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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (19 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: Community Employment (CE) scheme supervisors are employees of private companies in the community and voluntary sector that receive public funding and are not employees of my Department, nor are they public servants. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER) have taken the lead in addressing the entitlement of CE supervisors to occupational pensions. A Community Sector High...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Advertising Campaigns (19 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: The media campaign on false self-employment was aimed at ensuring that there is better public awareness of the important service the Department provides in determining employment status and to help develop a better understanding of the scale and nature of false self-employment. The main advertising campaign ran over a two week period from the 7th May, with digital and social media promotions...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Data (19 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) commissioned the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) to conduct research into contingent employment in Ireland. Contingent employment generally describes an employment relationship that is non-permanent – that is employees on temporary contracts and freelancers. The ESRI presented its initial findings at a WRC seminar on the World of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Family Support Services (19 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: The sole universal child-related payment for parents, regardless of their employment status, administered by my Department is Child Benefit. Child Benefit is a universal payment to help families with the cost of raising children and plays an important role in tackling child poverty. Receipt of the payment is not contingent on a means test or social insurance contributions. Child Benefit is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Farm Assist Scheme Data (19 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 79 and 83 together. The number of persons in receipt of farm assist at year end was 7,234 in 2017, 7,828 in 2016 and 8,790 in 2015. Farm assist is a means-tested income support scheme for farmers. To qualify for the payment, a customer must be a farmer, farming land in the State, aged between 18 and 66 and satisfy a means test. The annual farm assist review...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (19 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: It is important in the interests of equity and fairness that the conditions for receipt of a jobseekers payment apply to all recipients, including those who could be categorised as seasonal and part-time workers. Where a person exhausts his or her entitlement to jobseekers benefit, he or she must pay 13 additional PRSI contributions after the last day of payment in order to requalify. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reviews (19 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: My Department is now reviewing the current maintenance and liable relative procedures, insofar as they relate to the one-parent family payment scheme administered by my Department, and work is ongoing on this review. This will necessitate my Department liaising with the Department of Justice and Equality as the Department responsible for the Family Law Acts, which govern family maintenance...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Birth Certificates (19 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: The General Register Office (GRO) operates under the aegis of my Department and has responsibility for the administration of the Civil Registration Service in Ireland. The Health Service Executive (HSE) is responsible for the day-to-day delivery of the Civil Registration Service through a network of local civil registration office across the State. Births are registered at local...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times (19 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: The information (where available) requested by the Deputy is detailed in the following tabular statement. Average Weeks to Award May 2018 State Pension Contributory 6 State Pension Non-Contributory 13 Jobseeker's Benefit 1 Jobseeker's Allowance 2 One-Parent Family Payment 5 Widow(er)'s Contributory Pension 4 Maternity Benefit 6 Paternity Benefit 6 Disability Allowance 13 Illness...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Applications (19 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: As advised in the reply to Question No. 1224 of 12 June 2018, the person concerned was awarded an interim payment of supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) following the withdrawal of her widow’s pension on grounds of cohabitation. The SWA payment was awarded as an interim payment while the person was awaiting a decision on an appeal against the disallowance of their Pension and was...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (19 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: A person’s date of birth is verified during the SAFE registration process which results in a Public Services Card (PSC) being issued. It is not, however, inscribed on the card. In many instances, holders of the PSC have expressed an interest in having their date of birth inscribed on the card in order to access certain services. To address this, one provision contained in Section 5...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Springboard Programme (19 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: Springboard+ is a specific initiative that strategically targets funding of free higher education courses for jobseekers in areas where there are identified labour market skills shortages or employment opportunities. Courses to date have been delivered in areas such ICT, Manufacturing which includes the biopharma sector, Construction, Entrepreneurship, Cross-Enterprise Skills, the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Tús Programme (19 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: As the Deputy will be aware, my Department provides a range of activation supports catering for long-term unemployed jobseekers and those most distant from the labour market. Tús provides part-time temporary work in local communities, as a stepping stone back to employment. The objective of the scheme is to break the cycle of unemployment and maintain work readiness, thereby improving...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (19 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer who will make a summary decision on the appeal based on the documentary evidence presented or, if required, hold an oral hearing. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection and of the Department...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (19 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: A breakdown of all payments to Mediavest for the years 2016 and 2017 is set out in the following table. Expenditure was on routine newspaper advertising such as public notifications of permanent or temporary office closures, relocations or recruitment to branch offices, and customer job events. Company Project Description Date Amount (Incl. VAT) Mediavest Ltd Advertising Christmas...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (19 Jun 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.I confirm that my department received an application for CA from the person concerned on the 16 May 2017. As the applicant is self-employed, the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Consultation Process (19 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: The information requested is currently being compiled by my Department and will be provided to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Applications (19 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: In this case the customer submitted an application for Jobseekers Allowance on the 2/5/18. The customer was previously in full time employment but left the employment on the 1/5/18 following a probationary period of 3 months. The customer stated in the application the reason the employment ended was because the probationary period of employment was unsuccessful. The employer offered the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (19 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: As the Deputy will know the JobPath activation service is to help long-term unemployed jobseekers find sustainable full time work. The duration of a person's jobseekers claim is recorded in terms of days of unemployment, any two such periods not separated by more than 52 weeks are considered to be the same continuous period of unemployment – this is known as linking the claims....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Household Benefits Scheme (19 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: The household benefits package (HHB) comprises the electricity or gas allowance, and the free television licence. My Department will spend approximately €237 million this year on HHB for over 437,000 customers. The package is generally available to people living in the State aged 66 years or over who are in receipt of a social welfare type payment or who satisfy a means test....