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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's benefit (CARB) is a PRSI based payment, made to persons who are providing full-time care and attention to a person who has such a disability that they require that level of care.  An increased payment can be made where full-time care is being provided to two people. An application for CARB was received from the person concerned on 21 March 2019 in respect of two care recipients....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's benefit (CARB) is a PRSI based payment, made to persons who are providing full-time care and attention to a person who has such a disability that they require that level of care.   An application for CARB was received from the person concerned on 21 June 2019. The application is currently being processed and once completed, the person concerned will be notified directly of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Habitual residence is a condition that one must satisfy to be eligible for most means tested social welfare payments in Ireland.  It applies to all applicants for relevant payments, whether or not they are Irish citizens.    The term ‘habitually resident’ means that a person has to have their ‘centre of interest’ in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Redundancy Payments (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Redundancy Payments Act 1967, as amended, provides for the making of payments by employers to employees in respect of redundancy.  It is the employer's responsibility to pay statutory redundancy payments to all eligible employees.  In the event that an employer is unable to pay due to financial difficulties, an application for payment from the Social Insurance Fund may be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Administration (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Community Employment (CE) projects are typically sponsored by groups wishing to benefit the local community, namely voluntary and community organisations and, to a lesser extent, public bodies involved in not-for-profit activities. The private school outlined by the Deputy provides an alternative to the mainstream model of education. Charges are applied in respect of those attending the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Shareholdings (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: I am advised by my Department that it does not hold shares in any entity. I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Contracts Data (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection currently has a contract in place with Secureway At Risk Security Group Ltd (SARs) for the provision of security services.  The contract was tendered through the Office of Government Procurement (OGP) security framework and resulted in a nationwide contract for a period up to 4 years.  The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Places (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Requests for extending participants on Community Employment Schemes are considered by this Department at the request of the Project Sponsor. A request has been received from Castlemaine Community Services Group to extend the participation of Mairead McCarthy on her current Community Employment Scheme and this request is currently being examined. A reply will issue to the sponsor shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Budgets (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Demographic costs are contributing to increased expenditure in the Department of Employment Affairs on Social Protection each year, particularly in the areas of pensions, and disability and caring payments. Over the coming months, as in previous years, the Department will continue to monitor trends in expenditure and recipients with a view to agreeing an Existing Level of Service...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Parental Leave (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 395 to 397, inclusive, together. In Budget 2019 I announced the introduction of a new social insurance based parental benefit scheme to take effect in November 2019. The new scheme will provide two weeks paid leave to both parents, including those who adopt a child, who take parental leave from their employment to care for their child. The scheme will support...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Child Benefit is a monthly payment to the parents or guardians of children under 16 years of age. It is paid at a rate of €140 per month for each child under 18 years of age if they are in full-time education, full-time training or have a disability and cannot support themselves. The estimated full year cost of increasing Child Benefit by €5 per month per child...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Payments (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Christmas Bonus payment is made to long-term social welfare recipients, such as pensioners, carers, people with disabilities, lone parents and long-term unemployed people who rely wholly or mainly on their social welfare payments for financial support. As is the case every year, the payment of a Christmas Bonus is a discretionary decision made by Government in the context of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Data (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The information requested by the Deputy in relation to the number of persons aged 26 years of age and under in receipt of jobseeker's allowance by age and payment; the number of qualified adult rate is detailed in the attached tabular statement. The estimated full year cost to pay the full adult rate of €203 per week to persons under 26 years of age on Jobseeker's...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Eligibility (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's benefit (CARB) is a PRSI based payment, made to a person who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. Entitlement to carer’s benefit (CARB), is dependent on the provision of evidence of the care recipient’s care requirement, the level of care the carer provides, the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Data (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection and of the Department and is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements.   Appeals which had a favourable outcome for the appellant consist of appeals which were either allowed in full or in part by an Appeals...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Poverty (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: In 2014, as part of the National Policy Framework for Children and Young People (Better Outcomes Brighter Futures) the Government set an ambitious and challenging child poverty target: to lift 70,000 children out of consistent poverty by 2020, a reduction of at least two-thirds on the 2011 level (or 107,000 children).  To achieve this target the Government undertook to adopt a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Data (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Working Family Payment (WFP) is a weekly in-work payment which provides additional financial support to employees on low earnings with children.  WFP is designed to prevent in-work poverty for low paid workers with child dependents and to offer a financial incentive to take up employment. The number of households (recipients) in each county in receipt of WFP is as follows: ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Penalty rates were introduced in 2011 as a means of encouraging jobseekers to engage with activation measures and to co-operate with efforts of the Department to assist them in securing employment.  The Department is committed, under Pathways to Work, to incentivise the take-up of activation opportunities, and this includes implementing sanctions for failure to engage where...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The material deprivation rate is an indicator derived from Eurostat EU-SILC (Survey on Income and Living Conditions) data that expresses the inability to afford some items considered by most people to be desirable, or even necessary, to lead an adequate life. The indicator distinguishes between individuals who cannot afford a certain good or service, and those who do not have...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Data (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: I am advised by my Department that at the end of June there were 5,266 aged 65 years of age and older in receipt of a jobseeker's payment.