Results 4,161-4,180 of 4,893 for speaker:Séamus Brennan
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Mar 2005)
Séamus Brennan: Policy under the one parent family payment is to encourage and facilitate lone parents in moving into the paid labour force so that they may avoid long-term welfare dependency. The main element of this policy is an earnings disregard of â¬146.50 per week. Earnings above this limit are assessed at 50%, up to a maximum of â¬293.00 per week. These limits have been in place since 1997. There...
- Written Answers — Departmental Transport: Departmental Transport (22 Mar 2005)
Séamus Brennan: There is a significant level of travel expenditure in my Department's budget, arising from the dispersed nature of my Department's services and, inter alia, the fact that a considerable level of investigative work must be carried out in the course of delivering the Department's services. The total amount of home travel paid out by my Department in 2004, the last complete year for which...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Mar 2005)
Séamus Brennan: The supplementary welfare allowance scheme, administered on my behalf by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive, provides for exceptional needs payments to assist with essential, once-off expenditure which a person could not reasonably be expected to meet out of his or her household income or other resources. The southern region of the Health Service Executive has...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Mar 2005)
Séamus Brennan: The supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which is administered on behalf of my Department by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive, provides for the payment of a rent supplement to assist with reasonable accommodation costs of eligible persons who are unable to provide for their accommodation costs from their own resources and who do not have accommodation...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Mar 2005)
Séamus Brennan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 307 and 308 together. The supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which is administered on behalf of my Department by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive, provides for the payment of a rent supplement to assist with reasonable accommodation costs of eligible persons who are unable to provide for their accommodation costs from their...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Mar 2005)
Séamus Brennan: Diet supplements are provided for under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme which is administered on my behalf by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive. Any person receiving a social welfare or health service executive payment, who has been prescribed a special diet as a result of a specified medical condition and who is unable to provide for his or her food...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (10 Mar 2005)
Séamus Brennan: An exceptional needs payment may be made by the community welfare service of the Health Service Executive under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme which it administers on my behalf, to assist with funeral costs. An exceptional needs payment can be made towards any exceptional, unforeseen and non-recurring expense which a person is unable to meet from his or her own resources. In the...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (10 Mar 2005)
Séamus Brennan: Subject to certain conditions, including a means test, rent supplements are available through the supplementary welfare allowance scheme which is administered on my behalf by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive. The south eastern region of the executive has advised that the person concerned had been in receipt of rent supplement up to October 2004. A subsequent...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (10 Mar 2005)
Séamus Brennan: Rent supplements are payable to eligible people by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive, which administers the supplementary welfare allowance scheme on my behalf. To receive a rent supplement a person must satisfy the statutory condition that there is a housing need which he or she is unable to meet from another source. The Health Service Executive has advised that...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (10 Mar 2005)
Séamus Brennan: The supplementary welfare allowance scheme is administered on my behalf by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive. The southern region office of the executive has advised that there has been no change in the amount of assistance being provided to this person under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme, and that she is being paid at the maximum weekly personal...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (9 Mar 2005)
Séamus Brennan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 213 and 214 together. The objective of the assignment of responsibility under sections 4 and 9 of the Public Service Management Act 1997 is to ensure that functions performed on behalf of a Minister and the Government are performed by an appropriate officer or an officer of appropriate grade or rank. The process has been operating in a satisfactory manner in...
- Written Answers — Ministerial Responsibilities: Ministerial Responsibilities (9 Mar 2005)
Séamus Brennan: My Department and my legal personality as Minister are indivisible in so far as entering into contracts or other legal arrangements arises. My Department does not enjoy or accept legal rights, liabilities or entitlements distinct from those of my office as Minister.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (9 Mar 2005)
Séamus Brennan: Having reviewed the medical evidence in this case, an increase in her carer's allowance has been awarded. A personal rate of â¬230.40 per week will apply with effect from 20 January 2005. This represents the maximum personal rate payable to a person providing full-time care and attention to two persons. She has been notified of this decision and her revised payment will be lodged to her...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Mar 2005)
Séamus Brennan: The back to education allowance is a second chance educational opportunities programme designed to encourage and facilitate people on certain social welfare payments to improve their skills and qualifications and, therefore, their prospects of returning to the active workforce. The conditions for entitlement to the third level option of the back to education allowance were revised with effect...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Mar 2005)
Séamus Brennan: The person concerned applied for unemployment benefit on 31 January 2005. The claim is still under investigation in relation to a possible link, through a community employment scheme, with a previous unemployment benefit claim. A decision on this claim will be made as soon as possible and the person concerned will be notified of the outcome. The person concerned is currently in receipt of...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Mar 2005)
Séamus Brennan: The Dublin Mid-Leinster region of the Health Service Executive has advised that it has no record of an application for rent supplement from the person concerned. If the person concerned wishes to apply she should contact the community welfare officer at her local health centre who will assess her situation and determine her entitlement.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Mar 2005)
Séamus Brennan: As the Deputy is aware from my replies to previous parliamentary questions regarding this case, a significant overpayment of diet supplement arose because the person concerned did not notify the community welfare officer that he had commenced employment. The Health Service Executive, which administers the supplementary welfare allowance scheme on my behalf, is obliged to seek to recover any...
- Written Answers — Child Support: Child Support (8 Mar 2005)
Séamus Brennan: My Department administers a number of child income support measures, including child benefit which delivers a standard rate of payment in respect of all children in a family regardless of income levels or employment status. Child benefit supports all children but delivers proportionately more assistance to those on low incomes and with larger families. The very substantial increases in...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Mar 2005)
Séamus Brennan: Diet supplements are provided for under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme which is administered on my behalf by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive. The Dublin Mid-Leinster region of the executive has advised that it has no record of an application for diet supplement from the person concerned. If the person concerned wishes to apply he should contact the...
- Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (8 Mar 2005)
Séamus Brennan: There are 11 full-time staff in the private office. This includes a special adviser and a press adviser appointed on a contract basis for my term of office. The total salary, allowances, overtime, employers PRSI and private pension costs for 2004 for the private offices of both the previous Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Deputy Mary Coughlan and myself were â¬531,665. A breakdown of...