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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times (17 Apr 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 while carer's benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce.  Both payments can be made to people who are providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (17 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 18 February 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: Flexible Work Practices (17 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: In Ireland, there are no explicit legislative provisions governing flexible hours and flexible working arrangements.  Flexible hours and flexible working arrangements are generally at the discretion of individual employers and are not governed by specific legislation. The Protection of Employees (Part-Time Work) Act 2001 (the 2001 Act) implemented EU Council Directive 97/81/EC into...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Flexible Work Practices (17 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: In general an employee who is employed on any band of hours can work more hours provided both the employer and employee agree to same.  Employers can flex employees’ hours of work provided such hours do not breach the employment contract or the Organisation of Working Time Act. I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (17 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's Benefit (CARB) is a PRSI based payment made to a person who leaves the workforce to care for a child or an adult in need of full-time care and attention. An increased payment can be made where full-time care is being provided to two people. In order to qualify, the applicant must have paid a certain number of PRSI contributions.  Only contributions at Class A, B, C, D, H and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (17 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 10th April 2019.  It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought.  When these papers have been received from the Department, the case in question...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Farm Assist Scheme Data (17 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: The number of persons in County Tipperary in receipt of the farm assist payment in each of the years 2014 to 2018 and to date in 2019. Year No. of recipients December 2014  336 December 2015 300 December 2016 269 December 2017 252 December 2018 223 March 2019 220

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: I regret I was not invited to this morning's press conference by CE supervisors. I would have been happy to attend and I have been happy to meet CE supervisors up and down the country for the past year. I regret that a strike is imminent. When the ruling was handed down by the Labour Court we had a Fianna Fáil Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. We then had a Labour Party...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: With respect, it was not.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: I reiterate the point that the previous speakers made-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: Please do, because no solution was found in the five years that Deputy Howlin was at the helm.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: We would not be having this conversation now if there had been a solution.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: Everybody is of the same mind-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: The services provided by CE supervisors, assistant supervisors and every participant in community employment schemes in rural and urban areas are extremely valuable and appreciated by the State and the communities that each of us serves. A solution must and will be found.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: The current Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Donohoe, has been meeting the trade unions for some years. A number of proposals have been put forward by the unions to solve the issue but no solution has been found as yet. We will not stop until we find one.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: The arms of the State are there for exactly that purpose - to allow persons who feel they have been treated badly by another party to make a complaint. Such complaint can be made to the Workplace Relations Commission, the Labour Court or, in particular, in the instance referred to by the Deputy, the scope division of my Department, which are open for business all day, every day. I suggest...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (16 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned entered the State and details regarding her identity need to be clarified.   She agreed in February last to provide her new certificate of residence to the local Intreo Centre in order to clarify some of her personal details but, to date, she has not done so. Once this has been presented, her application will be further processed. I trust this...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Homemakers Scheme (16 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: A policy to introduce the Total Contributions Approach (TCA) to pensions calculation was adopted by Government in the National Pensions Framework in 2010, as was the decision to base the entitlements of all new pensioners on this approach from around 2020.  In January 2018, I announced the Government Decision to introduce a new interim Total Contributions Approach (TCA) to the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (16 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Roadmap for Pensions Reform, published last year, commits the Government to examine and develop proposals to set a formal benchmark target of average earnings for the state pension (contributory), and to institute a process whereby future changes in state pension rates of payment are explicitly linked to changes in consumer prices and average wages. My Department is currently...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (16 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned submitted an application for jobseeker's allowance with effect from 11/3/19. The person concerned was disqualified from payment for a period of 9 weeks by a Deciding Officer, in accordance with section 147(4)(b) of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 as amended, as he was deemed to have refused employment. When jobseeker's allowance is re-instated on...