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- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (10 May 2011)
Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance was received on 17 January 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. A letter issued on 9 February 2011 advising the person concerned of the decision. The person concerned subsequently lodged an appeal and supplied additional...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (10 May 2011)
Joan Burton: A breakdown of expenditure on rent supplement by local authority is not available. The total expenditure on rent supplement was â¬511 million in 2009 and â¬516m in 2010. The Revised Estimates Volume have provided for expenditure of â¬465m for 2011.
- Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (10 May 2011)
Joan Burton: The then Minister for Finance announced the introduction of a community work placement initiative for up to 5,000 persons in his Budget statement to Dáil Ãireann on 7 December 2010. Work on developing the necessary implementation structures has been underway since then. The aim of Tús is to provide short-term, quality work opportunities for those who are unemployed for more than a year....
- Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (10 May 2011)
Joan Burton: The person concerned should contact their local office of FÃS to verify the reasons that that they are ineligible to participate in the community employment programme. The eligible criteria are published by FÃS and are available locally. As Minister for Social Protection I do not have a role in determining the eligibility of individual cases in regard to the operation of CE. The...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (10 May 2011)
Joan Burton: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that, the appeal from the person concerned has been referred to an Appeals Officer who proposes to hold an oral hearing on 10 May 2011. The person concerned has been notified of the arrangements. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the Department and is responsible for...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (10 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....
- Written Answers — Expenditure Reviews: Expenditure Reviews (10 May 2011)
Joan Burton: The Programme of Financial Support for Ireland will be monitored through quantitative performance criteria and structural benchmarks. There are quarterly reviews of the arrangement with the EU/ECB & IMF. The reviews will assess progress in implementing the programme and reach understandings on any additional measures that may be needed to achieve its objectives. My Department provides...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (10 May 2011)
Joan Burton: Payment of illness benefit, to the person concerned, was disallowed by a Deciding Officer following an examination by a Medical Assessor of the Department who expressed the opinion that she was capable of work. An appeal was opened and in the context of that appeal her case was reviewed by a second Medical Assessor who also expressed the opinion that she was capable of work. I am advised by...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (10 May 2011)
Joan Burton: The Health Service Executive has advised that the application for rent supplement has been refused as the person concerned has not provided documentary evidence from the relevant local housing authority to show she has been assessed as having a housing need.
- Written Answers — Vóta na Roinne: Vóta na Roinne (10 May 2011)
Joan Burton: Bhà mionteagasc ar na Meastacháin don bhliain 2011 san áireamh sa Mhionteagasc Aire a d'ullmhaigh an Roinn dom ar mo cheapadh im' Aire Coimirce SóisialaÃ. Tá an mionteagasc sin ar fáil ar shuÃomh Gréasáin na Roinne. FoilsÃonn an Roinn Airgeadais anailÃs mhÃosúil ar an nGlanchaiteachas Vótáilte de réir Vót-Ghrúpa. Mà Aibreáin atá faoi chaibidil san anailÃs is déanaÃ...
- Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (10 May 2011)
Joan Burton: The then Minister for Finance announced the introduction of a community work placement initiative for up to 5,000 persons in his Budget statement to Dáil Ãireann on the 7th December 2010. The initiative, known as Tús, was launched on the 21st December 2010 and work on developing the necessary implementation structures has been underway since then. The aim of Tús is to provide...
- Social Welfare Benefits (10 May 2011)
Joan Burton: In 2010, the average time it took to award a claim for carer's allowance was eight weeks. Some 18,212 applications for carer's allowance were made and some 16,629 claims were processed in that year. The main reason for the deterioration in the processing time is that major modernisation work is ongoing. That work will be completed and the new system will be started by July of this year....
- Social Welfare Benefits (10 May 2011)
Joan Burton: I expect completion of the information technology modernisation programme will significantly improve processing times from July onwards. I did not hear the announcement made today by the Minister, Deputy Brendan Howlin. I accept that an additional 22 staff is small in the context of the number employed in the Department, which currently stands at approximately 5,000. However, since my...
- Social Welfare Benefits (10 May 2011)
Joan Burton: I do not have detailed information on appeal times, but I will send it to the Deputy.
- Departmental Schemes (10 May 2011)
Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 42, 45, 52, 57, 68, 168 and 191 together. The Minister for Finance announced the introduction of a community work placement initiative for up to 5,000 persons in the Budget Statement to Dáil Ãireann on 7 December 2010. The initiative, known as Tús, was launched on 21 December 2010 and work on developing the necessary implementation structures has been...
- Departmental Schemes (10 May 2011)
Joan Burton: I was very encouraged when I first heard about Tús on entering the Department. I was under the impression that many of the places had been taken up and was surprised to find that while there had been four or five announcements on the launch of the initiative, other than the pilot scheme involving 119 people in two local development company areas, Tús had not commenced. I have now spent a...
- Departmental Schemes (10 May 2011)
Joan Burton: County Offaly has been offered 100 Tús places with five supervisors. While I acknowledge the Deputy's point in respect of the selection of supervisors, I inherited this scheme and the legislation relating to it from my predecessor, the Deputy's distinguished colleague.
- Departmental Schemes (10 May 2011)
Joan Burton: One reason for the inclusion of random selection was that one measure in the programme agreed by the previous Government with the troika was to provide for activation measures, some of which would be based on random selection. In response to Deputy à Snodaigh's question on the possibility of someone like me, who is not the greatest person at football or hurling, being selected, this is about...
- Expenditure Reviews (10 May 2011)
Joan Burton: The Revised Estimates volume, published by the previous Government in February, provides for total expenditure on social welfare schemes and services of â¬20.615 billion in 2011. This sum incorporates the effect of a range of savings measures announced in budget 2011. The estimate for jobseekers' payments contained in the Revised Estimates volume was based on a weekly average live register...
- Expenditure Reviews (10 May 2011)
Joan Burton: The Estimates for budget 2011 were prepared by the previous Minister and Government.