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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (1 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: An increase for qualified adult (IQA) is a means-tested payment, payable to State pension (contributory) (SPC) claimants whose spouse, civil partner or cohabitant is being wholly or mainly maintained by them, and where that qualified adult’s personal means from any source do not exceed a means test income limit. As part of my Department’s commitment to ensuring that claimants...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (1 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 610 to 613, inclusive, together. The primary purpose of JobPath is to provide a case management based, employment advice and counselling service to long term unemployed jobseekers. Between July 2015 and September 2019, some 241,346 jobseekers had commenced their engagement period with the JobPath service, see table 1.  Of this number, 52% were...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (1 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: In July 2013, Irish Water was incorporated as a semi-state company under the Water Services Act 2013.  The Social Welfare and Pensions Act, 2014 included a provision which added Irish Water to the list of specified bodies to allow it to use PPS Numbers for the purposes of carrying out transactions with members of the public.  The intention was that the PPS Number would serve as...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (1 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: The social insurance record of the person concerned has been reviewed on the basis of additional information provided regarding previous employment. The person now has 520 full-rate paid contributions, which is one of the qualifying conditions for entitlement to state pension (contributory). A reduced rate of State pension (contributory) has been awarded with effect from the date the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Brexit Issues (1 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: My key area of concern is the impact of Brexit on those current reciprocal arrangements for social insurance (which includes pensions) and social assistance (means tested schemes linked to residency rights) and child benefit between Ireland and the UK, including Northern Ireland. Post-Brexit, including in the event of a no-deal Brexit, Irish and British citizens will continue to enjoy the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (1 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 617 to 619, inclusive, together. The School Meals Programme provides funding towards food services for disadvantaged school children through two schemes: The urban school meals scheme and the school meals (local projects) scheme.  The Urban School Meals Scheme for primary schools is operated and administered by local authorities and is part-financed...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Capital Expenditure Programme (1 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: The capital allocation for my Department is primarily used to deliver IT modernisation and carry out refurbishments on the Department’s buildings.  Neither my Department or the Agencies within the remit of my Department have had capital projects with spend in excess of €10million since 2014.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (1 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. An application for CA was received from the person concerned on 26 August 2019. The application is currently being...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (1 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: The main income supports for carers provided by my Department include Carer's Allowance, Carer's Benefit, Domicillary Care Allowance and the Carer's Support Grant.  Spending on these payments in 2019 is expected to exceed €1.2 billion. Carer's Allowance is a means-tested payment for carers who look after certain people in need of full-time care and attention on a full time...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (26 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. An application for CA was received from the person concerned on 19 July 2019. Means are any income belonging to the carer...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Applications (26 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: Working Family Payment (WFP) is a weekly in work payment which provides additional financial support to employees on low earnings with children relative to family size. The person concerned recently resumed paid employment as an employee. Following receipt of requested employment details from their current employer, WFP has been reinstated to the person concerned with effect to 01 January...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (26 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is a service which supports people who are long-term unemployed to secure and sustain full time paid employment. Two companies, Seetec and Turas Nua, have been contracted by my Department to deliver the service. The JobPath employment service commenced in 2015 and, under the terms of the contracts signed with the providers was to run for at least six years comprising two...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (26 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's Allowance and Carer’s Benefit are payments for carers who look after certain people in need of full-time care and attention on a full time basis. As of end of August 2019, there were 82,233 people in receipt of Carer's Allowance and 2,967 beneficiaries of Carer's Benefit. The projected combined expenditure on Carer's Allowance and Carer’s Benefit in 2019 is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (26 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 16 September 2019. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant papers and comments by or on behalf of the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. When these papers are...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Data (26 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Back to Education Allowance Scheme (BTEA) is designed to support second chance education. It enables eligible persons to pursue education and to continue to receive income support for the duration of a course of study. The weekly rate of payment is linked to the persons' underlying payment, for example jobseekers allowance, and all budget increases in these rates are applied to BTEA...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Strategies (26 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: The new social inclusion strategy "Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2019-2025", is being finalised and I expect that the new strategy will be published shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (26 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 13 August 2019. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant papers and comments by or on behalf of the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. These papers were...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Payments (26 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: Working Family Payment (WFP) is an in-work payment which provides additional income support to employees on low earnings with children. A review of the Working Family Payment entitlement for the person concerned was carried out recently. A revised decision was issued to the person concerned on 05 September 2019 and Working Family Payment arrears were paid to the person concerned on the 12...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (26 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: Scheme trustees have a range of duties and responsibilities under trust law, under the Pensions Act 1990, as amended, and under other relevant legislation. The duties of pension scheme trustees include administering the scheme in accordance with the law and the terms of the trust deed and scheme rules as well as ensuring compliance with the requirements that apply to these schemes. Trustees...

Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: I cannot comment, because the person who answers FOI requests does not respond or directly report to me. If I attempted to question his or her direct response back to the person who requested it, we would be in a whole different space here. Perhaps the Deputy would ask for that information through the FOI system, because I certainly do not share that view.