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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: My Department received an application for illness Benefit from the person concerned on 19 January 2024. They did not qualify for an Illness Benefit payment as they are in receipt of Widower's Contributory Pension. A person cannot receive payment of both Illness Benefit and Widower's Contributory Pension at the same time. The Widower's Contributory Pension is payable at a higher rate than...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Properties (5 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: With the exception of the Department headquarters in Dublin, Áras Mhic Dhiarmada, which is held by the Minister on behalf of the Social Insurance Fund, all commitments in relation to the rental of properties occupied by the Department of Social Protection, including ground rent, are discharged by the Office of Public Works. The Office of Public Works is responsible for the delivery...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Legislative Measures (5 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The UK government recently introduced a voluntary scheme to allow parents to record and receive a certificate to provide recognition of their baby loss. Delivering on baby loss certificates was part of the UK government’s response to the independent Pregnancy Loss Review. The review was commissioned in 2018 and was led by 2 independent experts and looked at a range of options to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (5 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme, my Department may make Additional Needs Payments to help meet essential expenses that a person cannot pay from their weekly income. This is an overarching term used to refer to exceptional and urgent needs payments, and certain supplements to assist with ongoing or recurring costs that cannot be met from the customer’s own resources,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Fuel Allowance is a means-tested payment to assist pensioners and other long-term social welfare dependent householders with their winter heating costs. The payment is a contribution towards heating costs; it is not intended to meet these costs in full. The payment is made over the winter season - from September to April - at the weekly rate of €33 or, if preferred, by way of two...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (5 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Department provides a wide range of income supports and employment supports to assist jobseekers and workers with disabilities. The Partial Capacity Benefit scheme allows a person in receipt of an invalidity or illness payment to enter employment or self-employment and continue to receive a partial or full payment. The amount of payment is set at 50%, 75% or 100% of their previous...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Disability Allowance (DA) is a weekly allowance paid to people with a specified disability who are aged 16 or over and under the age of 66. This disability must be expected to last for at least one year and the allowance is subject to a medical assessment, means test and Habitual Residency conditions. I can confirm that the person concerned was in receipt of DA effective from 30 July 2003...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (5 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Primary weekly social welfare payments are intended to enable recipients to meet their basic day-to-day income needs. In addition to these primary payments, my Department also provides a range of other payments on a weekly, monthly, or less frequent basis. These payments are considered secondary in nature and cannot be made available to those who are not in receipt of a primary payment. ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (5 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Disability Allowance (DA) is a weekly allowance paid to people with a specified disability who are aged 16 or over and under the age of 66. This disability must be expected to last for at least one year and the allowance is subject to a medical assessment, means test and Habitual Residency conditions. Under section 249 of the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 2005, except in certain...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (5 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Disability allowance (DA) is a means-tested payment for people with a specified disability who are aged 16 or over and under the age of 66. The applicant must be suffering from an injury, disease, congenital deformity or physical or mental illness or defect which has lasted for one year or is expected to last for one year and, as a result of which, they are substantially restricted in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (5 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Under previous taxation law, in the case of a married couple, the husband was considered the assessable spouse and the wife considered the dependant of the husband for income tax purposes. Accordingly, the Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revenue) allocated the husband’s Revenue and Social Insurance (RSI) number to the wife of the person concerned, appending the letter W to the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (5 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The objective of the School Meals Programme is to provide regular, nutritious food to children to support them in taking full advantage of the education provided to them. Following the expansion of the programme in recent years, some 2,600 schools and organisations, covering 443,000 children are now eligible for funding. Funding under the School Meals Programme can be provided for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Statutory sick leave policy is the responsibility of my colleague the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment. The matter of deductions from payments of statutory sick pay is proper to my colleague the Minister for Finance. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Cost of Living Issues (5 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Disability Allowance (DA) is a weekly allowance paid to people with a specified disability who are aged 16 or over and under the age of 66. This disability must be expected to last for at least one year and the allowance is subject to a medical assessment, means test and Habitual Residency conditions. Arising from a successful appeal, the person concerned has been awarded Disability...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Offices (5 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: My department is responsible for the administration and payment of a range of supports to assist an eligible person who is parenting alone including the One-Parent Family Payment and Jobseeker’s Transitional Payment. One-Parent Family Payment (OPFP) is a payment for parents under 66 years who are parenting without the support of a partner and whose youngest child is under 7 years...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (5 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Town and Village Renewal Scheme (TVRS) is one of a number of measures designed to rejuvenate rural towns and villages throughout Ireland. Since its launch, over €156 million has been allocated to more than 1,700 projects supporting towns and villages the length and breadth of the country. The Scheme is administered through local authorities, who work closely with local...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (5 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The CLÁR Programme provides funding under a number of different measures for small-scale infrastructural projects in designated rural areas that have experienced significant levels of depopulation over a defined period. The 2023 CLÁR programme was delivered under 3 separate measures. The first measure provided support for developing new community facilities and amenities. 265...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Library Services (5 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 811 and 825 together. In July 2023, I launched the new Public Library Strategy 2023-2027 "The Library is the Place: Information, Recreation, Inspiration". It is an ambitious forward-looking strategy which sets the direction of travel for the public library service. The strategy seeks to improve access, use and visibility of the 330 public libraries as an...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Programmes (5 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The LEADER Programme is a key intervention of Our Rural Future, the Government’s Policy for rural development. It is based on a community-led approach to rural development and supports a broad range of activities which aim to respond to the diversity of the local needs of our rural areas. The Programme is designed to support initiatives that will have the greatest impact on a...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Programmes (5 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The LEADER Programme is a key intervention of Our Rural Future, the Government’s Policy for rural development. It is delivered through Local Action Groups(LAGs) and is based on a community-led approach to rural development and supports a broad range of activities that aim to respond to the needs of our rural areas over the lifetime of the policy. The total number of projects approved...