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Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (20 Jan 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The qualifying conditions for State pension (contributory) require the applicant to · have entered insurable employment before attaining the age of 56 years. · have at least 260 paid contribution weeks, from employment or self-employment, since entry into insurance. · satisfy the yearly average condition. The person concerned satisfies the above conditions and has a total of 388 reckonable...

Written Answers — Civil Service Staff: Civil Service Staff (20 Jan 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Civil servants in the circumstances outlined by the deputy are facilitated in accordance with agreed arrangements. Under formal protocols agreed between the Civil, Public and Services Union and the Department of Finance, the names of Clerical Officers and Staff Officers who apply for a transfer to an alternative location are entered on the Department's central transfer lists. While there are...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (20 Jan 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Applications for the back to education allowance must be made prior to the commencement of an approved course. Late applications will be accepted only if received within 30 days of the commencement date of the course. As the person concerned commenced a full-time third level course on 25th September 2009, a retrospective application for the back to education allowance cannot be accepted at...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (20 Jan 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Supplementary welfare allowance, which includes rent supplement, is administered on behalf of the Department by the Community Welfare Services division of the Health Service Executive (HSE). The HSE has advised that the person concerned was refused a rent supplement on the grounds that she was not considered to be habitually resident in the State. It is open to the person concerned to...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (20 Jan 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: One of the qualifying conditions for receipt of jobseeker's allowance is that a person must be habitually resident in the State. A Deciding Officer disallowed the jobseeker's allowance claim of the person concerned with effect from 25 February 2010 on the grounds that she is not habitually resident in the State. She appealed this decision and her appeal was forwarded to the Appeals Office...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (20 Jan 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The entitlement of the person to State pension (contributory) is currently being reviewed. She will be notified of the outcome of this review as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (20 Jan 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The qualifying conditions for State pension (transition) require the applicant to · have entered insurable employment before attaining the age of 55 years. · have at least 260 paid contribution weeks, from employment or self-employment, since entry into insurance. · satisfy the yearly average condition. As the Deputy was advised in writing in June of last year, the person concerned has a...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (20 Jan 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The bodies under the aegis of my Department are the Civil Defence Board, the Army Pensions Board and the Board of Coiste an Asgard. In the context of settling the Estimates for the Department of Defence for 2010, the Government decided that the national sail training scheme operated by Coiste an Asgard would be discontinued as recommended in the Report of the Special Group on Public Service...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Reserve: Defence Forces Reserve (20 Jan 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Details of the number of serving members of the Reserve Defence Force in each County are being compiled and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as it becomes available.

Written Answers — Defence Forces Appointments: Defence Forces Appointments (20 Jan 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Section 15 of the Defence Act 1954 provides for the appointment of a Judge Advocate General of the Defence Forces. It stipulates that the Judge Advocate General shall be a practising barrister-at-law of at least ten year's standing, but cannot be a member of the Defence Forces and shall be appointed by, and hold office during the pleasure of, the President. The current Judge Advocate...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (20 Jan 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: All Dublin based civil servants (c. 170) of the Department of Defence, together with some 55 military personnel, moved to Newbridge, Co Kildare under the decentralisation programme in early November 2010. As the entire Department was moving, civil service staff who opted not to decentralise to Newbridge, were transferred to other Dublin based Departments/Offices. It was clearly understood...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Jan 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I propose to take Questions Nos. 328 and 335 together. The Health Service Executive advised that payment of rent supplement ceased as the rent payable by the person concerned was in excess of the limit for his family size. The person concerned appealed this decision to the HSE Appeals Office and the decision was upheld.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Jan 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Health Service Executive advised that the person concerned is in receipt of rent supplement at the maximum rate appropriate to his circumstances.

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (25 Jan 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: On 1 January 2011, the Department assumed responsibility for making redundancy payments from the Social Insurance Fund. There are two types of redundancy payment made from the fund i.e. rebates to those employers who have paid statutory redundancy to eligible employees and statutory lump sums to employees whose employers are insolvent and/or in receivership/liquidation. I wish to advise the...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (25 Jan 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: On 1 January 2011, my Department assumed responsibility from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation for making redundancy payments from the Social Insurance Fund. The practical arrangements that are needed to give effect to the transfer of the redundancy service are currently underway. The two Departments are working closely together during this transitional period to ensure that...

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (25 Jan 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Employer Job PRSI Incentive Scheme was launched on the 20th June 2010. Under the scheme, if an employer takes on an additional member of staff in 2010, who has been unemployed for 6 months or more, s/he will be exempted from paying employers' PRSI for 12 months. The job must be new and additional, be for at least 30 hours a week and last for at least six months. Up to 21st January 2011,...

Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (25 Jan 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: On 1 January 2011, my Department assumed responsibility from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation for making redundancy payments from the Social Insurance Fund. The practical arrangements that are needed to give effect to the transfer of the redundancy service are currently under way. I understand that a collective redundancy notification under the Protection of Employment Act,...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (25 Jan 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The person concerned submitted a claim for State pension (contributory) in September 2010. In examining his pension entitlement, the Department was advised by Revenue that he had an outstanding social insurance liability in respect of period(s) of self-employment. Section 110(1) of the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act 2005, as amended, provides that a self-employed contributor shall not be...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Jan 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The person concerned was refused rent supplement as she was deemed to not have a housing need as she is living in accommodation provided by a local authority. The person concerned appealed the decision to the HSE Appeals Office and the decision was upheld. The person concerned further appealed the decision to the Social Welfare Appeals Office. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (25 Jan 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Self-employed people can apply for the means-tested jobseeker's allowance if their business ceases or if they are on low income as a result of a downturn in demand for their services. Self-employed customers do not have to de-register as self-employed persons in order to claim jobseeker's allowance. Information on social welfare entitlements, including for self-employed people, is set out...