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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (27 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is one of a range of activation supports which includes schemes such as TÚS and Community Employment (CE), catering for long-term unemployed jobseekers. Activation services are also provided by departmental case officers in the Intreo Centres, or by contracted companies and organisations such as Local Employment Services (LES), Job Clubs and the JobPath providers. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Support Grant (27 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: My Department is reviewing the decision to refuse the claim of the person concerned for Carer’s Support Grant. In this regard the Deciding Officer is awaiting a report from a local inspector. The inspector has advised that he will arrange to meet the person concerned within the next week and will furnish a report shortly thereafter. If the outcome of the review is not favourable to the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Eligibility (27 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: Carer's benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce to care for a child or an adult in need of full-time care and attention. It is payable for a maximum of 104 weeks for each person being cared for. This may be claimed as a single continuous period or in any number of separate periods up to a total of 104 weeks. Where a person is receiving CARB for a period of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (27 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: My department received an application for carer's allowance (CA) from the person concerned on the 20 February 2018. 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. A person can be considered to be providing...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (27 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 27thMarch 2018. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant papers and comments by or on behalf of the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought from the Department of Social Protection. These papers have been received in the Social...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (27 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 11thApril 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: Electric Vehicles (27 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: There are no e-car charging points provided at the Department’s buildings in Dublin, or at any other locations throughout the country.

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: We would have been able to discuss this legislation last night if not for the filibustering that occurred. The actions of those Deputies have genuine consequences. We can all agree on that. The legislation is on a list, and I genuinely hope that we get to it before the recess.

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: It is a priority. We are doing nothing else except discussing this Bill. There is very little left to discuss at Report Stage. The ambition was to try to get the legislation in and out of the Seanad before the summer break, and that ambition has not changed.

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: The ambition was to try to get the legislation in and out of the Seanad before the summer break, and that has not changed.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (28 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 11thApril 2018. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant papers and comments by or on behalf of the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. These papers have been...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure (28 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 265 to 268, inclusive, together. The full year cost of increasing all weekly pension payments by €5 per week is estimated to be €160.9 million in 2019. This cost includes the following schemes: State Pension Contributory; Widow’s, Widower’s or Surviving Civil Partner’s Contributory Pension (where recipient is aged 66 and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (28 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: The reversal of the rate bands for post 2012 pensioners to the 2000-2012 rate band percentages would carry an estimated cost of some €73 million in 2018 (including inflows from other payments such as the State Pension non-contributory and Increases for Qualified Adults), rising at a rate of €10m to €12m extra per annum (i.e., an extra €85 million approx. in 2019...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Bereavement Grant (28 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: During the economic downturn, my Department protected primary social welfare rates and in recent years, as the economy recovered, the Government has concentrated resources in improving the core rates of payments, particularly for pensioners. Abolishing the bereavement grant provided a significant annual saving and allowed my Department to protect other core social welfare payments such as...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Expenditure (28 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: The fuel allowance is a targeted payment of €22.50 per week, paid for the duration of the fuel season from October to April. Over 364,000 low income households benefit from this allowance, at an estimated cost of €227 million in 2018. The purpose of this payment is to assist these households with their energy costs. One allowance is paid per household representing a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme (28 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: The free travel scheme provides free travel on the main public and private transport services for those eligible under the scheme. These include road, rail and ferry services provided by companies such as Bus Átha Cliath, Bus Éireann and Iarnród Éireann, as well as Luas and services provided by over 80 private transport operators. There are currently approx. 914,000...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (28 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 12 January 2018. It is a condition for receipt of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Payments (28 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: My Department is committed to providing a quality service to all its customers. This includes ensuring that applications are processed and that decisions on entitlement are made as quickly as possible.Carer's benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce to care for a person(s) in need of full-time care and attention. At the end of May 2018 the average waiting...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (28 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: A review of a social insurance record will be carried out for any person who makes such a request. In this case, the Department has no record of having received a request from the person concerned to have their social insurance record reviewed. Therefore, as a starting point, the person concerned should forward any information they may have in relation to any concern that their record is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (28 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...