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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (25 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the department received an application for carer's allowance from the person in question on the 11th June 2015. The application is currently being processed and once completed, the person concerned will be notified directly of the outcome.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (25 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: The person in question has been awarded a disability allowance payment with effect from 4 March 2015. First payment will be on 8 July 2015 and any arrears due will follow shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (25 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer on 17thJune 2015, 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 and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (25 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: The person concerned has been receiving payments of jobseeker's allowance since June 2013. She is currently in receipt of the correct rate of payment for her age. The next increase she is due to receive will become applicable when she reaches 25 years of age. This is subject to any future budgetary changes that may occur in the rates of jobseeker's allowance.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (25 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer on 17thJune 2015, 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 and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Appeals (25 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer on 9thJune 2015, 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 and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance (25 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: The person concerned has been in receipt of a jobseeker's allowance payment since April 2014 and commenced in casual employment in November 2014. For each day that she is employed she has means assessed and deducted at a rate of €27.00 per day. According to the records of this Department the person concerned is not currently employed, and is in receipt of a jobseeker's allowance...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Work Allowance Eligibility (25 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: The person concerned applied for the Back to Work Enterprise Allowance Scheme (BTWEA) in order to commence business as a sub-contractor. The application was refused as persons engaged as sub-contractors are not eligible under the conditions of the BTWEA scheme. It is open to the person concerned to apply for a jobseeker's allowance as a self-employed person, and have the means from his...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (25 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: Departmental records show that the person concerned changed her residence from an address in Co. Kildare to an address in Dublin in recent days. To date there is no record of an application for rent supplement being received in the Department. Should an application for this scheme be received from the person concerned, her eligibility will be assessed.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (25 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: As advised to the Deputy in reply to PQ Ref No: 22906-15 on 11th June, 2015, the jobseeker's allowance claim for the person concerned, is currently suspended, pending receipt of bank statements as requested by a Social Welfare Inspector in March, 2015. The required documentation should have been provided to the Department by 19thJune, 2015 but remains outstanding. To allow a final...

Deaths in Tunisia: Expressions of Sympathy (30 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: It is with great sadness that for the second time in a matter of weeks we are assembling in the Dáil to make statements on another tragedy overseas. As Tánaiste and on behalf of the Labour Party, I want to extend my deepest sympathy to the families of Laurence and Martina Hayes and Lorna Carty. It is appropriate that we should mark their deaths by flying the flag at half mast over...

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: Yes.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: I move amendment No. 2:To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following: “acknowledges that despite significant levels of investment, including an estimated €607 million in 2015, the one parent family payment scheme has not been successful in preventing lone parents from being significantly more at risk of consistent poverty than the...

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: This is her only vision and ambition, not for herself but for people who are parenting alone.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: Before these reforms, that is exactly what the one parent family scheme did and I was not prepared to tolerate it. I have too much admiration for people who are parenting alone.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: I want as good an outcome for their children as I want for anybody else's children, and I make no apologies to Sinn Féin, which wants to lock down poverty and joblessness. A strong welfare system is essential as a safety net. In the teeth of Ireland's worst economic crisis, the Labour Party in government protected this safety net and, with the recovery under way, has started making...

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: Perhaps the Deputies are not aware of it. Both these schemes build on the annual investment of €260 million into high quality child care, which benefits approximately 100,000 children each year. We do not yet have sufficient quantity and quality in our child care system. This is why I very deliberately ensured that the age threshold at which the one-parent family payment ends would...

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: I am surprised at Sinn Féin scoffing at the payment.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: When Sinn Féin goes knocking on doors-----

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: The Deputy scoffed at the notion that child benefit would be increased. This week, his allies in Greece have poor unfortunate pensioners and families with children crying on the street because there is no money in the country.