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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme Payments (10 Oct 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 costs of clothing and footwear when children start or return to school each autumn. The Government has provided €49.5 million for the scheme in 2018. The payment rates for this year are €125 for eligible children aged 4 to 11 years and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (10 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: No application for carer's allowance was received from the person concerned. An application for carer’s benefit was received on 3 May 2018. Carer's benefit is a PRSI based payment, made to persons who are providing full-time care and attention to a person who has such a disability that they require that level of care. The application was awarded to the person concerned from 7...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Foster Care Supports (10 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: The primary payment for foster parents is the foster care allowance which is administered by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs. The foster care allowance is currently €325 per week per child under 12 and €352 per week per child aged twelve and over. When a young person between the ages of 18 and 21 is still in training or education, an Aftercare Allowance may be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Foster Care Expenditure (10 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: The primary payment for foster parents is the foster care allowance which is administered by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs. The foster care allowance is currently €325 per week per child under 12 and €352 per week per child of twelve and over. When a young person between the ages of 18 and 21 is still in training or education, an Aftercare Allowance may be paid....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (10 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred on 20th August 2018 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...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Television Licence Fee Collection (11 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: The free television licence forms part of the household benefits package, together with the electricity or gas allowance.  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 and are living alone or with an excepted person only.  There is of course a universal entitlement to the free...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Applications (11 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: A decision on an application for Exceptional Needs Payments cannot be appealed to the Social Welfare Appeals Office. Section 323 of the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act 2005 provides that where a person is dissatisfied with the determination of a designated person of a claim by him or her under section 200, 201 or 202 of that Act, i.e. Allowances-in-kind, Exceptional Needs Payments and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (11 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: Community Employment (CE) scheme supervisors are employees of private companies in the community and voluntary sector that receive public funding. They are not employees of my Department or public servants, and as such were not subject to pay reductions under the provisions of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (FEMPI) which only applied to public servants. While the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Treatment Benefit Scheme Eligibility (11 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: Based on the information available, the person concerned will qualify for treatment benefit as a dependant spouse on her husband's insurance record. In order for a formal approval of eligibility to issue to her dentist, she should complete and return a signed DE2 form to the Treatment Benefit Section of the Department in Letterkenny.  The relevant form...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (11 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned is in receipt of a reduced rate state pension (contributory) with effect from their 66th birthday, based on an assessed yearly average of 36 contributions, covering their working life from June 1968 to December 2017.  According to the records of my Department, the person concerned has a social insurance record of 1,850 reckonable contributions and credits and is...

Committee of Selection: Motion (16 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: I move:That Dáil Éireann approves the Twenty-First Report of the Standing Committee of Selection in accordance with Standing Order 27F, copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 10th October, 2018, and discharges and appoints members to Committees accordingly.

Technological Universities Act 2018 (Section 36) (Appointed Day) Order 2018: Motion (16 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: I move:That Dáil Éireann approves the following Order in draft:Technological Universities Act 2018 (Section 36) (Appointed Day) Order 2018,copies of which have been laid in draft form before Dáil Éireann on 13th September, 2018.

EU Regulations: Motion (16 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: I move:That Dáil Éireann approves the exercise by the State of the option or discretion under Protocol No. 21 on the position of the United Kingdom and Ireland in respect of the area of freedom, security and justice annexed to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, to take part in the adoption and application of the following...

EU Regulations: Motion (16 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: I move:That Dáil Éireann approves the exercise by the State of the option or discretion under Protocol No. 21 on the position of the United Kingdom and Ireland in respect of the area of freedom, security and justice annexed to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, to take part in the adoption and application of the following...

Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 (Section 95(3)) (Variation of Title: Physical Therapist) Regulations 2018: Referral to Joint Committee (16 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: I move:That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft:Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 (Section 95(3)) (Variation of Title: Physical Therapist) Regulations 2018,copies of which have been laid in draft form before Dáil Éireann on 1st June, 2018, be referred to the Joint Committee on Health, in accordance with Standing Order...

Nomination of Member of the Government: Motion (16 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Deputy needs to learn to read.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications (16 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: Applications for carer’s benefit in respect of two care recipients were received from the person concerned on 18 July 2018. The applications were awarded to the person concerned with effect from 16 August 2018 when her carer’s leave commenced. The first payment will issue to her via her nominated payment method on 11 October 2018. Arrears of benefit due from 16 August 2018...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (16 Oct 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 child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. An application for carer's allowance was received from the person concerned on 9 July 2018 The evidence submitted in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff Data (16 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 612 and 613 together. The details being sought be the Deputy in respect of appointments made by competition to the grade of Principal Officer in my Department and the Agencies that operate under its aegis are shown in the following table. Positions at Principal Officer in the Pensions Authority are advertised directly by the Authority and via PAS with...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (16 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: As Revenue does not have the facility to collect a part of a year’s PRSI liability in respect of the individual’s 66th year, payment can be facilitated by the Department’s Client Eligibility Services, Department of Employment Affairs & Social Protection, Government Buildings, Cork Road, Waterford. In general PRSI is charged on income, including income from...