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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Paternity Benefit is payable for 2 weeks to employed and self-employed fathers who are on Paternity Leave from their employment and who satisfy certain PRSI conditions on their own insurance record. The leave can be taken within 26 weeks after the birth of the child. The main provisions relating to Paternity Benefit are the Paternity Leave and Benefit Act 2016, Section 241(2)(e) and Section...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's Benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce or reduce their working hours to care for a child or an adult in need of full-time care and attention. To qualify, the carer must satisfy PRSI conditions, employment conditions, show that they are providing full-time care and attention and show that the care recipient requires full-time care and attention. ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The spouse of the person concerned is in receipt of the state pension (contributory). He is also in receipt of an increase for a qualified adult (IQA) in respect of the person concerned. The application for IQA was received on 1 December 2023 and awarded from this date. A request for a review, in relation to backdating of the IQA was received. Following a review, the IQA entitlement...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The objective of the School Meals Programme is to provide regular, nutritious food to children to support them in taking full advantage of the education provided to them. The programme is an important component of policies to encourage school attendance and extra educational achievement. Following the expansion of the Programme in recent years, some 2,600 schools and organisations, covering...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The extension of Child Benefit to 18-year-olds in full-time education was one of my key priorities as part of Budget 2024. The measure is expected to benefit approximately 60,000 18-year-olds each year at an estimated cost of €43.2 million in 2024. The extension of the scheme takes effect from this month. The qualifying conditions for receipt of payment of Child Benefit for home...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 322 and 323 together. The objective of the School Meals Programme is to provide regular, nutritious food to children to support them in taking full advantage of the education provided to them. The programme is an important component of policies to encourage school attendance and extra educational achievement. Following the expansion of the programme in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 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: Social Welfare Benefits (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The person concerned applied for Jobseekers Benefit from 13th March 2024 and the claim was initially disallowed on 2nd April 2024. Following receipt of further information pertaining to the application a review of the decision to disallow the application was carried out. A new decision has issued to the person concerned advising that their application has been processed and their claim for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Disability Allowance (DA) is a weekly allowance paid to people with a specified disability who are aged 16 or over and under the age of 66. This disability must be expected to last for at least one year and the allowance is subject to a medical assessment, means test and Habitual Residency conditions. I confirm that my Department received an application for DA from the person concerned...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (8 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 system is underpinned by Chapter 2 of Part 10 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act, 2005 and the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Government acknowledges the valuable role that family carers play and is fully committed to supporting carers in that role. This commitment is recognised in both the Programme for Government and the National Carers’ Strategy. The main income supports to carers provided by my department are Carer’s Allowance, Carer’s Benefit, Domiciliary Care Allowance and the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Educational Disadvantage (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The objective of the School Meals Programme is to provide regular, nutritious food to children to support them in taking full advantage of the education provided to them. The programme is an important component of policies to encourage school attendance and extra educational achievement. Following the expansion of the programme in recent years, some 2,600 schools and organisations, covering...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The objective of the School Meals Programme is to provide regular, nutritious food to children to support them in taking full advantage of the education provided to them. The programme is an important component of policies to encourage school attendance and extra educational achievement. Following the expansion of the programme in recent years, some 2,600 schools and organisations, covering...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: As previously advised, officials in my Department are currently reviewing this person's backdated entitlement to Disability Allowance, beyond the current award date. An information request was sent to the person concerned on 30 April 2024, requesting that they provide their partner's last payslip for the year ending 2022 and 2023. They were also requested to provide bank statements for all...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (8 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. I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer, having fully considered all of the available...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: My Department has provided funding for vehicles for community first responder groups through the CLÁR programme since 2022. The CLÁR Programme provides funding under a number of different measures for small-scale infrastructural projects in designated rural areas that have experienced significant levels of depopulation over a defined period. I launched the CLÁR 2024...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Staff (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: There are no employees currently suspended from my Department on full pay pending disciplinary investigations. There are four organisations under the aegis of my Department. These are Pobal, Water Safety Ireland, the Western Development Commission and the Charities Regulator. No employee of any of these organisations are currently suspended on full pay pending disciplinary investigations.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: European Union (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: My Department does not pay into any EU programmes or funds. I would note that EU funding is made available to my Department through schemes included in the multi-annual financial framework, namely, the LEADER Programme, the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), and the PEACEPLUS Programme.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The LEADER Programme is a key intervention of Our Rural Future, the Government’s Policy for rural development which aims to deliver a range of actions to rural communities over the lifetime of the policy. It is delivered through Local Action Groups (LAGs) across rural Ireland. The programme is based on a community-led approach to rural development and plays an important role in...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (8 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Since the launch of the Town and Village Renewal Scheme in 2016, over €177 million has been allocated to almost 1,800 projects. The 2023 Scheme placed particular emphasis on projects that bring economic and social vibrancy to town centres in line with Government policies, and which will encourage more people into town and village centres to work, shop and socialise. The Town and...