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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Data (3 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The information requested by the Deputy is detailed in the following tabular statement. Recipients of Carer's Allowance by Age at 30th June 2019 Age of Recipient Recipients 18 7 19 44 20 100 21 132 22 169 23 229 24 242 25 337 26 425 27 511 28 630 29 696 30 852 31 931 32 1,090 33 1,182 34 1,328 35 1,458 36 1,507 37 1,689 38 1,811 39 1,940 40 2,043 41 1,935 42 1,919...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (3 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: As the Deputy will be aware, the primary goal of the Department’s activation services is to move people from long-term unemployment to full-time and sustained employment. My Department refers long-term job seeking customers to the JobPath service to receive one-to-one intensive and regular engagement with a personal adviser who will assess their skills, experience, challenges and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme (3 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The free travel scheme provides free travel on the main public and private transport services for those eligible under the scheme. These include road, rail and ferry services provided by companies such as Bus Átha Cliath, Bus Éireann and Iarnród Éireann, as well as Luas and services provided by over 80 private transport operators. There are currently approx. 948,000...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Consultancy Contracts Expenditure (3 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection engages consultants (individuals or organisations) to provide expert analysis over a wide range of areas, which includes the delivery of reports, studies, assessments, recommendations and proposals that contribute to decision making or policy making.  I am advised by my Department that the amount spent on external...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Flexible Work Practices (3 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: In March this year, the Government launched Future Jobs Ireland, a framework of focused ambitions which will form a key part of Ireland’s future economic agenda over the medium term. Primary responsibility for the programme rests with my colleague, the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Heather Humphreys T.D. Future Jobs Ireland addresses challenges to participation...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (3 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Responsibility for the enforcement of contract clauses is a matter for the contracting body, which in this case I understand is the HSE, which comes within the remit of my colleague, Simon Harris, T.D., Minister for Health.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (3 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer, having fully considered all of the available evidence including that adduced at the oral hearing, decided to allow the appeal of the person concerned. The person concerned was notified of the Appeals Officer’s decision on 9 April 2019. The implementation of the Appeals Officer's decision is a matter for the...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Second Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: I am delighted to present this Bill to the Seanad. It has a single straightforward purpose - to give effect to the announcement made in the Budget Statement 2019 to establish a new scheme of jobseeker's benefit for the self-employed from November of this year. This new scheme will provide a social insurance support to self-employed contributors who lose their businesses and will provide...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: As a young Minister, I am on team Ireland, as are the Taoiseach, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Creed, the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Humphreys, and the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Bruton. I expect all Members of this House and of the Seanad are also on that team. It is fully acknowledged...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: It is a pity that the Deputy continues to want to play the man and not the ball. He decries when somebody else plays his man. He needs to have a bit of consistency in this area.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: We are on team Ireland. The team has not even been put on the pitch yet and the Deputy has already decided what the outcome will be. That is a pity, given that he is an experienced politician.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Deputy knows how these deals work out and unravel. We are only at the start of the end of phase 1. The transposing of this headline agreement into a legal text will take place over the next number of years. It will be absolutely crucial that we represent the best interests of the beef industry in this country, as this Government and the ones that went before it have always done. That...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: I thank the Deputy for his question, which is very topical as the Cabinet is currently meeting to address this issue. The report that was prepared by the independent Public Service Pay Commission is either being discussed or has been approved by Cabinet at this stage and will be published later by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. The report of the independent commission is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: I like the job I have and I do not want to get into trouble for saying something that has not been agreed at Cabinet. There will be a press conference this afternoon and all of the details arising from the commission will be given. They will set out exactly what has been agreed. It will then be over to the men and women of our Defence Forces to decide whether they accept the proposal.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: That is not as full an answer as the Deputy would like but it is all I am in a position to give him at the moment.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Respectfully, while it might make a good soundbite, the Deputy knows full well that I do not have the authority to answer his questions in the affirmative. All I can say is that I have the authority to represent a Government that has a commitment to our Defence Forces and that is why the Public Service Pay Commission sought to address this issue as a priority. That is why the range of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: I am sorry, I cannot hear the Deputy when I am speaking.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: I feel that my ears are not hearing what the Deputy has suggested given that he was the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for five years and central to the establishment of the public service stability agreement, which has been tested time and again but has always held firm. That the Deputy would suggest we break with the public service stability agreement and put paid to the 1.75%...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Does the Deputy want me to answer or will I just sit down and he can carry on?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Does the Deputy want me to answer?