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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Data (27 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: My Department introduced a new Community Employment (CE) childcare strand in 2013 under which there is a dedicated childcare training programme leading to a major award at QQI Level 5 for CE participants who work directly with children. The QQI Major Level 5 Award is the entry level requirement to work as a basic practitioner in childcare. This has led to rationalised entry requirements,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Eligibility (27 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: Fuel allowance is a means tested payment to assist householders on long-term social welfare payments who are unable to provide for their own heating needs. It is not intended to meet those costs in full. Only one allowance is paid per household. Eligibility for fuel allowance is subject to a household means test and other qualifying conditions, such as household composition. With...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Applications (27 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: The fuel allowance is payable to persons who receive certain qualifying social welfare payments. Carer's allowance is not a qualifying payment. However, carers may qualify for fuel allowance if they are getting half-rate carer's allowance and another qualifying social welfare payment. Alternatively, if the carer resides with their care recipient, that care recipient may be in receipt of a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (27 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 197 and 198 together. Ireland’s Public Employment Service (PES) is managed by my Department and delivered directly by its own Intreo service as well as by contracted private providers i.e. companies delivering the Local Employment Service (LES), Job Clubs and JobPath services. These providers act on behalf of the Department for the purpose of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (27 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: The mediated agreement for former Waterford Crystal workers, covers members of the Waterford Crystal Limited Contributory Pension Plan for Staff and the Waterford Crystal Limited Contributory Pension Scheme for Factory Employees, and provides for the payment of - (a) a tax-free once-off lump sum of €1,200 for every year of pension scheme service (not company service), not...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure (27 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: The cost of increasing all weekly rates of payment by 1% is estimated to be just over €145 million in 2018 and a full year. The cost includes proportionate increases for qualified adults. It should be noted that this cost is subject to change over the coming weeks in the context of emerging trends and associated revision of the estimated numbers of recipients for 2018.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Programmes (27 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned is in receipt of Jobseekers Allowance and approved for participation on a part time Springboard course. One of the conditions for jobseekers pursuing part-time educational courses including Springboard is that they must satisfy the condition of being available for and genuinely seeking employment and must engage with any activation service to which they are referred....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (27 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: The rent supplement scheme plays a vital role in housing families and individuals, with the scheme currently supporting approximately 38,600 tenants for which the Government has provided €253 million for in 2017. Details of rent supplement recipients under the scheme in respect of the period from January 2014 to August 2017 are provided in the table. Rent supplement customer numbers...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (28 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 262 and 266 together. Rent supplement plays a vital role in housing families and individuals, with the scheme currently supporting approximately 38,600 tenants for which the Government has provided €253 million for in 2017. The full annualised costs for 38,600 tenants at current blended rent supplement tenancy rates of €480 per month, is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Dietary Allowance Applications (28 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: Diet supplement, administered under the supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme, is payable to qualifying persons, in receipt of the supplement prior to February 2014, who have been prescribed a special diet as a result of a specified medical condition. There are currently fewer than 3,000 in receipt of the diet supplement of diet supplement at a cost of €4.6 million in 2017. ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (28 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: My Department has prepared responses to the list of questions submitted by the Data Protection Commissioner regarding the Public Services Card. These responses are currently being proofed and will issue to the Data Protection Commissioner shortly. Once the Data Protection Commissioner has had an opportunity to consider these responses they will be published on my Department’s website.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (28 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: Carer's Allowance is a statutory, means-tested payment which provides an income support for carers who look after certain people in need of full-time care and attention. As is the case with most other means-tested social welfare payments, Carer’s Allowance is not payable on an extended basis to or in respect of persons outside the State, although legislation provides for the payment of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Review (28 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: Following the publication of my Department’s Report - An Analysis of the Community Employment Programme – earlier this year,the Government approved a number of changes to the terms and conditions around participation on Community Employment (CE). The main purpose of these changes was to broaden the availability of CE to a greater number of people on the live register, to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (28 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: Retained (part-time) fire-fighters, provide services which are vitally important to their communities. Typically, these workers provide services in rural and less densely populated areas but larger urban centres may also have a cohort of part-time workers. Retained fire-fighters who are otherwise unemployed are entitled to a jobseeker’s payment in respect of days that they are...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (28 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 269 to 271, inclusive, together. As the Deputy will be aware, JobPath is an employment activation service that supports people who are long-term unemployed and those most at risk of becoming long-term unemployed to secure and sustain paid employment. The service is delivered by two companies, Seetec Ltd and Turas Nua Ltd. For the purposes of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment (28 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: On foot of the legislative commitment contained in the Social Welfare Act 2016 to carry out an independent report on the amendments to the one parent family payment, and following a tendering process, Indecon Economic Consultants were selected and commenced work on the report in April of this year. The contract requires Indecon to examine the financial, social, poverty and welfare...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit Eligibility (28 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: Following further clarification with the Deputy’s Office, the person concerned should contact their Local Intreo Centre to establish if his spouse is entitled to an Adult Dependent Allowance on his Jobseeker Benefit claim. I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (28 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: The rent supplement claim for the person concerned was closed in 2015 as documentation requested relating to combined household means was not provided.It is open to the person concerned to submit a complete and up-to-date rent supplement application form, including all required documentation. Upon receipt of the necessary documentation his entitlement to rent supplement will be assessed...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Payments (28 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: It is a condition for receipt of Carer's Benefit (CARB) that the person being cared for must have a disability whose effect is that they require full-time care and attention. This is defined as requiring from another person, continual supervision and frequent assistance throughout the day in connection with normal bodily functions or continuous supervision in order to avoid danger to him or...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (28 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: My Department does not publish the individual fees paid to the JobPath providers because of commercial sensitivity. This commercial sensitivity is in relation to the release of the information having the potential to both influence the management of the contracts currently in place and any future procurement that may be undertaken and thus putting the State at a disadvantage. The JobPath...