Results 341-360 of 4,893 for speaker:Séamus Brennan
- Written Answers — Family Support Services: Family Support Services (12 Oct 2004)
Séamus Brennan: The family resource centre in question was included under the family and community services resource centre programme in 2002. The centre received funding of â¬84,422 in total in 2003 and is scheduled to receive â¬84,533 in 2004. The programme is now being administered by the Family Support Agency. Officials in the agency have confirmed that no application for expansion has been received...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Oct 2004)
Séamus Brennan: The person concerned was in receipt of disability allowance up to 21 July 2004 when his claim was disallowed. He is being paid supplementary welfare allowance. The principal conditions for receipt of disability allowance are that the medical eligibility conditions for receipt of the allowance are met, the means test which applies is satisfied and the person is resident within this...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Oct 2004)
Séamus Brennan: There is a statutory obligation on all claimants of the one-parent family payment to satisfy, and continue to satisfy, the conditions for entitlement to the payment. In the case of the person concerned, she was requested during the investigation of her claim to provide documentation regarding her means. She failed to provide this information and her application was refused last month on the...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Oct 2004)
Séamus Brennan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 376 and 380 together. In the case of wage earning families the method of calculation of the assessment of means of an unemployment assistance applicant under 27 years of age who is living at home takes account of the net parental income after deductions for rent or mortgage repayments and a parental allowance. The remainder is then divided among the dependent...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Oct 2004)
Séamus Brennan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 378 and 383 together. Assistance with regard to attendance at school is provided by my Department through the school meals programme and the back to school clothing and footwear allowance scheme. The school meals programme provides funding for the urban school meals scheme, which operates in conjunction with certain local authorities, as well as for a number...
- Written Answers — Family Support Services: Family Support Services (12 Oct 2004)
Séamus Brennan: My Department has been involved in activities to combat moneylending and over-indebtedness since 1988. Since then the number of money advice and budgeting services, MABS, has grown to 52 operating out of 65 centres throughout the country. There are 130 money advisers and 80 administrative staff working in the MABS. This represents an increase of 20 since June 2003. A total of almost â¬64...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (12 Oct 2004)
Séamus Brennan: Social welfare legislation provides that, to be entitled to unemployment benefit or unemployment assistance, a person must prove, inter alia, that he or she is available for and genuinely seeking work. Unemployment benefit and assistance claimants are expected to demonstrate they have taken reasonable steps to secure suitable employment and to provide examples of such steps. A person who...
- Written Answers — Live Register: Live Register (12 Oct 2004)
Séamus Brennan: Data of the type requested by the Deputy is not collated by my Department at county level as the catchment areas of local offices are not co-terminal with county boundaries. There are three local offices in County Kildare located in Athy, Maynooth and Newbridge. The number of persons signing on the live register at the three local offices in Kildare on 24 September 2004 was 4,604 as compared...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Oct 2004)
Séamus Brennan: A person may qualify for payment of the back to school clothing and footwear allowance if he or she is in receipt of a qualifying social welfare or health board payment; is participating in an approved employment scheme, such as the back to work scheme, or a recognised education or training course and has household income at or below certain prescribed levels. The income limits, which are...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Oct 2004)
Séamus Brennan: The free travel scheme is available to all people living in the State aged 66 years or over, to all carers in receipt of carer's allowance and to carers of people in receipt of constant attendance or prescribed relative's allowance. It is also available to people under age 66 who are in receipt of certain disability type welfare payments, such as disability allowance, invalidity pension and...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Oct 2004)
Séamus Brennan: The principal conditions for receipt of carer's allowance are that full-time care and attention is required and being provided and that the means test which applies is satisfied. Where a person in receipt of carer's allowance takes up an educational course or part-time employment which exceeds ten hours per week, then that person would generally no longer satisfy the qualifying conditions for...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Oct 2004)
Séamus Brennan: Permanent and pensionable public servants employed, including for example teachers and those working in local authorities, who were employed before April 1995 are liable for PRSI class D contributions. Class D contributors have traditionally been insured for a limited range of social insurance benefits: widow's or widower's and orphan's (contributory) pensions; bereavement grant; occupational...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Oct 2004)
Séamus Brennan: Subject to certain conditions the supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which is administered on behalf of my Department by the health boards, provides for the payment of rent supplement to eligible people whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs. The regulations governing rent supplement stipulate that, in addition to a minimum contribution, currently â¬13, each...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Oct 2004)
Séamus Brennan: The person concerned made a claim for unemployment benefit from 24 August 2004. The deciding officer disallowed the claim on the grounds that the person is not unemployed. The person concerned has appealed this decision to the social welfare appeals office. The appeal has been referred to the appeals officer who is of the opinion that an oral hearing is required. She will be advised of the...
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (19 Oct 2004)
Séamus Brennan: An applicant must be permanently incapable of work and satisfy certain PRSI conditions to qualify for invalidity pension. The person concerned applied for invalidity pension on 23 August 2004. Although she fulfilled the medical eligibility criteria the social insurance, PRSI, conditions were not satisfied. She was refused invalidity pension and was notified of this decision on 14 October...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Oct 2004)
Séamus Brennan: Subject to certain conditions, the supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which is administered on behalf of my Department by the health boards, provides for the payment of a weekly or monthly supplement in respect of mortgage interest to eligible people in the State whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation needs. One of the conditions for receipt of mortgage interest...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Oct 2004)
Séamus Brennan: Free fuel allowance is payable to persons on certain long-term social welfare or health board payments who live alone or with other social welfare recipients and where they are unable to provide for their own heating needs. There is no record of a free fuel application for the household concerned. While carer's allowance, which the person concerned is receiving, is not a qualifying payment...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Oct 2004)
Séamus Brennan: Social welfare legislation provides that all unemployed persons must satisfy the conditions of being available for full-time employment and genuinely seeking work to be entitled to an unemployment payment. A person who fails to satisfy these conditions on an ongoing basis is not entitled to an unemployment payment. The amount of unemployment benefit payable for any day of unemployment, Monday...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Oct 2004)
Séamus Brennan: A deciding officer disallowed the unemployment assistance claim of the person concerned and an appeals officer upheld this decision. A letter outlining the grounds of the appeals officer's decision was issued to her on 2 September 2004. An appeals officer's decision is final in the absence of new facts or fresh evidence. The person concerned made a repeat application for unemployment...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Oct 2004)
Séamus Brennan: As the Deputy will be aware, the Christmas bonus will again be paid this year to all recipients of long-term social welfare payments, at a rate equivalent to 100% of the person's normal weekly payment, subject to a minimum payment of â¬30. The measure will cost an estimated â¬127.4 million in 2004 and will benefit some 1.2 million persons comprising 816,000 recipients and 386,000...