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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Policies (1 Dec 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ...of customer due diligence. The guidance is available on their website - bpfi.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Final-BPFI-Guide-to-Openi ng-Bank-Accounts-in-Ireland-for-Protection-Applicants-Final. pdf. This guidance indicates that while passport and EU or Irish driving licence are accepted as standard forms of proof of identity, a bank will accept alternative documents as proof of identity,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (1 Dec 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ...will typical expire shortly after the conclusion of the course. The person will then need to apply for an employment permit, leave the state or seek a change of permission to a Stamp 1G. A Stamp 1G indicates that a person has permission to look for employment in the State under the Third Level Graduate Programme. When an applicant has completed their studies in Ireland and gained an award...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ...every week, often with very short duration claims. For example, between July and September 2022, almost 115,000 Illness Benefit claims were awarded and, of these, only 21,000 remain in payment. This indicates a churn of 82% over just a three-month period. The average duration of a claim for Illness Benefit is only 6 days. I do appreciate however that individual circumstances can...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ...every week, often with very short duration claims. For example, between July and September 2022, almost 115,000 Illness Benefit claims were awarded and, of these, only 21,000 remain in payment. This indicates a churn of 82% over just a three-month period. The average duration of a claim for Illness Benefit is only 6 days. In addition, many Illness Benefit payments are paid directly...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (29 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: .... The duration of claims is often very short. For example, between July and September 2022, almost 115,000 Illness Benefit claims were awarded and, of these, only 21,000 remain in payment. This indicates a churn of 82% over just a three-month period. The average duration of a claim for Illness Benefit is only 6 days. In addition, many Illness Benefit payments are paid directly to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (29 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ...every week, often with very short duration claims. For example, between July and September 2022, almost 115,000 Illness Benefit claims were awarded and, of these, only 21,000 remain in payment. This indicates a churn of 82% over just a three-month period. The average duration of a claim for Illness Benefit is only 6 days. I do appreciate however that individual circumstances can...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (29 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ...as carried out for a legitimate interest and that Article 6(1) (f) of the GDPR does not make the processing of personal data of a child for the purposes of direct marketing unlawful. The Commission also indicated that subject to Article 22 (automated decision-making), processing of personal data of a child for the purposes of profiling is not generally prohibited, albeit the processing...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: State Bodies (29 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ...provision for the Bureau to seize assets that were generated in foreign jurisdictions. This Act enables the Bureau to cooperate fully with other international asset recovery agencies. The table below, provided by CAB, indicates the total value of assets and cash seized by the Bureau for the years 2011-2021. Year Section 2 Interim Orders EURO Section 2 Interim...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ...by the committee for projected 2022 social protection spending. This Estimate was based on Government decisions that had been made at the time. Although it was anticipated that Covid-19 impacts were receding, there was no indication that a few short weeks later, the war in Ukraine would start. This led to very significant additional Department spending both directly, through a range of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Redundancy Payments (22 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ...in October 2022 and was the Employer Annual Debt Statement. This correspondence issues to all Employers who may have a debt liability to the Social Insurance Fund with respect to a redundancy payment and indicates the value of their current balance that is outstanding and asking them to make contact and engage with us. We would encourage the employer to engage with the Debt...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ...as impacting on the child's additional care needs. A completed assessment(s) from a children's disability network team or a diagnosis of a specific disability or condition does not necessarily indicate the level of care required by the child. Applications for DCA are decided by a deciding officer on a case -by-case basis, while also considering the opinion of a Departmental medical...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ...every week, often with very short duration claims. For example, between July and September 2022, almost 115,000 Illness Benefit claims were awarded and, of these, only 21,000 remain in payment. This indicates a churn of 82% over just a three-month period. The average duration of a claim for Illness Benefit is only 6 days. In addition, many Illness Benefit payments are paid directly to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (22 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ...Service has been working with 22 households there and have received applications for assistance from 18 households. 2 of these applications were deemed ineligible for the scheme. Latest figures indicate that over €28,000 has been paid to 14 households, 12 households have received assistance in full, 2 households have received partial assistance and these 2 households along with...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ...every week, often with very short duration claims. For example, between July and September 2022, almost 115,000 Illness Benefit claims were awarded and, of these, only 21,000 remain in payment. This indicates a churn of 82% over just a three-month period. The average duration of a claim for Illness Benefit is only 6 days. In addition, many Illness Benefit payments are paid directly...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (17 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ...every week, often with very short duration claims. For example, between July and September 2022, almost 115,000 Illness Benefit claims were awarded and, of these, only 21,000 remain in payment. This indicates a churn of 82% over just a three-month period. The average duration of a claim for Illness Benefit is only 6 days. In addition, many Illness Benefit payments are paid directly...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (15 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ...moving off every week, often with very short duration claims.  For example, between July and September 2022, almost 115,000 Illness Benefit claims were awarded and, of these, only 21,000 remain in payment. This indicates a churn of 82% over just a three-month period.  The average duration of a claim for Illness Benefit is only 6 days. In addition, many Illness Benefit...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (15 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ...their land, the assessment of means is designed to reflect the actual net income from farming and looks at gross income, less allowable expenses necessarily incurred. Income and expenditure figures for the preceding year are generally used as an indicator of the expected position in the following year.  However, account is taken of any exceptional circumstances so as to ensure that...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (15 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: As the Deputy will be aware, the Irish labour market has experienced a remarkable recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic.  The latest CSO Labour Force Survey figures for Q2 2022 indicate that there are over 2.55m people in employment, while the employment rate for 15-64 year olds has risen to 73.5 percent.  Both of these figures are the highest since the series began in 1998. The...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (15 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ...in an area that includes island communities will be required to identify in their LEADER strategy specific actions developed in consultation with the island communities themselves and include an indicative budget to implement such actions. In addition, a representative of the island grouping, in each sub-regional area, must be included in the decision-making body of the LAG. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (10 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ...required for the purposes of deciding the claim and attend at such office or place as an officer may direct. As the person concerned has failed to provide such documents and the evidence did not indicate that the requirement for full-time care was satisfied, the Deciding Officer (DO) has decided that the person concerned is not entitled to CA. The person concerned was notified on 19...