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- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The earnings disregard of â¬200 per week applies to income from employment. It does not apply to income from any other source such as self-employment, farming or rents from leasing property. Income from sources other than employment is covered by the general means disregard of â¬30 per week. It should be noted that in contrast to persons in employment, expenses necessarily incurred in...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: A decision has not yet been given on the recent jobseeker's allowance claim made by the person concerned. A Social Welfare Inspector has completed his investigation into his means and has submitted his report to a Deciding Officer. A decision will be given shortly and he will be notified of the outcome. Under Social Welfare legislation decisions in relation to claims must be made by...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The person concerned is in receipt of jobseeker's allowance from 29 October 2008 at the weekly rate of â¬11.80, based on a means assessment of â¬186.00 per week derived from self-employment in the fishing industry. It is open to him to appeal this decision and a form for this purpose was issued to him on 11 December 2008. Under Social Welfare legislation decisions in relation to claims...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which includes rent supplement, is administered on behalf of the Department by the community welfare service of the Health Service Executive (HSE). The cost of the rent supplement scheme for 2008 is expected to be â¬436m. There are currently 72,840 people in receipt of rent supplement. The purpose of rent supplement is to provide short-term...
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (18 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The Government is continuing to finalise its response to the Pensions Green Paper and the views expressed through the consultation process, which closed at the end of May. This will take the form of a framework for future pension policy on all aspects of our pensions system including social welfare pensions and those provided through the occupational and private pensions sector. The...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The person concerned applied for One Parent Family Payment in August 2008 and having received all the necessary information and documentation a decision has been made on his claim. The claim has been awarded and payment in respect of a two week period will be available at his appointed Post Office on 18 December 2008. Any arrears due will be paid as soon as possible when all calculations...
- Written Answers — Live Register: Live Register (18 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The statistics requested by the Deputy are set out in the following table. All of the areas for which details have been requested are served by Branch Offices of the Department. These Branch Offices are operated under a contract for service by private individuals. Decisions on Branch Offices claims are made by Deciding Officers in the parent Local Office. Parent Local Office Branch...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 398 and 415 together. The requirement to be habitually resident in Ireland was introduced as a qualifying condition for certain social welfare payments with effect from 1 May 2004, in the context of the Government's decision to open the Irish labour market to workers from the 10 new EU Member States without the transitional limitations which were imposed at...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (17 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: Further to my response to Parliamentary Question 40903/08 on 18 November 2008, I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that there is no update to the information given in that response. Every effort will be made to have this appeal dealt with as quickly as possible. The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an office of the Department that is independently responsible for determining...
- Written Answers — Data Protection: Data Protection (17 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: This Department administers some fifty schemes and makes payments to one million people each week. Because of the nature, scale and diversity of its work, the Department holds extensive and detailed personal information about its customers and takes its responsibilities to safeguard this data extremely seriously. Every effort is made by the Department and the agencies under its aegis to...
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (17 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: Details of expenditure on hotel accommodation by my Department and each State Agency under its aegis are not immediately available. My Department is compiling this information and my officials will write to the Deputy with these details as soon as they are available.
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (17 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The information requested is currently being compiled within the Department and will be made available to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Departmental Property: Departmental Property (17 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The current number of servers in use by my Department and its Agencies is 30 VMS Servers with an average of 4 GB of memory per server and 351 Windows Servers with an average of 2.5 GB of memory per server. The capacity of each server is dependent on the nature of the application involved and the particular ICT service being provided. Most servers are connected to a Storage Area Network and...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (17 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The school books grant scheme is a scheme operated by the Department of Education and Science. Decisions regarding entitlement under the scheme are a matter for that Department.
- Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (17 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The information requested by the Deputy is currently being compiled within the Department and will be made available to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (17 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The person is on the Central Transfer List for the Garda Station in Naas, Co. Kildare, which comes under the remit of the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform. The decision in relation to the transfer is a matter for that Department.
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (17 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The information requested by the Deputy pertaining to 2008 is set out in the following tabular statement. The rest of the information in respect of previous years is currently being compiled within the Department and will be made available to the Deputy as soon as possible. All costs, which are based on existing staff levels, are estimates and as such are liable to fluctuate due to factors...
- Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (17 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: Under the Government's current decentralisation programme for the civil and public service, some 1,200 posts comprising the Department's headquarter sections and the Social Welfare Appeals Office are relocating to 6 locations â Sligo, Carrick-on-Shannon, Donegal Town, Buncrana, Carrickmacross and Drogheda. To date, 212 posts have relocated from the Department's Dublin Offices to...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (17 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The number of posts occupied in the Department at 15 December 2008 is 4,506 posts comprising 4,911 permanent civil servants. This does not include staff working for bodies under the Department's aegis or temporary staff working in the Department. Details of earnings across the bands set out are not immediately available in my Department but are being compiled and my officials will write to...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (17 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The following table outlines the number of posts in the Department of Social and Family Affairs and the Agencies from the year 2002 to 2008. The agencies under the remit of the Department are The Pensions Board, Family Support Agency (from May 03), Citizens Information Board (formerly Comhairle) and the Combat Poverty Agency. The Pensions Ombudsman's Office also comes under the remit of the...