Committee Reports > List of Committees > Joint > 1976 > Committee on the Secondary Legislation of the European Communities > Report No. 56 - Equal Treatment for Workers in Social Security Matters

IMEACHTAÍ AN CHOMHCHOISTE

PROCEEDINGS OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE

Dé Céadaoin, 4 Bealtaine, 1977

Wednesday, 4th May, 1977

1. The Joint Committee met at 4.15 p.m.

2. Members Present.

The following members were present:

Deputies Haughey (in the Chair), Desmond, Dockrell, Esmonde, Staunton; Senators Higgins and Robinson.

3. Draft Report on Proposed Directive on the Progressive Implementation of Equal Treatment for Men and Women Workers in matters of Social Security.

The Chairman brought forward a Draft Report which was read as follows:—

(i) Sections 1 to 3 inclusive, agreed to.

(ii) Section 4.

Amendment proposed (Senator Robinson):

“In page 7 to delete the final sentence of the second paragraph and substitute the following:—

‘In the Committee’s view Member States should also be entitled to provide in national laws that allowances for the same dependants cannot be claimed by more than one claimant’.”

Amendment agreed to.

Amendment proposed (Senator Robinson):

“In page 8 to delete the final sentence of the first paragraph and substitute the following:—

‘Nevertheless the Joint Committee believes that the principle of equality of treatment requires that there be no differentiation on the grounds of sex in the rates of pensions payable under such schemes and it considers that this should be achieved without any impairment of benefits at present enjoyed under the schemes’.”

Amendment agreed to, Deputy Esmonde dissenting.

Section, as amended, agreed to.

(iii) Section 5 agreed to.

Draft Report, as amended, agreed to.

Ordered: To report accordingly.

4. Adjournment.

The Joint Committee adjourned at 5.40 p.m.