Results 21,701-21,720 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (2 Nov 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Department operates an 'open sourcing' procurement model which aims to achieve the most economically advantageous result for each requirement/procurement. This includes consideration of open source solutions and generic consumables. Open source software and proprietary software have different business models and it is difficult to compare them directly even where they have directly...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Nov 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The person concerned last renewed their family income supplement (FIS) claim in December 2009. To qualify for FIS a person must have at least one qualified child who normally resides with them or is supported by them. A qualified child is any child under 18 or aged 18 to 22 if in full-time education. At the time of renewal the person concerned had one qualified child in full time education...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Nov 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The person concerned applied for disability allowance on 30 June 2010. Her claim was assessed by a medical assessor who was of the opinion that she was not medically suitable for disability allowance. The deciding officer accepted that medical opinion and refused her claim. A letter issued to the person on 1 October 2010, advising her of this decision and of her right of appeal to the Social...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Nov 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Health Service Executive (HSE) has advised that the person concerned is in receipt of his full entitlement to rent supplement.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (2 Nov 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: During 2008, an interdepartmental group, chaired by the Department of the Taoiseach, with secretariat support provided by my Department, undertook work, including a public consultation process, to develop a National Carers' Strategy. However, because of the prevailing economic situation, it was not possible to set targets or time limits which could be achieved. In that context, rather...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Nov 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The application for One Parent Family Payment was disallowed as the person concerned is cohabiting with her partner. She was notified of this decision and of her right of appeal to the Social Welfare Appeals Office on 5 October 2010.

Written Answers — Marriage Statistics: Marriage Statistics (2 Nov 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The number of notifications of intention to marry given, in the State, between 1 January 2010 and 30 September 2010 where one party to the marriage was a non-Irish EU national, and the other party was a non-EU national was 1010. Of these, 766 marriages have been registered, and 244 have not been registered. The fact that these marriages have not yet proceeded may be due to a number of...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (2 Nov 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that the appeal from the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer who proposes to hold an oral hearing in this case. The person concerned will be informed when arrangements have been made. There was a 46% increase in the number of appeals received by the Social Welfare Appeals Office in 2009 when compared to 2008, which in itself...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (2 Nov 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: In any given year, there are approximately one thousand successful applications for one parent family payment involving a family in which the youngest child is over the age of fourteen.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (2 Nov 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Where, in the future, eligibility for one-parent family payment ceases due to the youngest child attaining the age of 14, a range of other income supports will be available, subject to satisfying the various conditions of the particular scheme. These schemes include family income supplement, jobseeker's allowance, farm assist, disability allowance and blind pension. It is not possible to...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (2 Nov 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To qualify for payment of FIS a person must be engaged in full time insurable employment which is expected to last for at least three months and be working for a minimum of 38 hours per fortnight or 19 hours per week. There are currently some 27,228 people in receipt of a weekly FIS payment of which 5,606 are also in receipt of a One Parent Family Payment. With regard to the level of take...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Nov 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Department is committed to ensuring that claims are processed and that decisions on entitlement are issued as expeditiously as possible, having regard to the eligibility conditions that apply. These conditions vary from scheme to scheme. In the case of One-Parent Family Payment, this would include confirmation of a person's place of habitual residence and, where appropriate, to assess...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (2 Nov 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Department of Social Protection operates a range of employment support services that are designed to encourage and to support social welfare recipients of working age, including lone parents, to reduce their dependency on social welfare payments and to return to work. These services are provided through the Department's network of locally-based Facilitators. The primary role of these...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Nov 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that, following receipt of the grounds of appeal from the person concerned, the relevant Departmental papers and comments of the Department have been sought. On receipt of its response the case will be referred to an Appeals Officer for early consideration. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (2 Nov 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The necessary changes to the Social Welfare code arising from the provisions of the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010, will be brought forward in the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2010, which will be brought before the Oireachtas before the end of the year.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Nov 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Minister for Social Protection (Éamon Ó Cuív T.D.): The numbers of persons in receipt of State pension contributory and State pension transition at end-September 2010, are shown in the table below, including those in receipt of an increase for qualified adult (IQA) in respect of their spouse/partner. Scheme Total no. in payment No. including IQA State pension contributory 276,123...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (2 Nov 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that the appeal from the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer who proposes to hold an oral hearing in this case. The person concerned will be informed when arrangements have been made. There was a 46% increase in the number of appeals received by the Social Welfare Appeals Office in 2009 when compared to 2008, which in itself...

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (2 Nov 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Activation and support for those who are unemployed is a key priority for Government. Earlier this year, the Taoiseach announced a number of changes to improve the delivery of employment, training and community services to the public by bringing together related responsibilities in these areas. These changes include the restructuring of Departmental responsibilities with the objective of...

Written Answers — Departmental Procurement: Departmental Procurement (2 Nov 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: All sourced printing contracts are awarded by the Department following competitive processes which are carried out strictly in accordance with government procurement guidelines and in line with the relevant EU procurement policies. All print contracts in the past three years were placed with companies based within the State.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (2 Nov 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is proposed to take Questions Nos. 392 and 401 to 407, inclusive, together. The attached table sets out the total number of cases by scheme type on appeal on 30 September 2010; the average time taken to process all appeals during the period and the average time taken to process appeals which required an oral hearing. Figures for the longest recorded times for appeals to be determined...