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Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Apr 2008)

Martin Cullen: Details of Respite Care Grant (RCG) applications received, approved and disallowed by month, for the 12 month period from April 2007 to March 2008, are shown in tabular form. Differences between total applications received and those decided are due to the fact that some RCG applications are ultimately decided as part of a claim for Carers Allowance or Benefit. In addition some cases require...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Apr 2008)

Martin Cullen: Workers are insured under the Social Welfare Acts as either employed or self-employed contributors. All workers, both employed and self-employed, are obliged to pay PRSI contributions as a percentage of their personal reckonable income. These contributions provide entitlement to a range of contingency-based payments under various social insurance schemes — including pensions. Self-employed...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (3 Apr 2008)

Martin Cullen: Permanent and pensionable employees in the public and civil service (including registered doctors and dentists, Gardaí, commissioned army officers and members of the Army Nursing Service) who were recruited prior to 6 April, 1995 are liable for a 0.9% modified social insurance contribution on their pay under PRSI Classes B, C or D. This entitles them to the following payments — subject to...

Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (3 Apr 2008)

Martin Cullen: The information requested is currently being compiled within the Department and will be made available to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Apr 2008)

Martin Cullen: My Department is committed to providing a quality customer service to all its customers. This includes ensuring that applications are processed and that decisions on entitlement are issued as expeditiously as possible having regard to the eligibility conditions which apply. These conditions vary between the two jobseeker schemes and involve, among other things, the need to establish the...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Apr 2008)

Martin Cullen: A Widow/er's Non Contributory Pension is a means tested payment payable to a widow or widower whose income falls below a certain limit and who does not satisfy the contribution conditions for Widow/er's Contributory Payment. This customer applied for Widows Non Contributory Pension on the 15th of December 2007. Following an assessment of her means by a Social Welfare Inspector she has been...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Apr 2008)

Martin Cullen: A Social Welfare Inspector visited the person concerned in February, 2008, to establish her circumstances in the context of her application for a non-contributory widow's pension. Given that she has a farm, the Inspector suggested that she also complete an application for farm assist, as her entitlement under that scheme might be greater than under the widow's scheme. The Inspector assisted...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (3 Apr 2008)

Martin Cullen: Where a person has social insurance contributions from another EEA country, or a country with which Ireland has a bi-lateral agreement, these can be used to qualify a person for a pension. The manner in which contributions from EEA countries are to be used is laid down in Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 and the same general principles are applied in the reciprocal agreements Ireland has with a...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Apr 2008)

Martin Cullen: I propose to take Questions Nos. 138 to 142, inclusive, together. The supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which includes rent supplement, is administered on my behalf by the Community Welfare division of the Health Service Executive (HSE). The purpose of rent supplement is to provide short-term income support to eligible tenants living in private rented accommodation whose means are...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Apr 2008)

Martin Cullen: Recoupment of supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) arises where, in respect of the same period, a customer has been paid SWA and is subsequently found to be entitled to another social welfare payment. As SWA is the temporary payment, all SWA paid, which would not have been paid had the social welfare payment been in existence at the time, is recoverable under Section 204 of the Social...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (3 Apr 2008)

Martin Cullen: My Department is aware of the appreciation in the exchange rate of the Euro against Sterling and uses the conversion mechanism provided for under Article 107 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 574/72 on Social Security for Migrant Workers when assessing means deriving from payments received from EU Member States (including U.K.) which do not form part of the EMU currencies. The exchange rates...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (3 Apr 2008)

Martin Cullen: I propose to take Questions Nos. 145 and 146 together. The Department incurred expenditure of some €43,000 on recruitment advertising in 2006 and some 62,000 in 2007. This covered advertisements for Branch Managers who are employed on contract to operate Branch Offices in locations throughout the country; temporary clerical staff; Services Officers and medical assessors.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Apr 2008)

Martin Cullen: The Health Service Executive has advised that the person concerned has been requested to provide documentation in relation to her means and that this has not been provided to date. The Executive has further advised that a decision will be made in relation to her claim for rent supplement when the requested documentation has been provided.

Revised Estimates Volume: Motion (8 Apr 2008)

Martin Cullen: I move: That, notwithstanding Standing Order 154(1) or (2) or the Order of the Dáil of 21st February, 2008, the following Further Revised Estimates for Public Services for the year ending 31st December 2008, be presented to the Dáil on 8th April, 2008, being a later date than that prescribed for the presentation of Estimates, and that the Further Revised Estimates be referred to the...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Apr 2008)

Martin Cullen: A working group was set up under Sustaining Progress Agreement to facilitate engagement with the Social Partners in relation to certain changes made to conditions for Rent Supplement announced as part of the Government's Spending Estimates for 2004. The group included officials from my Department, the Department of the Taoiseach, the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government,...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (8 Apr 2008)

Martin Cullen: Under the current programme of decentralisation, 85 posts in the Department are to be relocated to Carrickmacross. According to figures received from the Central Application Facility (CAF), through which all applications for decentralisation locations must be submitted, 64 applicants applied for Carrickmacross before the priority application date of 7 September 2004. Since this date, there...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (8 Apr 2008)

Martin Cullen: The Document, Record and Information Management (DRIM) programme is a key part of my Department's Modernisation Action Plan. The Department's aim is have all documents, records and information easily accessible, usable and managed in a manner that satisfies all stakeholders. The intention is to eliminate paper, in so far as is possible, from both the claim and administrative processes and...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Apr 2008)

Martin Cullen: To qualify for Maternity Benefit, a woman must satisfy one of the following PRSI contribution conditions. She must have at least 39 PRSI contributions in the twelve month period before the first day of her maternity leave or at least 39 paid PRSI contributions since first starting work and at least 39 contributions paid or credited in the relevant tax year or the year following the relevant...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Apr 2008)

Martin Cullen: I propose to take Questions Nos. 278 and 279 together. The Department is committed to providing a quality service to all its customers. This includes ensuring that applications are processed and that decisions on entitlement are made as quickly as possible. Disability allowance is a weekly allowance paid to people with a specified disability who are aged over 16 and under 66. The disability...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Apr 2008)

Martin Cullen: Disability allowance is a weekly Allowance paid to people with a specified disability who are aged over 16 and under 66. The disability must be expected to last for at least one year and the allowance is subject to both medical assessment and a means test. The time taken to process a disability allowance claim includes three important elements; the time taken to carry out a medical...