Enacted Stage in the legislative process — click for what it means 36/2024 Official bill number / year
Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024
- Sponsor
- Minister for Social Protection
- Introduced
- 23 May 2024
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2024
What this bill does AI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Introduces Jobseeker's Pay-Related Benefit for newly unemployed workers, paying 60% of previous earnings (max €450/week) for up to 39 weeks if they have 260+ PRSI contributions.
- Increases PRSI rates cumulatively by 0.7 percentage points from 2024 to 2028, and raises self-employment minimum annual payment from €500 to €650.
- Makes Jobseeker's Pay-Related Benefit taxable; allows Criminal Assets Bureau to seize social welfare overpayments; adjusts public service pensions for paternity and parents' benefits.
Stage timeline What do these stages mean?
- First Stage 33rd Dáil23 May 2024
- Second Stage 33rd Dáil30 May 2024
- Committee Stage 33rd Dáil30 May 2024
- Report Stage 33rd Dáil26 Jun 2024
- Fifth Stage 33rd Dáil26 Jun 2024
- Second Stage 26th Seanad2 Jul 2024
- Committee Stage 26th Seanad9 Jul 2024
- Report Stage 26th Seanad9 Jul 2024
- Fifth Stage 26th Seanad9 Jul 2024
- Enacted15 Jul 2024
Debates
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