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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (13 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: The principal conditions for receipt of the allowance are that full-time care and attention is required and is being provided, and that a means test is satisfied. The person concerned is in receipt of carer's allowance for two care recipients. The application is currently with a social welfare inspector for confirmation that all of the conditions for receipt of carer’s allowance...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (13 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person concerned on 2 June 2015. The application is currently with a social welfare inspector to assess the level of care being provided, assess means and confirm that all the conditions for receipt of carer’s allowance are satisfied. At present the inspector is waiting on the person concerned...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: This is a carefully designed, responsible, interlocking budget in which different pieces come together to form the overall picture, that is, a picture of a country moving firmly in the right direction and of a society becoming more confident that both society and the economy can be restored. The budget is designed to help people back to work, to raise living standards in all homes, to help...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: It is important to remember that fathers who work in the home, of which there are a growing number, will benefit from the changes in the same way. I am pleased that we are announcing an increase in the home carer’s credit from €810 to €1,000, which will offer better options to families at different stages in their lives. The days are rightly gone when child-rearing or...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: -----and now his successor the Minister, Deputy Jan O’Sullivan, is equipping primary and post-primary schools for the next wave of improvement. This budget will deliver more than 2,200 new teachers and reduce the pupil-teacher ratio by one point at both levels. This is something that people involved in teaching have strongly recommended. We agreed with the recommendation but we...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: That is important for people who are paying for a contributory pension. Rather than every commentator writing about the hole in the Social Insurance Fund as they did prior to Fianna Fáil leaving office, we can now say that we have restored the security and stability of that fund and we can fund and pay pensions to people in retirement.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: I am disappointed at the Opposition's contribution because I expected more vision, more thoughtfulness and more solutions from it. Instead, what we got was just like the nursery rhyme and Old Mother Hubbard’s cupboard - it was bare. Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin have offered a cupboard which is actually bare of any ideas. More importantly, neither party appreciates the concept...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: Yes, that was Fianna Fáil’s bright idea.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Water Conservation Grant (14 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: The eligibility criteria for the Water Conservation Grant are set out in the Water Services Act 2014 (Water Conservation Grant) Regulations. Under regulation 5(1) a person who registers with Irish Water, as required under section 5(2)(a) of the Water Services Act 2014, on or before 30 June 2015 shall be eligible to receive the grant in 2015 if they were normally resident at the principal...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (14 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: Following a review of the entitlement of the person in question, it was established that the person concerned had failed to disclose to the Department a relevant change to her circumstances as she is required to do. On 9 August 2013 a deciding officer decided that the person concerned was not entitled to an increase for a qualified child on her disability allowance from 21 January 2009 to 23...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (14 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance (DCA) was received from the person concerned on the 8th September 2015. This application has been forwarded to one of the Department’s Medical Assessors for their medical opinion. Following receipt of this opinion, a decision will be made by a Deciding Officer and notified to the person concerned. It can currently take 12 weeks to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (14 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person concerned on 18 August 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: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (14 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: As previously outlined to the Deputy as recently as last week on the 8thof October 2015 in response to Parliamentary Question No 47, the client concerned should provide the Department with an up to date Rent Supplement application form and lease agreement in order for their entitlement to be re-assessed. This documentation has not, to date, been received by the Department.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (14 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: For persons up to the age of 55, the maximum duration of participation on a Community Employment Scheme is 3 years, as set out by the Departments scheme guidelines. As the person concerned is under 55 years, regrettably an extension cannot be considered.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Unemployment Benefits (14 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: The Department of Social Protection operates two schemes to assist people on certain social protection payments who wish to become self-employed; namely the Short Term Enterprise Allowance and the Back to Work Enterprise Allowance. The Short Term Enterprise Allowance provides immediate access to a monetary incentive to support jobseekers who qualify for jobseekers’ benefit to set up a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Water Conservation Grant (14 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: I understand an officer of my Department has contacted you regarding this matter and is awaiting details from your office. On receipt of the necessary details, the case will be examined and you will be notified of the outcome by my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (20 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: The Department’s treatment benefit scheme includes a grant towards the purchase of hearing aids for people who meet the relevant PRSI conditions. The grant covers half the cost of hearing aids, subject to a maximum grant of €500 per aid. The conditions vary with age, but a person aged between 25 and 66 years currently needs: - 260 Class A PRSI contributions paid since first...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (20 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 161 and 224 together. The details supplied in the correspondence refer to a person who is a customer of this Department; however the correspondence itself is from a third party. Under Data Protection legislation the Department cannot therefore comment on the matter, other than to say that officials of the Department are giving assistance to the person concerned.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (20 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: The person concerned has been receiving payments of jobseeker’s allowance from this Department since February 1988. A fundamental qualifying condition for this scheme is that a person must be available for and genuinely and actively seeking full-time employment. Following a series of claim review interviews, it was determined by a Deciding Officer that he did not meet these criteria,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (20 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: It is a condition for receipt of a carer’s allowance (CA) that the person being cared for must have a disability whose effect is that they require full-time care and attention. This is defined as requiring from another person continual supervision and frequent assistance throughout the day in connection with normal bodily functions or continuous supervision in order to avoid danger...