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Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (13 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: The living alone increase is an additional payment of €7.70 per week made to people aged 66 years or over who are in receipt of certain social welfare payments and who are living alone. It is also available to people who are under 66 years of age who are living alone and receiving payments under one of a number of invalidity type schemes. While, as outlined, the increase is paid to those...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (13 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: The Department has significant recognized internal expertise in procurement. It has not recruited specialists, either from the open market or by secondment, in the area of information technology procurement and/or capital project evaluation and management.

Order of Business (14 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: There is something wrong with Deputy Gilmore's hearing too.

Order of Business (14 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: Yes.

Written Answers — North-South Co-operation: North-South Co-operation (14 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: The main areas of North-South co-operation undertaken by my Department are as follows. In June 2002 the North South Ministerial Council (NSMC) Plenary agreed that a dedicated cross-border website be established to counteract the complexity and difficulty people found in accessing relevant information on a range of issues from social security and taxation rights to housing and education. This...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: The Health Service Executive has stated that the matter is currently under review with the Executive's Appeals Office and has advised that the person concerned will be informed of the outcome of its decision in due course.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Payment System: Social Welfare Payment System (14 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: It is government policy to facilitate the greater use of electronic payment systems in the economy in the interests of developing a world-class payments environment in Ireland. In this context, the National Payments Implementation Program Advisory Group, under the aegis of the Department of An Taoiseach, monitors the growth in electronic payments, the reduction in cash transactions and any...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: Rent supplement is administered on my behalf by the Health Service Executive (HSE) as part of the supplementary welfare allowance scheme. Rent supplement is subject to a limit on the amount of rent that an applicant may incur. Rent limits are set at levels that enable the different eligible household types to secure and retain basic suitable rented accommodation, having regard to the...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (14 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: The Government is anxious to ensure that as many people as possible can be accommodated within the social welfare pensions system, with due regard being paid to the contributory principle underlying entitlement to contributory payments and, in the case of non-contributory payments, the need to ensure that resources are directed to those who are most in need. Over the last 10 years, means...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: The Health Service Executive has advised that the person concerned is in receipt of a rent supplement (in addition to a one parent family payment) at the maximum rate payable appropriate to her circumstances. The Executive have further stated that the person concerned was advised by the Community Welfare Officer (CWO), to contact the local Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS). The...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (14 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: The determination of rents payable under the terms of the differential rent scheme and the income to be assessed for this purpose is the responsibility of the relevant local authority and is subject to broad principles, as laid down by the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government. I understand that guidelines issued by that department to local authorities indicate that no more...

Finance Bill 2008: Financial Resolutions (19 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: I move the following Financial Resolutions: 1. THAT Part 19 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (No. 39 of 1997), which contains the principal provisions in relation to the calculation of chargeable gains, be amended in the manner and to the extent specified in the Act giving effect to this Resolution. 2. THAT the following provisions of the Finance Bill 2008 as initiated, namely: (a) section...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 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). Where the HSE becomes aware that a person receiving rent supplement is not using that supplement to meet housing costs, the supplement may be stopped and an overpayment may be raised. Any overpayment of...

Written Answers — Flood Relief: Flood Relief (19 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: The supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme, which is administered by the Community Welfare Division of the Health Service Executive (HSE), is designed to provide immediate and flexible assistance for those in need who do not qualify for payment under other State schemes. Under the legislation governing the scheme, the HSE may make a single payment to meet an exceptional need to people...

Written Answers — Live Register: Live Register (19 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: I propose to take Questions Nos. 401 and 406 to 411, inclusive, together. The data requested is collated by my Department at local office level and is given in tabular form below in respect of Bandon, Skibbereen, Kinsale, Clonakilty, Castletownbere and Bantry for the years 2004 to 2007 as recorded for the last Friday in each of these years and for the last Friday in January 2008. 2004 2005...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: Rent supplement is administered on my behalf by the Health Service Executive (HSE) as part of the supplementary welfare allowance scheme. Rent supplement is subject to a limit on the amount of rent that an applicant may incur. Rent limits are set at levels that enable the different eligible household types to secure and retain basic suitable rented accommodation, having regard to the...

Written Answers — Financial Management Systems: Financial Management Systems (19 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: Oracle Financials is the financial management system which produces the Departments two statutory accounts annually. These two accounts — the Appropriation Account and the Social Insurance Fund account — showed an annual outturn of €7.3 billion and €7.7 billion respectively for 2006, the last year for which full information is available. This financial system is used widely across...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (19 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that the appeal from the person concerned has been referred to an Appeals Officer who proposes to hold an oral hearing. The person concerned will be informed when arrangements have been made. The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an office of my Department that is independently responsible for determining appeals against decisions on social...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: The following table shows expenditure on rent supplement to recipients living in Cork from 2005 to 2007. Expenditure on Rent Supplement from 2005 to 2007 in Cork Year â'¬m 2005 34.18 2006 36.69 2007 39.47 2008 * * Expenditure in HSE South is 5.88m (provisional) in January 2008. County breakdown not currently available

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (19 Feb 2008)

Martin Cullen: The current range of payment options offered by my Department to customers' includes payment at a local post office or to a bank or building society account; or certain credit unions that have been authorised by the banking and credit union regulators. Customers opt for a particular payment method having regard to their own personal circumstances. Currently some 50% of customers receive...