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Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (11 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: Community employment helps long-term unemployed people to re-enter the active workforce by breaking their experience of unemployment through a return to work routine. The focus of CE is on developing technical and personal skills to enable a person to return to the open labour market. Persons engaged are provided with work and training placements of 191⁄2 hours duration per week with a...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (11 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: Following on from the transfer of the Community Welfare Service from the Health Services Executive (HSE) to the Department of Social Protection, with effect from Saturday 1st October, legislation was commenced which provides that appeals for supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) will be made to the Social Welfare Appeals Office. Up to now, the legislation provided for a 2 step process, first...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: A claim for a State pension (contributory) was received from the person concerned on 10th March 2010. The claim was disallowed on 29th June 2010 as she had an outstanding PRSI (self-employment) liability, and the reason for this decision was communicated to her on that date. Section 110 (1) of The Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act of 2005 provides that a self-employed contributor shall not...

Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: Not at all.

Adult Education (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The back to education allowance, BTEA, scheme is a second chance education opportunities scheme designed to remove the barriers to participation in second and third level education by enabling eligible people on certain social welfare payments to continue to receive a payment while pursuing an approved full-time education course that leads to a higher qualification than that already held. The...

Adult Education (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: I appreciate Deputy O'Mahony's remarks. All the schemes operated by the Department are under review in the context of the comprehensive expenditure review. We are currently spending around €200 million on 25,000 people who are pursuing back to education schemes. There is a general educational principle that if people have reached third level and if there are others who have not completed...

Adult Education (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: I heard the Deputy's remarks about the facilitators and they are an important source of information so I will talk to some of them.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The dental benefit scheme is paid from the social insurance fund which, given current economic conditions, has required substantial subvention from the Exchequer in recent years. As part of a range of cost-saving measures intended to ease this pressure, the range of treatments available under the scheme was reduced in Budget 2010. The annual free examination has been retained to encourage...

Written Answers — General Register Office: General Register Office (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: As this is a matter for the Health Service Executive, it has been referred to the HSE for their attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The community welfare service (CWS) and the community welfare officers providing it transferred formally to the Department of Social Protection (DSP) from 1 October 2011. The service and the staff are now part of the DSP. There is no record of an application for rent supplement from the person concerned. If the person concerned wishes to make an application for rent supplement she should...

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The JobBridge scheme contains a number of measures to minimise displacement including the following: · all Host Organisations must declare in their application that they are not displacing an employee and that they have no vacancy in the specific area; · the JobBridge team check all applications against recent vacancies advertised on the FAS Jobs Ireland website; · if the JobBridge team...

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: As of 4 October 2011, just over 2,800 organisations have advertised internship opportunities under the JobBridge scheme. Since the start of the JobBridge scheme just over 5,600 internship opportunities have been available. In relation to the number of participants on the JobBridge scheme, the latest figures show that a total of 1,769 individuals have commenced an internship under the scheme.

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS) assists people who are over-indebted and need help and advice in coping with debt problems. The role of money advisors is to help clients to assess their financial situation, make a budget plan and deal with creditors. There are 52 independent MABS companies operating the local MABS services from 65 locations throughout the country, with national...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: Currently 1,000 community employment placements are ring fenced for persons undergoing rehabilitation from drug addiction. These are referred to as Rehabilitation CE Scheme Places. Specific criteria for the selection of placements and participants, agreed with the sector representatives, are in place. Further work is underway under the aegis of the National Drug Rehabilitation...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: Entitlement to carer's allowance is based on satisfying medical, means and residency conditions. In determining entitlement to the allowance there are, in certain cases, unavoidable time lags involved in making the necessary investigations and enquiries to enable accurate decisions to be made. Delays can also arise if people applying for the allowance are not in a position to supply all the...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The community welfare service (CWS), and the community welfare officers providing it, formally transferred to the Department of Social Protection (DSP) from 1 October 2011. The service and the staff are now part of the DSP. The Department's records show that no application for rent supplement has been received from the person in question. The person should now submit an application for rent...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The community welfare service (CWS), and the community welfare officers providing it, formally transferred to the Department of Social Protection (DSP) from 1 October 2011. The service and the staff are now part of the DSP. The person concerned is in receipt of a rent supplement of €213.50 per month which is the full amount payable based on her household circumstances.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the Department is in receipt of an application for carer's allowance from the above named person. On completion of the necessary investigations on all aspects of the claim a decision will be made and the person concerned will be notified directly of the outcome. The average time taken to process a claim to completion, including assessment of the claimant's means and the...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the Department is in receipt of an application for carer's allowance from the above named person. On completion of the necessary investigations on all aspects of the claim a decision will be made and the person concerned will be notified directly of the outcome. The average time taken to process a claim to completion, including assessment of the claimant's means and the...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the Department is in receipt of an application for carer's allowance from the above named person. On completion of the necessary investigations on all aspects of the claim a decision will be made and the person concerned will be notified directly of the outcome. The average time taken to process a claim to completion, including assessment of the claimant's means and the...