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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Living Alone Allowance (1 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: According to the records of my Department, the person concerned was awarded State Pension (contributory) from 22/08/2012, when they reached 66 years of age. At that time they were also awarded an Increase for Living Alone allowance, at the rate of €7.70. Their pension award along with additional allowances was confirmed in writing on 23 July 2012. They continue to be in receipt of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (1 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme is the safety net within the overall social welfare system in that it provides assistance to eligible people in the State whose means are insufficient to meet their needs and those of their dependents. Supports provided under the SWA scheme can consist of a basic weekly payment, a weekly or monthly supplement in respect of certain expenses, as...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobsPlus Scheme (1 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: JobsPlus is a subsidy paid to employers who recruit long-term unemployed people for new positions in their workplace. Employers can avail of JobsPlus when filling new positions or positions that arise as a consequence of natural turnover and receive a subsidy of €7,500 or €10,000 per employee. The value of the grant is dependent on the age of the new employee and their duration...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobsPlus Scheme (1 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: JobsPlus is a subsidy paid to employers who recruit long-term unemployed people for new positions in their workplace. Employers can avail of JobsPlus when filling new positions or positions that arise as a consequence of natural turnover and receive a subsidy of €7,500 or €10,000 per employee. The value of the grant is dependent on the age of the new employee and their duration...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme (1 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: 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. 990,000...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance (1 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: Social welfare legislation provides that, for social assistance schemes, all income and capital (such as savings, investments and property other than the family home) belonging to the claimant and his or her spouse/partner, where applicable, are assessable for means assessment purposes. Disability allowance (DA) is a statutory means-tested payment and the provisions governing the assessment...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (1 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The below tables provide a breakdown of the higher executive officers, administration officers, assistant principal officers, principal officers and assistant secretaries in my Department by gender. These figures are as at the end of February and are full time equivalents. The figure for full time equivalents takes account of staff that avail of work-share options. ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (1 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: My Department shares data with the Department of Health, primarily for the purpose of assisting with the delivery of services to their customers. However, it is not possible to provide an inventory to cover all such data sharing over the extended period covered in the question, especially in view of the short time frame available. As an indication of the type of data sharing that is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: General Data Protection Regulation (1 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the table below: Total Reason for refusal Complaints 52 N/A Subject Access Requests* 1518 Accepted 1510 Refused 8 6 were refused under Article 15(4) GDPR – Third party data1 was...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Calafoirt agus Céanna (1 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: Mar is eol don Teachta is iad Comhairle Chontae na Gaillimhe atá freagrach as Cé Inis Oírr agus is iadsan a bheidh ag tabhairt faoi aon phróiseas tairisceana. Tá mo Roinn agus an Comhairle Chontae ag obair le chéile le tamall chun an cás gnó maidir leis an bhforbairt a thabhairt chun críche. Pléadh an cás gnó ag cruinniú don...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Calafoirt agus Céanna (1 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: Tá teagmháil rialta idir oifigigh na Roinne agus oifigigh an Chomhairle Contae chun forbairt an Chalaidh Mhóir in Inis Meáin, a phlé. I 2020 chuir mo Roinn maoiniú ar fáil do Chomhairle Chontae na Gaillimhe, chun ionsamhlú den chéibh a choimisiniú ón gColáiste Náisiúnta Mara na hÉireann - National Maritime College...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Staff (1 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The below table provides a breakdown of staff at the grade of higher executive officers, administration officers, assistant principal officers, principal officers and assistant secretaries in this Department by gender only: Grade Male Female Assistant Secretary 1 2 Principal Officer 9 4 ...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: General Data Protection Regulation (1 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: My Department has not received any complaints from members of the public under the heading of GDPR in the timeframe set out. The annual figures for data information requests, also known as subject access requests, received are outlined below: 2018: 0 2019: 0 2020: 1This request was withdrawn and was handled under Freedom of Information legislation 2021 to date: 0

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Development Strategy: Engagement with Minister for Rural and Community Development (20 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: I thank the Chair, Deputy Naughten, and the committee members for the invitation to meet with them today and provide an update on the topic of rural development. The timing of our meeting could hardly be better, as I recently launched Our Rural Future, the new five year policy for rural Ireland, developed by my Department in collaboration with colleagues across Government and State agencies,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Development Strategy: Engagement with Minister for Rural and Community Development (20 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: I thank Deputy Carey for raising these issues. Clare has been successful in its rural regeneration and development funding in past calls. A total of €9.8 million has been allocated to County Clare since the fund was opened. There were a number of projects this time. The one the Deputy specifically referred to is Kilmihil. I would say that anybody who has been unsuccessful should...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Development Strategy: Engagement with Minister for Rural and Community Development (20 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: I thank the Deputy for the questions. There are 150 commitments in this programme but it is a five-year plan. In a couple of weeks, I will outline the commitments for this year. Obviously, as the Chairman said, I am happy to go through those with the committee at a later stage. We will not be able to do it all in one year. We will develop a work programme. However, I did not want to set...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Development Strategy: Engagement with Minister for Rural and Community Development (20 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The Town Centre First initiative is something we feed into, and the Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, chairs that committee. People talk about the Scottish model but we have the best model here in this country and it is Westport. What they did in Westport all those years ago - Senator Burke will be able to tell us about it - is they got a plan and they stuck to it. It was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Development Strategy: Engagement with Minister for Rural and Community Development (20 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter . The Department has explained the issue of procurement, in fairness. The employment services here have been outsourced since the mid-1990s. We have spoken to a number of the local employment service contractors and have explained the matter to them. We have been procuring employment services since the 1990s. The strong legal advice we have from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Development Strategy: Engagement with Minister for Rural and Community Development (20 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: First, the The New York Times, which is a prestigious paper, described Irish rural policy as being the most ambitious in Europe. Somebody, therefore, thinks our plan is a good one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Development Strategy: Engagement with Minister for Rural and Community Development (20 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: It will help people in rural Ireland. This is a one-off chance to capture and capitalise on remote working. It is the decentralisation of people, not buildings. I am really excited about it. Much work is going into it and it contains many exciting actions that will make a difference. The Deputy is not the only person living in the middle of nowhere. I live in the middle of nowhere too...