Results 3,321-3,340 of 5,587 for speaker:Kevin Humphreys
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: The purpose of section 3 is to clarify that eligibility for the carer's benefit, carer’s allowance and respite care grant schemes is determined by a deciding officer on the basis of all of the information available to him or her in regard to that claim. This information includes all of the relevant medical evidence that has been submitted by the claimant in support of the claim, for...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: Yes. I have no problem doing so.
- 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 shall send my speaking note to all Members of the committee.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: Yes.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: "Trans seekers" refers to allowance transition arrangements.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: Yes.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: It is specific.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: Yes.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: It is an exemption which states they do not have to actively seek work up to the age of 14.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: It is the jobseeker's allowance transitional arrangement.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: Yes.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: Yes.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: If it does go over the jobseeker's allowance transition, FIS may be available.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: This is a fairly a complicated area. There is interaction within the Intreo offices. Officers there go through every single case to make sure people benefit. We have written to a number of clients inviting them in to make sure they get every single benefit they qualify for. Could the Chairman put it down in detail because I do not quite grasp what she is looking for? This is why case...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: We can make sure everybody would have a contact name to ensure that. I accept the problem set out by Deputy Naughten relating to the tie-up in the Revenue Commissioners, and waiting for the refund of €600 from the Revenue Commissioners. There must be some option, possibly a tie-up, because waiting for that refund would be quite difficult if one was on €1,300. The Deputy is...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: The Deputy gave an excellent example. Those are the type of barriers we are breaking down in the total reform of the Department of Social Protection and the one-stop-shop relating to the Intreo offices where each section of the Department knows what the others are doing. Hopefully, that will start breaking down those barriers. I have visited a number of Intreo offices and have seen the...
- 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. 6:In page 7, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: "Entitlement to one-parent family payment 5.(1) Section 172(1) of the Principal Act is amended—(a) in the definition of "qualified parent" (amended by section 20 of the Act of 2010)—(i) in paragraph (e), by the substitution of "6 months," for "6 months, or", and (ii) in paragraph (h), by the...
- 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. 8:In page 7, lines 11 and 12, to delete “Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2010” and substitute “Act of 2010”.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: Deputy Collins has made comments rather than asked questions.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: No. I think it is a good move. The Minister has listened to what was said and taken on board the considerations raised.