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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications (9 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer’s benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce to care for a person(s) in need of full-time care and attention. A person can be considered to be providing full-time care and attention where they are engaged in employment, self-employment or on training courses outside the home for a maximum of 15 hours per week, provided that they can show to the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (9 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: An application for Illness Benefit from 13 December 2018 was received from the person concerned on 15 January 2019. One of the qualifying conditions for Illness Benefit is that a person must have 39 weeks of PRSI contributions paid or credited in the relevant tax year (or 26 weeks of PRSI contributions paid in the relevant year and the tax year immediately before the relevant year), of which...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Climate Change Policy (9 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection and the agencies under its remit are no longer purchasing single-use plastics.  The Department provides purchasing facilities for the Social Welfare Appeals Office, Social Welfare Tribunal and the Labour Market Council agencies whilst the Citizens Information Board and Pensions...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (9 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 13 May 2019.  It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant papers and comments by or on behalf of the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection  These papers...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (9 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...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: There is no point in me trotting out the information that all medical cards are based on means, with the exception of discretionary medical cards. This is clearly a very emotive issue and it does relate to a discretionary medical card. If Deputy Michael Moynihan could do me a favour and give me the person's name, I will take care of the matter myself today.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Only to say that I am in the enviable position of taking questions today when all the Ministers are at the Cabinet meeting. I do not have the answer for Deputy Stanley but I will come back to him.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: I can tell the two Deputies that the-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: -----legislation will be brought to Cabinet before the end of July.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: That is no problem, I will do so.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Two separate issues have been raised. In response to Deputy Martin Kenny, JobPath is there to help people who are unemployed or under-employed. As I do not know the person in the case raised by the Deputy, I assume he is presenting as available for work on the other two days. If he is available for work and is claiming a jobseeker's benefit payment, then we are obliged to help him get work...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: There are nuances in every scheme. If Deputy Kenny will do me a favour and give me the gentleman's name I will see what I can do in the particular circumstances. In response to Deputy Fitzpatrick, JobPath is a Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection scheme. Part of our activation is to use training to put people through whatever measures will help them to get them closer...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: It is not a matter for promised legislation.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The programme for Government commitments will be fulfilled during the lifetime of this Government. The Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality, Deputy Stanton, has worked on equality with a number of measures, particularly relating to migrant and minority communities. He will continue to work on those measures.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: I respect the feelings and the views that both Deputies have raised but genuinely it is not a matter for promised legislation.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. I will pass his message on to the Minister, Deputy Humphreys. I have no doubt that she will continue to do an exemplary job representing the valuable Irish whiskey industry.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The last update that Deputy Brady got from the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment still stands. We are trying to work together to find a mechanism. We have never found it so difficult to give money to people who need it. A scheme does not exist today that exactly mirrors the people who need to receive this money. I cannot share data with the Department of...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The best answer I can give is that I will ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to communicate with the Deputy later today.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: I know my place.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: I thank all of the Deputies who have raised concerns. None of us wants anybody out on strike. We would love to see a resolution to this particular issue, which is ongoing for a while. I am not, obviously, 100% au faitwith it, but I do not think it is fair to say that people have been denied their constitutional right to join a union. They have joined a union. The difficulty is that the...