Results 26,781-26,800 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: The person concerned is in receipt of her full entitlement to rent supplement based on her household circumstances, since 2 August 2010.
- Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (2 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: A redundancy lump sum claim in respect of the person concerned was received on 10 August 2011. The Department is currently processing lump sum claims received at the start of June 2011.
- Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (2 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: A redundancy lump sum claim in respect of the person concerned was received on 21 December 2011. It is hoped that the claim will be finalised in the coming weeks.
- Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (2 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: The matter referred to in the question refers to a training programme and therefore comes under the remit of the Department of Education and Skills.
- Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (2 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: Community Employment (CE) is a valuable resource in the provision of a range of services to communities. However it is acknowledged that its effectiveness in terms of labour market progression is somewhat limited. The report 'Supports and Services for Unemployed Jobseeker's: Challenges and Opportunities in a Time of Recession', published in August 2011 by the National Economic and Social...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (2 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance was received from the person concerned on 4 July 2011. The application was refused as the child was not considered to satisfy the medical criteria. The person concerned was notified of the decision on 3 October 2011 and they have since appealed the decision. As part of the appeal process, the application has been forwarded to another of the...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (2 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: 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. There has been a very significant increase in the number of appeals received by the Social Welfare Appeals Office since 2007 when the intake was 14,070 to 2010 and 2011 when the intake rose to 32,432 and 31,241...
- Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (2 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: A redundancy lump sum claim in respect of the person concerned was received on 9 August 2011. The Department is currently processing redundancy lump sum claims received at the start of June 2011.
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (2 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: The challenges facing the Irish pension system are significant. There are currently six people of working age for every pensioner and this ratio is expected to decrease to approximately two to one by 2050. In addition, those aged over 65 will account for a greater proportion of the population while the proportion who are of working age is expected to decline. With increases in life...
- Written Answers — Public Sector Remuneration: Public Sector Remuneration (2 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: There are no semi-State companies under the aegis of the Department of Social Protection.
- Back to Education Allowance (2 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: I thank Deputy McCarthy for raising this important issue. The back to education allowance, BTEA, scheme is a second chance education opportunity scheme designed to remove the barriers to participation in second and third level education by enabling eligible people on certain social welfare payments to continue to receive a payment while pursuing an approved full-time education course that...
- Back to Education Allowance (2 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: I appreciate the dilemma and the almost catch-22 in regard to the points qualification and the anomaly Deputy McCarthy raised. He will appreciate that the role of the Department of Social Protection, in supporting students on the back to education allowance, is income support. We do not get involved in the technical educational qualification side of it because that is not our competence but...
- Back to Education Allowance (2 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: Perhaps that committee could look at this. There are 25,700 participants on back to education. Some 43% of them are in second level while the majority are in third level. The cost is very high. We spent â¬200 million last year and we will spend â¬183 million this year. As the Deputy identified, it is money well spent if people move on to employment but we have a limited budget. It...
- Social Welfare Code (1 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: The domiciliary care allowance, DCA, is a monthly payment to the parent or guardian of a child with a disability so severe that the child requires care and attention and-or supervision substantially in excess of another child of the same age. This care and attention must be provided to allow the child to deal with the activities of daily living, and she or he must be likely to require this...
- Social Welfare Code (1 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: I want to discuss what is happening in terms of numbers. Some 55% of the claims for children with autism-related conditions were allowed from 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2011. These statistics are based on a total of 920 DCA applications processed during that period, with a stated medical condition within the autism spectrum. Of these, 507 were deemed to satisfy the qualifying criteria, and...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (1 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: The challenges facing the Irish pension system are significant. There are currently six people of working age for every pensioner and this ratio is expected to decrease to approximately two to one by 2050. In addition, those aged over 65 will account for a greater proportion of the population while the proportion who are of working age is expected to decline. With increases in life...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (1 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that the disability allowance claim of the person concerned was disallowed by a Deciding Officer following an assessment by a Medical Assessor of the Department who expressed the opinion that he was medically unsuitable for the allowance. An appeal was registered on 26 October 2011 and in accordance with the statutory procedures the relevant...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (1 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that it has not received an appeal from the person concerned. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the Department and is responsible for determining appeals against decisions on social welfare entitlements.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (1 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: The person concerned has made an application for rent supplement and has been requested to provide further information in order to process her claim. A decision will be made on her application when the information has been provided. The Department requested the information on 14 December 2011.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (1 Feb 2012)
Joan Burton: My Department has set up Oireachtas Member's Enquiry Lines for each service area. In relation to Rent Supplement, which forms part of the Supplementary Welfare Allowance scheme, a dedicated e-mail box has been created for such queries. The address is: TDREPS.SuppWelfareAllowance@welfare.ie All queries to this address are dealt with promptly.