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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: School Meals Programme (12 Mar 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: The school meals programme provides funding towards the provision of food services to some 1,600 schools and organisations which benefits over 205,000 children through two schemes. The first is the statutory urban school meals scheme, operated by local authorities and part-financed by the Department. The second is the school meals local projects scheme through which funding is provided...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (12 Mar 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: The rent supplement scheme provides support to eligible people living in private rented accommodation whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs and who do not have accommodation available to them from any other source. There are approximately 70,200 rent supplement recipients for which the Government has provided over €298 million for 2015. Under the legislation...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Local Employment Service (24 Mar 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: There is no change in the total amount of funding that is available to the Local Employment Service (LES) network for 2015. Until 31stDecember 2014, all LESs had access to two funds which enabled them to financially assist clients with the cost of certain training and other supports. The Technical Support Grant Fund (TSG) provided for specified training and education supports and the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Special Educational Needs Expenditure (24 Mar 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: The back to school clothing and footwear allowance (BSCFA) scheme provides a once-off payment to eligible families to assist with the extra costs of clothing and footwear when children start school each autumn. The Government has provided €44.3 million for this scheme in 2015. Under the supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme, the Department may make a single exceptional needs...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Data (24 Mar 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: The numbers of JobBridge participants awarded a Training Employment Support Grant (TESG) are only available from 2012 when my Department took over the administration of the scheme. The number of JobBridge participants who were supported by TESG for the period 2012 to end of February 2015 is 1,976.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Guarantee (24 Mar 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: The objective of the Youth Guarantee is to ensure that young people receive a quality offer of assistance within four months of becoming unemployed. This objective is to be achieved over time by enhancing and prioritising the Intreo engagement with newly unemployed young people, and by maintaining and developing the current range of education, training and employment interventions for young...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: School Meals Programme (24 Mar 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 181 and 182 together. The school meals programme provides funding towards the provision of food services to some 1,600 schools and organisations which benefits over 207,000 children through two schemes. The first is the statutory urban school meals scheme, operated by local authorities and part-financed by the Department. The second is the school meals...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobsPlus Scheme (24 Mar 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 194 and 195 together. JobsPlus provides a direct monthly financial incentive to employers who recruit employees from the Live Register and those transitioning into employment. The initiative provides employers with two levels of payment - €7,500 or €10,000 over two years - paid in monthly instalments provided the employment is maintained....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payments (24 Mar 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: Under the supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme, the Department of Social Protection may make a single exceptional needs payment (ENP) to help meet essential, once-off and unforeseen expenditure which a person could not reasonably be expected to meet out of their weekly income. The Government has provided €29 million for the ENP scheme in 2015. An application can be made...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Guarantee (24 Mar 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: The Government's primary strategy to tackle youth unemployment is to create the environment for a strong economic recovery by promoting competitiveness and productivity. Economic recovery will underpin jobs growth and the availability of productive employment for young people. This strategy has been succeeding, with an increase of over 80,000 in employment over the last 2 years. However, the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (24 Mar 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: Department officials are in ongoing discussions with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on the matter raised. Trade union officials, notably SIPTU and IMPACT, will be kept updated on proceedings. A meeting has been arranged for 31stMarch with trade union officials.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (24 Mar 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: With effect from 3rdApril 2000, lifetime cumulative participation on Community Employment (CE) by an individual is as follows: - 3 years (156 weeks) maximum for persons under 55 years of age. - 6 years (312 weeks) for persons of 55 years of age up to State Pension age. - For people in receipt of a qualifying disability-linked social welfare payment, for those under 55 years of age...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Flood Relief Schemes (24 Mar 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: The Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government is the lead Department for severe weather emergencies and the Office of Public Works has responsibility for capital flood relief activities. However, the Department of Social Protection has an important role to play in assisting households in the immediate aftermath of emergency events such as the flooding and the severe...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (24 Mar 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: Gateway is part of a suite of interventions funded by the Department that are designed to meet the priorities established by Government in Pathways to Work. It provides short-term, quality work opportunities with local authorities for those who are long-term unemployed. A person in receipt of jobseeker's payment is required to take up reasonable offers of work or training in order to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (25 Mar 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: By advertising vacancies of this nature the Department of Social Protection through its Jobs Ireland service is affording the individual jobseeker the opportunity to decide personally whether they are interested in the self-employed vacancy position, rather than excluding potential options. It is important for the Department as a state organisation to endeavour to do its best to protect the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (25 Mar 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: Scheme participants are obliged to notify their employer (CE/Tús/RSS scheme) immediately of any change in their family circumstances. This change could relate directly to the scheme participant (i.e. marriage, civil partnership, co-habiting, divorce, separation or death of spouse), or it could be that their existing adult dependant has a change in circumstances (e.g. finds/loses...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Eligibility (25 Mar 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: Under the supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme, the Department may make a single exceptional needs payment (ENP) to help meet essential, once-off and unforeseen expenditure which a person could not reasonably be expected to meet out of their weekly income. The Government has provided €29 million for the ENP scheme in 2015. An application can be made under the ENP scheme...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: I realise you have ruled the amendment out of order but if we do not accept section 1, we would delay section 4, which is the extension of jobseeker's allowance to transitional arrangements. It would also delay section 6, which is the back-to-work dividend. It is difficult to speak to a motion that is ruled out of order, but I heard what the Deputy said in that regard. At a later stage,...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: I move amendment No. 2:In page 5, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following:"Definitions 2. In this Part—“Act of 2010” means the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2010; “Principal Act” means the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005.". The amendments involve minor changes to the Bill to include additional definitions in section 2. Amendment No. 2...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: I move amendment No. 3:In page 5, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: "Definition of medical assessor and consequential amendments 3. (1) Section 2(1) of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following definitions:" 'employment agency' has the same meaning as it has in the Employment Agency Act 1971; 'medical assessor' means— (a) an officer of the...