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- Written Answers — Death Certificates: Death Certificates (8 May 2008)
Mary Hanafin: When a person dies, it is the duty of a relative of the deceased to act as qualified informant. This means that the relative must give to a registrar of births, deaths and marriages the information necessary to register the death, including a medical certificate of the cause of death, which is obtainable from the medical practitioner who attended the deceased, and sign the register of...
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (8 May 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The Department operates two main types of pension scheme; contributory and non-contributory payments. Contributory payments are paid on the basis of social insurance contributions made over a person's working life. Missionaries who have made sufficient social insurance contributions can qualify for the state pension (contributory). These pensions are payable abroad and so missionaries who...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 May 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The estimated Gross Average Industrial Wage (GAIE) in quarter 2, 2007 was â¬627.24 per week. Based on this figure the estimated full year cost of increasing Maternity Benefit to a flat rate of 60% GAIE would be some â¬91 million in 2008 terms. From quarter 3, 2007 earnings are being calculated by the Central Statistics Office using an EU methodology, the Earnings, Hours and Employment Costs...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 May 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The Habitual Residence Condition was introduced 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 that time by most of the other Member States. The question of what is a person's "habitual residence" has been decided in accordance with European Court of Justice...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 May 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The Health Service Executive has stated that the matter is currently under review with the Executive's Appeals Office and has advised that the person concerned will be informed of the outcome of its decision in due course.
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 May 2008)
Mary Hanafin: Family income supplement (FIS) is designed to provide cash support for employees on low earnings with families. This preserves the incentive to remain in employment in circumstances where the employee might only be marginally better off than if he or she were unemployed and claiming other social welfare payments. FIS is paid on a weekly basis over a period of 52 weeks, taking into account a...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 May 2008)
Mary Hanafin: Family income supplement (FIS) is designed to provide cash support for employees, with families on low earnings. This preserves the incentive to remain in employment in circumstances where the employee might only be marginally better off than if he or she were unemployed and claiming other social welfare payments. FIS is paid on a weekly basis over a period of 52 weeks, taking into account...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 May 2008)
Mary Hanafin: Following improvements made to the qualifying income thresholds for family income supplement (FIS) in recent budgets and publicity campaigns promoting the scheme, there has been a substantial increase in the scheme take-up. In 2007, my Department received 36,000 new and renewal FIS claims compared to 33,000 in 2006 and 23,000 in 2005 â an increase of over 60% on 2005 and 11% on 2006. In...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 May 2008)
Mary Hanafin: Under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme, which is administered on my behalf by the community welfare division of the Health Service Executive, an exceptional needs payment (ENP) may be made to help meet an essential, once-off cost which the applicant is unable to meet out of his/her own resources. There is no automatic entitlement to this payment. Each application is determined by...
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (8 May 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The social welfare pension rights of those who take time out of the workforce for caring duties are protected by the Homemaker's scheme which was introduced in and took effect from 1994. The scheme allows up to 20 years spent caring for children or incapacitated adults to be disregarded when a person's social insurance record is being averaged for pension purposes. However, the scheme...
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (8 May 2008)
Mary Hanafin: This Department makes approximately twenty three thousand payments to contractors annually in respect of goods and services. Additional payments are made by bodies under the aegis of the Department. Given the large number of payments made the information which the Deputy has requested is not readily available in my Department.
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (8 May 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The Green Paper on Pensions consultation process has been ongoing since October 2007 and will continue until the end of May 2008. To date, over 180 submissions have been received and the Department hosted six regional seminars around the country to gather people's views on the key issues of concern to them. A comprehensive report will be drawn up on the consultation process and the views...
- Written Answers — Budget Submissions: Budget Submissions (8 May 2008)
Mary Hanafin: I understand that the Deputy is, in particular, referring to bilateral meetings with the Minister for Finance or the Taoiseach in relation to the annual social welfare Budget as distinct from internal meetings within my Department relating to the Budget process generally. Each year, the Minister for Social and Family Affairs normally meets with the Minister for Finance to discuss the social...
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (8 May 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The cost of implementing the CorePay payroll system from 2004 to date in my Department is set out in the following table. 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Cost Per Annum â¬681,207 â¬743,928 â¬846,511 â¬806,676 â¬359,666 The corresponding information for the bodies under my Department's aegis is not readily available but is being compiled at present and I will write to the Deputy as soon as...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 May 2008)
Mary Hanafin: Entitlement to carer's allowance/benefit is based on an applicant satisfying medical, means and residency conditions. In determining entitlement to the allowance there are, in certain cases, unavoidable time lags involved in making the necessary investigations and enquiries to enable accurate decisions to be made. Delays can also arise if persons applying for the allowance are not in a...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 May 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The person concerned applied for jobseeker's allowance on 8 February 2008. A Deciding Officer approved his claim on 14 April 2008 and awarded him jobseeker's allowance at the weekly rate of â¬56.80 from 8 February 2008 and he was notified accordingly. However, the person concerned failed to sign the live register on 8 April 2008 and consequently his claim was closed from 15 April 2008. If...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (8 May 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The Bereavement Grant is a payment designed to assist families in dealing with death and funeral expenses. It is a scheme that relates specifically to those who have made PRSI contributions and is payable on the death of an insured person, his/her spouse and dependent children under age 18 or under age 22 if in full-time education. In order to qualify for the bereavement grant the deceased...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (8 May 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The Minister for Housing, Urban Renewal and Developing Areas advised me last week that he has decided that the Ballymun area merits designation as an area of regeneration for the purposes of Section 25 of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2007. This section of the Act provides that rent supplement shall not be payable in general, the objective being to achieve social integration. The...
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (8 May 2008)
Mary Hanafin: The information requested is given in the following tables. Table A sets out provisional expenditure for Vote 38 for February 2008 and Table B sets out the corresponding provisional income and expenditure for the Social Insurance Fund for February 2008. These figures are provisional pending completion of statutory accounts. Expenditure data for the month of March is not yet finalised. ...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (8 May 2008)
Mary Hanafin: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that the appeal from the person concerned has been disallowed and the person has been notified. The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an office of my Department that is independently responsible for determining appeals against decisions on social welfare entitlements.