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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (5 Mar 2019)

Regina Doherty: An application for carer’s allowance (CA) was received from the person concerned on 20 July 2018.  The application was awarded to the person concerned on 7 January 2019 with effect from 2 November 2017 and the first payment for 3 January 2019 issued to her nominated bank account on 10 January 2019. Arrears of carers allowance due from 2 November 2017 to 2 January 2019 will issue...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (5 Mar 2019)

Regina Doherty: This evaluation of the JobPath public employment service is being carried out in the context of a partnership between my Department and the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).  The final outputs of the project will be (1) the publication of a DEASP report; (2) the publication of a joint...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (5 Mar 2019)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 548 to 550, inclusive, together. The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection provides a range of activation supports catering for long-term unemployed jobseekers and those most distant from the labour market to secure and sustain full-time paid employment. These supports include the JobPath service. My Department selects clients for the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme (5 Mar 2019)

Regina Doherty: Rent supplement continues to play a vital role in housing families and individuals, with the scheme supporting approximately 23,300 recipients for which the Government has provided €132.4 million for 2019. The Department can confirm that rent allowance is being paid to residents in the facility referred to by the Deputy, in appropriate accommodation of their choosing. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Advertising Expenditure (5 Mar 2019)

Regina Doherty: For the purpose of this response, I am working on the assumption that the Deputy was referring to the promotion of MyWelfare.ie services across all social media platforms. My Department is committed to ensuring that members of the public are aware of the welfare supports and services that are available to them and that many of these services are accessible easily online at...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (5 Mar 2019)

Regina Doherty: Article 38 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) deals with the position of the Data Protection Officer (DPO). All public authorities and bodies including Government Departments are required to designate a DPO. My Department has assigned the DPO role to a senior manager at Principal level and has also assigned considerable staff resources to support the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (5 Mar 2019)

Regina Doherty: Client Identity Services has responsibility for SAFE registration, which may result in a Public Services Card being issued. Client Identity Services is based in Shannon Lodge, Carrick on Shannon, Co. Leitrim. The Data Protection Officer is also based in the Department’s offices in Carrick on Shannon as are a range of other services of the Department. I hope this clarifies the matter...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Eligibility (5 Mar 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.  Before a decision can be made on entitlement to carer’s benefit (CARB), evidence must be provided in respect of the care recipient’s care requirement, the level of care the carer...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (5 Mar 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2018 (the 2018 Act) was signed by the President on 25 December 2018. The Act came into force on 4 March 2019. The 2018 Act introduces a new right for employees whose contract of employment does not reflect the reality of the hours they habitually work. Such employees will be entitled to request to be placed in a band of hours that better...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Applications (5 Mar 2019)

Regina Doherty: Carer's benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce to care for a child or an adult in need of full-time care and attention.   An application for CARB was received from the person concerned on 23 October 2018.  The evidence submitted in support of this application was examined and the deciding officer decided that although the person...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Review (5 Mar 2019)

Regina Doherty: The first meeting of the Interdepartmental Group (IDG) is arranged for 26th March 2019. The terms of reference are being finalised and it is expected that the IDG will consider and make practical proposals on which Department is best placed to host the social inclusion strand of the Community Employment (CE) scheme on a cost neutral basis. During the deliberations of the IDG,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Eligibility (5 Mar 2019)

Regina Doherty: As the Deputy is aware, payment issues had arisen in relation to the illness benefit scheme last year when my Department transferred administration of the scheme from an old legacy IT payment system to its core business IT platform which is already managing many of the Department’s other scheme payments. Any customer who has an urgent financial need as a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit Eligibility (5 Mar 2019)

Regina Doherty: The main social welfare schemes for people who are unemployed are the jobseeker’s benefit (JB) and jobseekers allowance (JA) schemes which provide income support for people who have lost work and are unable to find alternative full-time employment. Both of these schemes allow a person to work up to 3 days a week but they must be fully unemployed for 4 days in 7 consecutive days. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Data (5 Mar 2019)

Regina Doherty: My Department does not collect data on the value of unclaimed private pension funds nor does it have any way of estimating the value of such funds. Neither the Department nor the Pensions Authority have powers under legislation to require the disclosure of such information from pension providers. I hope that this clarifies matters for the Deputy. 

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Fund Data (5 Mar 2019)

Regina Doherty: The issue raised by the Deputy is not relevant to my Department. It would be proper for the Deputy to raise this issue with my colleague, the Minister for Rural and Community Development.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme Administration (5 Mar 2019)

Regina Doherty: Partial Capacity Benefit is a voluntary social welfare scheme which allows people to return to work or self-employment (if they have reduced capacity to work) and continue to receive a payment from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. If the person has been getting Illness Benefit (for a minimum of six months) or Invalidity Pension and wishes to return to work, they...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (5 Mar 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 20th September 2018.  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...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Registration of Births (28 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: I am informed that the registration of the birth in question was completed on 28 November 2018, and I understand that the parent now wishes to obtain a birth certificate for the child. A birth certificate can be obtained in a number of ways. The person in question can submit an application for a birth certificate to a local Civil Registration Office by post, or by visiting the office in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Civil Registration Legislation (28 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: Commencement of section 13 of the Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 2014, which provides for the establishment of a record of deaths abroad, is dependent on provision of training to Civil Registration Service staff in the HSE. I understand that management in the HSE are engaging to address any issues concerning the operation of the Civil Registration Service. When these issues have been...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Eligibility (28 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: Working Family Payment (WFP) is a weekly tax free payment which provides additional income support to employees on low earnings with children. In order to qualify for Working Family Payment the customer must be working a minimum of 19 hours per week or 38 hours per fortnight. The WFP of the person concerned was due for renewal from 31 January 2019. The evidence submitted in support of the...