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Wednesday 21 October 2020
There had been calls for the school meals programme to be extended over the summer.
It follows a cabinet meeting today.
Last month, Debenhams announced it would not be reopening its stores, leaving 2,000 staff unemployed.
Social protection minister Regina Doherty said she would hope construction workers would be returning to work soon.
Up to now, parents could only register the births of their children in person.
The social protection minister admitted that some students might be receiving more from the scheme than they would normally have earned.
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“We’re trying to do in a number of days [what] would probably take months, if not years, to set up,” Regina Doherty explained.
The government is working on a number of options regarding the payment, Regina Doherty said.
Minister Regina Doherty said 43,000 of those applications have been processed so far.
The Minister for Social Protection was speaking on RTÉ Radio One this morning.
Doherty’s party colleague Helen McEntee was re-elected.
Solidarity-People Before Profit’s Ruth Coppinger has lost her seat.
‘As a last resort’ Varadkar said he’ll go into government with Fianna Fail to avoid another election.
The claim was criticised by Sinn Féin who called it “false and misleading”.
Pensioners and people with disabilities who are living alone are the main cohort of social welfare recipients to benefit.
The proposed introduction was initially deferred because of uncertainty over Brexit.
The two private companies operating JobPath have been paid €207m.
There were testy exchanges between the minister and committee members in the Oireachtas this morning.
The cost of the Christmas bonus this year will be €279.4 million.
Changes to the State pension in 2012 meant carers who took time off work received less in their State pension.
It comes as Fine Gael members voted for a review of the Dun Laoghaire election candidates following ‘Swing-gate’.
The slogan “arbeit macht frei” is known for appearing on the entrance of Auschwitz.
Several carers spoke today about the huge amount of work they do looking after loved ones.
In 2018, a total of 61,901 births were registered in Ireland, down from 62,919 the year previous.
Minster Regina Doherty said women often lack the “confidence and belief in themselves” to return to work after a long period of time.
The minister says she has no choice but to appeal the findings in court.
Controversy has overshadowed the scheme over the years due to complaints from users of the service.
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Chairperson John McGuinness says committee wants to discuss the cost of the PSC to date.
The long-awaited report into the card was published yesterday evening.
A long-awaited probe into the legality of the card was published this evening.
The Department aims to save €530 million by tackling fraud over the next four years.
The Taoiseach confirmed that the government has yet to file any court documents appealing findings by the Data Protection Commissioner.
The government is in a showdown with the Data Protection Commissioner over a report on the legality of the PSC.
The government has said this week it will not be implementing the findings of the Data Protection Commissioner.
The DPC ruled that there was no legal basis for the Government to process data for the card last month.
Minister Regina Doherty said 11 days ago the report would be published once her department had considered it.
Facial recognition is highlighted a number of times across the circulars issued to civil servants on the PSC.
The findings by the Data Protection Commissioner open up the possibility of legal action from PSC holders, solicitors say.
Over 3.2 million people have been issued a Public Services Card, better known as the mandatory-not-compulsory PSC.
THE IRISH FARMERS Association has urged Irish MEPs to vote to ban words traditionally linked to meat products from being used on vegetarian alternatives.
The European Parliament is to vote this week on the terminology used for plant-based meat and dairy substitutes.
Amendments put forward would restrict the naming of such products so that they could not use terms normally associated with meat products.
One amendment would curtail the use of terms such as ‘steak’, ‘sausage’, ‘escalope’, ‘burger’ or ‘hamburger’ on products that do not exclusively contain meat.
The IFA has written to MEPs urging them to accept both amendments to protect Irish consumers and the agricultural industry here.
IFA President Tim Cullinan said yesterday that dairy products or plant-based meat branded with ‘real’ meat descriptions is “deliberately misleading to our consumers and undermines our industry.”
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