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Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (4 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: In order for an individual to be eligible to participate in JobBridge, the National Internship Scheme, an individual must be: · currently in receipt of a live claim (Jobseeker's Allowance/Jobseeker's Benefit/Signing for Credits) on the Live Register; · have been in receipt of Jobseekers Benefit, Jobseekers Allowance or signing for Social Insurance Contribution Credits for a total of 78 days...

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (4 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: 2057A variety of measures have been introduced to protect the intern and to ensure the integrity of the JobBridge scheme. In order for all applications from host organisations to be approved they must meet a number of criteria so as to ensure that the potential internships are of sufficient quality. These include the following: · that the internship does not allow the intern to work...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (4 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: 1The back to work enterprise allowance (BTWEA) scheme is designed to encourage people who are dependent on certain social welfare payments to engage in self employment while allowing them to retain a reducing proportion of their qualifying social welfare payment over two years. A person on a qualifying social welfare payment wishing to commence a business as an approved driving instructor...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (4 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: 1A decision in this case was taken and notified to the person concerned on 16 March 2011. An appeals officer, having fully considered all the evidence, disallowed the appeal as it had not been established that the qualifying conditions for carer's allowance had been met. The medical evidence indicated the need for some support but not for full-time care and attention within the meaning of...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (4 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: 1Late last year agreement was reached between the Health Service Executive (HSE) and unions representing the Community Welfare Officers that the staff of the Community Welfare Service (CWS) would transfer to the Department of Social Protection with effect from 1st January 2011 on a secondment basis initially. The period of secondment lasted for 9 months until the end of September 2011....

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (4 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: 1The application for jobseeker's allowance from the person concerned was disallowed as he failed to satisfy the habitual residence condition. The decision was upheld on appeal.

Written Answers — Social Insurance: Social Insurance (4 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: 1The number of share fishermen/women who paid Pay Related Social Insurance (PRSI) at Class P during each of the years 2000/01 to 2009 is set out in the following table: 2000/1 13 2001 13 2002 12 2003 9 2004 10 2005 17 2006 16 2007 21 2008 24 2009 20 The total number of contributors who returned PRSI at Class S is set out in the following table for the years 2008 and 2009. In...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (4 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: 1The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 15th July 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 — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (4 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: 1The 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 when the intake rose to 32,432. This has significantly...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (4 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: 1The 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 when the intake rose to 32,432. This has significantly...

Issue of Writ: Dublin West By-election (4 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: With the permission of the Acting Chairman, Deputy McConalogue, I wish to share my time with the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar. It hardly seems like months have elapsed since Brian Lenihan so sadly died. I again offer my condolences to his wife, Patricia, and his children, Clare and Tom, for whom I am sure this has been a difficult and painful period. I had many...

Social Welfare Appeals (4 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: I am informed by the chief appeals officer that the number of appeals waiting to be processed is 17,655. This is a reduction of some 3,126 on the number at the same point last year when the Deputy's party was in power. Fianna Fáil created a meltdown in the economy and, thanks to its efforts, unprecedented numbers have lost either their jobs or businesses. These individuals have been...

Social Welfare Appeals (4 Oct 2011)

Joan Burton: The Deputy may not have been listening to the figures but there has been a reduction in the backlog left by Fianna Fáil. Perhaps there is a Fianna Fáil nua and we did not hear the announcement that Fianna Fáil went out of business completely. The Deputy is a member of the Fianna Fáil party and it has, unfortunately, bequeathed this massive backlog of appeals. We have begun to reduce...

Written Answers — School Meals Programme: School Meals Programme (29 Sep 2011)

Joan Burton: The School Meals Programme operated by the Department of Social Protection gives funding towards the provision of food services for disadvantaged children through two schemes. The first is the statutory Urban School Meals Scheme, operated by local authorities and part-financed by this Department. The second is the School Meals Local Projects Schemes through which funding is provided...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Sep 2011)

Joan Burton: The Health Service Executive (HSE) has advised that the appeal by the person concerned is currently awaiting attention. The person concerned will be advised of the outcome in due course.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Sep 2011)

Joan Burton: The Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance (BSCFA) scheme operates from the beginning of June until the end of September each year. The administrative arrangements for the 2011 BSCFA scheme differ from those that applied in previous years. For this year, the majority of BSCFA entitlements were fully automated with no application form required from customers. 127,000 households in...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Sep 2011)

Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance was received on 27th July 2011. The application has been forwarded to one of the Department's Medical Assessors for a medical opinion and a decision will issue when the opinion is received.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (29 Sep 2011)

Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance (DCA) was received for the person concerned on 23rd September 2010. This application was referred to one of the Department's Medical Assessors who found that the child was not medically eligible for the allowance. A letter issued on 24th November 2010 refusing DCA. The person concerned subsequently lodged an appeal against the decision. She was...

Written Answers — Unemployment Levels: Unemployment Levels (29 Sep 2011)

Joan Burton: The Department of Social Protection operates a range of employment support measures designed to encourage and support social welfare recipients of working age to reduce their dependency on welfare payments. In the 2010/2011 academic year there were 25,032 participants on the back to education allowance scheme. This represented a 20% increase on the 2009/10 academic year where the number of...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Sep 2011)

Joan Burton: The person concerned was disallowed jobseeker's allowance as his means were in excess of the statutory limit based on spousal earnings. The scheduled rate for a person of his circumstances is €402.20. His weekly means have been assessed at €498 based on his wife's assessable earnings. Household outgoings are not taken into account when assessing means for this income support. If the...