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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Data (27 Jan 2015)

Joan Burton: Disability allowance (DA) is a payment for persons with a specified disability who are over 16 but under 66. As a result of that disability, which must be expected to last at least a year, they must be deemed to be substantially restricted in obtaining employment otherwise suitable to their age, qualifications and experience. Applicants must also satisfy a means test and be habitually...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (27 Jan 2015)

Joan Burton: The recently published CSO release on SILC 2013 shows that the basic deprivation rate was 30.5 per cent, an increase of 3.6 per cent on 2012. The rise in basic deprivation has affected all income groups and reflects the legacy of the economic crisis since 2008 on many low and middle income households. The key measure of poverty from a policy perspective is consistent poverty, which is...

Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Motion (Resumed) (28 Jan 2015)

Joan Burton: Today is another step in a process of blowing away the locked doors to the hidden Ireland, the locked doors behind which lay decades of neglect, abuse and lives devastated, if not destroyed. Women were subjugated and shamed for so-called sins. For the longest time, society's answer was simply to lock their stories behind a door and throw away the key. Efforts were made to ensure that the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Data (28 Jan 2015)

Joan Burton: Overpayments arise in circumstances where a person is in receipt of a social welfare payment in excess of their actual entitlement. Overpayments are categorised as fraud, non-fraud or estate cases. Fraud cases arise mainly on foot of false declarations by customers concerning their employment, income or family status. Non-fraud cases are primarily due to customer or departmental error....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (28 Jan 2015)

Joan Burton: The over 80 allowance is an additional payment of €10 per week, automatically paid to recipients of State pension on attaining 80 years of age. It is one of a number of allowances payable on claims to payments such as the State pension contributory, which is paid in respect of people who have paid PRSI prior to pension age. Another of these allowances, namely the Qualified Adult...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Dietary Allowance Applications (28 Jan 2015)

Joan Burton: As previously notified to the Deputy in responses provided to PQs 44094-14 of 18th November 2014, 47062-14 of 9th December 2014 and 2076-15 of 15th January 2015, relating to this client. The position remains unchanged because the client has failed to supply the financial information requested. This claim is now suspended for 21 weeks and if information is not supplied by Friday, 13thFebruary...

Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2015)

Joan Burton: I remind people that the Government agreed, and announced in the budget, a €100 water conservation grant per household.

Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2015)

Joan Burton: There was an earlier proposal to have a direct payment to people in receipt of the fuel allowance and the household benefits package. The Government decided that, because quite a few households would be excluded from that, every household which signed up to Irish Water and paid its water bills, as well as houses on group schemes or using private wells or septic tanks, would also receive it....

Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2015)

Joan Burton: The Department has put in place a project team which is scoping out a development plan-----

Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2015)

Joan Burton: The Department of Social Protection has saved this country hundreds of millions of euro in administration in recent years-----

Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2015)

Joan Burton: -----because we prepare project plans and scope out new developments.

Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2015)

Joan Burton: I understand why Fianna Fáil seems to be sneering with regret, as this is exactly what it was unable to do-----

Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2015)

Joan Burton: -----in its latter years in government, when it lost control of the country's finances. The Department deals with several new projects each year. We have a project development team and we scope out any new project, particularly the information technology developments necessary to deliver this payment to what is probably over 1.3 million households. These are the rough figures. We aim...

Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2015)

Joan Burton: On numerous occasions I have discussed it.

Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2015)

Joan Burton: We deliver 87 payments every year to individuals.

Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2015)

Joan Burton: We deliver them almost completely on time and on target.

Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2015)

Joan Burton: We are now aiming to deliver a new payment to over 1 million households. Of course we have to sit down and plan that. Do I discuss it with senior officials? Of course I have discussed it on numerous occasions.

Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2015)

Joan Burton: I thank the Deputy.

Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2015)

Joan Burton: The most erroneous figure I heard this week was the Deputy's leader suggesting that the water charges would amount to €3 million and the property tax amounted to €5 million in a debate with me on RTE.

Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2015)

Joan Burton: Despite the attempts by both the chair of the debate and me to enlighten him-----