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Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (28 Sep 2011)

Joan Burton: JobBridge, the National Internship scheme is available to all eligible host organisations in the private, public and community & voluntary sectors. It should be noted that the purpose of JobBridge is to assist unemployed individuals to gain valuable work experience opportunities to assist them improve their skills while also enhancing their prospects of securing future employment. The...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (28 Sep 2011)

Joan Burton: Under the supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme, the Health Service Executive (HSE) may make a single payment to help meet essential, once-off, exceptional expenditure, which a person could not reasonably be expected to meet out of their weekly income. Those who qualify are normally in receipt of a social welfare or HSE payment. The principal consideration in making a single payment...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (28 Sep 2011)

Joan Burton: The Health Service Executive (HSE) has advised the person concerned met with the Community Welfare Officer recently. The HSE advised the person concerned that in order to process an application for rent supplement she must provide information on her means for the months where she had no social welfare payment, she must make an application for a social welfare payment and provide proof of her...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (28 Sep 2011)

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 when the intake rose to 32,432. This has significantly...

Written Answers — Jobs Initiative: Jobs Initiative (28 Sep 2011)

Joan Burton: The Department of Social Protection supports 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. Supports available include the back to education programmes and back to work schemes. In addition, a fully integrated nationwide range of services and supports is available to...

Written Answers — Community Services Programme: Community Services Programme (28 Sep 2011)

Joan Burton: The Community Services Programme (CSP) is designed to address locally identified gaps in the provision of services and to exploit the potential of community assets and resources to improve community well-being. CSP support is designed in such a manner that service providers are required to offer employment opportunities to people from specific target groups. The target group includes people...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (28 Sep 2011)

Joan Burton: The supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which includes rent supplement, is administered on my behalf by the Community Welfare Service (CWS) of the Health Service Executive (HSE). The timescale for determining applications for rent supplement is dependant, among other things, on the availability of the required information, such as details of the applicant's income, bank statements,...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (28 Sep 2011)

Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance was received from the person concerned on 20th May 2011. This application was referred to one of the Department's Medical Assessors who found that the child was not medically eligible for the allowance and a letter issued on 16th July 2011 advising of the decision. In the case of an application which is refused on medical grounds, the applicant...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (28 Sep 2011)

Joan Burton: The HSE has advised that the applications for assistance from the person concerned were refused in both instances as her income was in excess of the allowable limits appropriate to each scheme. The person concerned was advised in writing of her right to appeal the decision to the relevant appeals office in the HSE.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (28 Sep 2011)

Joan Burton: In light of documentation supplied, a review is being carried out of this case and the person concerned will be informed of the outcome shortly.

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (28 Sep 2011)

Joan Burton: During the period from September 2001 to September 2011, there were no promotions carried out for any staff member from age 63 to retirement, from Higher Executive Officer to Secretary General grades. However, it is not possible to say how many applied for promotion from this age group as the effort involved in collating this information would be excessive.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (28 Sep 2011)

Joan Burton: The Health Service Executive (HSE) has advised that the person concerned has been requested to provide the following documentation before her application for rent supplement can be processed: Ø A copy of the Housing Needs Assessment letter from Kildare County Council, Ø A completed Habitual Residence Condition form, Ø Copy of photo identification, Ø 6 months bank statements or if...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (28 Sep 2011)

Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance was received on 23rd August 2011. The application has been forwarded to one of the Department's Medical Assessors for a medical opinion. A decision will issue to the person concerned when the Medical Assessor's opinion is received.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (28 Sep 2011)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 28th March 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 — Personal Public Service Numbers: Personal Public Service Numbers (28 Sep 2011)

Joan Burton: The information requested by the Deputy is not available. The information required to be submitted in application for a PPS Number is set out in Section 262 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act, 2005 (as amended) and does not include source of income.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (28 Sep 2011)

Joan Burton: The person concerned has reached pension age. The Department has not received a claim for State pension (contributory) from him. A claim form has been sent to him and on receipt of the completed claim form, his entitlement to pension will be fully examined and he will be notified of the outcome without delay.

Employment and National Internship Scheme: Motion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2011)

Joan Burton: With the agreement of the House I will share time with Deputies Joe O'Reilly, Colm Keaveney, Patrick O'Donovan, Mary Mitchell O'Connor and John Paul Phelan. I am delighted to have the opportunity to talk about the national internship scheme. We are now at the third anniversary of the disastrous bank guarantee. It is a pity some of the parties who voted for the guarantee were not astute in...

Employment and National Internship Scheme: Motion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2011)

Joan Burton: The national internship scheme was launched 12 weeks ago, on 1 July. To date, it has had applications from more than 4,000 employers, of whom approximately 2,600 have been accepted as appropriate internship hosts. I know that many people are concerned that the scheme should achieve its core aims and objectives, which are to provide a quality internship and a learning and work experience...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (27 Sep 2011)

Joan Burton: Public sector pension rules, including in relation to retirement age, are a matter for my colleague the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. My Department is responsible for State pensions and I will outline the position in this regard. State pension (transition) (SPT) is currently paid to people aged 65 who have a minimum yearly average of 24 social insurance contributions and who...

Written Answers — Money Advice and Budgeting Service: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (27 Sep 2011)

Joan Burton: The Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS) assists people who are over-indebted and need help and advice in coping with debt problems. The Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2008 provided for the transfer of responsibility for MABS to the Citizens Information Board (CIB), under the aegis of my Department, in July 2009 in order to provide strong management support to the local...