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- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The Department has been advised by An Post that Finglas Post Office had sufficient funds to meet expected demand in the run-up to Christmas 2008, and on 7 February 2009. From time to time some slight delays may occur at an individual Post Office due to the use of time-locked safes.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (24 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Social welfare rates of payment for 2010 will be considered later this year in a Budgetary context and having regard to available resources.
- 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 statutory urban school meals scheme, operated by local authorities and part-financed by the Department of Social and Family Affairs. The second is the school meals local projects scheme through which funding is provided directly by the...
- Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (24 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS) is the main Government funded service which provides assistance to people who are over-indebted and need help and advice in coping with debt problems. There are 53 independent companies with voluntary boards of management operating the local services throughout the country. In 2009 almost â¬18 million has been provided to fund the service. There...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (24 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 335 and 336 together. Workers are insured under the Social Welfare Acts as either employed or self-employed contributors. All workers, both employed and self-employed, are obliged to pay PRSI contributions as a percentage of their personal reckonable income. The range of benefits and pensions to which different groups of workers may establish entitlement...
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (25 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The pension rights of scheme members are protected through trust law and by provision in the Pensions Act 1990 as amended. Defined benefit pension schemes are required to comply with the funding standard provision set out in the Pensions Act. This funding standard requires defined benefit pension schemes to maintain sufficient assets to enable them discharge accrued liabilities. Where schemes...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Fraud: Social Welfare Fraud (25 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 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 the...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (25 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Under the household benefits package, the electricity allowance covers standing charges and 2,400 units of electricity each year, which equates to â¬540 per annum. For the majority of customers, the electricity allowance is paid direct to the ESB each month on their behalf and offset against their bills. Payment of the electricity allowance in respect of some 4,000 customers is by cash...
- Written Answers — Civil Registration Act: Civil Registration Act (26 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: This issue was the subject of a High Court judgement concerning the rights of a person, who has undergone gender reassignment surgery, to recognition of her acquired gender. On foot of a High Court judgment, delivered on 19 October 2007, the judge made a declaration, pursuant to Section 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights Act 2003, that Sections 25, 63 and 64 of the Civil...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (26 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The person concerned is in receipt of jobseeker's allowance from 22 December 2008 at the weekly rate of â¬34.90. His payment is based on a personal rate of â¬204.30 and a qualified adult allowance of â¬135.60 less weekly means of â¬305.00, derived from benefit from his partner's insurable employment. He has appealed this decision and his case has been forwarded to the independent Social...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (26 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Workers are insured under the Social Welfare Acts as either employed or self-employed contributors. All workers, both employed and self-employed, are obliged to pay PRSI contributions as a percentage of their personal reckonable income. The range of benefits and pensions to which different groups of workers may establish entitlement reflects the risks associated with the nature of their...
- Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (26 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The back to work scheme was introduced to assist long term unemployed people, lone parents, and sickness related welfare recipients to return to active employment either by taking up employment or becoming self-employed. It is designed to support people who would not otherwise be able to return to the workforce for financial reasons. There are two strands to the scheme, the back to work...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (26 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: In assessing means for social assistance purposes, account is taken of any cash income the person may have, together with the value of capital and property. The yearly value of property and capital is assessed on a notional basis. In the case of property, the market value is established and any outstanding mortgages on that property are deducted before assessment. The first â¬20,000 of...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (26 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Rent supplement is administered on behalf of the department by the community welfare service of the Health Service Executive as part of the supplementary welfare allowance scheme. The Executive has advised that the person concerned is in receipt of a rent supplement since 5 January 2009.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (26 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Rent supplement is administered on behalf of the department by the community welfare service of the Health Service Executive as part of the supplementary welfare allowance scheme. The Executive has advised that the person concerned has applied for a rent supplement and has been requested to provide details of any maintenance payments she may be receiving.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (26 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: An application for Child Benefit from the person concerned in respect of her children, who are resident in Lithuania, is currently being processed. Further information is required before the claim can be decided; the person concerned has been requested to supply details of their current employment status as well as details of the person who is caring for the applicant's children in...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (26 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Rent supplement is administered on behalf of the department by the community welfare service of the Health Service Executive as part of the supplementary welfare allowance scheme. The Executive has advised that it has no record of an application for rent supplement from the person concerned. He should contact the community welfare officer in his area so that any entitlement he may have to...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (26 Feb 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The couple concerned are in receipt of a combined income (from employment, family income supplement, and supplementary welfare allowance) of â¬365.90 per week at this time. This is the maximum rate payable in respect of a couple with one qualified child. One of the couple had applied for jobseekers allowance on 4 February 2009 and an interview with a social welfare Inspector was scheduled...
- Written Answers — Social Insurance: Social Insurance (3 Mar 2009)
Mary Hanafin: In 2007 the Department received â¬1,539m respect of employee's PRSI contributions from the Revenue Commissioners. The amount collected in employee PRSI is based on PRSI returns (Form P35) submitted by employers in respect of their employees. The information requested is not currently available and will require significant analytical work over the coming weeks. The results of the exercise...
- Written Answers — Civil Registration: Civil Registration (3 Mar 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Statutory responsibility for the administration of Civil Registration in Ireland rests with an tArd-Chlaraitheoir (Registrar General). His Office, the General Register Office (GRO) is the central repository for records of life events occurring in the State, e.g. births, deaths, marriages, stillbirths and domestic adoptions. I have made enquiries of an tArd-Chlaraitheoir regarding the matter...