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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: It was a democratic vote.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Deputy should note that the "Yearly Average" method of calculating entitlement to the contributory state pension has been in place since the introduction of that pension, then called the Old Age Contributory Pension, in 1961. As a single, comprehensive social insurance scheme was only introduced approximately 8 years previously, a system where people needed a set number of years...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: Housing policy is a matter for the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. Any questions or suggestions in relation to the long-term lease scheme for social housing should be directed to his Department. Transposition of the IORP II Directive will support positive reform of the Irish funded occupational pension sector. Transposition will raise governance standards,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: Since the end of September 2018, my Department has been examining the social insurance records of pensioners born on or after 1 September 1946 who have an entitlement to and are being paid a reduced State pension Contributory under post Budget 2012 rate bands. Their rate of payment will be reviewed under recently enacted legislation. Where possible, my Department will use information...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned has been in receipt of a half-rate carer's allowance (CA) since 13 August 2009 as her husband had been claiming an increase in his jobseeker allowance (JA) in respect of her. Her husband's JA ceased on 5 April 2011 and has been in receipt of a state pension contributory (SPC) since 7 August 2015 without claiming an increase in respect of his wife. Following a request...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: The legal requirements for the allocation of a Personal Public Service (PPS) Number are that a person satisfies the Minister as to his or her identity and also provides a reason as to why a PPS Number is required (i.e. to carry out a transaction with a specified body, a body specified in legislation as authorised to use PPS Numbers). Information regarding PPS Numbers are available on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Government's position on the recent motion debated in the House on the JobPath service was clearly set out in my contribution at the time. I note the views of the House on the matter, however, the position of the Government remains unchanged. My Department has entered into legally binding agreements with the JobPath providers and the Government will honour these contractual commitments....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: The legal requirements for a Personal Public Service (PPS) Number to be allocated are that the person satisfies the Minister as to his or her identity and provides evidence as to why a PPS Number is required (i.e. to carry out a transaction with a specified body, a body specified in legislation as authorised to use PPS Numbers). The person concerned has attended her local PPS Number...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Bus Services (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: I note that the bus operator concerned continues to receive funding from the National Transport Authority for the provision of this service and also receives support from my Department under the Community Employment scheme. The local Intreo service has also offered its support in recruiting bus drivers and to liaise with the local Education and Training Board in relation to any potential...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: I am informed by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an appeal was registered on 29th January 2019 and, in accordance with the statutory requirements, the Appeals Office has contacted the person concerned and asked them to set out the complete grounds of the appeal. On receipt of this response the relevant departmental papers will be requested from the Department of Employment Affairs and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned has not had an active claim with my department since May 2017. The person concerned made a new claim for Jobseekers Allowance (JA) in March 2018. The Social Welfare Inspector requested additional information from the person concerned to support their application. As this information was not supplied, the application was disallowed as the person concerned had...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: One of the qualifying conditions for state pension (contributory) is that the applicant must have at least 520 paid full-rate social insurance contributions before their 66th birthday. An application for state pension (contributory) from the person concerned was disallowed on 20 November 2017, based on a total of 170 full rate contributions, covering their working life from May 1967 to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Work Allowance Applications (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned registered a company on 3rd November 2011 and subsequently deregistered same on 30th October 2014. The person concerned applied for Back to Work Enterprise Allowance (BTWEA) on 13thJuly 2018 and a decision on the application issued on 23rdSeptember 2018. I understand from my Department that the application was not successful as the business was not a new enterprise. ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: Working Family Payment (WFP) formerly Family Income Supplement is a weekly in-work support,which provides an income top-up for employees on low earnings with children. Based on the information provided by the person concerned, their WFP was renewed from 20 September 2018. Their file was referred to a Social Welfare Inspector to review the declared self-employment income and following an...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Convention on Social Security between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: I thank the committee for the invitation to discuss our convention on social security signed recently between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United Kingdom. In the context of Brexit, my objective is to ensure that the reciprocity of social welfare rights and entitlements, which currently exists for Irish and UK citizens moving within the common travel area, is safeguarded...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Convention on Social Security between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: The drafts of the Bill, which is the miscellaneous Bill and not the convention, include a head that includes the avoidance of overlapping of benefits. What we are doing is maintaining the current rights. Obviously, what we want to do is to try to avoid the situation we had a while ago. That ambiguity arose because there was no legislation that prescribed anything in law. One of the heads...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Convention on Social Security between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: When we met last March when I went to the UK to meet the then Minister, Esther McVey, the principle we agreed would be set out in the convention was that we wanted to continue doing exactly what we have been doing for donkey's years. Officials from my Department and her department finessed that agreement and finalised it towards the end of December. That agreement was signed on 1 February....

Select Committee on Social Protection: Convention on Social Security between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: It is a bilateral agreement. Obviously it can be changed and adapted at any stage. Yesterday we talked about this - I believe it was Senator Higgins who had asked about it. The Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill is currently not on our Statute Book, but if it was it would be included in the list of schemes in the current bilateral. At some point in the future if parents take paid parental...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Convention on Social Security between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: I think it is open ended but it is not going to be open ended forever. The principle is that so long as the goodwill and intention of both parliaments exists, and as long as the intention that has been laid out by Esther McVey, Amber Rudd and the UK Government that it wants to do this does not change, then one would expect the process to continue. We will know very quickly if there is a...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Convention on Social Security between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: Will we find ourselves here this time next year? I do not think so.