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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned has not had an active claim with my department since May 2017. The person concerned made a new claim for Jobseekers Allowance (JA) in March 2018. The Social Welfare Inspector requested additional information from the person concerned to support their application. As this information was not supplied, the application was disallowed as the person concerned had...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: One of the qualifying conditions for state pension (contributory) is that the applicant must have at least 520 paid full-rate social insurance contributions before their 66th birthday. An application for state pension (contributory) from the person concerned was disallowed on 20 November 2017, based on a total of 170 full rate contributions, covering their working life from May 1967 to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Work Allowance Applications (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: The person concerned registered a company on 3rd November 2011 and subsequently deregistered same on 30th October 2014. The person concerned applied for Back to Work Enterprise Allowance (BTWEA) on 13thJuly 2018 and a decision on the application issued on 23rdSeptember 2018. I understand from my Department that the application was not successful as the business was not a new enterprise. ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: Working Family Payment (WFP) formerly Family Income Supplement is a weekly in-work support,which provides an income top-up for employees on low earnings with children. Based on the information provided by the person concerned, their WFP was renewed from 20 September 2018. Their file was referred to a Social Welfare Inspector to review the declared self-employment income and following an...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Convention on Social Security between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: I thank the committee for the invitation to discuss our convention on social security signed recently between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United Kingdom. In the context of Brexit, my objective is to ensure that the reciprocity of social welfare rights and entitlements, which currently exists for Irish and UK citizens moving within the common travel area, is safeguarded...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Convention on Social Security between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: The drafts of the Bill, which is the miscellaneous Bill and not the convention, include a head that includes the avoidance of overlapping of benefits. What we are doing is maintaining the current rights. Obviously, what we want to do is to try to avoid the situation we had a while ago. That ambiguity arose because there was no legislation that prescribed anything in law. One of the heads...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Convention on Social Security between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: When we met last March when I went to the UK to meet the then Minister, Esther McVey, the principle we agreed would be set out in the convention was that we wanted to continue doing exactly what we have been doing for donkey's years. Officials from my Department and her department finessed that agreement and finalised it towards the end of December. That agreement was signed on 1 February....

Select Committee on Social Protection: Convention on Social Security between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: It is a bilateral agreement. Obviously it can be changed and adapted at any stage. Yesterday we talked about this - I believe it was Senator Higgins who had asked about it. The Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill is currently not on our Statute Book, but if it was it would be included in the list of schemes in the current bilateral. At some point in the future if parents take paid parental...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Convention on Social Security between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: I think it is open ended but it is not going to be open ended forever. The principle is that so long as the goodwill and intention of both parliaments exists, and as long as the intention that has been laid out by Esther McVey, Amber Rudd and the UK Government that it wants to do this does not change, then one would expect the process to continue. We will know very quickly if there is a...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Convention on Social Security between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: Will we find ourselves here this time next year? I do not think so.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Convention on Social Security between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: I know-----

Select Committee on Social Protection: Convention on Social Security between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: It might seem futile but it is the double lock. I know that we will pass it, that it is no different from what is in the convention and that it may never be commenced, but I need to have it in the back pocket.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Convention on Social Security between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: Yes, just in case.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Convention on Social Security between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: The way the current situation works is there is no overlapping because all the schemes that are based in the Bill have a legislative basis and we share data. I will use the Deputy as an example for argument's sake. He cannot work in Ireland and in the UK subscribing a contribution in the same week. There is no overlap around anything else that requires a contribution. The winter fuel...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Convention on Social Security between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: Everything else requires a contribution but the winter fuel allowance is not a contributory payment. It is an allowance that is given towards alleviating fuel poverty. It is slightly different in that there is no legislative underpinning.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Convention on Social Security between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (21 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: I thank the Chairman.

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: I have no hesitation in expressing my full confidence in my colleague, the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris. Once more, the later-day Robespierres of Sinn Féin have rolled their shabby guillotine into this Chamber, demanding a head. For a party that has never had to govern here and ran from government in the North, it is the easy thing to do. Its approach should be contrasted with...

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: Sinn Féin are giving great example.

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: Hear, hear.

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Regina Doherty: Hear, hear.