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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Parental Leave (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 395 to 397, inclusive, together. In Budget 2019 I announced the introduction of a new social insurance based parental benefit scheme to take effect in November 2019. The new scheme will provide two weeks paid leave to both parents, including those who adopt a child, who take parental leave from their employment to care for their child. The scheme will support...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Child Benefit is a monthly payment to the parents or guardians of children under 16 years of age. It is paid at a rate of €140 per month for each child under 18 years of age if they are in full-time education, full-time training or have a disability and cannot support themselves. The estimated full year cost of increasing Child Benefit by €5 per month per child...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Payments (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Christmas Bonus payment is made to long-term social welfare recipients, such as pensioners, carers, people with disabilities, lone parents and long-term unemployed people who rely wholly or mainly on their social welfare payments for financial support. As is the case every year, the payment of a Christmas Bonus is a discretionary decision made by Government in the context of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Data (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The information requested by the Deputy in relation to the number of persons aged 26 years of age and under in receipt of jobseeker's allowance by age and payment; the number of qualified adult rate is detailed in the attached tabular statement. The estimated full year cost to pay the full adult rate of €203 per week to persons under 26 years of age on Jobseeker's...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Eligibility (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's benefit (CARB) is a PRSI based payment, made to a person who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. Entitlement to carer’s benefit (CARB), is dependent on the provision of evidence of the care recipient’s care requirement, the level of care the carer provides, the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Data (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection and of the Department and is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements.   Appeals which had a favourable outcome for the appellant consist of appeals which were either allowed in full or in part by an Appeals...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Poverty (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: In 2014, as part of the National Policy Framework for Children and Young People (Better Outcomes Brighter Futures) the Government set an ambitious and challenging child poverty target: to lift 70,000 children out of consistent poverty by 2020, a reduction of at least two-thirds on the 2011 level (or 107,000 children).  To achieve this target the Government undertook to adopt a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Data (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Working Family Payment (WFP) is a weekly in-work payment which provides additional financial support to employees on low earnings with children.  WFP is designed to prevent in-work poverty for low paid workers with child dependents and to offer a financial incentive to take up employment. The number of households (recipients) in each county in receipt of WFP is as follows: ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Penalty rates were introduced in 2011 as a means of encouraging jobseekers to engage with activation measures and to co-operate with efforts of the Department to assist them in securing employment.  The Department is committed, under Pathways to Work, to incentivise the take-up of activation opportunities, and this includes implementing sanctions for failure to engage where...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The material deprivation rate is an indicator derived from Eurostat EU-SILC (Survey on Income and Living Conditions) data that expresses the inability to afford some items considered by most people to be desirable, or even necessary, to lead an adequate life. The indicator distinguishes between individuals who cannot afford a certain good or service, and those who do not have...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Data (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: I am advised by my Department that at the end of June there were 5,266 aged 65 years of age and older in receipt of a jobseeker's payment.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Data (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Since late September 2018, my Department has been examining the social insurance records of approximately 90,000 pensioners, born on or after 1 September 1946, who have a reduced rate State pension contributory entitlement based on post Budget 2012 rate-bands. These payments are being reviewed under a new Total Contributions Approach (TCA) to pension calculation which includes provision...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Youth Employment Initiative (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Youth Employment Support Scheme (YESS) was introduced on Monday 1 October 2018 and has been open to applications from that date. YESS is a work experience programme, targeted at young jobseekers who are long-term unemployed or who face significant barriers to employment.  The scheme aims to provide participants with the opportunity to learn basic work and social skills in a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Review (10 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: As the Deputy will be aware, the Government agreed to establish an Interdepartmental Group (IDG) to explore how social inclusion schemes might best be organised into the future including which Department should hold lead responsibility for sponsoring CE schemes focused on social Inclusion, the Rural Social Scheme and the Job Initiative scheme.  Meetings of the IDG have taken place...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Deputy is not saving the planet with all that paper.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The irony is completely lost on him.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: This is a stunt.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Household Benefits Scheme (9 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The free television licence is received as part of the household benefits package (HHB) which also comprises the electricity or gas allowance.  The package is generally available to people living in the State, aged 66 years or over who are in receipt of a social welfare type payment or who satisfy a means test.  The package is also available to carers and people with disabilities...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme Data (9 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The back to school clothing and footwear allowance (BSCFA) scheme provides a once-off payment to eligible families to assist with the costs of clothing and footwear when children start or return to school each autumn.  The Government has provided €56.3m for the scheme in 2019 which operates from June to September. The payment rates for the 2019...