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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (2 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The persons concerned were originally approved for participation on Community Employment (CE) under the Part-Time Integration (PTI) option. Under the PTI option, a person may be eligible to participate on CE for a maximum continuous period of two years. After the two year period elapses, they must leave the program and be on the live register for 12 months before re-qualifying for any...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Funding (2 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (DEASP) does not operate an "assisted technology grant". The Department of Education and Skills does administer an "Assistive Technology Grant" under the Assistive Technology scheme, where funding is provided to schools towards the cost of computers and specialist equipment which are required for educational purposes. Any funding to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (2 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. The payment of a Christmas Bonus is a discretionary decision made by Government in the context of the annual Budget process and available...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Equal Opportunities Employment (2 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: My department provides a range of grants and supports to assist both jobseekers with disabilities and employers to take appropriate measures to enable either a potential employee or existing employee with disabilities to obtain or retain employment. These include the: - Disability Awareness Support Scheme (DASS) - Reasonable Accommodation Fund (RAF), which encompasses - -Employee Retention...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (2 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: I am advised that the Rent Supplement claim is in payment based on the application and documentation submitted by the person concerned. My Department has not been made aware of any change in circumstances. If there has been a change of circumstance, the person concerned should contact my Department to seek a review of their Rent Supplement payment. I trust this clarifies the matter for the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications (2 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's benefit (CARB) is a PRSI based payment, made to persons who are providing full-time care and attention to a person who has such a disability that they require that level of care. An application for CARB was received from the person concerned on 16 April 2019. The application was awarded to the person concerned with effect from 18 April 2019 when her carer’s leave commenced....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (2 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: An application for carer’s allowance (CA) was received from the person concerned on 11 January 2019. It is a condition for receipt of a CA that the person being cared for must have such disability that they require full-time care and attention. This is defined as requiring from another person, continual supervision and frequent assistance throughout the day in connection with normal...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme Appeals (2 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Partial Capacity Benefit allows a person who has been in receipt of Illness Benefit for six months or Invalidity Pension and who may not have full capacity for work, to return to employment and continue to receive a partial or full payment from the Department. The personal rate of payment is based on the assessment of the person's restriction on capacity for work i.e. moderate, severe or...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The statutory Recovery of Certain Benefits and Assistance provisions enable the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection to recover the value of certain illness-related social welfare payments from compensation awards made to persons as a consequence of personal injuries claims. The benefits are recovered from the compensator and not from the injured person. An application for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (2 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and 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. An application for CA was received from the person concerned on 8 February 2019. It is a condition for receipt of a CA...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Applications (2 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: Working Family Payment (WFP) is an in-work payment which provides additional income support to employees on low earnings with children. An application for WFP was received from the person concerned on 5 April 2019. Their application has been referred to a local Social Welfare Inspector (SWI) for further clarification. On receipt of the completed report from the SWI their WFP application will...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Eligibility (2 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 672 and 674 together. The free travel scheme provides free travel on the main public and private transport services for those eligible under the scheme. These include road, rail and ferry services provided by companies such as Bus Átha Cliath, Bus Éireann and Iarnród Éireann, as well as Luas and services provided by over 80 private...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Funding (2 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: My Department provides a range of grants and supports to assist both jobseekers with disabilities and employers to take appropriate measures to enable either a potential employee or existing employee with disabilities to obtain or retain employment. These include the: - Disability Awareness Support Scheme (DASS) - Reasonable Accommodation Fund (RAF), which encompasses:- Employee Retention...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Gender Balance (2 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: There is no commonly agreed measure of what constitutes full employment for Ireland. The CSO is responsible for determining the employment and unemployment rates for the State, and the Labour Force Survey (LFS) is the official source of employment estimates in the State. The CSO publishes detailed tables on the LFS on a quarterly basis, and these tables include a gender breakdown. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Civil Registration Legislation (2 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The commencement of section 13 of the Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 2014 is subject to engagement by Civil Registration Service staff in the HSE with training that has been developed by the General Register Office of my Department. Officials from my Department are meeting this week with counterparts from the Department of Health and the HSE to progress the matter with a view to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (2 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 for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (2 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned claimed Illness Benefit from 1st November 2018 to 16th December 2018 and nominated her employer as payee. She subsequently made a second Illness Benefit claim from 17th January 2019. This claim continues in payment to the person concerned as she elected that payment be made to herself in her application. The person concerned was paid beyond the entitlement period to...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Jun 2019)

Regina Doherty: I would love to be able to thank the Deputy for introducing the legislation, but it is a tremendous pity that he opened his statement on this exceptionally flawed Bill by calling the Citizens Information Board the most toxic organisation in the country given that it provides extremely valuable and much-loved services.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Jun 2019)

Regina Doherty: The anonymous nature of the way the Deputy put it does him and the Citizens Information Board a disservice.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Jun 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Deputy had his 15 minutes and it is now my turn to speak.