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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (28 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on the...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Planning Issues (28 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 506 to 509, inclusive, together. My Department has legislative responsibility for local authority burial grounds, however the actual operation of burial grounds (cemeteries) is the responsibility of the local authorities. Under the Local Government (Sanitary Services) Acts, 1878 to 2001, local authorities are deemed to be burial boards for their...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (28 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 510 and 511 together. My Department operates a range of programmes and schemes that support economic and community development in urban and rural areas throughout the country, including the towns of Nenagh and Clonmel. The targeted investments and supports which my Department provides to regional, rural and local communities promote social inclusion, rural...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (28 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The 2024 CLÁR programme was launched on the 12th April last with a total budget of €8.7 million. The measures being funded under CLÁR 2024 are: measure 1 Developing Community Facilities & Amenities; measure 2 Mobility, Cancer Care, First Responder and Meals on Wheels Transport; and, measure 3: Our Islands Since the programme was relaunched in 2016, CLÁR has...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (28 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I launched Ireland’s National Outdoor Recreation Strategy, Embracing Ireland’s Outdoors, in November 2022. It provides a strategic, collaborative framework to facilitate the consolidation and sustainable growth of the outdoor recreation sector. The strategy addresses the challenges facing the sector as well as putting structures in place to allow us enjoy the many economic,...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (28 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Community Recognition Fund was first introduced in 2023 to recognise the huge efforts made by communities in welcoming and supporting people coming to Ireland. Through the 2023 allocation, funding of €50 million was approved for some 900 projects providing support to cities, towns and villages nationwide who have welcomed people from Ukraine and other countries. To...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (28 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: My Department provides a range of supports which are available to Men's and Women’s Sheds. Since 2018, under the Community Enhancement Programme (CEP), over 1,300 Men’s Shed projects have received funding of over €2.2 million, and almost 120 Women’s Shed projects received almost €145,000 in funding. I was delighted to launch the Local Enhancement...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Regeneration Projects (28 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Town Centre First Policy is a major cross-government policy that aims to tackle vacancy, combat dereliction and breathe new life into our town centres. It supports the Our Rural Future vision for a thriving rural Ireland which is integral to our national economic, social, cultural and environmental wellbeing and development. A key aim of both of these policies is addressing vacancy...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (28 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The 2024 CLÁR programme was launched on the 12th April last with a total budget of €8.7 million. This was an increase of €900,000 on the 2023 allocation. The measures being funded under CLÁR 2024 are: Measure 1: Developing Community Facilities & Amenities (funding up to €50,000) Measure 2: Mobility, Cancer Care, First Responder and Meals on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (23 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The person concerned is in receipt of state pension (contributory) (SPC) at the maximum weekly rate of €277.70. They are also in receipt of an increase for a qualified adult (IQA) in respect of their spouse at the weekly rate of €70.00. The person concerned has weekly deductions of €41.60 from their SPC for the recovery of an overpayment totalling €95,152.52...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (23 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: State pension non-contributory is a means-tested payment for people aged 66 and over, habitually residing in the State, who do not qualify for a State pension contributory, or who only qualify for a reduced rate contributory pension based on their social insurance record. Recipients of state pension non-contributory are obliged to notify the Department of any changes in their...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (23 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: To qualify for state pension (contributory) a person must have at least 520 full-rate social insurance (PRSI) contributions paid since entering insurable employment. If this condition is met, the rate of payment is then calculated using the ‘Yearly Average’ method and the ‘Total Contributions Approach’. According to the records of my department, the person...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's Allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. If a person is in receipt of another Social Welfare payment in their own right (other than unemployment payments or...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: In order to receive a jobseeker's payment a person must satisfy the conditions for the scheme including being capable of, available for and genuinely seeking full time work. A persons last employer may be contacted in circumstances where additional information is required in order for their jobseekers to be processed and a decision made on their claim. All jobseeker applicants are required...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Advertising (23 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: For this response, I have interpreted online/digital media to include programmatic and social media advertising. My Department administers more than 90 separate schemes and services, which affect the lives of almost every person in the State. The department is committed to ensuring that members of the public are fully aware of the welfare supports and services that are available, as well as...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (23 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: My Department provides a suite of income supports for those who are unable to work due to an illness or disability. These include contributory payments based on PRSI contributions, such as Illness Benefit and Invalidity Pension, and non-contributory payments based on a means test, such as Disability Allowance and Blind Pension. Disability Allowance is the only Social Welfare payment which...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (23 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: To qualify for state pension (contributory) a person must have at least 520 full-rate social insurance (PRSI) contributions paid since entering insurable employment. 520 full-rate contributions equate to 10 years of full-rate insurable employment. According to the records of my department, the person concerned has a total of 61 full-rate contributions. From the information provided to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: There is a range of supports provided by the Community Welfare Service (CWS) under the Supplementary Welfare Allowance (SWA) scheme. These supports can consist of a basic weekly payment, a weekly or monthly supplement in respect of certain expenses, as well as single Additional Needs Payments (ANPs). The Department may make an ANP to help meet essential expenditure which an eligible...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Carer’s Support Grant (CSG) is an annual payment made to full-time carers who satisfy certain conditions. The person claiming the CSG must: Be aged 16 or over and ordinarily resident in this State Care for the person on a full-time basis Care for the person for a continuous period of at least six months – this period must include the first Thursday in June (1st June...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (23 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: State pension (non-contributory) is a means-tested payment for people aged 66 and over, who have a legal right of residence and habitually reside in the state, and who do not qualify for a state pension contributory, or only qualify for a reduced-rate contributory pension based on their social insurance record. Following previous representations from the Deputy in this matter, on 19 June...