Results 9,941-9,960 of 12,033 for speaker:Regina Doherty
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) Regina Doherty: I think it is only fair that we do.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) Regina Doherty: A great deal of work and research has been done on what the new model can and should look like. The proposed model might not be the same at the end of the process as it was at the beginning of it. The rationale for it has to be laid out to everybody. I do not believe any data should be held back. There should be transparency around what the Social Insurance Fund will look like in the next...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) Regina Doherty: Soon. We are close to completion. There are a couple of niggling issues that need to be ironed out.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) Regina Doherty: I know.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) Regina Doherty: No. It should be released in early January.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) Regina Doherty: Which old age pension is the Deputy asking about?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) Regina Doherty: If I miss any of the questions I ask the Chairman to advise me at the end.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) Regina Doherty: I thank the Deputy for his questions. The first question was on the working family payment, formerly known as the family income supplement. There are two reasons for the reduction there. We spent a considerable amount of money on a publicity campaign this year. That campaign was very well received which I took some comfort from because sometimes one can spend a lot of money on advertising...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) Regina Doherty: Of the total of 1,891 DEIS schools, some 858 participate in the scheme. The school meals programme provides funding towards the provision of meals to 1,580 schools and organisations, benefiting more than 250,000 children. The objective of a scheme is to provide regular, nutritious meals, be it for breakfast, lunch, or after-school clubs. It is not just DEIS schools that get it, nor do they...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) Regina Doherty: It might be helpful for the committee if I get the full list from the Department of Education and Skills. There are some schools that are classified as nearly–DEIS. The terminology is not mine. The Department of Education and Skills is responsible for putting the schools in a hierarchy of need. Every single DEIS school receives an application. There are some schools that would...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) Regina Doherty: There are 1,580 schools in total availing of some form of access to the school meals programme.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) Regina Doherty: Finally, I will answer the question on the numbers people on the scheme. We have 145,544 recipients on the disability allowance, 52,036 recipients on the working family payments scheme and 5,607 on the back to work family dividends scheme. The State contributory pension is very close to the 34% of the indexation level that we would like it to be at. We need to see how wages increase next...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) Regina Doherty: What is JI?
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) Regina Doherty: It is news to me if there has been a change because JI is a closed scheme and everybody on this scheme is covered by its existing conditions.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) Regina Doherty: I would genuinely ask the Deputy that if he knows something that I do not, to tell me and I will find out what is going on. There should be no condition changes to people on a closed scheme.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) Regina Doherty: I thank the Deputy.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) Regina Doherty: I thank the Deputy for his compliments, I am not sure if I deserve them even if I give a good impression. My apologies to Deputy O'Dea as I did not answer his question about staffing. We have a headcount for the end of the year 5,900, which is a reduction of 200 people from the year before.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) Regina Doherty: I do. The most recent review we did indicates that CIB does not need to draw down €59.26 million. It calculates that it will have savings of approximately €1.2 million, €500,000 of which is due to less than anticipated demand on vouchers. This is the direct reason CIB intend to take on board their own in-house help as opposed to using voucher schemes. That will...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) Regina Doherty: We do not have the internal services yet. They were getting the vouchers, but not redeeming them. There was a gap between leaving-----
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2019) Regina Doherty: It is €500,000.