Results 16,421-16,440 of 20,682 for speaker:Mary Hanafin
- Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (19 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The Department is currently analysing the options for the implementation of the scheme referred to by the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (19 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The Department delivers a frontline service through a network of 62 local offices and 62 branch offices. Staff in local offices are employees of the Department while branch offices are operated by private individuals on a contract basis. Under the terms of their contract, branch managers are required to review their staffing levels to ensure that the meeting service requirements and that...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (19 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: There are no staff in my Department, or the Agencies under its aegis, who are remunerated at a rate that is in excess of a benchmarking recommendation or a recommendation from the Review Body on Higher Remuneration. All the staff in question are paid on the appropriate civil/public service payscales, as sanctioned by the Department of Finance.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Rent supplement is administered on behalf of the department by the community welfare service of the Health Service Executive (HSE) as part of the supplementary welfare allowance scheme. The HSE has advised, that according to its records, it has not received an application for rent supplement from the person concerned. The person should contact the community welfare officer in his area so that...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The person concerned has been awarded jobseeker's allowance with effect from 20 October, 2008. A payment of â¬3,074.50, which will include all arrears due, will issue to her on 20 February, 2009. Her current weekly rate of payment is â¬204.30. Her weekly rates of payment since the date of her claim are based on a means assessment of â¬97.00, derived from benefit of parental income, for...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The Early Childcare Supplement is administered by the Department of Social and Family Affairs on behalf of the Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs. The total expenditure on the Early Childcare Supplement (ECS) in 2008 was â¬477m. The ECS expenditure for 2008 in respect of non resident children was approximately â¬4.5m.
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (24 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The primary responsibility for the administration of a pension scheme rests with the trustees of the scheme. The trustees must, at all times, act in the best interests of the members and are required under the Pensions Act, and subject to regulations, to provide for the proper investment of the resources and for compliance with the funding standard requirements in the case of defined benefits...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The total expenditure on Child Benefit (CB) in 2008 was approx â¬2.46 billion. The CB expenditure for 2008 in respect of non resident children was approximately â¬20.9m.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (24 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Rent supplements are subject to a limit on the amount of rent that an applicant for rent supplement may incur. Rent limits are set at levels that enable the different types of eligible households to secure and retain basic suitable rented accommodation, having regard to the different rental market conditions that prevail in various parts of the State. The objective is to ensure that rent...
- Written Answers — School Meals Programme: School Meals Programme (24 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The school meals programme gives funding towards the provision of food services for disadvantaged school children through two schemes. The first is the long-standing statutory urban school meals scheme, operated by local authorities and part-financed by the Department of Social & Family Affairs. The second is the school meals local projects scheme through which funding is provided directly by...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (24 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: FÃS is the National Training and Employment Authority and the main agency to provide jobseeking support to all individuals on the live register who are seeking employment or education opportunities. The Department of Social and Family Affairs facilitators work closely with FÃS and other agencies at national and local level to identify and target appropriate education, training and...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (24 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The cash income (excluding all social welfare payments) of a claimant and his or her spouse or partner is assessable as means for the purposes of jobseeker's allowance. A range of disregards apply depending on the source of the cash income. Where the spouse or partner of a claimant has earnings from employment, social insurance contributions, the health contribution, superannuation/PRSA...
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (24 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The social welfare pension rights of those who take time out of the workforce for caring duties are protected by the homemaker's scheme which was introduced in and took effect from 1994. The scheme allows up to 20 years spent caring for children under 12 years of age or incapacitated adults to be disregarded when a person's social insurance record is being averaged for pension purposes....
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (24 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: From 5 January 2009, in order to be entitled to receive Irish jobseekers benefit, a customer will require a minimum of 104 social insurance contributions paid since entry into insurance. In addition, they must have at least 39 contributions paid or credited in the relevant tax year, and at least 13 of these contributions must be paid contributions. For a person applying for Jobseekers Benefit...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The person concerned applied for a jobseeker's allowance payment on 27 November 2008. He was requested by a Social Welfare Inspector to provide details of his parents' income. However, he failed to provide the necessary information and consequently his claim was closed. He was informed of this on 29 January, 2009. He made a fresh application on 11 February 2009 and a Social Welfare...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: An application for disability allowance, by the person concerned, was disallowed by a Deciding Officer of the Department on 25 November 2008 on the grounds that he did not satisfy the statutory means assessment for eligibility to this allowance. He appealed this decision and, I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that this case has been referred to an Appeals Officer who proposes...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: According to the records of the Department, the person concerned has not made an application for the household benefits package. An application form has now issued to her as a result of this representation. On receipt of the completed application form, a decision will be made and she will be notified of the outcome.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Rent Supplement is administered on behalf of the department by the Health Service Executive (HSE) as part of the supplementary welfare allowance scheme. The Executive has advised that the person concerned has applied for rent supplement. He was requested to provide further information in relation to land which he owns. A decision will made on the application of the person concerned for rent...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (24 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: An application for carer's allowance by the person concerned was disallowed by a Deciding Officer of the Department on 8 January 2009 on the grounds that she was not providing full-time care. She appealed this decision on 21 January 2009 and I am informed by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that there is no outcome as yet in this case. The Chief Appeals Officer will write to the Deputy...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (24 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The Department recently undertook a review of the staffing levels in Local Offices due to the continued increased number of claims for jobseeker's payments. Four additional posts are to be assigned to Clondalkin Local Office. Two officers have already been assigned to the office and arrangements are in train to fill the remaining two posts.