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- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Heather Humphreys: Yes. We will have funded 77% of what local authorities could deliver before the year ends. We asked them all what they could do. They sent us in our list and got 77% of what they could deliver. That is what we have done. A question was asked about community centres. Requests for funding of less than €25,000 are for unincorporated community centres. In other words support of up...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Heather Humphreys: I apologise. I thought the Deputy was speaking about the community hot spots.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Heather Humphreys: That is the one done through Pobal. A registered organisation applies through Pobal. If it is not registered it goes to the local authority and applies through the local community development committee, LCDC.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Heather Humphreys: It is through the local authorities. It is administered and the LCDC approves it. We have distributed €10 million across all local authorities for applications from unincorporated charitable bodies or organisations that want a bit of support. The local authorities will take the applications and pay out the money. The local knowledge is there. They have paid out money previously on...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Heather Humphreys: Yes, it is. Pobal is already open for applications. If an application does not qualify for the scheme for which we have given Pobal the money to administer, it will refer it to the local authority.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Heather Humphreys: It will explain that it is to be sent to the local authority.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Heather Humphreys: Yes, but the other scheme is not open yet.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Heather Humphreys: No.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Heather Humphreys: No it is not caught because the local authority scheme is not yet open. The Pobal scheme is open. I take the Deputy's point. If Pobal gets an application that should-----
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Heather Humphreys: You see-----
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Heather Humphreys: No, we are not trying to make it complicated. The local authorities will be flexible.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Heather Humphreys: The Deputy sees what I am trying to do. I am trying to give everybody a chance to get some of the money in the pot.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Heather Humphreys: There is €10 million in the scheme with Pobal. We can get the message out today that to apply to Pobal an organisation needs to be a registered charity or to be a regulated organisation. This is one lot. If organisations do not qualify for this they should go to their local authority and that is it. Pobal will screen them. If organisations are not eligible they will be told to go...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Heather Humphreys: We know the local improvement scheme was suspended and brought back in 2017 by the former Minister, Deputy Ring. We have spent €100 million on the LIS since then and I am aware of the absolute importance of the scheme. I have written to the Minister and I have raised this matter with him at every opportunity, saying that if we could just get a small contribution from his Department,...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Heather Humphreys: On the Monksland project, I have actually visited that project and it will be transformative in that area in terms of remote working facilities. I cannot say why NAMA has not given a decision. I do not want to see these things being held up, and that is the truth. If the money is there, get it spent and get on with it. If our Department can help in moving that along, we are happy to do so.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Heather Humphreys: We are happy to do that. We will see what we can do with the relevant Minister. I think the Minister for Finance has responsibility for NAMA. The LEADER funding issue has been raised with me. I wish to put on the record that the funding allocations for 2023 to 2027, when taken together with the allocations under the 2021 to 2022 transition programme, show that all LEADER areas have an...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (1 Dec 2022)
Heather Humphreys: As part of the Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020-2025, Government has committed to finalising an approach for the benchmarking and indexation of pension payments. A smoothed earnings method to calculating a benchmarked/indexed rate of State Pension payments was also recommended by the Commission on Pensions. In September, I announced a series of landmark reforms to the State Pension system....
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Dec 2022)
Heather Humphreys: The Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020 (No 1 of 2020) introduced amendments to the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 to provide for special arrangements (including an enhanced rate payable at €350 per week) for the payment of Illness Benefit to those who are diagnosed with Covid-19 by a medical practitioner or who are a...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (1 Dec 2022)
Heather Humphreys: The Programme for Government Our Shared Futurecommits to introducing a Total Contributions Approach to align a person’s State Pension (Contributory) payment rate more closely with the contributions they make. This will include a provision for people who take time off from paid employment to undertake a full-time caring role. The Total Contributions Approach represents a fairer system...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (1 Dec 2022)
Heather Humphreys: The SAFE registration process, which the Department uses to authenticate identity and issue customers with a Public Services Card (PSC), is carried out in the Department's public offices. The process involves the taking of a person's photograph with a camera which is integrated with the Department's computer system. Photographs cannot be taken in other locations. My Department has...