Results 21-40 of 288 for 5 million speaker:Joan Burton

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (2 Jun 2016)

Joan Burton: 80. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the allocation of €5 million in funding to recruit up to 100 psychologists and councillors to develop psychological services for persons under 18 years of age will be spent; and the timeframe for the delivery of these services. [13739/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Water Conservation Grant Applications (28 Apr 2016)

Joan Burton: The eligibility criteria for the Water Conservation Grant are set out in the Water Services Act 2014 (Water Conservation Grant) Regulations 2015. Under regulation 5(1) a person who registers with Irish Water, as required under section 5(2)(a) of the Water Services Act 2014, on or before 30 June 2015 shall be eligible to receive the grant in 2015 if they were normally resident at the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Eligibility (20 Apr 2016)

Joan Burton: ...paid in respect of children up to their 18th birthday who are in full-time education, or who have a disability. Child Benefit is currently paid to around 620,000 families in respect of some 1.19 million children, with an estimated expenditure in the order of over €2 billion in 2016. Child Benefit is an important source of income for all families and in Budget 2016 the Government...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Eligibility (20 Apr 2016)

Joan Burton: ...be paid in respect of children up to their 18th birthday who are in full-time education, or who have a disability. Child Benefit is currently paid to around 623,607 families in respect of some 1.19 million children, with an estimated expenditure in the order of over €2 billion in 2016. Child Benefit is an important source of income for all families and in Budget 2016 the Government...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Eligibility (6 Apr 2016)

Joan Burton: ...children up to their 18th birthday who are in full-time education, or who have a physical or mental disability. Child Benefit is currently paid to around 620,000 families in respect of some 1.19 million children, with an estimated expenditure in the order of over €2 billion in 2016. Child Benefit is an important source of income for all families and in Budget 2016, Government...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Water Conservation Grant (6 Apr 2016)

Joan Burton: The eligibility criteria for the Water Conservation Grant are set out in the Water Services Act 2014 (Water Conservation Grant) Regulations 2015. Under regulation 5(1) a person who registers with Irish Water, as required under section 5(2)(a) of the Water Services Act 2014, on or before 30 June 2015 shall be eligible to receive the grant in 2015 if they were normally resident at the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Water Conservation Grant (6 Apr 2016)

Joan Burton: The eligibility criteria for the Water Conservation Grant are set out in the Water Services Act 2014 (Water Conservation Grant) Regulations 2015. Under regulation 5(1) a person who registers with Irish Water, as required under section 5(2)(a) of the Water Services Act 2014, on or before 30 June 2015 shall be eligible to receive the grant in 2015 if they were normally resident at the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Farm Assist Scheme Administration (22 Mar 2016)

Joan Burton: ...the jobseeker’s allowance scheme such as the retention of secondary benefits and access to activation programmes. The 2016 Revised Estimates for the Department provide for expenditure of almost €85 million on the farm assist scheme. Changes introduced in Budgets 2012 and 2013 brought farm assist into closer alignment with the jobseeker’s allowance scheme’s...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Water Conservation Grant Applications (22 Mar 2016)

Joan Burton: The eligibility criteria for the Water Conservation Grant are set out in the Water Services Act 2014 (Water Conservation Grant) Regulations 2015. Under regulation 5(1) a person who registers with Irish Water, as required under section 5(2)(a) of the Water Services Act 2014, on or before 30 June 2015 shall be eligible to receive the grant in 2015 if they were normally resident at the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Water Conservation Grant Applications (22 Mar 2016)

Joan Burton: The eligibility criteria for the Water Conservation Grant are set out in the Water Services Act 2014 (Water Conservation Grant) Regulations 2015. Under regulation 5(1) a person who registers with Irish Water, as required under section 5(2)(a) of the Water Services Act 2014, on or before 30 June 2015 shall be eligible to receive the grant in 2015 if they were normally resident at the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Water Conservation Grant Eligibility (2 Feb 2016)

Joan Burton: The eligibility criteria for the Water Conservation Grant are set out in the Water Services Act 2014 (Water Conservation Grant) Regulations 2015. Under regulation 5(1) a person who registers with Irish Water, as required under section 5(2)(a) of the Water Services Act 2014, on or before 30 June 2015 shall be eligible to receive the grant in 2015 if they were normally resident at the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (2 Feb 2016)

Joan Burton: ...set out to regain control of our public finances and make economic recovery a reality.We have achieved that, and recovery is now solidly under way. Unemployment has fallen from a crisis peak of 15.1% to 8.6% in January 2016, and the number of people in employment has increased by over 140,000. As a result of healthy, sustainable, economic growth, we were able to introduce a range of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Jan 2016)

Joan Burton: ...Invalidity Pension did not benefit from a weekly rate increase in Budget 2016, I was pleased to provide for improvements that impact on recipients of Invalidity Pension. I provided for the 75% Christmas Bonus payment for all welfare recipients, including recipients of Invalidity Pension. A couple in receipt of Invalidity Pension with a qualified adult and two qualified children...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Treatment Benefit Scheme (14 Jan 2016)

Joan Burton: The dental and optical benefit schemes were restricted to a free annual dental exam and a free two yearly optical examination from January 2010. The cost (in €millions) for the last 6 years for the two schemes and for 2009, the last year the schemes operated unrestricted, are set out in the table below: Year Dental Optical Total 2009 62.3 17 79.3 2010 25 6.2 31.2 2011 9.1 3.3 12.4...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Water Conservation Grant Data (14 Jan 2016)

Joan Burton: ...Social Protection is administering the Water Conservation Grant on behalf of the Department of Environment, Community, and Local Government. A total of 887,010 householders have been paid the 2015 Water Conservation Grant to date. These payments amount to €88,701,000. A small number of residual applications from householders who meet the 2015 eligibility criteria continue to be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (13 Jan 2016)

Joan Burton: ...congratulations to the new Clerk of the Dáil, Mr. Peter Finnegan, and wish him well in the job. In budget 2016, I introduced a number of measures that benefit lone parents. These include a 75% Christmas bonus, which equates to a payment of just over €163 for a lone parent with one child. Lone parents will benefit from the €5 increase in the monthly rate of child...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Farm Assist Scheme Administration (13 Jan 2016)

Joan Burton: ...jobseeker’s allowance. Farm assist recipients retain the advantages of the jobseeker’s allowance scheme such as the retention of secondary benefits and access to activation programmes. The 2015 Revised Estimates for the Department provide for expenditure of almost €89 million on the farm assist scheme. Changes introduced in Budgets 2012 and 2013 brought farm...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (13 Jan 2016)

Joan Burton: ...for the period 2008-2014 is set out in the tables appended to this reply using official EU indicators and data from Eurostat. In 2014, social transfers reduced the at-risk-of-poverty rate from 37.2% to 15.3%; thereby lifting over a fifth of the population out of income poverty. This is equivalent to a poverty reduction effect of 58.9%. Ireland is the best performing EU member state in...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code Reform (13 Jan 2016)

Joan Burton: ...Welfare and Pensions Act 2011 provided that State pension age will be increased gradually to 68 years. This began in January 2014 with the abolition of the State pension (transition) available at 65, thereby standardising State pension age for all at 66 years. State pension age will increase further to 67 in 2021 and 68 in 2028. The changes introduced in 2011 were on foot of a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Water Conservation Grant (13 Jan 2016)

Joan Burton: The eligibility criteria for the Water Conservation Grant are set out in the Water Services Act 2014 (Water Conservation Grant) Regulations 2015. Under regulation 5(1) a person who registers with Irish Water, as required under section 5(2)(a) of the Water Services Act 2014, on or before 30 June 2015 shall be eligible to receive the grant in 2015 if they were normally resident at the...