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Other Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: My answer to the suggestions and scaremongering the Deputy has just now undertaken in relation to the level of charges-----

Other Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: -----is that I am happy to say it is my view that the charge for the type of household the Deputy described will be below €200.

Other Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: The water support payment of €100 will help to defray the cost faced by households of single individuals and those in which there are two or more people. The Deputy was very wide of the mark in the figures he announced.

Other Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: For the figures involved, people will get what the country needs. The Deputy talked about my responsibility. My responsibility in relation to the country and Dublin West is to help to get people back to work in order that they can become financially independent.

Other Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: We do not need what Deputy Joe Higgins seems to want, which is for everybody to be on social welfare.

Other Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: Actually, we need people to be at work. I am perfectly happy that the level of water charges will be modest and will result in the provision of a supply of clean water for this country.

Messages from Select Committees (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: The Deputy is just standing up for another Kerry man.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: The free travel scheme provides free travel on the main public and private transport services for approximately 800,000 people, elderly, disabled and carers, at an annual cost of €77 million. Funding for the free travel scheme was capped by the previous Government in the National Recovery Plan 2011-2014. To implement this cap on funding during a time in which passenger numbers have...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Data (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: Continuing progress is being made in addressing both the rate and duration of youth unemployment. CSO data shows that the youth unemployment rate in the second quarter of 2014 had fallen from 33% in mid-2012 to 27% or 25% when seasonally-adjusted. The number of young people unemployed has fallen by 23,400 from 76,000 to 52,600 over the same period. There has also been an improvement in the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Payments (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: The back to education programme (BTEA) provides a wide range of second chance education opportunities for unemployed people, lone parents and people with disabilities. The programme includes an education, training and development (ET&D) option. This option is used to support jobseekers to undertake short-duration, evening, and ad-hoc courses without interruption of the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Guarantee (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: Thanks in large part to the Government’s Pathways to Work strategy, many of the elements identified at an EU level as being core to a Youth Guarantee are already in place in Ireland. These include personalised delivery of services at public employment offices with targeted recruitment subsidies, internships, places on training and employment programmes and free further education...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Respite Care Grant Payments (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: The respite care grant (RCG) is an annual non means-tested payment made to all carers who provide full time care and attention to others and forms part of a range of carer supports provided by the Department. Over €822 million is being provided next year for these direct supports, up nearly €17 million from that provided for in 2014. In 2014, more than 80,000 carers benefited...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Work Placement Initiative (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: Tús, the community work placement initiative introduced during 2011, was established to provide short-term, quality work opportunities for those who are unemployed for more than a year. As of 24thOctober, nearly 6.700 jobseekers are engaged on Tús. Since its commencement, over 22,000 have participated on this initiative. A key feature of Tús is that selection is undertaken...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Respite Care Grant Payments (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: The Respite Care Grant (RCG) forms part of a range of illness, disability and carer supports provided by the Department to people with disabilities and those who care for them. The RCG is paid automatically to people in receipt of Carer’s Allowance, Carer’s Benefit, Domiciliary Care Allowance or Prescribed Relative’s Allowance. Other people who are not in receipt of a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: From 2015 a new payment, the water support, will be paid to all those who are eligible for household benefits or fuel allowance. The payment will be €25 paid every three months to approximately 650,000 households at an annual cost of €66 million. The payment will be made to all those currently in receipt of either household benefits or fuel allowance. Customers will not need...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: Where a carer’s caring role ends on the death of the care recipient, payment of the Carer's Benefit or Carer's Allowance continues to be made for a period of 6 weeks after the date of death of the care recipient to allow the carer some time to move to an appropriate income support or return to work. Information on the type of social welfare income support most appropriate to the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: The Pensions Act provides for the preservation of benefits for members of occupational pension schemes who leave employment before their normal pensionable age for any reason, other than death, provided they satisfy certain qualifying conditions. The preserved benefit is a proportion of the long service benefit to which the member would have been entitled if he or she had remained in...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: There are approximately 73,500 rent supplement recipients for which the Government has provided over €344 million for 2014. I am acutely aware of the difficulties people are experiencing in maintaining affordable rented accommodation in areas of high demand, including areas in Kildare and Dublin, in the current market. However, raising rent limits may not be the solution to the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Anti-Poverty Strategy (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: The Social Inclusion Monitor, the official report on progress on poverty using national and EU indicators, reports that the rate of consistent poverty in 2012 was 7.7 per cent, equivalent to 353,000 people. The average rate of consistent poverty since the economic crisis was 6.6 per cent (years 2009-2012), as compared with an average rate of 5.7 per cent in the years preceding the crisis...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Data (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: The Budget of 2012 announced the disqualification from certain welfare payments for welfare recipients while participating on Community Employment (CE). Up until 16thJanuary 2012, certain social welfare payments could be retained in part or in full when participating on CE. The CE personal rate of €208.00 was applicable to these participants (as any dependants were covered under the...