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Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2011)

Joan Burton: Under the SWA scheme an exceptional needs payment (ENP) may be made by the Health Service Executive (HSE) to help meet an essential, once-off cost which the applicant is unable to meet out of his/her own resources. There is no automatic entitlement to this payment. Each application is determined by the HSE based on the particular circumstances of the case. Eligible people would normally be in...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (25 May 2011)

Joan Burton: Late 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 1 January 2011 on a secondment basis initially. The period of secondment is to last for 9 months until the end of September 2011....

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (25 May 2011)

Joan Burton: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that they do not hold statistics on reasons for allowing appeals. However, that office works with the Department on an ongoing basis to ensure that initial decision making in the Department is improved. This is achieved through meetings with various areas of the Department, including, in particular the Decisions Advisory Office which exercises...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2011)

Joan Burton: The Health Service Executive has advised that the person concerned is in receipt of a basic supplementary welfare allowance payment at the appropriate rate based on his particular circumstances. The assessment that was carried out by the Community Welfare Officer (CWO) was based on audited accounts that were provided by the person concerned. The HSE has further advised that the person...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (25 May 2011)

Joan Burton: From July 2009, a new condition for rent supplement was introduced which required that in order to qualify, a person must have been residing in private rented accommodation or accommodation for homeless persons or an institution (or any combination of these) for a period of 183 days within the preceding 12 months of the date of claim for rent supplement. A person may also qualify for rent...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2011)

Joan Burton: The HSE advised that the person concerned received rent supplement at a higher rate than that to which she was entitled thus incurring an overpayment. This transpired as she had extra household income from her participation on a Community Employment scheme and her rent supplement entitlement was not reduced accordingly. The person concerned appealed the decision to raise an overpayment...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (25 May 2011)

Joan Burton: The profiling model has been developed by the ERSI and is set out in their 2009 report "National Profiling of the Unemployed in Ireland". Following on from this my Department has, in conjunction with the ESRI, developed the necessary technological functionality to provide for the capture of profile data from jobseekers and the calculation of each person's probability of exit from the Live...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2011)

Joan Burton: The Health Service Executive (HSE) has advised that the person concerned is in receipt of her full entitlement to rent supplement based on her household income.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2011)

Joan Burton: The person's claim for jobseeker's allowance was disallowed on the basis that her means were in excess of her entitlement. The means assessed against her are derived from parental income. The person would have been notified of this decision and of her right of appeal.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (25 May 2011)

Joan Burton: Under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme an exceptional needs payment (ENP) may be made by the Health Service Executive (HSE) to help meet an essential, once-off cost which the applicant is unable to meet out of his/her own resources. There is no automatic entitlement to this payment. Each application is determined by the HSE based on the particular circumstances of the case. Eligible...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (25 May 2011)

Joan Burton: The Health Service Executive (HSE) has advised that it has received the documentation required to make a decision in relation to the rent supplement entitlement of the person concerned. The HSE has further advised that its designated Appeals Officer will make a decision on entitlement shortly.

Order of Business (25 May 2011)

Joan Burton: On behalf of the Labour Party, I wish Victor a happy and active retirement. The ushers of the House are very important for Members, particularly for new Deputies for whom there is not a book available on how to be a Teachta Dála and who rely on the guidance of the ushers, particularly individuals such as Victor. I wish him and his family well and I wish him a long, happy and active retirement.

Official Engagements (25 May 2011)

Joan Burton: He has not.

Written Answers — Civil Registrations: Civil Registrations (24 May 2011)

Joan Burton: A birth certificate would have been amended in 1962 under the provisions of section 27 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act (Ireland), 1880 and under the Regulations for the Discharge of the Duties of Registrars of Births, Deaths and Marriages in Ireland (1880 - regulations 168 – 171) Under these provisions and regulations birth entries were amended, on the authority of a...

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (24 May 2011)

Joan Burton: Tús is a community work placement initiative which will provide up to 5,000 short-term, quality work opportunities for those who are unemployed for more than a year. Some €30 million has been provided in the Department's Estimates in 2011 to fund the roll-out of the initiative. Participants will, in the first instance, be identified by the Department of Social Protection by applying the...

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (24 May 2011)

Joan Burton: There are no plans under consideration to introduce a redundancy programme for participants on the FÁS Job Initiative programme. However, from time to time, due to operational reasons, individuals and Job Initiative team leaders have been offered redundancy on a voluntary basis. This is only done on an exceptional basis and occurs when the number of participants or team leaders is reduced,...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (24 May 2011)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 182, 196, 198 and 199 together. The Department has invested significant funding to the organisation concerned over the years in support of the services it provides within the Dublin North-Central and Dublin North-East areas. The funding is provided under the scheme of grants for the development and promotion of information and welfare rights. Applications for...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (24 May 2011)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 15 December 2010. 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 05 April...

Written Answers — Legislative Programme: Legislative Programme (24 May 2011)

Joan Burton: The Gender Recognition Advisory Group was established in 2010 with the following terms of reference:- "To advise the Minister for Social Protection on the legislation required to provide for legal recognition of the acquired gender of transsexuals. In particular, to propose heads of a bill to provide for:- o The establishment of a process for legal recognition of the acquired gender of...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (24 May 2011)

Joan Burton: Having considered all the evidence and following a second medical examination, the appeals officer disallowed the appeal for the person concerned. Payment of invalidity pension was terminated with effect from 5th November 2009. The decision of an appeals officer is final and conclusive in the absence of fresh facts or evidence. With regard to the latest information received on 19 May 2011...