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- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (17 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: Details of expenditure on hotel accommodation by my Department and each State Agency under its aegis are not immediately available. My Department is compiling this information and my officials will write to the Deputy with these details as soon as they are available.
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (17 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The information requested is currently being compiled within the Department and will be made available to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Departmental Property: Departmental Property (17 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The current number of servers in use by my Department and its Agencies is 30 VMS Servers with an average of 4 GB of memory per server and 351 Windows Servers with an average of 2.5 GB of memory per server. The capacity of each server is dependent on the nature of the application involved and the particular ICT service being provided. Most servers are connected to a Storage Area Network and...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (17 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The school books grant scheme is a scheme operated by the Department of Education and Science. Decisions regarding entitlement under the scheme are a matter for that Department.
- Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (17 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The information requested by the Deputy is currently being compiled within the Department and will be made available to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (17 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The person is on the Central Transfer List for the Garda Station in Naas, Co. Kildare, which comes under the remit of the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform. The decision in relation to the transfer is a matter for that Department.
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (17 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The information requested by the Deputy pertaining to 2008 is set out in the following tabular statement. The rest of the information in respect of previous years is currently being compiled within the Department and will be made available to the Deputy as soon as possible. All costs, which are based on existing staff levels, are estimates and as such are liable to fluctuate due to factors...
- Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (17 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: Under the Government's current decentralisation programme for the civil and public service, some 1,200 posts comprising the Department's headquarter sections and the Social Welfare Appeals Office are relocating to 6 locations â Sligo, Carrick-on-Shannon, Donegal Town, Buncrana, Carrickmacross and Drogheda. To date, 212 posts have relocated from the Department's Dublin Offices to...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (17 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The number of posts occupied in the Department at 15 December 2008 is 4,506 posts comprising 4,911 permanent civil servants. This does not include staff working for bodies under the Department's aegis or temporary staff working in the Department. Details of earnings across the bands set out are not immediately available in my Department but are being compiled and my officials will write to...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (17 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The following table outlines the number of posts in the Department of Social and Family Affairs and the Agencies from the year 2002 to 2008. The agencies under the remit of the Department are The Pensions Board, Family Support Agency (from May 03), Citizens Information Board (formerly Comhairle) and the Combat Poverty Agency. The Pensions Ombudsman's Office also comes under the remit of the...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (17 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The following table (Table 1) details the locations and breakdown of posts in the Department of Social and Family Affairs. Table 2 refers to locations and posts in the agencies of the Department. The agencies under the remit of the Department are The Pensions Board, Family Support Agency, Citizens Information Board (formerly Comhairle), the Combat Poverty Agency. The Office of the Pensions...
- Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (17 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: In Budget, 2009 the Government announced proposals in relation to the future of two of the agencies under the aegis of the Department â the Combat Poverty Agency and the Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS). The legislative provisions to give effect to the proposed changes for the Combat Poverty Agency and the MABS are contained in the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme is administered on behalf of the Department by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive. The Executive has advised that the person concerned received basic weekly SWA payments totalling â¬5,310.90 from 10 January 2002 to 31 July 2002, travel supplement payments totalling â¬210 from 7 January 2002 to 23 February 2002 and...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The person concerned was in receipt of Jobseeker's Allowance from January 2008 to 28 October 2008. Payment ceased when he failed to sign the Live Register on the appointed day (23 October 2008) and thereby failed to prove he was unemployed from that time. He made a repeat claim on 10 November 2008 and the claim was disallowed on the grounds that he had failed to submit any evidence of his...
- Written Answers — EU Funding: EU Funding (17 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: Details of the amount of EU funding received by my Department directly and for bodies under its aegis in the past 20 years are not immediately available. My Department is compiling this information and my officials will write to the Deputy with these details as soon as they are available.
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (18 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The Pensions Act provides for a minimum Funding Standard which defined benefit pension schemes must meet on an ongoing basis. Generally speaking, the Standard requires that schemes maintain sufficient assets to enable them to discharge accrued liabilities in the event of a scheme winding up. Where schemes do not satisfy the Funding Standard the sponsors/trustees must submit a funding...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The supplementary welfare allowance scheme is administered by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive on behalf of the Department. Statistics are not held on the number of people who applied for payments under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme. The scheme is delivered locally by community welfare officers who interview claimants when they first present to...
- Written Answers — Family Support Services: Family Support Services (18 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The Department is committed to supporting families and values the role that the Family Resource Centres play in communities all over the country. Funding from the Family Support Agency helps with staffing and equipping these centres. By the end of 2008, the number of Family Resource Centres will have expanded from an original 10 to 107 nationwide. The funding for the Programme increased...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: Eligibility for a fuel allowance is subject to a means test and other conditions. A person may have a combined household income of up to â¬100.00 per week over and above the maximum rate of State Pension (Contributory) or savings/investments of up to â¬58,000 and still qualify for fuel allowance. The person concerned is in receipt of a State Pension (Contributory) at the maximum rate of...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The supplementary welfare allowance scheme is administered on behalf of the Department by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive. The Executive has advised that one of the people concerned has made an application for a basic weekly payment of supplementary welfare allowance pending a decision on a claim for Jobseeker's allowance. The Executive has further advised that...