Results 2,241-2,260 of 5,587 for speaker:Kevin Humphreys
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: No.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: There is no presumption; it comes down to proof of eligibility of entitlement. The Deputy can interpret my words as I said them.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: No. It has always been the case, as in all things, that an applicant had to prove eligibility. That provision dates from Deputy O'Dea's time as well as being designed in legislation.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: No, there is not.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: There is not. The figures that I gave him are correct and are going up. If he wants, I can argue the matter back and forth. There is a huge difference in the numbers received and awarded compared with what happened in 2014 so that issue does not uphold his point. I have dealt with many claims for carer's allowance and often times people had not submitted a correct application. There were...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: The purpose of section 3 is to clarify that eligibility for the carer's benefit, carer’s allowance and respite care grant schemes is determined by a deciding officer on the basis of all of the information available to him or her in regard to that claim. This information includes all of the relevant medical evidence that has been submitted by the claimant in support of the claim, for...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: Yes. I have no problem doing so.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: I shall send my speaking note to all Members of the committee.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: Yes.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: "Trans seekers" refers to allowance transition arrangements.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: Yes.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: It is specific.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: Yes.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: It is an exemption which states they do not have to actively seek work up to the age of 14.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: It is the jobseeker's allowance transitional arrangement.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: Yes.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: Yes.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: If it does go over the jobseeker's allowance transition, FIS may be available.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: This is a fairly a complicated area. There is interaction within the Intreo offices. Officers there go through every single case to make sure people benefit. We have written to a number of clients inviting them in to make sure they get every single benefit they qualify for. Could the Chairman put it down in detail because I do not quite grasp what she is looking for? This is why case...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Kevin Humphreys: We can make sure everybody would have a contact name to ensure that. I accept the problem set out by Deputy Naughten relating to the tie-up in the Revenue Commissioners, and waiting for the refund of €600 from the Revenue Commissioners. There must be some option, possibly a tie-up, because waiting for that refund would be quite difficult if one was on €1,300. The Deputy is...