Written answers

Thursday, 17 July 2014

  • Birth Certificates Administration
    326. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider the mandatory paternity testing for registration of fathers on birth certificates; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Social Insurance
    327. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to deal with the anomalous position whereby an employee who is earning €18,304 requires a pay rise of over €1,000 to secure...
  • Stardust Fire
    328. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a Stardust compensation payment by the State in respect of a person (Details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if she will make a...
  • Birth Certificates Provision
    330. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the options open to an Irish person who has no birth certificate or record of their birth here, after making substantial enquiries, but who needs to...
  • Poverty Data
    331. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which she and her Department continue to identify and isolate poverty traps affecting families with school going children; and if she...
  • Universal Social Charge Exemptions
    332. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if recipients of social protection payments such as farm assist are liable for universal social charge; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Disability Allowance Appeals
    333. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a disability allowance appeal will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Appeals
    337. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the decision not to award an increase in supplementary welfare in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and...
  • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
    339. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a domiciliary care allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied). [32170/14]
  • Carer's Allowance Appeals
    340. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in respect of appeal for carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if she will make a...
  • State Pension (Contributory) Applications
    341. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for situations (details supplied) arising in relation to the entitlement to State pension; if he will review the situation; and if she...
  • Public Services Card
    342. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons refused a social welfare payment following their refusal to take part in the new photographic identification card system; her...
  • Personal Public Service Numbers
    344. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if applications for PPS numbers for persons (details supplied) in County Kildare will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • State Bodies Abolition
    345. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of agencies or State bodies under the aegis of her Department that have been abolished since 2011; and if she will make a statement on...
  • State Bodies Establishment
    346. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of new agencies or State bodies that have been established under the aegis of her Department since 2011; and if she will make a statement...
  • Departmental Staff Remuneration
    347. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total value of bonus payments made to staff under the aegis of her Department in 2013 and to date in 2014; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Disability Allowance Applications
    348. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in determination of an application for disability allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and...
  • Carer's Allowance Appeals
    350. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in respect of appeal for carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
  • Appointments to State Boards
    352. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of appointments to State boards under the aegis of her Department since March 2011; the total number of appointments that have been...
  • Public Sector Staff Rehiring
    354. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of retired public servants who have been awarded temporary or term-time posts in her Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014....
  • JobsPlus Scheme
    355. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will include persons in receipt of farm assist for eligibility on JobsPlus; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32365/14]
  • Programme for Government Implementation
    356. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular format, the commitments under the programme for Government for which her Department is responsible; the progress...
  • Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
    357. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason persons (details supplied) in Dublin 22 have been asked to provide a range of documents and the relevance these documents have to the...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    358. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount her Department spent in 2013 on family income supplement, jobseeker's allowance and jobseeker's benefit to workers not in full-time...
  • Fuel Allowance Data
    359. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the fuel allowance in each year from 2010 to 2013; the annual cost of the scheme; the cost that would be...
  • Social Welfare Benefits (1 comment)
    360. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost that would be associated with restoring the Christmas bonus; the number of persons who would benefit if it was reinstated on the basis and...
  • Pension Provisions
    361. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on reports that large amounts of private sector pension assets are effectively unclaimed; her plans to simplify the pensions system to...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    362. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the changes that have taken place in the spend of her Department in each year since 2004, broken down by programme (details supplied); the...
  • Unemployment Data
    363. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the increase or reduction that took place in the number of persons in receipt of unemployment payments or on activation schemes between March 2011...
  • Carer's Allowance Appeals
    364. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on a carer's allowance appeal will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Social Welfare Overpayments
    365. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the circumstances whereby a debt arising from overpayment incurred 13 years ago is now deemed to be recoverable, notwithstanding an indication at...
  • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
    366. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the correct level of rent in respect of which rent support is payable in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will...
  • One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility
    367. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when a one-parent family allowance may be restored in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
  • Jobseeker's Allowance Applications
    369. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will indicate the entitlement to jobseeker's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and if she will make a...
  • Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
    370. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the correct level of rent support payable in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
    372. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in respect of an appeal for jobseeker's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if she will...
  • Money Advice and Budgeting Service
    374. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of people in Cork city and county who have availed of the services of the Money Advice & Budgeting Service in 2012, 2013, and to date...
  • Pension Fund Fees
    375. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of the work of the group established to examine charges in the pensions industry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32670/14]
  • Unemployment Data
    376. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons formerly employed in construction trade categories, particularly electrical or mechanical, who are in receipt of jobseeker's...
  • Child Care Services Provision
    377. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of child care places provided under community employment schemes; the way this has varied over the past five years; and if she will make...
  • Social Welfare Code
    378. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has made allowances for the hardship faced by homeless families who are refused social welfare; if she has made emergency provisions for such...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    379. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of single persons and families in each county whose jobseeker's allowance and one-parent family allowance claims have been closed due to...
  • Parking Provision
    381. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on an issue regarding provision of parking for staff at the Government offices (details supplied) in County Longford....
  • Ministerial Advisers Remuneration
    383. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form a detailed breakdown of the name and number of ministerial special advisers in her Department; their annual...
  • Gender Balance Issues
    384. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the gender quota targets for the boards of State bodies and agencies under their remit; the level reached to date; and their future plans to meet...
  • Ministerial Priorities
    385. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline her priorities for the remainder of her term in office; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32782/14]
  • Ministerial Responsibilities
    386. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a copy of the the briefing she has received upon entering office from her Department; if she will publish the briefing and if...
  • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
    387. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the correct level of payment in respect of jobseeker's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if she will make a...
  • Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility
    389. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the maximum rent allowable at which rent support is payable in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Carer's Allowance Appeals
    390. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue in relation to an appeal against the refusal of carer’s allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
  • Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times
    394. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the average waiting time for a decision in relation to appeals for the invalidity pension,...
  • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
    396. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite and grant a domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [32868/14]
  • Social Welfare Appeals Data
    399. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form, a breakdown of the current number of appeals received for each social welfare payment; the average completion...
  • Invalidity Pension Appeals
    400. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an invalidity application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [32876/14]

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