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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The person concerned is currently in receipt of the full personal rate of Illness Benefit, €208 per week. This will increase by €12 to €220 per week in January 2023 as part of Budget 2023. Illness Benefit is not one of the social welfare benefits that qualifies for the double payments announced as part of Budget 2023. Illness Benefit is intended for people with...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Application Forms (8 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Department is committed to the design, build and delivery of client-focused online services and is engaged in a programme of work to increase the Department’s digital and online service offerings, in line with targets set out in the Government’s Harnessing Digital strategy. To date, significant progress has been made in delivering online application services for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Application Forms (8 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Department is committed to the design, build and delivery of client-focused online services and is engaged in a programme of work to increase the Department’s digital and online service offerings, in line with targets set out in the Government’s Harnessing Digital strategy. To date, significant progress has been made in delivering online application services for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Application Forms (8 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme, my Department can make additional needs payments (ANP) to help meet expenses that a person cannot pay from their weekly income and certain supplements to assist with ongoing or recurring costs that cannot be met from the client’s own resources and are deemed to be necessary. As customer demand for online services continues to grow,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The person concerned reached pension age on 04 June 2022. The State Pension (contributory) was awarded at the weekly rate of €101.20 from 4/6/2022. On 3 November 2022 a decision letter issued to them along with a copy of their insurance record. Payment of their weekly pension and arrears will be paid into their bank account on Friday 11th November. My Department are reviewing their...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: As part of Budget 2023, the Social Protection budget has been designed to assist people with cost-of- living increases through a mix of lump sum payments, increases to weekly payment rates and an expansion of the Fuel Allowance scheme. The measures introduced include the provision of a one-off €500 Cost-of-Living payment, which will be paid in November 2022 to recipients of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (8 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: In response to the ongoing cost of living pressures, the Department of Social Protection will spend approximately €1.2 billion during the coming months to help individuals and families through this difficult period. The €500 lump sum payment to those on Disability Allowance, Blind Pension and Invalidity Pension will be paid to those receiving these payments in the relevant week...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (8 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Most weekly social welfare payments include provision for an additional payment – an Increase for a Qualified Child (IQC) – in respect of each qualified child up to the age of 18, which is extended to encompass older children to age 22 under certain circumstances. This measure provides targeted support to low-income families. In Budget 2023, the IQC rates will increase by...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Properties (8 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1318 and 1319 together. My Department occupies offices in Trinity Point, Dublin 2 and Government Buildings in Ballina, Co. Mayo. Our offices in Trinity Point are leased on our behalf by the Office of Public Works (OPW) while the building we occupy in Ballina is in the ownership of the OPW. My Department does not possess any unused or unoccupied land or...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (8 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: All applications to the Community Centres Investment Fund are subject to a competitive assessment process based on the assessment criteria as set out in the fund guidelines. Category 1 applicants were notified of the outcome of this process last month. Details of successful applicants are available on my department’s website at www.gov.ie/drcd. The group the Deputy refers to...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (8 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The LEADER Programme is a key intervention of Our Rural Future, the Government’s Policy for rural development for the period 2021-2025, which aims to deliver a range of actions to rural communities over the lifetime of the policy. €250m has been made available for LEADER for the period 2021 to 2027. This is comprised of €70 million for the transitional period 2021 to...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (8 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1326, 1329 and 1330 together. LEADER is a key programme within Our Rural Future, and as I announced recently the Expression of Interest stage to select the Groups to deliver the next LEADER programme is now open. The allocation for each LEADER area was also announced as part of this process. The procedure to select the LEADER groups will be open, transparent...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (8 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: LEADER is a key programme within Our Rural Future, and as I announced recently the Expression of Interest stage to select the Groups to deliver the next LEADER programme is now open. The allocations for each LEADER area were also announced as part of this process. €180 million has been committed to the new LEADER programme for 2023-2027. When taken together with the €70m...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (8 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: LEADER is a key programme within Our Rural Future, and as announced recently the Expression of Interest stage to select the Groups to deliver the next LEADER programme is now open. The allocation for each LEADER area was also announced as part of this process. €180 million has been committed to the new LEADER programme for 2023-2027. When taken together with the €70m provided by...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Staff (8 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Department of Rural and Community Development was established in July 2017 and no official from the Department has undertaken the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Programme in the intervening period.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Men's Sheds (8 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The emergence of the Men’s Sheds in recent years has been a very positive development for communities across Ireland. They provide a safe, comfortable and inclusive environment where people of all ages can share skills and work on meaningful projects and connect with their communities. I was delighted to continue my Department’s funding support for Men’s Sheds by...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (9 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: In response to the ongoing cost of living pressures, my Department will spend approximately €1.2 billion in one-off measures during the coming months to help individuals and families through this difficult period. These measures include the following lump sum payments: - €400 Fuel Allowance lump sum - November double Child Benefit payment - €500 Working Family Payment -...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (9 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: My Department has two staff members seconded to a Partnership Company which is contracted to provide a Local Employment Service (LES). The individuals were originally employed by FAS and seconded to the Partnership company in 1996 with an allowance to carry out a LES Mediator role. When specified FAS employees were integrated into this Department in 2012, these two individuals came across to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (9 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: According to the records of my Department, the person concerned applied for a Personal Public Service (PPS) Number on 31/05/2022. The application was referred back to the person’s MyWelfare account on 18/06/2022, with a request for proof of his identity. The person concerned was asked to provide an image of either the back of his National Identity Card or of his passport. As a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (9 Nov 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the Department and is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 9 September 2022. It is a statutory...