Results 7,741-7,760 of 10,035 for speaker:Martin Cullen

Order of Business (7 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: I will revert to the Deputy on that matter.

Order of Business (7 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: The provisions intended under the maritime safety Bill require, as the Deputy will be aware, detailed legal examination, which will take some time and, therefore, it is not possible to indicate when it will be brought forward.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: The supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which includes rent supplement, is administered on behalf of my department by the Community Welfare Service of the Health Service Executive (HSE). The purpose of rent supplement is to provide short-term income support to eligible people living in private rented accommodation, whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs and who do...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: Maternity Benefit is an income maintenance payment awarded by this Department to eligible women for a 26-week period on foot of a confinement. Entitlement to this benefit for employees is contingent on entitlement to statutory Maternity Leave. Under the provisions of social welfare legislation, the 26-week period of core statutory Maternity Leave attracts a payment from my Department —...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (7 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: In its conclusions on the provisions relating to the special pension for the self employed, introduced in 1999, the Irish Human Rights Commission (IHRC) placed particular emphasis on Article 29(5) of the European Code of Social Security. This section deals with the situation where the beneficiary, because of his advanced age at the moment the pension scheme enters into force, is unable to...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: The current range of payment options offered by my Department to customers includes payment to a local Post Office, bank or building society account and credit unions that have been authorised by the banking and credit union regulators. Customers choose a particular payment option having regard to their own personal circumstances. The Department supports government policy which aims to...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: I propose to take Questions Nos. 135 and 136 together. Social assistance payments, including state pension (non-contributory), are designed to provide financial support for people who do not qualify for one of the contributory pension or benefit schemes. Entitlement to these payments is based on a means test which is intended to ensure that available resources are targeted at those who are...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (7 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: The Review of Sign Language Interpretation Services and Service Requirements in Ireland report recommended the development of a service delivery model for sign language interpretation services based on a two phased approach. The first phase is to establish of a new entity to develop and deliver sign language interpretation services and commence the piloting of remote interpreting services...

Written Answers — Departmental Offices: Departmental Offices (7 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: The offices of my Department at Áras Mhic Dhiarmada, Store Street, Dublin used a total of 4,103,533 kilowatt hours of electricity in the years 2005 to 2007. From 1st January 2005 to 31st May 2005 electricity for this office was provided by the Electricity Supply Board and from 1st June 2005 to date the supply was provided by Energia. Over the course of the three years in question electricity...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: The Respite Care Grant (RCG) is an annual payment made to all persons providing full-time care, regardless of means or PRSI contribution record, but subject to certain conditions. The extension of the scheme to all carers was introduced in Budget 2005. The Grant is payable from the first Thursday in June of the year in question. Details of applications received, claims allowed and claims...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: The Health Service Executive has advised that it has not received an application for assistance under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme from the person concerned. The Executive has advised that the person concerned should contact her local community welfare office immediately so that any entitlement she may have can be determined. The supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which...

Finance Act 2004 Order: Referral to Select Committee (12 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: I move: That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approves the following Order in draft: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2008, copies of which have been laid in draft form before Dáil Éireann on 28th January, 2008, be referred to the Select Committee on Finance and the Public Service in accordance with paragraph (1) of the Orders of Reference of...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2008: Order for Second Stage (12 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2008: Second Stage (12 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am very pleased to introduce this, the second of two Bills which will implement the social welfare package of €900 million announced last December in budget 2008. This generous package, representing nearly half of all additional current Government spending announced in last December's budget, brings total expenditure on social welfare in...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2008: Second Stage (12 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: I outlined that in some detail in one of the debates.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2008: Second Stage (12 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: The Deputies got the officials to agree to that. Fair play to them.

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2008: Second Stage (12 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: It is not.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: Under the terms of the supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which is administered on my behalf by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive, an exceptional needs payment (ENP) may be made to help meet an essential, once-off cost which the applicant is unable to meet out of his/her own resources. There is no automatic entitlement to this payment. Each application is...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: The position is that in accordance with formal procedures agreed between the Civil and Public Service Union (CPSU) and the Department of Finance, the names of officers applying for transfer to a location are entered on the Department's transfer lists in the order in which they are received. Vacancies which arise are then filled by reference to these lists. This is a matter for management in...

Written Answers — Registration of Marriages: Registration of Marriages (12 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: I have been advised by the Registrar General that the position is as set out below. The new marriage provisions in question came in to effect on 5 November, 2007 and the following is the position in relation to Cork: 1. Marriages by civil ceremony which have taken place through the Civil Registration Office in Cork since the commencement of Part 6 of the Civil Registration Act, 2004 on 5...