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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Data (12 Jul 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Back to Education Allowance (BTEA) scheme is one of a range of activation supports and policies administered by my Department. The main focus of the BTEA is to assist qualifying applicants to improve their qualifications and, therefore, improve their prospects of returning to sustainable employment. The objective of the scheme is to raise the educational and skill levels to enable...

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Regina Doherty: I assure the Deputy that her report is certainly not gathering dust. Work is being done in the Department on the issue of bogus self-employed people.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Regina Doherty: When we are ready.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Regina Doherty: We cannot publish it until it is right.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (13 Jul 2017)

Regina Doherty: Following the publication of my Department’s Report - An Analysis of the Community Employment Programme -earlier in the year,the Government approved a number of changes to the terms and conditions around participation on Community Employment (CE). The main purpose of these changes is to broaden the availability of CE to a greater number of people on the live register, to standardise...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Poverty (13 Jul 2017)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1175 and 1176 together.It is proposed to take Questions 1175 & 1176 together The latest CSO Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) results for 2015 show that the consistent poverty rate for children was 11.5% in 2015, or 139,000 children. This compared to a rate of 12.7%, or 152,000 children, the year before. The 2015 results show that...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (13 Jul 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Back to Education Allowance (BTEA) is an educational opportunities scheme for persons in receipt of certain qualifying social welfare payments wishing to pursue second or third-level courses of education in order to improve their employment prospects. Entitlement to BTEA is conditional on having on-going entitlement to the qualifying scheme payment. The BTEA scheme has been amended...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Creation (13 Jul 2017)

Regina Doherty: Government policy to reduce unemployment is twofold. First, through policies set out in the Action Plan for Jobs, to create an environment in which business can succeed and create jobs; and second, through Pathways to Work to ensure that as many of these new jobs and other vacancies that arise in our economy are filled by people taken from the Live Register. The Pathways to Work 2016-2020...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobsIreland Service (13 Jul 2017)

Regina Doherty: Jobsireland.ie is a web service that enables employers to post job opportunities and jobseekers to search and apply for these opportunities online. Employers are vital to the continuing recovery of the Irish economy and they are important customers of my Department. Private sector companies offer online vacancy services, but at a cost. My Department’s service is fee-free and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud (13 Jul 2017)

Regina Doherty: Bogus self-employment is generally taken to refer to the deliberate misclassification of employment status in order to evade income tax and PRSI. Where evidence of non-compliance or deliberate misclassification of employment status is detected, it is addressed as part of normal enforcement of the income tax and social welfare codes by the Revenue Commissioners and the Department of Social...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (13 Jul 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that the appeal from the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer who has decided to convene an oral hearing in this case. Every effort will be made to hear the case as quickly as possible and the appellant will be informed when arrangements for the oral hearing have been made. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (13 Jul 2017)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned made an application for Family Income Supplement (FIS) on 27thMarch 2017. At the time of application, the person concerned had a One Parent Family Payment (OFP) claim pending and FIS could not proceed with assessment until a decision was made on the OFP claim. OFP was awarded to the claimant on 6thApril 2017 and the Deciding Officer (DO) proceeded with assessment of the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (13 Jul 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 25th April 2017. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant papers and comments by or on behalf of the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought from the Department of Social Protection. These papers have been received in the Social...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Data (13 Jul 2017)

Regina Doherty: As the Deputy will be aware, JobPath is an employment activation service that supports people who are long-term unemployed and those most at risk of becoming long-term unemployed to secure and sustain paid employment. The JobPath service commenced operations in Tipperary in October 2015. To date, almost 4,500 people have commenced their engagement period with the service in Tipperary....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Registration of Births (13 Jul 2017)

Regina Doherty: The case referred to by the Deputy concerns the registration of a birth. The General Registry (GRO) comes within the remit of my Department. The Registrar General (An tÁrd Chlaraitheoir) has specific statutory functions in this regard. Responsibility for local registration services is assigned to the Health Service Executive (HSE) for the administration of the system of civil...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jul 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Widowed or Surviving Civil Partner Grant is a once-off payment to widows, widowers or surviving civil partners with dependent children. This grant is available to widows, widowers or surviving civil partners who have one or more dependent children living with them at the time of death; or a widow or surviving civil partner whose child is born within 10 months of the date of death of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Eligibility (13 Jul 2017)

Regina Doherty: One of the qualifying conditions for Family Income Supplement (FIS) is that the weekly family income must be less than a set limit for their family size. Weekly Family Income is the amount of all income received in a week by a family. Examples of family income are earnings, social welfare payments, maintenance payments, income from self-employment, rental income, farm income or any...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Appeals (13 Jul 2017)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned made an application for an Exceptional Needs Payment under the Supplementary Welfare Allowance Scheme. I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that some decisions taken by officers of my Department are administrative in nature and are therefore not open to appeal to that office. Exceptional Needs Payments made under the Supplementary Welfare Allowance...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Projects (13 Jul 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Department in conjunction with the OPW has made the following Intreo project capital investments in County Louth and parts of east County Meath from April 2016 to June 2017. The capital expenditure details are as follows: Location Capital Costs* Navan Intreo, Kennedy House, Kennedy Rd, Navan, Co Meath €808,939 Abbey Buildings, Abbey Mall, Navan, Co. Meath €326,770 *...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (13 Jul 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 21st June 2017. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought. When these papers have been received from the Department, the case in question will be...