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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Eligibility (14 Dec 2017)

Regina Doherty: Self-employed people who earn €5,000 or more in a contribution year, are liable for PRSI at the class S rate of 4%, subject to a minimum annual payment of €500. This provides them with access to the following benefits: State pension (contributory), widow’s, widower’s or surviving civil partner’s pension (contributory), guardian’s payment...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility (14 Dec 2017)

Regina Doherty: This Government recognises the importance of increasing participation in employment for persons with a disability and is committed to removing any barriers that remain which prevent those persons with disabilities from participating in activation programmes and employment. The long term illness (LTI) scheme is a Health Service Executive (HSE) scheme that allows people with certain...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Commencement of Legislation (14 Dec 2017)

Regina Doherty: My Department is responsible for the legislation underpinning the social welfare code and for a number of other areas of legislation. These are occupational and private pensions, civil registration and gender recognition, redundancy and employer’s insolvency, employment rightsand Citizens Information Board/Comhairle legislation. A number of provisions of the Social Welfare...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Unemployment Levels (14 Dec 2017)

Regina Doherty: The target was to move 50,000 people, who were long-term unemployed at the beginning of 2016, into employment by the end of 2020. The number of people who were long-term unemployed at the beginning of 2016 was approximately 144,000. By the end of September 2017, almost 42,000 of these people had moved into employment. The rate of exit to employment is therefore running some way ahead of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Applications (14 Dec 2017)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned was awarded a mixed rate insurance pro rata state pension (contributory) from 2 May 2017, their 66th birthday. Written notification of this decision issued on 10 April 2017. Following a requested review of the person’s pension entitlement, it was ascertained that all of the person’s social insurance contributions had not been included in the initial...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Measures (14 Dec 2017)

Regina Doherty: The average values for overall unemployment, youth unemployment, and the ratio between them for the years 2012 to 2016 are as follows: - Unemployment rate (%) Year Total Aged <25 Ratio of youth to total 2012 14.7 30.4 2.07 2013 13.1 26.7 2.05 2014 11.3 23.9 2.13 2015 9.4 20.9 2.21 2016 7.9 17.2 2.17 Full-year and end of year unemployment figures for 2017...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Applications (14 Dec 2017)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned made an application for an Exceptional Needs Payment (ENP) to assist with the cost of a replacement cooker. As a payment of €310.00 was awarded in September 2015 to purchase this item, the Designated Person adjudged that this particular need had been recently met and given the general durability of such items it was reasonable to expect that this item would be in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Applications (14 Dec 2017)

Regina Doherty: An application for jobseeker’s allowance is currently pending as documentation requested from the person concerned remains outstanding. When the requested outstanding documentation is received by the Department the application will be processed and the person concerned will be advised of the decision. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Applications (14 Dec 2017)

Regina Doherty: According to the records of this Department the person concerned has not submitted an application for an exceptional needs payment. It is open to the person concerned to submit an application for financial assistance if she does not have sufficient means to meet her needs. A community welfare officer will phone her regarding her situation. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Fund (14 Dec 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Department deals with employers who owe a debt to the Social Insurance Fund in line with its debt management policy and procedures. I would urge the person in question to engage with the Department’s employer debt management unit to discuss their financial situation and capacity to repay their debt. They can contact the unit on (01) 673 4549 or at .

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (14 Dec 2017)

Regina Doherty: I confirm that my department received an application for carer’s allowance (CA) from the person concerned on 4 August 2017. CA is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a person who has such a disability that they require that level of care. The matter was referred to a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (14 Dec 2017)

Regina Doherty: The aim of Community Employment (CE) is to enhance the employability and mobility of disadvantaged and unemployed persons by providing work experience and training opportunities for them within their communities. In addition, it helps long-term unemployed people to re-enter the active workforce by breaking their experience of unemployment through a return to work routine. CE projects are...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (14 Dec 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection has no functions in relation to the funding of in-work training for people in employment.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (14 Dec 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Government’s primary strategy to tackle unemployment – including long-term unemployment – is twofold. The Action Plan for Jobs supports continuing strong economic recovery and employment growth. Policies and actions to ensure that unemployed people benefit from the increase in employment are set out in the strategy paper Pathways to Work 2016-2020. To date, these...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Data (14 Dec 2017)

Regina Doherty: My Department is not responsible for nationally accredited internships, so cannot provide the information requested in respect of them. The Department has responsibility for First Steps, which, while not an accredited internship, is a work experience programme. The programme is targeted at young unemployed people aged 18-24 who face significant barriers in their efforts to gain employment...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Data (14 Dec 2017)

Regina Doherty: The rate of youth unemployment was 14.0% in October 2017. This compares with the most recent available EU figure (from EUROSTAT) of 18.6% as at October 2017. Reflecting the impact of government policy, and the overall improvement in the labour market, the rate of youth unemployment has fallen sharply from a peak of over 31.1% in 2012. At that time, the EU youth unemployment rate was...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Unemployment Levels (14 Dec 2017)

Regina Doherty: As information on disability status is not collected routinely as part of the EU Labour Force Survey, there are no regular official data on unemployment among people with disabilities for many EU countries or for the EU on average. An approximate indicator for the information sought, for 2014, is provided by a once-off study by the Centre for European Social and Economic Policy (CESEP ASBL)...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Poverty (14 Dec 2017)

Regina Doherty: The national social target for poverty reduction agreed by Government in 2012 is to reduce consistent poverty to 4% by 2016 and to 2% or less by 2020. There is a specific child poverty sub-target which is to lift over 70,000 children out of consistent poverty by 2020 (from a 2011 baseline of 111,000). In the event, the number of children in consistent poverty rose sharply after 2011,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Data (14 Dec 2017)

Regina Doherty: The national social target for poverty reduction agreed by Government in 2012 is to reduce consistent poverty from 6.3% in 2010 to 4% by 2016 and to 2% or less by 2020. The child poverty target is to lift over 70,000 children out of consistent poverty by 2020 (from a 2011 baseline figure of 111,000). Data from the CSO Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) indicate that in fact...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (14 Dec 2017)

Regina Doherty: Rent supplement plays a vital role in housing families and individuals, with the scheme supporting some 35,000 recipients for which the Government has provided €232 million for 2017 (following the completion of the Supplementary Estimates process). A breakdown by county of rent supplements recipients under the scheme in respect of the period from December 2012 to the end of November...