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Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (5 May 2011)

Joan Burton: The person concerned applied for jobseeker's allowance on 6th November 2008 and her application was disallowed on the grounds that she was not habitually resident in the state. The decision was upheld on appeal in December 2009. On 3rd September 2009 she applied for one parent family payment. The application was also disallowed on the grounds that she was not habitually resident in the...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (5 May 2011)

Joan Burton: The person concerned applied for disability allowance on 25 January 2011. In order to determine her weekly means her file was forwarded to her local social welfare inspector. I understand the inspector will call to the person shortly to carry out a means assessment. A final decision on her entitlement to disability allowance will be given on receipt of the social welfare inspector's report....

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

Joan Burton: Under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme, mortgage interest supplement is not payable where one of a couple in a household is engaged in full-time employment. The Health Service Executive (HSE) has advised that in January 2011 it refused a mortgage interest supplement in this case on the grounds that the spouse of the person concerned was engaged in full time employment. The HSE has...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (4 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 or 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 — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (4 May 2011)

Joan Burton: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer, having fully considered all the evidence, disallowed the appeal of the person concerned by way of summary decision. The person concerned has been notified of the decision. The legislation provides that an Appeals Officer may decide a case before him/her on the basis of the documentary evidence. This course of action...

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

Joan Burton: PRSI differs substantially from the Universal Social Charge in that the Universal Social Charge is a tax on gross income whereas PRSI represents a contribution by, and in respect of, workers, which allows those workers to establish entitlement to a range of short and long term social insurance benefits. The basis and rationale for charging PRSI and the Universal Social Charge also differ...

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (4 May 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. Supports available include the back to work schemes, community initiatives and the part time job incentive scheme. The Back to Work Enterprise Allowance (BTWEA) is designed to provide a...

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (4 May 2011)

Joan Burton: The National Employment Action Plan is the main activation measure for jobseekers and provides for a systematic engagement of the employment services with unemployed people. Under the Plan, all persons between the ages of 18 and 65 years who are approaching three months on the Live Register are identified by the Department of Social Protection and referred to FÁS for interview with the aim...

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (4 May 2011)

Joan Burton: The Programme for Government states that a new National Employment and Entitlements Service will be established under the management of the Department of Social Protection. The objective is to integrate the employment support services currently provided directly by the Department of Social Protection with those currently provided by FÁS into a single service. This service will also process...

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

Joan Burton: The Health Service Executive has acknowledged receipt of an appeal from the person concerned and has advised that a decision on the matter will be made in due course.

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (4 May 2011)

Joan Burton: People have spoken about Russia after the collapse there, as well as Argentina, as possible models. Members of the House who are interested in economies which have defaulted should realise that it is not in any way a soft option. The result of a default on the scale some people suggest is that a state's only line of access to credit from the outside world would be through the IMF for a...

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (4 May 2011)

Joan Burton: We have just come though an election in which the people of the country gave a democratic mandate to the parties who are now in Government. The debate that took place during the election campaign was clear; it concerned the disaster of the blanket bank guarantee. Unfortunately, with the exception of the Labour Party, all other parties in this House, including the Independents at the time...

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (4 May 2011)

Joan Burton: I am sorry but you voted.

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (4 May 2011)

Joan Burton: The Independents in the previous Dáil voted as a group for the bank guarantee.

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (4 May 2011)

Joan Burton: That was because in their wisdom, like Sinn Féin, they felt it was something that was in the national interest. I wanted to say that in case the Deputy thinks that somehow or other, on the night, people like the Independents and Sinn Féin were forced to vote for the bank guarantee. I do not think they were. I think they chose to vote for the bank guarantee because they saw it as the...

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (4 May 2011)

Joan Burton: It is important therefore to focus on what united the voters as they went to the polls. The people of this country want an end to the recession as well as a restoration of their jobs, businesses, communities, homes and factories. Many Members of this House share the analysis of what created the boom and what destroyed the economy. I was one of those who, over a long period of years in the...

EU-IMF Programme: Statements (4 May 2011)

Joan Burton: What would the consequences be for people with mortgages? A default would have enormous implications on how an existing mortgage, and the interest rates on that mortgage, would be priced. If Deputies want to check, they should go and talk to people in Iceland about what has happened there.

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (3 May 2011)

Joan Burton: FÁS Employment Services provides a range of services and supports to all jobseekers who can register at one of the 63 local FÁS Employment Service Offices nationwide for on-site career guidance and job placement services. FÁS contracts for the delivery of the Local Employment Service (LES) with Partnership Companies in 24 designated disadvantaged areas. I am advised that staffing cuts in...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (3 May 2011)

Joan Burton: The back to education allowance (BTEA) scheme is a second chance education opportunities scheme designed to remove the barriers to participation in second and third level education by enabling eligible people on social welfare payments to continue to receive a payment while pursuing an approved full-time education course that leads to a higher qualification than that already held. It is a...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (3 May 2011)

Joan Burton: The person concerned is currently in receipt of rent supplement of €389.80 per month. However, the Health Service Executive has advised that it understands the person in question is in the process of moving house. The HSE has advised the person concerned to make an application for rent supplement in respect of the new tenancy and a decision will then be made on this application.