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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (24 Jan 2018)

Regina Doherty: An application for carer's allowance (CA) was received from the person concerned on 24 July 2017. It is a condition for receipt of a CA that the person being cared for must have such a disability 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...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (24 Jan 2018)

Regina Doherty: Carer's allowance (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. An application for CA was received from the person concerned on 29 November 2017. The application is currently being processed and once...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reports (25 Jan 2018)

Regina Doherty: Fifteen clinical protocols for use by Medical Assessors (MAs) of the Medical Review and Assessment Service (MRAS) were developed as part of the Medical Review and Case Management (MRCM) Project, 2010. This was part of the requirement to redefine the clinical work processes of the MAs and develop medical protocols taking into account evidence-based best practice in order to increase the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Sharing Arrangements (25 Jan 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of my Department which, under social welfare legislation, is independent in its decision-making. Under social welfare law, decisions on entitlement to payments are made by a Deciding Officer (DO), based on the evidence and information provided by the person applying for the payment. Where a DO decides that a person is not entitled to a payment...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Humanitarian Assistance Scheme (25 Jan 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government is the lead Department for severe weather emergencies and the Office of Public Works has responsibility for capital flood relief activities. My Department has an important role to play in assisting households in the immediate aftermath of emergency events such as flooding. The purpose of the humanitarian assistance scheme is to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Fund (25 Jan 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Government is committed to encouraging self-employment and entrepreneurship and this includes improving the level of PRSI based benefits available to self-employed people while ensuring the sustainability of the social insurance fund. Self-employed contributors have been eligible for the invalidity pension from December 2017. For the first time, this has given the self-employed...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (25 Jan 2018)

Regina Doherty: Entitlement to state pension (contributory) is assessed on the basis of an applicant’s social insurance record and satisfaction of the eligibility conditions applicable on the date they reach pension age. Current social welfare legislation provides that, in order to qualify for state pension (contributory), an applicant must have entered insurable employment before attaining the age of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes Data (25 Jan 2018)

Regina Doherty: The distinction between ‘self-employed’ and ‘employed’ does not form part of the eligibility criteria for most social welfare payments. Five schemes where self-employment status is directly relevant to payment eligibility are: 1. People with a previous or continuing self-employed status on Jobseeker’s Allowance; 2. Farm Assist, where it is a condition of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Fund (25 Jan 2018)

Regina Doherty: The purpose of PRSI credited contributions (“credits”) is to secure the social welfare benefits and pensions of PRSI contributors by covering gaps in insurance on the occasions where they are not in a position to make contributions such as periods of unemployment, illness etc. The Social Welfare (Contributions) Regulations 1953 (S.I. No. 5 of 1953) (as amended) was the relevant...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (25 Jan 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 11thJanuary 2018. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought. When these papers have been received from the Department, the case in question will be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Offices (25 Jan 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Department currently has 58 Social Welfare Branch Offices at various locations throughout the country. Each Branch Office is operated and managed, under a contract for services, by a Branch Manager who is required to act as an agent for the Department in the area served by the office. The contract for the delivery of contracted Branch Office services in Castlepollard is due to expire on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Jan 2018)

Regina Doherty: Under social welfare law, decisions on entitlement to payments such as disability allowance are made by a Deciding Officer (DO), based on the evidence and information provided by the person applying for the payment. The decision of a DO can only be revised in certain circumstances. Where a DO decides that a person is not entitled to a payment and further evidence is subsequently submitted...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Local Employment Service (25 Jan 2018)

Regina Doherty: The expansion of the department’s activation capacity with the introduction of JobPath and the welcome reduction in the live register has allowed the department over the last two years to develop the activation service provided by the Local Employment Services (LES) across 12 Counties. In 2016, LES providers were asked to increase the frequency with which they engage with activation...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (25 Jan 2018)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 210 to 212, inclusive,, 215 and 216 together. JobPath is a payment by results model and all set-up and day-to-day operational costs are borne by the companies. The companies are paid on the basis of performance and with the exception of the initial registration fee; payments are made only when a client has achieved sustained employment. The overall cost of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Data (25 Jan 2018)

Regina Doherty: The number of persons in receipt of Back to Education Allowance (BTEA) at the end of December in each of the years 2015 to 2017 is shown in Table 1 below: Table 1: BETA recipients 2015 - 2017 Year Number of recipients (at end December) 2015 18,345 2016 14,386 2017 11,336 I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Data (25 Jan 2018)

Regina Doherty: The table outlines the position in relation to the number of persons engaged in Community Employment as at the end of December for each year from 2015 to 2017. Year Participants Supervisors Total 2015 22,813 1,405 24,218 2016 22,356 1,377 23,733 2017 21,832 1,357 23,189 I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Benefit Payments (25 Jan 2018)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned applied for child benefit for her 2 children on the 17thOctober 2017. The claim has been processed with payment was awarded from November 2017. She was notified of the decision on the 1stof December 2017 and payment, including payment in respect of any arrears due issued to her in January 2018. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Eligibility (25 Jan 2018)

Regina Doherty: Illness Benefit is a payment for people who cannot work due to illness and who satisfy the pay related social insurance (PRSI) contribution conditions. For illness benefit claims made in 2017 the governing PRSI contribution year is 2015. The rate of payment depends onthe person’s level of earnings in the governing contribution year. Where the average weeklyearnings are €300...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Benefit Eligibility (25 Jan 2018)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned was in receipt of child benefit for 2 children until October 2017. Child benefit ceased for her older child from November 2017 as the child had reached his 18thbirthday and this benefit is not payable to a child over age 18. In relation to child dependent allowance, the person concerned was in receipt of full rate child dependant allowance on her disability allowance...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Civil Registration Legislation (30 Jan 2018)

Regina Doherty: The legal basis for the appointment of marriage solemnisers in Ireland may be found in Part 6 of the Civil Registration Act 2004, as amended. Section 54 of that Act provides for the categories of bodies and organisations which may apply for registration of persons on the Register of Solemnisers maintained by an t-Árd Chláraitheoir (Registrar General). These are: - The Health...