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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (17 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that, as a result, they require that level of care. An application for CA was received from the person concerned on 6 July 2023. It is a condition for receipt of CA that...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (17 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Domiciliary Care Allowance (DCA) is a monthly allowance payable in respect of a child aged under 16, who has a severe disability requiring continual or continuous care and attention in the home, substantially in excess of the care and attention normally required by a child of the same age and the child must be likely to require this level of care for at least 12 consecutive months. This level...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (17 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered on the 15th June 2023. It is a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (17 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The vast majority of data breaches which arise in my Department occur for three reasons; because correspondence issues to the wrong address (because it has been either addressed incorrectly or delivered to the wrong address), or because an email is sent to the wrong recipient, or because personal data relating to a data subject is mistakenly included in correspondence sent to another person....

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (17 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: This Government recognises the important role that community centres play in community life in Ireland, particularly in bringing people together and engaging with those who may be marginalised or disadvantaged. With this in mind, my Department has put in place an integrated programme of supports for the establishment and development of community centres across schemes such as CLÁR,...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Control of Dogs (17 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: My Department has overall policy responsibility for the Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010 and the Control of Dogs Acts 1986 to 2014. As the Deputy will be aware, animal welfare and microchipping is under the remit of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM). My Department is working with DAFM to co-ordinate efforts in the area of dog control across government. In...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (17 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The LEADER Programme is one of the key interventions of Our Rural Future, the Government’s Policy for rural development launched last year. The process to select the Local Action Groups (LAGs) to deliver the 2023-2027 LEADER Programme is ongoing at present and the Local Development Strategies, which were submitted by the applicant LAGs in July, are currently being assessed. A number of...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (17 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Town Centre First(TCF) policy is a major cross-government policy that aims to tackle vacancy, combat dereliction and breathe new life into our town centres. It supports theOur Rural Futurevision for a thriving rural Ireland which is integral to our national economic, social, cultural and environmental wellbeing and development. The Department co-chairs the National Oversight and Advisory...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (17 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Town Centre First(TCF) policy is a major cross-government policy that aims to tackle vacancy, combat dereliction and breathe new life into our town centres. It supports the Our Rural Future vision for a thriving rural Ireland which is integral to our national economic, social, cultural and environmental wellbeing and development. The Department co-chairs the National Oversight and...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (17 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Town and Village Renewal Scheme (TVRS) was introduced in 2016 and is one of a number of measures designed to rejuvenate rural towns and villages throughout Ireland. Under the 2022 scheme, I introduced the Building Acquisition Measure (BAM) in recognition of the urgent need to transform and regenerate town centres. The purpose of this measure was to support local authorities to...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (17 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Town and Village Renewal Scheme (TVRS) was introduced in 2016 and is one of a number of measures designed to rejuvenate rural towns and villages throughout Ireland. Under the 2022 scheme, I introduced the Building Acquisition Measure (BAM) in recognition of the urgent need to transform and regenerate town centres. The purpose of this measure was to support local authorities to...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Data (17 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Under the Local Government (Sanitary Services) Acts, 1878 to 2001, local authorities are deemed to be burial boards for their respective functional areas. Acting in their capacity as burial boards, local authorities are responsible for the management, regulation and control of burial grounds in their functional areas. As this therefore is an operational matter for local authorities, I have...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Men's Sheds (17 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: My Department provides a range of supports which are available to Men's Sheds, depending on the works being completed. Last November, I was delighted to announce funding of €800,000 to support Men’s Sheds throughout the country with running costs, such as electricity and insurance bills. This fund is now closed and the individual grants of up to €2,000 were distributed to...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Data Protection (17 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: My Department was established in July 2017. Details of data breaches which occurred in each year between July 2017 and 2023 to date, and the numbers which were reported to the Data Protection Commission (DPC) are set out in the table below: Year Number of data breach incidents Number of breaches reported to the DPC 2017 (July – Dec 2017)...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (12 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 06 October...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (12 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Invalidity Pension (IP) is payable to an insured person who satisfies certain ##Pay Related Social Insurance (PRSI) contribution conditions and who is permanently incapable of work due to an illness or incapacity and for no other reason. Claimants must have at least 260 (5 years) paid PRSI contributions (class A, E, H or S) since entering social insurance and 48 contributions paid or credited...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (12 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Diet supplement, administered under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme, is payable to qualifying persons, in receipt of the supplement prior to February 2014, who have been prescribed a special diet because of a specified medical condition. There are currently 1,131 people in receipt of diet supplement. A review of the costs of healthy eating and specialised diets by the Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (12 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that a Carers Allowance appeal by the person concerned was registered in that...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (12 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Disability Allowance (DA) is a weekly allowance paid to people with a specified disability who are aged 16 or over and under the age of 66. This disability must be expected to last for at least one year and the allowance is subject to a medical assessment, means test and habitual residency conditions. I confirm that my Department received an application for DA from the person concerned on 4...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (12 Oct 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that, as a result, they require that level of care. An application for CA was received from the person concerned on 4 April 2023. It is a condition for receipt of a CA that...