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- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Data (25 Sep 2018)
John Brady: 476. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 1252 of 7 September 2018, if consultations took place with general practitioners and their representatives before her Department changed the forms for illness benefit. [38366/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (25 Sep 2018)
John Brady: 477. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of jobseekers who have been referred to JobPath for the second time after completing the scheme in full; the length of time after the scheme is completed that JobPath can re-invite former participants to participate again; if jobseekers must participate the second time; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Discussion: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (25 Sep 2018)
John Brady: I welcome the Minister's commitment regarding the Christmas bonus. As a Teachta Dála, I was contacted by a sizeable number of people this morning on their seeing the headline in one of the newspapers. People are genuinely concerned and worried, which to me shows how important the Christmas bonus is to people in trying to make plans around Christmas time. I therefore welcome the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Discussion: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (25 Sep 2018)
John Brady: I asked a question on penalties. I also asked for the youth unemployment figure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Discussion: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (25 Sep 2018)
John Brady: An 8% discount-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Discussion: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (25 Sep 2018)
John Brady: Would I be right in saying that this is on the basis of a reduction in the number of unemployed people?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Discussion: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (25 Sep 2018)
John Brady: How does that discount work?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Discussion: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (25 Sep 2018)
John Brady: It has been a long meeting and I have only two points. I wish to reinforce a point that Senator Butler made on what payments local authorities take into account. In my constituency, there are problems with what the local authority deems as income. For example, with carers, child maintenance - which is really a payment for the child and should not really be taken into consideration as...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Discussion: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (25 Sep 2018)
John Brady: Some local authorities do and some local authorities do not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Discussion: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (25 Sep 2018)
John Brady: There was supposed to be a national differential rent scheme, which has not happened, that would set it right across the board. It is not an area for the Minister. I was merely making those points.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Discussion: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (25 Sep 2018)
John Brady: I mentioned a cold weather payment available across the water in the UK whereby after a certain number of days - I cannot remember how many - an automatic payment is made. I am sure they use computers over there. They have all the systems we have here and set criteria are laid out. I ask that something similar be looked at here, that after three or four consecutive weeks-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Discussion: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (25 Sep 2018)
John Brady: -----below a certain temperature, an automatic payment would kick in such as is the case in the UK and in a number of other-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Discussion: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (25 Sep 2018)
John Brady: There is uncertainty.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Illness Benefit Applications (26 Sep 2018)
John Brady: 56. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the decision was made to change the forms for illness benefit; the consultations that took place prior to the changeover to new forms; the status of processing times for the payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39077/18]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Illness Benefit Applications (26 Sep 2018)
John Brady: I want to be associated with the Minister's comments about the staff dealing with the illness benefit forms. The reason they had to come in and work those extra hours, however, was the unmitigated disaster and mess that was created by the officials and by the Deputy herself, as Minister, in unilaterally introducing these new forms on 6 August without any proper consultation. It is...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Illness Benefit Applications (26 Sep 2018)
John Brady: It was stated that the aim of introducing these new forms was to improve efficiency for GPs and the Department, but efficiency has gone out the window. It appears to me that the only reason these forms were introduced was to make the process more efficient for the Department, certainly not for patients. This is what we see. I mentioned cancer patients and terminally ill people who are...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Illness Benefit Applications (26 Sep 2018)
John Brady: I want to ask a couple of specific questions. How many people are still waiting on an illness benefit claim to come through because of this mess? What is the current processing time for new applications?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Illness Benefit Applications (26 Sep 2018)
John Brady: If implemented and consulted on, that is absolutely a good thing.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (26 Sep 2018)
John Brady: 75. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps taken to honour the pension claim of community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors as per a 2008 Labour Court recommendation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38816/18]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (26 Sep 2018)
John Brady: The programme for Government states that the Government will respect the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, and the Labour Court and ensure that both bodies are supported to fulfil their roles. Does the commitment still stand? When we were dealing with the Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, the Minister cited legitimate concerns about the implications of proposed amendments on...