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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (1 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office.  It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought.  When these papers have been received from the Department the case in question will be referred to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card Data (1 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: My Department is committed to ensuring that customers’ personal data is securely held and used only for the purposes set out in legislation.  The Public Services Identity dataset - which is provided for in social welfare legislation - is stored in databases maintained in my Department’s secure datacentres.  Access to the dataset is restricted to those members of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (1 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought.  These papers have been received back from the Department and on 26 September 2019 the appeal by the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment (1 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 607 and 608 together. Where a one parent family payment (OFP) is awarded, the Department seeks to trace the other parent, referred to as the liable relative, in order to ascertain whether he or she is in a financial position to contribute towards the cost of the OFP. The legislative basis for the implementation of the Liability to Maintain Family Provisions is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (1 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: An increase for qualified adult (IQA) is a means-tested payment, payable to State pension (contributory) (SPC) claimants whose spouse, civil partner or cohabitant is being wholly or mainly maintained by them, and where that qualified adult’s personal means from any source do not exceed a means test income limit. As part of my Department’s commitment to ensuring that claimants...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (1 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 610 to 613, inclusive, together. The primary purpose of JobPath is to provide a case management based, employment advice and counselling service to long term unemployed jobseekers. Between July 2015 and September 2019, some 241,346 jobseekers had commenced their engagement period with the JobPath service, see table 1.  Of this number, 52% were...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (1 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: In July 2013, Irish Water was incorporated as a semi-state company under the Water Services Act 2013.  The Social Welfare and Pensions Act, 2014 included a provision which added Irish Water to the list of specified bodies to allow it to use PPS Numbers for the purposes of carrying out transactions with members of the public.  The intention was that the PPS Number would serve as...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (1 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: The social insurance record of the person concerned has been reviewed on the basis of additional information provided regarding previous employment. The person now has 520 full-rate paid contributions, which is one of the qualifying conditions for entitlement to state pension (contributory). A reduced rate of State pension (contributory) has been awarded with effect from the date the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Brexit Issues (1 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: My key area of concern is the impact of Brexit on those current reciprocal arrangements for social insurance (which includes pensions) and social assistance (means tested schemes linked to residency rights) and child benefit between Ireland and the UK, including Northern Ireland. Post-Brexit, including in the event of a no-deal Brexit, Irish and British citizens will continue to enjoy the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (1 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 617 to 619, inclusive, together. The School Meals Programme provides funding towards food services for disadvantaged school children through two schemes: The urban school meals scheme and the school meals (local projects) scheme.  The Urban School Meals Scheme for primary schools is operated and administered by local authorities and is part-financed...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Capital Expenditure Programme (1 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: The capital allocation for my Department is primarily used to deliver IT modernisation and carry out refurbishments on the Department’s buildings.  Neither my Department or the Agencies within the remit of my Department have had capital projects with spend in excess of €10million since 2014.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (1 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and 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. An application for CA was received from the person concerned on 26 August 2019. The application is currently being...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (1 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: The main income supports for carers provided by my Department include Carer's Allowance, Carer's Benefit, Domicillary Care Allowance and the Carer's Support Grant.  Spending on these payments in 2019 is expected to exceed €1.2 billion. Carer's Allowance is a means-tested payment for carers who look after certain people in need of full-time care and attention on a full time...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (2 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 228 to 230, inclusive, and 233 together. I am currently engaging with representatives of Community Employment supervisors and assistant supervisors to discuss issues arising following the 2008 Labour Court Recommendation. All parties to the engagement process have agreed that the detail of the discussions should remain confidential while the engagement is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Review (2 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and 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. An application for CA was received from the person concerned on 14 November 2018. It is a condition for receipt of a CA...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (2 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: The School Meals Programme provides funding towards provision of food services for disadvantaged school children through two schemes: The urban school meals scheme and the school meals (local projects) scheme.  The Urban School Meals Scheme for primary schools is operated and administered by Local Authorities and is part-financed by the Department of Employment Affairs and Social...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications (2 Oct 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 8 June 2019. The carers leave commenced on 2 September 2019. The application was awarded to the person concerned on 27 September 2019,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (2 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: The information requested by the Deputy is detailed in the following tabular statement. Table 1. Average weeks to award a claim in August 2019 Average Weeks to Award  August 2019 Illness Benefit 1 Disability Allowance 14  Carer's Allowance 16  Carer's Benefit 13  Invalidity Pension 10 

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (2 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned was in receipt of Carers Benefit up to 11/09/2019 and prior to that she was an adult dependent on her spouse's Illness Benefit claim. To date, no application for Illness Benefit has been received by the person concerned.   It is open to the person concerned to make an application for Illness Benefit in her own right, if she is unable to work due to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (2 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and 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. An application for CA was received from the person concerned on 23 July 2019. The application was awarded to the person...