Written answers

Tuesday, 11 March 2014

  • Pension Provisions
    220. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the construction workers' pension fund. [11749/14]
  • Mortgage Interest Supplement Expenditure
    222. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will indicate the amount of funding that has been set aside to provide for mortgage interest supplement to homeowners who are participating...
  • Employment Support Services
    225. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons taken on in each local authority under the Gateway scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12219/14]
  • Social Insurance
    228. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there are plans to address the issue which has arisen from budget 2014, where persons who take up a Tús scheme, due to the €20 extra...
  • Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility
    229. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Illness Benefit Appeals
    230. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 is awaiting a decision since May 2013 on their appeal for long-term illness benefit. [11572/14]
  • Social Welfare Offices (1 comment)
    231. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans for the roll-out of Intreo offices in County Mayo; the services that will be available at each Intreo location in the county; the roll-out...
  • Community Welfare Services
    232. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the rationale for the centralisation of 25 community welfare offices in County Mayo into five locations; if her attention has been drawn to the...
  • Invalidity Pension Appeals
    233. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an invalidity pension appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Back to Education Allowance Appeals
    234. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 373 of 18 February 2014, the reason the person concerned was initially informed by a social protection office...
  • Carer's Allowance Appeals
    235. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an appeal against the decision not to pay carer's allowance for a period to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be reversed based...
  • Community Employment Schemes Issues
    239. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the benefits and payments due to a community employment supervisor working for the past 20 consecutive years if he or she was to retire or be made...
  • Rent Supplement Scheme Appeals
    240. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 will have their rent supplement payment restored; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Invalidity Pension Appeals
    241. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 will have their appeal for invalidity pension heard; if an oral hearing will be granted; the reason...
  • Budget 2014
    243. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the measures she intends to introduce to realise the €2.1 million spending cut in exceptional needs payments announced in Budget 2014. [11741/14]
  • Carer's Allowance Applications
    245. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a carer's allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied). [11785/14]
  • Social Welfare Fraud Investigations
    246. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of benefit fraud inspectors working in her Department her plans to employ more inspectors; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Departmental Legal Costs
    253. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will set out in tabular form, by reference each named firm, the amount paid out in respect of legal fees during 2013 by her Department to law...
  • Labour Activation Projects
    254. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason her Department invited unemployed persons to a conference in Liffey Valley and then cancelled the event; and if she will make a statement...
  • Community Employment Schemes Funding
    256. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding a family resource centre in Dublin 8; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11933/14]
  • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
    257. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Limerick was refused jobseeker's allowance when written evidence was submitted that they were...
  • Carer's Allowance Applications
    259. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress made to date in determination of an application for carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and...
  • Labour Activation Measures
    262. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons currently on labour activation measures who are not included in the live register figures; and if she will confirm the number...
  • Humanitarian Assistance Scheme
    263. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the forms of assistance that are being provided to persons affected by flooding and the severe weather in December 2013 and January 2014 from the...
  • Local and Community Development Programme Planning
    267. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the possibility of local development companies losing the contract to deliver the local community development programme and Leader and...
  • Unemployment Data
    268. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, the numbers of persons on the live register, on any job activation scheme, or on a disability or invalidity...
  • Carer's Allowance Appeals
    270. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an oral hearing will be facilitated in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare and their pending application for carer's...
  • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
    274. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the annual cost for domiciliary care allowance oral hearings to include as separate line items, hotel room hire,...
  • Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
    275. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will allow persons finishing community employment schemes to start another one in less than 12 months in certain circumstances, as the...
  • Community Development Projects
    276. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if funding will be continued in respect of a project where valuable and much-needed employment has been created (details supplied); if urgent...
  • Appointments to State Boards
    277. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the action she is taking to encourage more Irish executives to serve on State boards under the remit of her Department; her views on the recent Merc...

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