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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (20 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: It is not, supply is.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (20 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: The school meals programme provides funding towards the provision of food to some 1,580 schools and organisations benefiting 250,000 children at a total cost of €54 million in 2018 representing an increase of €6.5 million over the previous year. The objective of the scheme is to provide regular, nutritious food to children who are unable, due to lack of good quality food, to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Expenditure (20 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 211 and 212 together. Rent supplement plays a vital role in housing families and individuals, with the scheme supporting approximately 27,400 recipients for which the Government has provided €180 million for in 2018. End of year statistics for rent supplement recipients and expenditure for the years 2011 to 2017 and for the eight months ending August...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Properties (20 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: There is no land owned by my Department or agencies under its remit in County Meath. I trust that this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (20 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is an employment service which helps long-term unemployed people and those most at risk of becoming long-term unemployed to secure and sustain paid employment. The service was introduced in 2015 on a "soft launch" basis and was fully operational by mid 2016. In this time, just over 181,000 jobseekers have engaged with the JobPath employment service to date. All customers have...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (20 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: Overpayments of social welfare assistance and benefit payments arise as a consequence of decisions made under the relevant sections of the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 2005 (as amended). Where an overpayment is raised, the Department is obligated to make every effort to recover sums overpaid. Overpayments which have not been recovered in full at the time of death may be recovered...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure (20 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 217 and 219 together. The estimated full year cost of a 1% increase in weekly working age payments (to recipients under the age of 66) is €74.26 million. The estimated full year cost of a 1% increase in weekly payments to pensioners aged 66 and over is €79.39 million. The total cost of a 1% increase in all weekly schemes is €153.66...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Expenditure (20 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: The back to school clothing and footwear allowance (BSCFA) scheme provides a once-off payment to eligible families to assist with the extra costs when children start school each autumn. The Government has provided €49.5 million for the scheme in 2018 which operates from June to September. The rate of payment in 2017 was increased by 25% to €125 in respect of children aged 4...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (20 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned submitted an application for a back to education allowance (BTEA) on 6/9/18 as he wished to pursue the leaving certificate commencing 17/9/18. Current scheme guidelines stipulate that a jobseeker between the ages of 18 and 21 must be out of formal education for at least two years before commencement of the proposed course of study. Unfortunately the person concerned does...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Eligibility (20 Sep 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 more than 900,000...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payments (20 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: An exceptional needs payment is a single payment to help meet essential, once-off, exceptional expenditure, which a person could not reasonably be expected to meet out of their weekly income. According to the records of the Department the person concerned has not submitted an application for an exceptional needs payment. As a result of this representation an appointment has been scheduled...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (20 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: Entitlement to state pension (contributory) is assessed on the basis of an applicant’s full social insurance record and the eligibility conditions applicable on the date the applicant reaches pension age. Eligibility is examined by a Deciding Officer following receipt of a completed application. Applicants are advised to submit an application form for pension at least 3 months...

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: The empty vessels of Sinn Féin have spent months attacking the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy. They have personalised their housing attack on the Minister and consistently threatened the stunt we are witnessing tonight in the motion of no confidence. They rolled out this old chestnut every time there was a slow news week. Tonight we see the hypocrisy of Sinn Féin in action. Sinn...

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: Yes, we have 10,000 people who are homeless and it is too high. However, in Northern Ireland there are 49,500 people on the waiting list for a population of 1.8 million.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: There are 11,889 men women and children homeless in the North where Sinn Féin ran from power.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: It is the truth. When Fianna Fáil was acting responsibly in 2016 in supporting the minority Government that was established, Sinn Féin went to the cinema because it had no plan. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: Sinn Féin has no policy except hypocrisy. They call for houses to be built as though they had magic beans. Their magic beans did not work in Northern Ireland and their hypocrisy and policy of spin will not work down here, lads and ladies.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: They should get their act together and bring forward a policy and a plan that would potentially be an objective to what we are in instead of the stunts we are used to - Hauling every one into the Dáil or the time Mary Lou put everyone out of here for hours. It is wasteful, needless time when we have work to do. They are pathetic.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: Stunt.

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

Regina Doherty: Budget 2017 announced a number of changes to treatment benefit, which encompasses the dental, optical and medical appliance schemes. This included extending the scheme from March 2017 to self-employed PRSI contributors and their dependent spouses for the first time and reinstating treatments from October 2017 that had not been available since 2009. Among the treatments re-introduced from...