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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Bodies (5 Jul 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The statutory bodies operating under the aegis of my Department are the Citizens Information Board, the Pensions Authority, the Pensions Council and the Social Welfare Tribunal. Neither the Pensions Council nor the Social Welfare Tribunal have Chief Executive Officers. The administrative functions of both these bodies is carried out wholly by existing staff resources provided from within my...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (5 Jul 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Deputy will appreciate that I am unable to comment or intervene on issues relating to a particular pension scheme. My Department has no role in setting the level of pension increases received by members of occupational pension schemes. Pension increases are entirely a matter for the scheme trustees and relevant sponsoring employer. Matters directly related to the semi-state company...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (5 Jul 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Person Concerned applied for Benefit Payment for 65-Year-Olds(BP65) on the 24/05/2022. This application was refused on the basis that the qualifying conditions attached to the scheme were not satisfied. The Person Concerned appealed the decision on 3/6/22, stating that they had not been employed or self-employed since December 2017. The Appeals Officer concluded that the Person...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (5 Jul 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Child Benefit is a monthly payment to the parents or guardians of children under 16 years of age. Child Benefit can also be claimed for children aged 16 and 17, if they are in full-time education or full-time training or have a disability and cannot support themselves. A cost of living bonus of €100 per child was paid in June 2023 as part of the Government's commitment to supporting...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Equipment (5 Jul 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The situation described has not arisen in the Department of Social Protection during this period.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (5 Jul 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Medical Assessors are fully qualified and experienced practitioners who provide independent, informed opinions on applications to the illness, disability & caring schemes, for the guidance of the Department's Deciding Officers. Many of the Medical Assessors have specialist post-graduate qualifications, knowledge, or training such as Psychiatry, Rheumatology, Surgery, Occupational...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Men's Sheds (5 Jul 2023)

Heather Humphreys: My Department’s mission is to support vibrant, inclusive and sustainable communities throughout Ireland. In delivering on its mission, my Department provides a wide range of strategic interventions, funding programmes and policies to support all cohorts living in our communities, including young people, older people, and people with disabilities. My Department provides a range of...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (5 Jul 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The CLÁR Programme provides funding for small-scale projects in designated rural areas that have experienced significant levels of de-population over a defined period. Since the programme was relaunched in 2016, it has supported a wide range of measures. The CLÁR 2022 programme awarded a record €12.2 million with 292 projects supported. A review of CLÁR areas nationally...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Equipment (5 Jul 2023)

Heather Humphreys: My Department's ICT managed service is provided by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform through the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO). The use of software on my Department's devices is strictly monitored by both my Department and the OGCIO. All staff of the Department must comply with our ICT Acceptable Usage Policy and other relevant policies, including the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Jul 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Come on.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2023)

Heather Humphreys: And more emigration.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (4 Jul 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's allowance 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. As is the case with most other means-tested social welfare payments, Carer’s Allowance is not payable on an extended...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (4 Jul 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Fuel Allowance which is a payment of €33 per week for 28 weeks (a total of €924 each year) from late September to April, at an estimated cost of €412 million in 2023. The Government values the role of carers in society and it is for this reason that they receive significant income supports from the Department. In addition to Carer’s Allowance, carers...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Citizens Information Services (4 Jul 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Citizens Information Board (CIB) is a statutory body under the aegis of the Department of Social Protection. CIB funds and supports 22 Service Delivery Companies to deliver services on its behalf; these arrangements are laid out in Service Level Agreements (SLAs) between CIB and the companies. It is the responsibility of CIB to update these SLAs and engage with the companies and other...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (4 Jul 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Disablement Benefit is one of the benefits payable under the Occupation Injuries Benefit Scheme to an insured person who suffers a loss of physical or mental faculty as a result of an occupational accident or a prescribed occupational disease that was sustained on or after 1 May 1967. In 2010, an agreement was reached by the Department with the National Coal Miners Group Committee (NCMCG)...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fire Service (4 Jul 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Retained fire-fighters who are otherwise unemployed may make a claim for a jobseeker’s payment in respect of days that they are engaged in fire-fighting or training, subject to the normal jobseeker qualifying conditions in relation to social insurance contributions or means. They are also required to satisfy the statutory conditions for the receipt of a jobseeker’s payment of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (4 Jul 2023)

Heather Humphreys: I reference the tables below. Blanchardstown 1 January 2022 Grade People Posts Assistant Principal 1 1.00 Higher Executive Officer 19 18.00 Executive Officer 14 13.60 Clerical Officer 28 27.30 ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (4 Jul 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 Correspondence from the person concerned was received by the Department on 9 March 2023...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (4 Jul 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Carers 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 increased payment can be made where full-time care is being provided to two people. Two applications for Carers...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (4 Jul 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 03 May...