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Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: You just spent the past two hours saying we are not doing it. Make up your minds.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (3 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Community Employment (CE) programme is designed to enhance employability by providing work experience and training opportunities for people within their communities. The programme is operated by CE Sponsors, who are typically voluntary and community organisations wishing to benefit the local community. These CE Sponsoring organisations contract, as independent employers, with my...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (3 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Community Employment Scheme (CE) is an active labour market programme designed to provide eligible long-term unemployed people and other disadvantaged persons with an opportunity to engage in useful work within their communities on a temporary, fixed term basis. The programme is delivered through independent Community Employment Sponsoring Bodies. The contract agreement between the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Unemployment Benefits Eligibility (3 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: Jobseeker's benefit and jobseeker's allowance are the two main income supports available from my Department to people who have lost work and are unable to find alternative full time employment. Jobseeker’s benefit is a social insurance based scheme and applicants must have sufficient insurance contributions and suffered a substantial loss of employment to qualify. The 2020 revised...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (3 Dec 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. I confirm that my department received an application for CA from the person concerned on 24 October 2019. A person can...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (3 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is an employment activation service that supports people who are long-term unemployed and those most at risk of becoming long-term unemployed to secure and sustain paid employment. The service is delivered by two companies, Seetec and Turas Nua. Information is shared with these contractors to enable them to provide employment services on behalf of the Department. The purpose of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Payments (3 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Christmas Bonus is being paid this week to some 1.2 million long-term social welfare recipients, such as pensioners, people with disabilities, carers, lone parents and the long-term unemployed in recognition of their long-term financial dependence on social welfare payments for all of most of their income. As illness benefit is a short-term scheme, recipients are not eligible for the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Respite Care Grant Data (3 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: The following Table shows a breakdown, by county, of all Grant claims in payment at end-October 2019. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy. Carer’s Support Grants, by county, at end-October 2019 Carlow 1,735 Cavan 1,725 Clare 2,797 Cork 13,007 Donegal 4,836 ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (3 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Technical Working Group Report is a set of operational guidelines agreed with the Unions and finalised in 2007 and was written in the context of the technology available at the time. In the last eight years, since the rollout of the Report in 2011, there has been considerable advancement in technology and processes. Advice on roles, duties and procedures have been issued via...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Maintenance Payments (3 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Family Law Acts place a legal obligation on parents to maintain their children. In cases where the family unit has broken down these obligations continue to apply. Relevant maintenance payments can be arranged either directly between the parties themselves, or with the assistance of supports from the Department of Justice and Equality, such as the Family Mediation Service and the Legal...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (3 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: An Increase for a Qualified Adult is an additional payment made to social welfare recipients in respect of a spouse, civil partner or cohabitant who is financially dependent on them. This additional payment is means-tested. The Department estimates that payments will be made in respect of an average of 150,000 Qualified Adults per week in 2020. The full year cost of ceasing the payment of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (3 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: At present my Department is extending its statistical reporting ability to include greater information on dependent adult and child increases across the range of payments under its remit. To date the production of reports in respect of the age and sex of adult dependent has been developed in respect of 4 schemes, disability allowance, invalidity pension, state pension contributory and state...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Treatment Benefit Scheme Eligibility (3 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: PRSI contributions made after age 66 years are not included in the assessment of whether a person is eligible for treatment benefit. This is also the case in relation to other social welfare benefits Currently, Class K and M PRSI contributions are not reckonable for treatment benefit, class M PRSI applies where there is no PRSI liability (zero % rate) and class K at a zero % rate in...

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

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred on 4 November 2019 to an Appeals Officer who will make a summary decision on the appeal based on the documentary evidence presented or, if required, hold an oral hearing. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Payments (3 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Christmas Bonus, paid to over 1.2 million long-term social welfare recipients, is estimated to cost over €279 million in 2019. This cost comprises nearly €123 million for social assistance scheme recipients and over €156 million for Social Insurance Fund scheme recipients. The estimated cost per county, detailed in the following table, is based on the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reports (3 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: The following table sets out the 97 reports conducted by external consultants from March 2011 to date: Report Name of Consultants Publication Date Cost € 2011 Social Welfare Appeals Office – Research on Insurability Issues & Access to Legal Resources Mel...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (3 Dec 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 increased payment can be made where full-time care is being provided to two people. Two applications for CA were...

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

Regina Doherty: Carer's Allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment, made to persons who are providing full-time care and attention to a person who has a disability such that they require that level of care. It is a condition for receipt of a CA that the person being cared for must have such a disability that as a result they require full-time care and attention. This is defined as...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Data (3 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: Pension entitlement is assessed on the eligibility conditions applicable on the date an individual reaches pension age. State pension age will increase to 67 in 2021. As the person concerned was born in 1955 they will reach pension age in 2022. For those who reach state pension age since September 2012, two different methods of calculating entitlement to a contributory state pension...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (3 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: Following an assessment of the customer's payments from my Department, I am advised that there is no overpayment. Arrangements are being made for the full arrears of €857.06 to be issued to the customer. I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.