Results 17,341-17,360 of 20,682 for speaker:Mary Hanafin
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (11 Jun 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The Department is committed to providing a quality service to all its customers. This includes ensuring that applications are processed and that decisions on entitlement are made as expeditiously as possible. The staff and other resources available to the Department are regularly reviewed having regard to the workload arising and other competing demands. The average processing time for...
- Written Answers — Rural Transport: Rural Transport (11 Jun 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The free travel scheme provides free travel on the main public and private transport services for those eligible under the scheme. These include road, rail and ferry services provided by companies such as Bus Ãtha Cliath, Bus Ãireann and Iarnród Ãireann, as well as Luas and services provided by over 80 private transport operators. The vast majority of private contractors providing...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Jun 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Jobseeker's allowance is paid to unemployed persons who satisfy certain conditions set out in legislation that require among others, that the person is unemployed, is capable of work, is available for work and is genuinely seeking work. To qualify for jobseeker's allowance a person must also satisfy a means test. The means test for jobseeker's allowance involves an assessment of the...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (16 Jun 2009)
Mary Hanafin: There are currently over 88,200 people in receipt of rent supplement, an increase of 48% since the end of December 2007. The recent Supplementary Budget provided that the weekly minimum contribution payable towards rent be increased from â¬18 to â¬24 a week, with effect from 1 June 2009. The Supplementary Budget also provided that payments currently being made to existing rent supplement...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (16 Jun 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The application for one-parent family payment from the person concerned is currently with a Social Welfare Inspector, whose investigations are ongoing. On completion of enquiries a decision will be made and she will be notified of the outcome. The Social Welfare Inspector is awaiting additional documentation requested from the applicant. Under Social Welfare legislation decisions in relation...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (16 Jun 2009)
Mary Hanafin: There are currently over 88,200 people in receipt of rent supplement, an increase of 48% since the end of December 2007. The recent Supplementary Budget provided that the weekly minimum contribution payable towards rent be increased from â¬18 to â¬24 a week, with effect from 1 June 2009. The Supplementary Budget also provided that payments currently being made to existing rent supplement...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (16 Jun 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The person concerned applied for Jobseeker's Allowance on 6 April 2009. The application is currently with a Social Welfare Inspector for investigation and he will be notified of the outcome as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (16 Jun 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The person concerned applied for jobseeker's allowance from 26 January 2009. He had been self-employed and was asked to submit details concerning his self-employment. When his reply was received it was decided to call him for interview which was scheduled for 15 April 2009. He did not attend for interview and did not contact the Department regarding the appointment; consequently his claim was...
- Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (16 Jun 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The Department has a contract with National Radio Cabs for the provision of a taxi service in the Dublin area. The company has indicated that it has 960 taxis in its fleet, 88 (9%) of which are wheelchair accessible. I understand this company encourages its drivers when changing vehicles to take accessibility issues into consideration. It operates a waiting list for those wishing to join the...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (16 Jun 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The person concerned was in receipt of farm assist at the weekly rate of â¬317.90. Her payment was based on a personal rate of â¬204.30, a qualified adult allowance of â¬135.60 and a qualified child allowance of â¬26.00 less weekly means of â¬48.00, derived from income from a holding. Following a review, a Deciding Officer has assessed her weekly means at â¬110.00 from 16 June 2009. Her...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (16 Jun 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Disability Allowance is a weekly Allowance paid to people with a specified disability who are aged over 16 and under 66. The disability must be expected to last for at least one year and the allowance is subject to a medical assessment, a means test and a habitual residency test. The person concerned was awarded Disability Allowance with effect from 21 April 1999. On 22 May 2009 my Department...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (16 Jun 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which includes mortgage interest supplement, is administered on behalf of the department by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive. Mortgage interest supplement provides short-term support to eligible people who are unable to meet their mortgage interest repayments in respect of a house which is their sole place of residence....
- Written Answers — Tax and Social Welfare Codes: Tax and Social Welfare Codes (17 Jun 2009)
Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 140 and 143 together. The social welfare and tax systems have evolved over time and in response to a variety of factors, including Constitutional imperatives as interpreted by the Courts, changing social trends and EU Directives. The social welfare code recognises the couple status of cohabiting couples and treats married and cohabiting couples in a similar...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Jun 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Rent supplement is administered on behalf of the Department by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive as part of the supplementary welfare allowance scheme. The purpose of the rent supplement scheme is to provide short-term income support to eligible people living in private rented accommodation, whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs and who do...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Jun 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Participants in the back to work allowance scheme receive a tapered percentage of their social welfare payment over a three year period. The person concerned is in receipt of a back to work allowance payment, since 2006. His current rate of payment is â¬46.80. His entitlement is due to cease on 23 October, 2009.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (17 Jun 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The administration and other costs associated with the processing and payment of social welfare claims are identified on a programme basis in the Department's Annual Output Statement for 2009 which was presented to the Oireachtas Select Committee on Social and Family Affairs in May. Each scheme administered by the Department is reported under one of the five scheme-based programmes in the...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Jun 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Rent supplement is administered on behalf of the Department by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive as part of the supplementary welfare allowance scheme. The purpose of the rent supplement scheme is to provide short-term income support to eligible people living in private rented accommodation, whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs and who do...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Jun 2009)
Mary Hanafin: Rent supplement is administered on behalf of the Department by the Health Service Executive as part of the supplementary welfare allowance scheme. Rent supplement is normally calculated to ensure that a person, after the payment of rent, has an income equal to the rate of SWA appropriate to their family circumstances less a minimum contribution of â¬24, which recipients are required to pay...
- Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (18 Jun 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The Government outlined in Budget 2009 that the decentralisation programme to Drogheda would proceed as planned. The OPW has purchased sites in Drogheda to accommodate the Department's Headquarters and the Social Welfare Appeals Office. It is intended that the accommodation will be procured by Public Private Partnership (PPP), the procurement process to be conducted by the National...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Jun 2009)
Mary Hanafin: The position remains as advised in Parliamentary Question 319 which I answered for the Deputy on 19 May 2009. The Executive has advised that, while the person concerned had been in receipt of rent supplement, payment was discontinued on his return to work. The Executive has further advised that there is no record of an appeal against the decision to discontinue payment of rent supplement to...