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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (1 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: The issue of maintenance payments is first and foremost a private matter for the persons concerned, and if they cannot resolve the problem, for the courts through family law provisions. The question raised is not a matter for this Department as it concerns a court order in relation to a family law matter.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Correspondence (1 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: Child benefit is a payment to parents for the support of their children. It is paid to some 615,000 families in respect of 1.18 million children, with an expenditure of approximately €1.9 billion in 2014. In order to ensure that child benefit is only paid to eligible families, a policy of issuing continuing eligibility certificates to parents commenced in 2008 and is still in...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (1 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: Effective debt recovery is a key aspect of the Department’s control policy and an integral part of the deterrent approach to social welfare fraud. Most claimants of social welfare schemes, where required, fully declare their income and assets and do not receive more than their due entitlements. Where a claimant fails to fully declare their means, they may receive a payment, or a rate...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Payments (1 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: The supplementary welfare allowance rate for a family comprising two adults and a child is €340.60. Any income over this amount is considered additional earnings and affects the rate of rent supplement allowable. In this case, the client has additional household earnings from their Community Employment programme that reduces their entitlement to rent supplement. Consequently, their...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (1 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the department is in receipt of an application for disability allowance from the above named person on 15 May 2015. On completion of the necessary investigations on all aspects of the claim a decision will be made and the person concerned will be notified directly of the outcome. The processing time for individual disability allowance claims may vary in accordance with...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Application Forms (1 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: The casual employment process for jobseekers involves a paper-based interaction between the customer and their employer after which my Department is provided with details of the weekly employment pattern by the customer. The current system of recording days of unemployment, as outlined in my previous reply, is a straightforward method of obtaining the employment information and verification...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (1 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: The information sought by the Deputy is outlined in the table below. Training and Development (Revised Estimate provision 2015) €1,275,000 Annual saving from a reduction of : 2.5% €31,875 5% €63,750 10% €127,500

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (1 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: Based on the amount of fees paid by the Department of Social Protection in 2014, a saving of €1,507,044 would accrue to the Exchequer, if expenditure on professional fees was reduced by 10%. Please note that such expenditure does not include medical certification and vision testing fees carried out by health professionals, but does include legal, IT-related, accountancy, and other...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (1 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: I have four Special Advisers. One of my Special Advisors is on secondment from the Central Bank and, in accordance with the rules governing secondment retains his terms and conditions, including salary. The annual savings to the Exchequer if the salaries of the other three special advisers were capped at the first point of the Principal Officer grade would be €71,926. By way of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (1 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: The information sought by the Deputy is outlined in the table below. Citizens Information Board Projected Board members fees 2015 €66,000 Annual saving from a reduction of :25% €16,500 The figure given for the projected annual fees for 2015 includes potential fees in respect of current vacancies. One of the existing board members has declined to accept fees and potential...

Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: The Deputy started by referring to the poor unfortunate people in Greece and what had befallen them. It must come as a relief to everybody in this House that, thankfully, what has happened to people in Greece is not a threat here because in this economy we have had a managed process of recovery. The Deputy also referred to the one-parent family payment. I do not think there is such a thing...

Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: The basis of the payment in Greece is whatever pensions are available. The Deputy referred to changes in the one-parent family payment. This is the third year of the changes. For Fianna Fáil’s information, because it will apply to many of the Deputy’s constituents - perhaps he should inform himself on the issue - this year we have had contact with approximately 25,000...

Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: When Fianna Fáil had finished with the economy in its bubble of greed and speculation-----

Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: When Fianna Fáil had finished with the destruction of the economy - there are quite a few Members in this House who understand what happened in the housing market - housing stopped.

Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: More importantly, because the party was well in with a certain type of developer and banker-----

Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: The building of social housing-----

Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: The building of social housing was no longer regarded as an appropriate social commitment by Fianna Fáil at a time when the economy had never been stronger or boomier, so to speak.

Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: In regard to the Deputy's proposal, first, I am going to go back again on what the solution is. We have to build more units and return to the development of social housing, which the Deputy's party callously abandoned when the people who need social housing-----

Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: Second, as I just said, I regularly meet the organisations dealing with housing issues.

Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: The market in terms of social housing is about 30% of the rental market.