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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (27 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The customer submitted her claim for Jobseekers Allowance on the 27 June 2018 and she requested this claim to be backdated to the 5 April 2018. Backdating could not approved as the customer was not in a position to demonstrate that she had met all the conditions for Jobseekers Allowance during that period. A letter confirming refusal of the backdating was issued to the customer on the 27...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (27 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Illness Benefit claim for the person concerned has been processed and arrears owing to him will issue in the coming week. The claim for the person concerned is certified up to the 18th November 2018 and paid up to the 17th November 2018. If the person concerned remains ill and unfit for work, a further medical certificate should be submitted to the Department as soon as possible in order...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Climate Change Adaptation Plans (27 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: My Department is currently in discussions with the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment in the development of specific climate change targets as part of an overall whole of government climate change action plan. Energy usage is the main contributor to climate change and the Department and agencies under its aegis are mitigating this as part of the Public Sector Energy...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Support Grant (28 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Carer’s Support Grant is an annual payment made by my Department to full-time carers. The person concerned was recently awarded the 2017 and 2018 Grants. An amount of €3,400 (€1,700 in respect of each year) will be available for collection by her, at Castleisland Post Office, from Thursday 6thDecember onwards. Her claim for a 2016 Grant was refused as her...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Review (28 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer, having fully considered all of the available evidence, decided to disallow the appeal of the person concerned by way of a summary decision on 1 November 2018. Under Social Welfare legislation, the decision of the Appeals Officer is final and conclusive and may only be reviewed by an Appeals Officer in the light of new...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (28 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: I confirm that my department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person concerned on 19 June 2018. Additional information in relation to the person’s application was requested by a deciding officer on 1 October 2018 and again on 12 November 2018. Once the information is received the application will be processed without delay and the person concerned will be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (28 Nov 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 CA was received from the person concerned on 17 July 2018. The application is currently being processed...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (28 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: An application for carer's allowance (CA) was received from the person concerned on 6 June 2018. It is a condition for receipt of a CA that the person being cared for must have such 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 Eligibility (28 Nov 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. It is a condition for receipt of CA that the means of the person concerned must be less than the statutory limit. Means are any income of the...

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

Regina Doherty: Firstly may I take this opportunity to extend my condolences to the person concerned and her family on their recent bereavement. I confirm that my department received an application for carer’s allowance (CA) from the person concerned on 24 May 2018. CA was awarded to the person concerned on 26 September 2018 with effect from 24 May 2018 to 28 November 2018, this includes 12 weeks...

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

Regina Doherty: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer, having fully considered all of the available evidence, has decided to disallow the appeal of the person concerned by way of a summary decision. The person concerned has been notified of the Appeals Officer’s decision. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Employment...

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

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred on 23rd November 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...

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

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred on 23rd November 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: EU Directives (28 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The over-arching objective of IORP II Directive is to facilitate the development of occupational retirement savings in the EU. Many of the provisions contained within the directive will support positive reform of the Irish occupational pension sector. The directive provides for a range of new requirements concerning governance, management standards in schemes, safekeeping of assets, the...

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

Regina Doherty: Whether social insurance contributions made by self-employed persons before 1987 are reckonable for pension purposes will depend upon the nature of those contributions. Class S PRSI was introduced for the self-employed in 1988. Prior to 1988 the self-employed could maintain their social insurance record by paying Voluntary Contributions, once they had already been an employed contributor and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (28 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: On 23 January last, the Government agreed to allow pensioners, born on or after the 1st September 1946, affected by the 2012 changes in rate bands, to have their state pension (contributory) entitlement calculated under an interim “Total Contributions Approach” (TCA). The changes also provide for up to 20 years of home caring periods in the calculation of that entitlement, for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: General Practitioner Contracts (28 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: My Department has been made aware of a number of instances of customers being asked by individual GPs to pay a fee in order to receive a medical certificate. This is at variance with the Department's contract under which the GP is obliged to complete and return specified medical report forms (including medical certificates), free of charge to the patient, when requested to do so by the...

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill: Order for Report Stage (29 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: I move: "That Report Stage be taken now."

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill: Report Stage (29 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Deputy obviously does not know how influential he is because we actually changed it last January on foot of us having this very conversation this time last year.

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill: Report Stage (29 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: Yes. The Deputy is right that it was never in the law; it was never intended to be in the law. I ask the Deputy to consider not pressing the amendment on the basis that because it was never in the law, it should never have been put into the guidelines. For some reason, it was put into the guidelines. The Deputy can blame who he likes but it certainly was not me who did that. However, I...