Alice-Mary Higgins

To secure more inclusive, constructive and well resourced social protection, education and training and employment policies and outcomes.

The design of the new Affordable Childcare Scheme (ACS) to take account of the realities of the sector, that it address sustainability and professionalisation, that it is easy for providers to administer and for there to be a fully developed consultation process to involve the…

Implementation of neurorehabilitation strategy

To highlight the issue of the lack of legislation which allows Solvent Companies to close walk away from their responsibilities and to close a defined benefit pension schemes.

Secure support of Seanad members for the totality of the Bill

Equal payment for all those in receipt of jobseeker's allowance::The targeted use of Mortgage Interest Supplement for those in short term mortgage arrears::The placing of the Social Welfare Appeals Office on a statutorily independent footing::The statutory underpinning of the…

A report into the possibility of restoring Mortgage Interest Supplement

The allocation of additional resources in Budget 2017 for the areas of housing, homelessness, social welfare, health services, domestic violence and services for older people to address needs identifed by COPE Galway in their day to day work.

to introduce tax justice into Cabinet and Oireachtas considerations on Apple ruling

Introduction of new legislation preventing solvent schemes from winding up Definied Benefit pension schemes without proper funding