Results 4,701-4,720 of 20,682 for speaker:Mary Hanafin
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (4 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: It is important to reiterate that the details of all new rent supplement tenancies are electronically forwarded to the Residential Tenancies Board to enable it to ensure landlords are meeting all their obligations. Given the number of tenants in receipt of rent supplement â there are 50,000 new recipients this year â substantial work is being done in this area. Of assistance in this...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (4 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: This is a bit like, ar an lámh amháin, ar an lámh eile. The debate is going from one side to the other.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (4 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: People appreciate the importance of the rent supplement and the importance of that relationship with the tenant. Ultimately, that is what is involved. It is an individual payment to an individual tenant, having regard to his or her circumstances. It allows that tenant the flexibility to use the supplement. However, where a tenant requests it, the rent supplement can be paid directly to...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (4 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: I do not propose to accept this amendment, although I am cognisant that we should not have any barriers to people taking up employment opportunities. The current eligibility thresholds, income disregards and different arrangements in place do not act as an disincentive to taking up employment. It is important that even in cases where people qualify for rental accommodation scheme, they...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (4 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: Last night.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (4 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: Some 70,000 people are in receipt of rent supplement at present and the number is increasing. The scheme relating to rent supplement gives people flexibility in the context of being able to move home. It also assists people who do not have access to accommodation or who do not have the means to pay for such accommodation. There is no doubt that in the past some rented accommodation was of...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (4 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: They have a greater choice now because more accommodation is becoming available.
- Pension Provisions. (3 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: I welcome the opportunity to discuss the issue in the House because the memo that was leaked and covered in the newspapers on Sunday did have the effect of causing unease among a huge number of people even though many would have known that pension funds are investment funds and the way the markets have gone would affect the financial status of the funds. I set out to allay people's fears in...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The supplementary welfare allowance scheme is administered on behalf of the Department by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive (HSE). The Executive has advised that the person concerned has been asked to provide additional information in order that her claim to supplementary welfare allowance can be processed. To date the person concerned has not provided the...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: Rent supplement is administered on behalf of the Department by the Health Service Executive (HSE), as part of the supplementary welfare allowance scheme. The purpose of the rent supplement scheme is to provide short-term income support to eligible people living in private rented accommodation, whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs and who do not have accommodation...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: In assessing means deriving from payments received from EU Member States (including U.K.) which do not form part of the EMU currencies, the Department uses the conversion mechanism provided for under Article 107 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 574/72 on Social Security for Migrant Workers. The exchange rates for converting Sterling and other non-EMU currencies are published quarterly in the...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: Rent supplement is administered on behalf of the Department by the Health Service Executive (HSE), as part of the supplementary welfare allowance scheme. The purpose of the rent supplement scheme is to provide short-term income support to eligible people living in private rented accommodation, whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs and who do not have accommodation...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The Social Welfare Inspector's enquiries in this case have been completed and the file has been forwarded to the relevant Social Welfare Local Office for a decision on entitlement. A decision will be made as soon as possible and the person concerned will be notified of the outcome. Under Social Welfare legislation decisions in relation to claims must be made by Deciding Officers and Appeals...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: What fault?
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: At no stage did anybody ascribe any fault to any individual person. In fact, what I said was that the manner in which we have developed our social welfare system is mitigating against family structures and work.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: ââwas to make the Government aware of the difficulties of the individual funds. Hopefully, as the markets pick up, the position can improve for people in that regard. As I already indicated, we are allowing employers more time to come up with their funding proposals to ensure that their pension funds can get back into a solvent position. The Pensions Board will allow up to ten years...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: It is important that we keep matters under review. That is our aim.
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: One of our key policy areas is finding a path between the long-term strategy and the short-term difficulties that pension funds are experiencing,
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: I addressed this matter briefly earlier. I do not have any indication of what was said at the briefing but I take on board the impression the Deputies got from it. As I indicated earlier, the foster care allowance is â¬312 per child under 12, or â¬339 per child aged 12 or over. Therefore, a recipient could be getting â¬678 for fostering two children. To get the lone parent allowance on...
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Dec 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The end result would be somebody getting â¬3,500 a month.