison, the Government here maintained basic social welfare rates during that period and continues...Thankfully, it maintained a massively strong social welfare safety net throughout the financial crisis...I commend the Bill to the House.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1987-03-24/66/
24 Mar 1987 -
Minister for Social Welfare (Dr....credited in the contribution years 1971-72, 1972-73 and 1973-74 and had only 15 contributions paid by 1977...not entitled to payment or the award of credits on unemployment and disability benefit claims from 1977
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Debate: Select Committee On Social And Family Affairs
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_social_and_family_affairs/2010-06-28/2/
28 Jun 2010 -
Deputy Róisín Shortall The difference is that the social welfare appeals office is supposed to be an...independent office, that is, independent of the Department of Social Protection....The person need not know the first thing about social welfare or have any experience in a relevant area
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-02-22/7/
22 Feb 2001 -
Healy The Social Welfare Bill continues the incomes policy of the Government since it came to office...Between 1997, when the Government came to office, and 2001, for every £1 increase in social welfare rates...Unfortunately, this Social Welfare Bill does not do that....If those commitments were implemented, social welfare increases of £14 per week for a single person and...To raise all social welfare payments to the recommended poverty line income would have cost about an
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-12-11/39/
11 Dec 2001 -
Broughan —and social welfare incomes is a devastating indictment of the Ministers for Finance and Social...CORI pointed out that Ireland spends a lower proportion of GNP, 17.5%, on social inclusion than any other...Nowhere in the Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2001, is the Government's heartless attitude to pensioners...ideological and phoney parameters he set himself in 1997, his eyes greedily fell on the surplus in the social...The raiding of 635 million from the fund means that the net real increase in social welfare this year
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1995-04-04/12/
4 Apr 1995 -
Section 24B of the Principal Act (inserted by section 4 of the Social Welfare (No. 2) Act, 1993) will...bring about equity in our society and coming to terms with the recommendations of the Commission on Social...Welfare should be laid before the Oireachtas.
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Debate: Select Committee On Family, Community And Social Affairs
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_family_community_and_social_affairs/1999-03-10/2/
10 Mar 1999 -
Deputy Higgins rightly raised the prospect that, inevitably, if social welfare inspectors were preparing...or vans at random, they would most likely go to certain working class areas in which there is high social...welfare dependency.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1965-07-07/53/
7 Jul 1965 -
I do not encourage the writing of these but it is a fact that social welfare officers are in duty bound...I have certainly no intention of instructing social welfare officers to ignore them.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-02-21/23/
21 Feb 2001 -
People on basic social welfare incomes, such as widow's pension and disability allowance, got an increase...I cannot find mention in either the Social Welfare Bill or in the Finance Bill – though it was announced...I do not know whether it comes under any social welfare heading but I cannot find it in the Finance Bill...welfare Bills have their rents increased by local authorities....I welcome the increase provided for in the budget and the Social Welfare Bill.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1977-11-09/11/
9 Nov 1977 -
Obviously this Bill is the result of protracted negotiations....congratulated for the successful outcome of these negotiations which appears before us in the form of this Bill...We ask them also to be public relations officers, social workers, brilliant detectives, guardians of...He said that more than 50 per cent of their work was social work for which they were not trained....I welcome the Bill because anything which updates the very outmoded machinery concerning the Garda must
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1987-04-02/20/
2 Apr 1987 -
There are like changes under the social assistance payments listed in sections 3 and 4 of the Bill....Maybe in the future we might want to have, and it might be to the advantage of social welfare recipients...to have, arrangements in relation to social welfare for a longer period than one year and more than...welfare payments....as promised by the Department of Social Welfare to the Ombudsman in his report of 1986 from which I
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1974-06-12/43/
12 Jun 1974 -
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Social Welfare (Mr....Welfare....During his contribution Deputy Faulkner made some extraordinary statements in relation to this Bill....welfare benefits....The Deputy said that any increase in social welfare payments that have been granted since the change
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1971-07-07/4/
7 Jul 1971 -
Brennan The numbers employed in the Department of Social Welfare are comparatively small and if Deputies...The Department of Social Welfare carry out a volume of work which is repetitive, which must be done and...welfare scheme into it....Three years ago I was at a social welfare conference in Austria and all the advanced welfare States,...welfare.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1996-03-12/177/
12 Mar 1996 -
I have commenced this process in the Social Welfare Bill, 1996 which provides for a new method of assessing...The Bill provides that the first £2,000 of capital will be disregarded, the next £20,000 will be assessed
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-03-19/3/
19 Mar 1986 -
It will discriminate in favour of low income families and those dependent on social welfare....When it becomes fully implemented it will prove to be a more socially acceptable form of children's allowances...The scheme in existence was never regarded as being quite fair in social justice, and this is a major
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1982-05-13/45/
13 May 1982 -
Minister for Social Welfare (Dr....If the person concerned is experiencing difficulty in meeting any fuel bills for the earlier part of...the winter it is open to him to apply to the community welfare officer at his local centre for assistance...under the supplementary welfare allowances scheme. 629.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1975-11-19/4/
19 Nov 1975 -
Under the terms of this Bill it is possible that people already in receipt of social welfare benefit
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1983-03-23/6/
23 Mar 1983 -
Mac Giolla : In his winding-up speech yesterday the Minister for Social Welfare was particularly scathing...There is evidence in The Way Forward of the type of Bill which they would have brought in.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1984-12-13/3/
13 Dec 1984 -
Pattison We are dealing with section 3 of the Bill which proposes to change certain aspects of the social...welfare legislation in order to enable people to take up certain types of employment and to enable them
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1983-03-24/9/
24 Mar 1983 -
It is most unfair to this House that a Bill like this should be thrown at us a few days before it becomes...agreed to come here on Tuesday so that we could have a full discussion on the Committee Stage of the Social...Welfare Bill.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1997-03-05/20/
5 Mar 1997 -
Broughan I warmly welcome the Social Welfare Bill, 1997, and its excellent introduction to the House...He reviewed the outstanding progress made by the Government in developing the social welfare system and...welfare, which is astonishing because that party's main remit is to dismantle the social insurance system...I welcome the general increase of 5 per cent in social welfare payments, some of which are still too...The Government has attempted to raise them to the rates recommended by the Commission on Social Welfare
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1989-05-25/5/
25 May 1989 -
Woods The Deputy has raised the question of other categories in the social welfare code....welfare code....The Commission on Social Welfare set out certain criteria: the criterion of need, the 1.6 rate for couples...However, the review group will go beyond that and will make an indepth analysis of social welfare....welfare code.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1978-04-25/35/
25 Apr 1978 -
Minister for Social Welfare (Mr....Employer £ £ £ 1976 (Provisional) 7,796,000 15,592,000 16,027,000 1977
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1978-05-16/39/
16 May 1978 -
O'Keeffe asked the Minister for Social Welfare why a person (details supplied) in County Cork, has not...been paid his old age pension for which he applied in August 1977; and when he may expect to receive
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1977-11-30/53/
30 Nov 1977 -
Minister for Social Welfare (Mr....Haughey) The person concerned was informed by letter on the 28th November, 1977, that he is entitled
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1977-10-13/38/
13 Oct 1977 -
Haughey Under the provisions of the Social Welfare Act, 1977, the qualifying age for this pension has
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1985-05-29/60/
29 May 1985 -
Minister for Social Welfare (Mr. B....as follows: Year Amount £ 1970-74 nil 1975 630 1976 12,775 1977...include the cost of any current or previous consultancies undertaken on behalf of the Commission on Social...Welfare or the former National Committee on Pilot Schemes to Combat Poverty in pursuance of their remit...under the aegis of the Minister for Social Welfare.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1955-11-24/8/
24 Nov 1955 -
The gesture will indicate to these people that they have, in the Minister for Social Welfare and in the...smirking but Fianna Fáil were in office for almost 20 years and not until we got a Labour Minister for Social...Welfare was it ever thought of in this country to send a Christmas box to the aged and less fortunate...Now I believe Fianna Fáil may be converted to the idea that it is only from the present Minister for Social...Welfare and his associates in the Government that this type of thing would come forward.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2005-03-01/19/
1 Mar 2005 -
It is provided for in the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act 1993....of subsection (8)( a ) of Part II of the Third Schedule of that Act, as amended by section 3 of the Social...Welfare Act 1999....It is time to simplify the gobbledegook in social welfare legislation.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1993-05-12/9/
12 May 1993 -
Would the Minister not agree that circulars sent to the health boards in relation to the supplementary welfare...payments, despite what the Minister is saying now, despite what he promised in the House during the Social...Welfare Bill——
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1981-11-10/12/
10 Nov 1981 -
It is proposed to pay a double payment to all recipients of long-term social welfare payments in the...The necessary Bill to give effect to these proposals will be introduced shortly.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1984-05-02/73/
2 May 1984 -
Fitzgerald asked the Minister for Social Welfare the reason the Eastern Health Board decided to withdraw...a rent allowance of £5.00 per week and assistance in the payment of gas bills for a person (details
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1986-03-25/5/
25 Mar 1986 -
changes in social welfare services....In that context she referred to the forthcoming report of the Commission on Social Welfare....in relation to appeals under the social welfare code....Therefore, almost half the complaints were against the Department of Social Welfare....For a long time—this is reflected in our social welfare code—this was not real law at all.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1993-05-18/75/
18 May 1993 -
Minister for Social Welfare (Dr....and free natural gas allowance schemes operated by my Department are available only to recipients of social...welfare type pensions who are living alone or only with certain exempted persons....Where the allocation of free units in any one billing period is not fully utilised, the surplus can be...carried forward to the next billing period.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2009-12-10/27/
10 Dec 2009 -
Deputy George Lee I am terribly disappointed that we are introducing a social welfare Bill that for...the first time in living memory cuts social welfare payments to the poor and the most vulnerable, and...The cuts in social welfare payments are between 3.5% and 4.2% but the reduction in the social welfare...or social welfare support....I accept the social welfare bill at €21 billion is very high and that something had to be done to contain
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-05-18/26/
18 May 2006 -
Lenihan The supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which is administered by the community welfare division...of the Health Service Executive on behalf of the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, provides for...This requirement is set out in the Social Welfare Act and has been a feature of the scheme since it was...established in 1977....concerned would not have an entitlement to rent supplement from the date of her marriage as, under social
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2011-06-15/22/
15 Jun 2011 -
Deputy Barry Cowen We are dealing with this Social Welfare and Pensions Bill....party and an elected representative to this Dáil I am charged with the responsibility of examining this Bill...I am simply saying that the Minister is the Minister for Social Protection, and I commend her on the...If the Minister wants to reiterate the fact in regard to social welfare rates, that is her prerogative
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Debate: Select Committee On Social Affairs
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_social_affairs/1993-12-02/2/
2 Dec 1993 -
Chairman The main purpose of the Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill, 1993, is to provide for a special scheme...of social insurance for share fishermen....Part II provides for the optional scheme of social insurance for share fishermen....These records will be available for inspection by social welfare inspectors....for Social Welfare, amendments have also been tabled by Deputy Doyle, Deputy Allen and Deputy Clohessy
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1985-03-13/13/
13 Mar 1985 -
in the social welfare categories do not fall further behind in living standards....This can be gauged from the figures in respect of social welfare....For instance, each day of the year about £6 million is spent on social welfare, while there are about...The document produced by the Department of Social Welfare entitled Statistical Information on Social...of resources to a wide range of social welfare schemes.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1999-03-04/10/
4 Mar 1999 -
Ahern The Deputy is no doubt aware that the current social welfare system is very complex and wide-ranging...As a result the social welfare system has become complex....Such reform of the social welfare system is clearly not capable of being achieved overnight....Furthermore, I have taken the opportunity in this year's Social Welfare Bill to introduce a more comprehensive...For example, during the course of the Second Stage of the Social Welfare Bill last week I indicated to
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1974-06-26/5/
26 Jun 1974 -
West I wish to speak briefly on this Bill....Welfare Bill, 1973....It concerns the categorisation as far as social welfare is concerned, of the clergy....welfare system....the field of social welfare.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1978-03-08/27/
8 Mar 1978 -
In 1976 the Minister and his colleagues complained bitterly because the social welfare and health increases...As a result, the increases for 1977 were outlined during the budget speech, and I am saying that should...The increases last autumn came about as an adjustment to keep social welfare beneficiaries in line with...was not well last week and the House ought to thank him for his presence today to ensure that the Bill
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2013-01-18/2/
18 Jan 2013 -
This is the difference between what is proposed in the Bill and what happened in the two previous social...The Bill presents a practical way of making a saving of €55 million in the Department of Social Protection...The so-called welfare police could be redeployed back into social welfare offices to process claims....The social welfare amnesty is just one proposal in Sinn Féin's reform agenda....In some cases this is because the person no longer receives a social welfare payment.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2005-02-23/23/
23 Feb 2005 -
The company calculated its latest bills to include an extra ten days in the last month which created...many problems for people on social welfare benefits....What if these social welfare recipients informed the Department that it had made the mistake and they
