Results 27,241-27,260 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Jan 2012)
Joan Burton: There is no record of a carer's allowance application ever having been received in respect of the above named. On 9 January 2012 a claim form and return envelope issued to him at the above address. Upon its completion and return to carer's allowance section, his application will be processed.
- Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (11 Jan 2012)
Joan Burton: From January 2012 the appropriate rate of mortgage interest supplement payable to the person concerned is â¬1,332.60 per month.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (11 Jan 2012)
Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 14th December 2011. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Social Welfare Services on the grounds of appeal be sought. When received, the appeal in question will be referred to an Appeals Officer for...
- Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (11 Jan 2012)
Joan Burton: The information requested by the Deputy in relation to the names and salaries of each person directly appointed by me or my predecessors within the Department, at the stated dates, are set out in the following tabular statement. TABULAR STATEMENT 1 December 2009 â i.e. Minister Mary Hanafin, T.D., from 8 May 2008 to 23 March 2010 Ministerial Appointments Name ...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (11 Jan 2012)
Joan Burton: JobBridge is a new National Internship Scheme that provides work experience placements for interns for a 6 or 9 month period. The aim of the National Internship Scheme is to assist in breaking the cycle where jobseekers are unable to get a job without experience, either as new entrants to the labour market after education or training or as unemployed workers wishing to learn new skills. The...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (11 Jan 2012)
Joan Burton: Applications for domiciliary care allowance were received from the person concerned in respect of two children on 29th September 2011. These applications were referred to one of the Department's Medical Assessors who found that the children were not medically eligible for the allowance. A letter issued on 26th November 2011 advising the person concerned of these decisions. In the case of...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Jan 2012)
Joan Burton: The average time taken to award a claim for carer's allowance to end Sept 2011 was 14 weeks. The average time to award for the last quarter of 2011 is unavailable as, due to the phased introduction of a new claims processing system in the carer's allowance area, new claims are being processed on the new system while older claims are still being processed on the old system. A total of almost...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (11 Jan 2012)
Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 10th October 2011. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Social Welfare Services on the grounds of appeal be sought. When received, the appeal in question will be referred to an Appeals Officer for...
- Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (11 Jan 2012)
Joan Burton: Changes to the allowances paid to certain participants on the Community Employment programme will come into effect on January 16th 2012. The changes to the payment of concurrent allowances to Lone Parents and Persons with a Disability will only apply to new entrants after January 16th . A new entrant is a person who has not participated on Community Employment in the preceding 12 months....
- Written Answers — Registration of Deaths: Registration of Deaths (11 Jan 2012)
Joan Burton: Usually where an Irish citizen dies abroad, the death is registered by the civil authorities of the place where the death occurred, and a certified copy of the death registration is obtainable. This certificate, translated if necessary, is normally sufficient for all legal and administrative purposes here and for these reasons alone there is no necessity for the death to be registered in the...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (11 Jan 2012)
Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that the appeal from the person concerned were 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 when the intake rose to 32,432. This has significantly...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (11 Jan 2012)
Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 18th July 2011. 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 3rd...
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (11 Jan 2012)
Joan Burton: The Department is subject to annual audit by the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General. As part of this audit, the level of annual overpayments and recoveries is examined. Set out below are relevant statistics for the 5 year period 2006 â 2010. As the 2011 Comptroller and Auditor General's audit is currently underway, the Department is not yet in a position to provide data on...
- Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (11 Jan 2012)
Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 407 and 419 together. Responsibility for the processing of claims under the Redundancy Payments Scheme transferred from the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to the Department of Social Protection in January 2011. The purpose of the Redundancy Payments Scheme is to compensate workers, under the Redundancy Payments Acts, 1967 to 2007, for the...
- Written Answers — Disability Statistics: Disability Statistics (11 Jan 2012)
Joan Burton: At the end of December 2011, the number of persons in receipt of disability allowance who were aged between sixteen to eighteen years of age was 2,985. The total number of persons in receipt of disability allowance was 102,866.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (11 Jan 2012)
Joan Burton: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that the appeal of the person concerned was withdrawn. The person concerned no longer wishes to proceed with the appeal as she is currently in receipt of rent allowance. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the Department and is responsible for determining appeals against...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (11 Jan 2012)
Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 26th November 2011. 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 4th...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Fraud: Social Welfare Fraud (11 Jan 2012)
Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 413 to 415, inclusive, together. The prevention of fraud and abuse of the social welfare system is an integral part of the day-to-day work of my Department which processes in excess of 2 million claims each year and makes payments to some 1.4 million people every week at a cost of some â¬21 billion per annum. However, it is important to recognise that the...
- Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (11 Jan 2012)
Joan Burton: The circular issued by FÃS in December 2011 reflected the announcements made in Budget 2012. No Community Employment scheme will close pending the outcome of the financial review. This statement was also reflected in the circular issued. There has been full consultation and contact between the Department and the staff involved in the Community Employment programme. These staff...
- Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (11 Jan 2012)
Joan Burton: The terms of reference for the financial review of Community Employment schemes is being prepared by Department officials and will be completed shortly. This financial review of Community Employment schemes announced will in the first instance be carried out at local level between regional Department of Social Protection staff and each Sponsor. This will involve a meeting with each Sponsor...