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Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (18 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: I propose to come back to the House next Wednesday evening, if this is in order, because I will then be able to have detailed replies on specific issues Members may wish to raise. Otherwise, my responses today would be very general. Now that I see Professor Mirrlees in the Visitors Gallery, I would like to say that in Ireland social welfare plays an enormous stimulus role in terms of demand....

Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (18 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: We would like support for more.

Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (18 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: Employers pay the first 26 weeks of sick leave in the North. What would the employers in question do then?

Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (18 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: My apologies, the figure in the North is 28 weeks.

Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (18 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: I will launch that in person.

Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (18 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: I propose to come back to the House next Wednesday evening, if this is in order, because I will then be able to have detailed replies on specific issues Members may wish to raise. Otherwise, my responses today would be very general. Now that I see Professor Mirrlees in the Visitors Gallery, I would like to say that in Ireland social welfare plays an enormous stimulus role in terms of demand....

Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (18 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: We would like support for more.

Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (18 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: Employers pay the first 26 weeks of sick leave in the North. What would the employers in question do then?

Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (18 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: My apologies, the figure in the North is 28 weeks.

Seanad: Social Protection: Statements (18 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: I will launch that in person.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Redundancy Payments (18 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: On the 7th December 2011 this matter was heard before the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) with 22 appellants seeking a redundancy payment. The EAT upheld that 20 of the 22 appellants were entitled to a statutory redundancy payment from their former employer, the organisation to which the Deputy refers. The appeals of the other two appellants were withdrawn at the hearing. Following the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (18 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: The purpose of the rent supplement scheme is to provide short-term support to eligible people living in private rented accommodation whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs and who do not have accommodation available to them from any other source. The overall aim is to provide short term assistance, and not to act as an alternative to the other social housing schemes...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Mortgage Interest Supplement Payments (18 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: Mortgage interest supplement (MIS) provides short-term income support to eligible people who are unable to meet their mortgage interest repayments in respect of a house which is their sole place of residence. There are currently approximately 16,000 mortgage interest supplement recipients for which the Government has provided €51 million for in 2012. From 18 June 2012, applicants for...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (18 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 16th July 2012. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by or on behalf of the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought. These papers were received in the Social Welfare Appeals Office on 11 October...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (18 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance (DCA) was received on the 2nd July 2012. This application was referred to one of the Department’s Medical Assessors who found that the child was not medically eligible for DCA. A letter issued on the 20th August 2012 advising of the decision not to allow the application. The person concerned supplied further information and the case...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Mortgage Resolution Processes (18 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: I recently announced a three-phased approach to establishing a comprehensive Mortgage Arrears Information and Advice Service to provide the necessary supports to assist people in mortgage distress. The approach differentiates between mortgage information and mortgage advice. The first two involve the enhancement of the website and the establishment of a Mortgage Arrears Information...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (18 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: The Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2012 – 2014, published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in December 2011, provides for savings of €475 million in 2012 from a range of welfare measures announced in Budget 2012. The Report also provides for savings of €648 million in 2013 and €690 million in 2014 arising from these measures.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disabled Drivers Grant Eligibility (18 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: This question is a matter for my colleague the Minister for Finance.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Illness Benefit Appeals (18 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: Payment of illness benefit, to the person concerned, was disallowed by a Deciding Officer following an examination by a Medical Assessor of the Department who expressed the opinion that she was capable of work. An appeal was registered on the 9th October 2012 and the Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that, in accordance with statutory requirements, the Department was asked for the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (18 Oct 2012)

Joan Burton: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer, having fully considered all the evidence, disallowed the appeal of the person concerned by way of summary decision. Under Social Welfare legislation, the decision of the Appeals Officer is final and conclusive and may only be reviewed by the Appeals Officer in the light of new evidence or new facts. Fresh evidence...