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Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I propose to take Questions Nos. 165, 166 and 167 together. The number of persons in receipt of illness benefit and the number of persons in receipt of injury benefit under the scheme of occupational injuries benefits, for the past five years and to date in 2010, are set out in the table below. The figures quoted refer to those in receipt of these benefits at the end of each year except for...

Written Answers — Pre-retirement Allowance: Pre-retirement Allowance (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The information requested by the deputy is contained in the tabular statement below. The number of recipients of pre-retirement allowance has been in decline since 2007 as the scheme was ended for new claimants on 4th July 2007. Table: Recipient of Pre-Retirement Allowance in Waterford, 2005 to 2010 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 (November) 446 442 406 333 282 234

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The domiciliary care allowance scheme (DCA) transferred from the Health Service Executive on foot of a Government decision to reassign certain functions between Departments and Agencies as part of the health service reform programme. This Department has been accepting new claims for DCA since the 1st of April 2009 and has responsibility for former HSE customers from September 2009. As a...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme is the safety net within the overall social welfare system in that it provides a basic income support payment to eligible people in the State whose means are insufficient to meet their needs and those of their dependants. The main purpose of the basic supplementary welfare allowance scheme is to provide immediate and flexible assistance for...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The supplementary welfare allowance scheme provides for a weekly or monthly supplement to be paid in respect mortgage interest to any person in the State whose means are insufficient to meet their needs. The purpose of mortgage interest supplement is to provide short-term income support to eligible people who are unable to meet their mortgage interest repayments in respect of a house which is...

Written Answers — Rural Social Scheme: Rural Social Scheme (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Nationally, there is provision for 2,600 Participant plus 130 Supervisor places on the Rural Social Scheme (RSS). The Scheme is delivered locally by Local Development Companies operating in rural areas and Údarás na Gaeltachta. All available places have been allocated to each of the Local Development Companies and Údarás na Gaeltachta. Waterford Leader Partnership Limited manages the...

Written Answers — National Carer's Strategy: National Carer's Strategy (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: During 2008, an interdepartmental group, chaired by the Department of the Taoiseach, with secretariat support provided by my Department, undertook work, including a public consultation process, to develop a National Carers' Strategy. However, because of the prevailing economic situation, it was not possible to set targets or time limits which could be achieved. In that context, rather...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 18 November 2010. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Social Welfare Services on the grounds of appeal be sought. When received, the appeal in question will be referred to an Appeals Officer for...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: For a child requiring full-time care who is under age 16, a domiciliary care allowance of €309.50 per month may be paid to the parent or guardian. This payment is not means tested and is to provide for the additional costs involved in providing care and supervision that is substantially more than that normally needed by a child of the same age. This may include additional travel costs. ...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: In 2011, self-employed workers will be liable for PRSI at the Class S rate of 4% - the same personal rate as is paid by ordinary employees. However, employers also make a PRSI contribution of 10.75% in respect of their employees, resulting in the payment of a combined 14.75% rate per employee under full-rate PRSI Class A. As a result, ordinary employees can build entitlement towards the...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I understand that the Deputy is referring to changes to the Illness Benefit scheme introduced by the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2008. Illness Benefit is an income support payment for people of working age who are unable to work due to illness and who satisfy certain social insurance conditions. The scheme is intended to provide income replacement for insured persons during...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, 2010, which is currently before the Oireachtas, includes provisions which will facilitate the introduction in 2011 of a Partial Capacity Benefit scheme. In essence, the intention behind the scheme is to provide an opportunity for people with disabilities, and assessed to have an employment capacity which is restricted when compared to the...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My Department is currently reviewing the relevant schemes with a view to maximising the opportunities presented by greater competition in the energy and telecommunications sectors in terms of value for money.

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The purpose of rent supplement is to provide short-term support to eligible people living in private rented accommodation, whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs and who do not have accommodation available to them from any other source. Since 2005 the number of individuals in receipt of a rent supplement payment has increased from 60,176 to over 97,000 today. During...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Treatment Benefit Scheme will continue to operate in 2011 as it did in 2010, whereby an annual dental examination and bi-annual optical examination are avail able free of charge to qualified customers. The Medical Appliance scheme remains unchanged. The Department will pay up to half the cost of purchase or repair of a hearing aid on behalf of qualified customers, subject to a fixed...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: These savings will be made through enhanced controls including the introduction of the Public Service Card, electronics signing, implementation of the Social Welfare Miscellaneous Act (1) 2010 and other structural reforms largely based on the proposals in the three policy documents published by my department recently. These policy documents are as follows; · A Policy and Value for Money...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ba mhaith liom cur síos a dhéanamh ar chuid de phríomh ghnéithe an Bhille seo. I propose to outline some of the main provisions of the Bill which provides for some dramatic changes that will result in a significant development in services. The Bill provides for the full transfer of the employment services and community services programmes of FÁS from the Minister for Education and...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is because we are renting too many units. The State supplies half of the rental market and may be keeping rents up.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is not the evidence we have.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We undertake detailed analysis of rent payable around the country.