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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: The information requested by the Deputy is not available in my Department. I am informed however of the information in the following tabular statement which breaks down the number of participant/recipients on activation and working age employment schemes under the auspices of my Department. Live Register Activation Programmes Participants (Source: www.cso.ie) - December 2012 December 2013...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Registration of Births (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: A child born outside Ireland is automatically an Irish citizen if one of their parents was an Irish citizen who was born in Ireland. Births are registered in Ireland in the Register of Births which is maintained by the General Register Office and is a register of births which occur in the State. As such, births which occur outside the State are not recorded, other than in circumstances...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: The Programme for Government contains a commitment to maintain weekly rates of welfare payments. In line with this commitment, the weekly personal rate of disability allowance, including increases for qualified adults and children, has been fully maintained since this Government came into office. Recipients of disability allowance may also be eligible, subject to satisfying the relevant...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 15 April 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 Welfare...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 11 March 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 to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 21 March 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 to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer on 17 April 2014, who will make a summary decision on the appeal based on the documentary evidence presented or, if required, hold an oral hearing. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the Department...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 2 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 Welfare...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Expenditure (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 386, 387 and 389 together. The cost of increasing the family income supplement (FIS) multiplier by 10 percentage points, from 60% to 70%, is estimated at approximately €43 million in a full year (costing is based on the estimated number of weekly recipients in 2014). The data requested by the Deputy in relation to the FIS scheme are outlined in the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Qualified Child Increase Payments (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: The total number of children with respect to whom a qualified child increase was being paid at the end of April was 494,913 and a further 99,910 children benefited from child related payments other than child benefit. A breakdown of these figures is detailed in the following tabular statement. Payment of child benefit in respect of 1,174,230 children was also made during the month. Number...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Funding (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: The average cost of a community employment place for one year, including income support and all other costs such as training fees and materials incurred is currently €13,500.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 391 and 393 together. Tús and Gateway are part of a suite of initiatives being offered by the Department which are designed to bridge the gap between unemployment and re-entering the workforce. The provision for Tús in 2014 is €119.6 million with an additional €19.1 million being provided for Gateway. An additional €2 million...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Funding (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 392, 398 and 471 together. The average JobBridge placement lasts 9 months. A JobBridge placement costs the Exchequer €50 perweek or €1,950 for 9 months (39 weeks). Other Social Welfare payments would be made by the Department irrespective of participation in JobBridge. Training expenses for JobBridge interns are incurred by the host...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Yield (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: The Budget Day estimate for the Department of Social Protection was published last October and provides for income of €7,682 million to the Social Insurance Fund in 2014. The yield from PRSI to the end of April 2014 was €2,597 million or €107 million ahead of profile.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: The person concerned is in receipt of one parent family payment from this Department and has earnings from employment. On 4 November 2013 she made an application to her Community Welfare Officer for an exceptional needs payment in connection with arrears in her electricity bill from Bord Gáis Energy. As is standard practice in such cases, she was referred to Monetary Advice and Budgetary...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance was received from the person concerned on 21 November 2013. This application was referred to one of the Department's Medical Assessors whose opinion was that the child was not medically eligible for the allowance. A letter issued on 31 January 2014 advising of the decision. The person concerned subsequently lodged an appeal against this...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Issues (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: Liberties Recycling is funded as a Community Employment (CE) scheme. The contract for this project is for a total of 46 CE places, with 34 allocated to referred client places (drugs rehabilitation) and 12 allocated to support CE places. Currently there are a total of 35 places filled on the project consisting of 26 referred client places (drugs rehabilitation) and 9 support CE places. One...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: The application for invalidity pension, by the person concerned, was disallowed by a Deciding Officer following an assessment by a Medical Assessor of the Department who expressed the opinion that he was not permanently incapable of work. The case was reviewed by a second Medical Assessor who also expressed the opinion that he was not medically suitable for invalidity pension. I am advised...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Administration (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: The current free travel scheme provides free travel on the main public and private transport services for those eligible under the scheme. These include road, rail and ferry services provided by companies such as Bus Átha Cliath, Bus Éireann and Iarnród Éireann, as well as Luas and services provided by almost 90 private transport operators. There are currently over...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that the appeal from the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer who has decided to hold an oral hearing in this case on 29thMay 2014. The person concerned has been notified of the arrangements for the hearing. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the Department and...