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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (7 Dec 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The Civil Registration Act 2004 places an obligation on parents to register the birth of their child. A child can be registered in person at any of the HSE's civil registration offices throughout the country. Following completion of the birth registration, the Department of Social Protection automatically allocates a personal public service number to the child no earlier than the day after...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Post Office Network (7 Dec 2021)

Heather Humphreys: This Government continues to be committed to maintaining the post office network and for An Post to remain in a position to provide a high quality postal service and maintain a nationwide customer-focused network of post offices in the community. My Department’s support for An Post is equally apparent. We are in the process of renewing the contract for cash payment services with the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Covid-19 Pandemic (7 Dec 2021)

Heather Humphreys: My Department provides a suite of income supports for those who are unable to work due to an illness or disability. It is important to note that entitlement to these supports is generally not contingent on the nature of the illness or disability but on the extent to which a particular illness or disability impairs or restricts a person’s capacity to work. This Department spent a...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Vacant Properties (7 Dec 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The revitalisation of vacant properties is being addressed by a number of initiatives delivered by my Department in line with the commitments contained inOur Rural Futureand as part of the Government's Housing for All .In April, I announced investment of €81 million for 25 landmark projects under Category 1 of the Rural Regeneration and Development Fund. These projects will combat...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Cycling Facilities (7 Dec 2021)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 707 and 708 together. The Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Scheme provides funding for the development of new outdoor recreational infrastructure and for the maintenance and promotion of existing infrastructure. Louth County Council were approved funding of €200,000 under the Scheme for the development and enhancement of the Boyne Greenway. Earlier...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Protected Disclosures (7 Dec 2021)

Heather Humphreys: I can confirm that my Department has not received any protected disclosures since its establishment in 2017. The agencies under the remit of my Department are independent legal entities responsible for managing their own corporate affairs in compliance with their statutory obligations.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Social Enterprise Sector (7 Dec 2021)

Heather Humphreys: Social enterprises are businesses that work primarily to improve the lives of people. Their core objective is to achieve a social, societal, or environmental impact. Like any other business, they pursue their objectives by trading in goods and services on an ongoing basis. However, surpluses generated are re-invested into achieving their core social objectives. My Department has...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (7 Dec 2021)

Heather Humphreys: My Department operates a number of schemes that focus on projects supporting the development of remote working hubs as outlined in Our Rural Future–Ireland’s Rural Development Policy 2021-2025. To date, over €83m has been provided by my Department through various funding streams to support the development of digital hubs and remote working facilities across Ireland. The...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (7 Dec 2021)

Heather Humphreys: As part of 'Our Rural Future',the Government is committed to ensuring that the Local Improvement Scheme (LIS) is funded into the future. This reflects the important contribution which the scheme makes to connectivity in rural Ireland. The LIS supports the improvement of rural roads and laneways that are not normally maintained by local authorities and represents a vital piece of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Dec 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The person concerned has been awarded invalidity pension with effect from 07 October 2021. Payment will issue to her nominated bank account on 16 December 2021. Any arrears due from 07 October 2021 to 15 December 2021 (less any overlapping social welfare payment) will issue in due course. The person concerned was notified of this decision on 03 December 2021. I hope this clarifies the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (8 Dec 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The number of state pension non-contributory recipients at the end of 2020 was 95,465. However, based on the latest complete year of PRSI contribution data, 2019, there were 94,854 recipients, 4,888 of whom made a paid PRSI contribution in 2019, of which: - 30 made self-employed class contributions - 4,858 made non-self-employed class contributions - 10 made both self-employed...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Dec 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The person concerned has been awarded invalidity pension with effect from 16 September 2021. Payment will issue to his nominated bank account on 16 December 2021. Any arrears due from 16 September 2021 to 15 December 2021 (less any overlapping social welfare payment) will issue in due course. The person concerned was notified of this decision on 07 December 2021. I hope this clarifies the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Correspondence (8 Dec 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The document specifically titled Insurance Company Data protection.pdf, which contains redacted data and is 17 pages in total, was received by officials in my Department by email on 27th February 2019. That email dated 27th February 2019 was sent to a solicitor acting for an unnamed third party and copied to officials in my Department.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (8 Dec 2021)

Heather Humphreys: This Government continues to be committed to maintaining the post office network and for An Post to remain in a position to provide a high quality postal service and maintain a nationwide customer-focused network of post offices in the community. My Department’s support for An Post is equally apparent. We are in the process of renewing the contract for cash payment services with the...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Defibrillators Provision (8 Dec 2021)

Heather Humphreys: My Department does not operate a dedicated fund for the purchase, maintenance, repair or service of defibrillators and there are currently no plans to introduce a specific current fund dedicated to this purpose. However, some of my Department's programmes fund the purchase of capital equipment such as through the Community Enhancement Programme (CEP). This programme provides small grants...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (8 Dec 2021)

Heather Humphreys: LEADER is a rural development programme co-funded by the EU that operates a locally-led, bottom-up approach to meeting the needs of local communities and businesses. From 2007 to 2020, LEADER was included in the suite of measures that constituted Ireland’s Rural Development Programme (RDP). The Rural Development Programmes agreed by each Member State with the EU Commission were...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (8 Dec 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The CLÁR Programme provides funding under a number of different Measures for small-scale infrastructural projects in designated rural areas that have experienced significant levels of de-population over a defined period. The project referred to by the Deputy was approved under CLÁR 2019 for €20,000. A claim for payment in respect of this project was been received by my...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (9 Dec 2021)

Heather Humphreys: According to the records of my Department, the person concerned reached pension age on 1 November 2012 and has not yet applied for State pension (contributory). I have arranged for a copy of the person’s social insurance contribution record to issue to them, together with an application form for State pension (contributory). Under current eligibility conditions, an individual must...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 Dec 2021)

Heather Humphreys: An application for Guardians payment has been received from the person concerned. In order to make a decision on the claim, the deciding officer must satisfy themselves that the child meets the legislative definition of an orphan under social welfare legislation. A child is considered an orphan if they are under 18 (or under 22 if in full time education) and both parents are deceased; or...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (9 Dec 2021)

Heather Humphreys: Employability West Cork has been contracted by the Department of Social Protection for the provision of employment services since 2012. The contracted spend for 2012 was €345,483.41 and for 2013 was €373,872.72. As the value of each of the 24 Employability service contracts are separately negotiated with each contractor and the breakdown of the contract value and costs remains...