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Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Joan Burton: I understand we will come back to that in the second part-----

Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Joan Burton: I am delighted that Deputy Mattie McGrath is so concerned about the animals. At least someone in the House is concerned about some living creatures. That seemed to be absent from the debate earlier.

Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Joan Burton: I understand the geothermal Bill will be later in the year. The Deputy referred to animal welfare legislation; the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 was enacted last May.

Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Joan Burton: I understand the heads of the HEA Bill have been drafted and it should be before the Dáil next year.

Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Joan Burton: The heads of the criminal justice corruption Bill were dealt with in July 2012. The pre-legislative committee meetings will take place, but we do not have a date as yet. I understand that the second Bill should come in April.

Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Joan Burton: There is no date for that legislation.

Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Joan Burton: There is a planning Bill proposed, which will deal partly with the implementation of the recommendations from the Mahon report. I do not have a date for that.

Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Joan Burton: I understand that will happen next year.

Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Joan Burton: I understand that will happen later in the year.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (20 Feb 2014)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 9th January 2014. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought. When these have been received from the Department, the case in question will be referred...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (20 Feb 2014)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 13th January 2014. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant papers and comments by or on behalf of the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought from the Department of Social Protection. These papers were received in the Social...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: School Meals Programme (20 Feb 2014)

Joan Burton: The school meals programme provides funding towards the provision of food services for disadvantaged children through two schemes. The first is the statutory urban school meals scheme, operated by local authorities and part-financed by this Department. The second is the school meals local projects scheme through which funding is provided directly to participating schools and local and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Delays (20 Feb 2014)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the Department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person in question on the 16th July 2013 for two care recipients. Based upon all the evidence supplied in support of the application, a deciding officer decided that the care recipients in question were not medically eligible for carer’s allowance. A letter issued to the person in question on...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (20 Feb 2014)

Joan Burton: Jobseeker’s benefit is not normally payable outside the State. However, EU regulations on the coordination of social security systems provide that a wholly unemployed person who satisfies the conditions for entitlement to unemployment benefits and who goes to another Member State in order to seek employment there can, subject to conditions and limitations, continue to receive their...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (20 Feb 2014)

Joan Burton: Schools are no longer the sponsors of Community Employment (CE) schemes and on this basis, CE participants cannot be directly employed by schools to work in areas that are directly related to the educational provision in the schools as this funded by the Department of Education. In the case of the school mentioned I would state that it does not have a dedicated CE Scheme nor does it have...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Work Initiatives (20 Feb 2014)

Joan Burton: Tús, the community work placement initiative introduced during 2011, was set up to provide short-term, quality work opportunities for those who are unemployed for more than a year. This initiative is being delivered through the network of local development companies and Údarás na Gaeltachta. Tús is designed to break the cycle of unemployment and maintain work readiness,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (20 Feb 2014)

Joan Burton: The current minimum rate of payment on Tús, the rural social scheme (RSS) and community employment (CE) is €208 per week. As the Deputy is aware, a key feature of Tús is that all selection is undertaken by random processes conducted at local level by the Department. The selection is focused on those on the Live Register for a year or more and in receipt of a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Initiatives (20 Feb 2014)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 132 and 133 together. JobPath is the Government’s new labour market activation service aimed specifically at the long-term unemployed and those most at risk of becoming long-term unemployed. JobPath will be delivered by private/third party providers of employment services under contract to the Department. JobPath will augment and complement the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Data (20 Feb 2014)

Joan Burton: The details requested by the Deputy in relation to the number of domiciliary care allowance appeals registered in the Social Welfare Appeals Office during 2012 and 2013 and the number of those appeals which were allowed or partially allowed during that period are provided in the table. With regard to the processing times for domiciliary care allowance appeals, I am advised by the Social...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Data Protection (20 Feb 2014)

Joan Burton: My Department has a designated Head of Information at Principal Officer level. This person oversees the Business Information and Security Unit which is responsible for developing and implementing data protection and information security policies in my Department.