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Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (16 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 02 November 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 in due course to an Appeals...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (16 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: Social welfare legislation provides that a person must satisfy the conditions of being available for and genuinely seeking work in order to be entitled to jobseeker's benefit or jobseeker's allowance. Any person who fails to satisfy these conditions is not entitled to a jobseeker's payment. Part-time firefighters are entitled to a jobseeker's payment in respect of days that they are engaged...

Written Answers — Ministerial Appointments: Ministerial Appointments (16 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: The three statutory bodies operating under the aegis of the Department of Social Protection are the Social Welfare Tribunal, the Citizens Information Board and the Pensions Board. In addition, the Office of the Pensions Ombudsman (which does not have a board) comes under the remit of the Department. Mr. Eugene McErlean was appointed to the Citizens Information Board on 7 September 2011....

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (16 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: The community services programme co-funds the services delivered by around 440 community-based not-for-profit enterprises across the State. Some €47.4 million has been allocated to the programme in 2011, supporting 2,800 people in full-time and part-time employment. A key requirement of the programme is that the service provider must generate a significant element of their turnover from...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Offices: Social Welfare Offices (16 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 162 and 163 together. The Department operates a network of local and branch offices throughout the country. Each of these offices is manned during normal working hours and is open to the public from Monday to Friday each week during the hours indicated in the attached table. Each office has dedicated officers who are available to explain supports and...

Written Answers — Social Insurance Fund: Social Insurance Fund (16 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: The information requested by the Deputy is provided in the following table: Year Income Expenditure Surplus / Deficit As % of expenditure €000 €000 €000 2007 7,834,147 7,250,990 583,157 8.0% 2008 8,144,410 8,399,739 -255,329 -3.0% 2009 7,297,601 9,784,225 -2,486,624 -25.4% 2010 6,709,681 9,460,835 -2,751,154 -29.1% 2011 7,148,371 9,054,539 -1,906,168 -21.1% The information...

Written Answers — Social Insurance Fund: Social Insurance Fund (16 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 165 and 166 together. The Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 2005 requires regular actuarial reviews of the financial condition of the Social Insurance Fund. The last such review was published in 2007 and was based on the position as at 31 December 2005. The key objectives of the review were to project future contribution income to and benefit outgo fro the...

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (16 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: JobBridge, the National Internship Scheme, is open to organisations in the public, private and community and voluntary sectors. In order to participate in JobBridge an organisation must employ at least one full time employee who works for a minimum of thirty hours per week. The aim of this criterion is to ensure that a participating organisation has the capacity to monitor and provide the...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (15 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: As part of the reorganisation of functions and services in support of people who are unemployed, the community and employment support services of FÁS are being transferred to the Department of Social Protection. The legislative changes to give effect to these changes have been put in place and FÁS staff will complete the transfer to my Department in January 2012. As a consequence of these...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (15 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: A community laundry service is operated by a community based organisation as part of its training and development centre based in Farranferris College on the north side of Cork City. FÁS provides funding of approximately €149,000 per annum in total to the laundry to support six work placements under the community employment programme and a further three under the job initiative programme....

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (15 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: A Redundancy Lump sum claim in respect of the person concerned was received on 18 May 2011. Redundancy Lump sum claims received at the end of April 2011 are currently being processed.

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (15 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: JobBridge – the National Internship Scheme - is a nationwide scheme and, as such, places are not assigned, or reserved, on a geographic basis. Currently there are sixty-six (66) offers of internship in County Donegal advertised on the JobBridge website.

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (15 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 259, 297 and 299 together. The Labour Court recommended in July 2008 that an agreed pension scheme should be introduced for community employment (CE) scheme supervisors and assistant supervisors, and that such a scheme should be adequately funded by FÁS. Notwithstanding the positions of the Department in rejecting that liability for these costs falls to be...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (15 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: The Pensions Board is a statutory body set up under the Pensions Act, 1990. The Board regulates occupational pension schemes, trust Retirement Annuity Contracts and Personal Retirement Savings Accounts in Ireland. According to the Pensions Boards annual report for 2010, there were 76,291 occupational pension schemes with 809,961 active members as of the 31st December 2010. In addition there...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (15 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that the disability allowance claim of the person concerned was disallowed following an assessment by a Medical Assessor who expressed the opinion that she was medically unsuitable for the allowance. An appeal was registered on 25th October 2011 and in accordance with the statutory procedures the relevant department papers and the comments of...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (15 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer, having fully considered all the evidence, including that adduced at oral hearing, has allowed the appeal of the person concerned. The person concerned has been notified of the decision. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the Department and is...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (15 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer, having fully considered all the evidence, including that adduced at oral hearing, has disallowed the appeal of the person concerned. The person concerned has been notified of the decision. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the Department and is...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 264 to 267, inclusive, together. The community welfare service (CWS) and the community welfare officers providing it transferred formally to the Department of Social Protection (DSP) from 1 October 2011. The service and the staff are now part of the DSP. There are currently 18,741 recipients of mortgage interest supplement and there are currently 95,904...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (15 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 268 and 319 together. A Redundancy Lump sum claim in respect of the person concerned was received on 5 July 2011. Redundancy Lump sum claims received at the end of April 2011 are currently being processed.

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (15 Nov 2011)

Joan Burton: A Redundancy Lump sum claim in respect of the person concerned was received on 18 July 2011. Redundancy Lump sum claims received at the end of April 2011 are currently being processed.