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Written Answers — Carer's Allowance: Carer's Allowance (10 Jul 2012)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the department is in receipt of an application for carer's allowance from the person in question. On completion of the necessary investigations relating to all aspects of the case a decision will be made and the person concerned will be notified directly of the outcome.

Written Answers — Carer's Allowance: Carer's Allowance (10 Jul 2012)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the department is in receipt of an application for carer's allowance from the person in question. On completion of the necessary investigations relating to all aspects of the case a decision will be made and the person concerned will be notified directly of the outcome.

Written Answers — Carer's Allowance: Carer's Allowance (10 Jul 2012)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the department is in receipt of an application for carer's allowance from the person in question. On completion of the necessary investigations relating to all aspects of the case a decision will be made and the person concerned will be notified directly of the outcome.

Written Answers — Invalidity Pension: Invalidity Pension (10 Jul 2012)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal, by the person concerned, was registered in that office on 11th June 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. When received, the case will be referred to an Appeals Officer who will...

Written Answers — Carer's Allowance: Carer's Allowance (10 Jul 2012)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the department is in receipt of an application for carer's allowance from the person in question. On completion of the necessary investigations relating to all aspects of the case a decision will be made and the person concerned will be notified directly of the outcome.

Written Answers — Statutory Sick Pay Scheme: Statutory Sick Pay Scheme (10 Jul 2012)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 240 and 247 together. The question of introducing a scheme of statutory sick pay, whereby employers would directly meet the costs of sick absence for an initial period of illness is being considered in the context of the need to reform the social welfare system to bring it into line with practices in other countries in this area; the need to address the...

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (10 Jul 2012)

Joan Burton: The monthly progress report is a long-standing report produced by FÁS since the late 1990s providing summary overall national data on outcomes for persons referred under the National Employment Action Plan (EAP). It predates the involvement of the LES in the EAP referral process (which commenced in 2009), and the absence of a reference to this LES involvement is an oversight. Approximately...

Written Answers — Youth Unemployment: Youth Unemployment (10 Jul 2012)

Joan Burton: The official measure of unemployment comes from the Quarterly National Household Survey. While the survey provides some data on the nationality of the unemployed at the aggregate level, these are considered by the Central Statistics Office to be "broadly indicative", and the data are not available below the aggregate level. Administrative data show that there were 79,098 persons aged less...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (10 Jul 2012)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 243 and 244 together. The Department does not have information about the total numbers of people resident in Ireland with foreign social security pensions as information about an individual with other pension income would only be required by the Department if the person applied for the means tested State Pension (Non-Contributory). That information is mainly...

Written Answers — Child Benefit: Child Benefit (10 Jul 2012)

Joan Burton: Child Benefit (CB) is currently paid for 598,336 families in respect of 1,136,361 children. The corresponding figures for the past four years are as follows: Year Families Children 2008 596,108 1,141,938 2009 602,932 1,156,917 2010 591,432 1,124,003 2011 597,333 1,136,065 Details on the number who also had a social insurance record at Classes A, S or M for these years is not readily...

Written Answers — National Employment and Entitlements Service: National Employment and Entitlements Service (10 Jul 2012)

Joan Burton: My Department is establishing a new National Employment and Entitlements Service, as provided for in the Programme for Government, which will integrate employment and benefit payment services within the Department. The first step in establishing the National Employment and Entitlements Service was integrating staff from FÁS, the Community Welfare Service and my Department which will free up...

Written Answers — Statutory Sick Pay Scheme: Statutory Sick Pay Scheme (10 Jul 2012)

Joan Burton: A consultative forum on the feasibility and implications of introducing a scheme of statutory sick pay was held in February of this year. The national organisation to which the Deputy refers was represented at the Forum, (a report of which is now available on the Department's website). I should add that Department officials will also be meeting some of the organisation again on the matter....

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (10 Jul 2012)

Joan Burton: The Department of Social Protection is committed to ensuring the protection of children and/or vulnerable adults. It is Community Employment policy that participants on any scheme that gives individuals substantive unsupervised access to children and/or vulnerable adults are subject to Garda Vetting. This policy has been in place since June, 2009 in compliance with Childcare...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (10 Jul 2012)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 23 April 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 3 July...

Written Answers — Rent Supplement Scheme: Rent Supplement Scheme (10 Jul 2012)

Joan Burton: The primary social welfare payment of the person concerned, upon which her qualification for rent supplement depends, was suspended causing the rent supplement to also be suspended. As the primary payment has now been restored, the rent supplement has also been reinstated and the person concerned has been issued with all outstanding arrears.

Written Answers — Carer's Allowance: Carer's Allowance (10 Jul 2012)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the department is in receipt of an application for carer's allowance from the person in question. On completion of the necessary investigations relating to all aspects of the case a decision will be made and the person concerned will be notified directly of the outcome.

Written Answers — Carer's Allowance: Carer's Allowance (10 Jul 2012)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the department is in receipt of an application for carer's allowance from the person in question. On completion of the necessary investigations relating to all aspects of the case a decision will be made and the person concerned will be notified directly of the outcome.

Written Answers — Carer's Allowance: Carer's Allowance (10 Jul 2012)

Joan Burton: The application for carer's allowance from the person in question was refused on the ground that the care recipient is not in need of full-time care and attention as laid down in the regulations. The person in question requested a review of this decision and has submitted further medical evidence in support of the application. On completion of the review of the case, a decision will be made...

Written Answers — Domiciliary Care Allowance: Domiciliary Care Allowance (10 Jul 2012)

Joan Burton: The continued entitlement of the person concerned to domiciliary care allowance was reviewed in March 2012. The case was referred to one of the Department's Medical Assessors who found that the child was no longer medically eligible for the allowance. The person concerned was notified of the decision on 7 March 2012 and she has appealed the decision. As part of the appeal process, the case...

Written Answers — Invalidity Pension: Invalidity Pension (10 Jul 2012)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 12 April 2012. 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 received, the case in question will be referred to an Appeals Officer who will make a...