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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (6 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: Overall payment levels of Illness Benefit (IB) are now at their normal level. For information, in any one week, circa 50,000 customers are entitled to an IB payment. Last week, circa 54,000 customer payments were made, approximately 4,000 payments in excess of the normal level, and this includes some customers due arrears. For any customers with arrears outstanding, the Department would...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (6 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: 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 9 May 2018. The application was awarded to the person...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (6 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: 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. I confirm that my department received an application for CA from the person concerned on the 25 September 2017. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (6 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Illness Benefit claim for the person concerned is now certified and paid to 1st November 2018. If the customer remains ill and unfit for work, a further medical certificate should be submitted to the Department as soon as possible in order for further payments to issue. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (6 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Illness Benefit claim for the person concerned is now certified and paid to 1st November 2018. If the customer remains ill and unfit for work, a further medical certificate should be submitted to the Department as soon as possible in order for further payments to issue. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (6 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that the domiciliary care allowance appeal from the mother of the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer who had decided to hold an oral hearing in this case on 9th October 2018. The notification of the hearing was issued to the appellant. However, subsequently, the Appeals Office was advised by the appellant that she was unable...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Tax Clearance Certificates (6 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The wage subsidy scheme (WSS) is an employment support to private sector employers. The scheme provides financial incentives to private sector employers to hire people with a disability for between 21 and 39 hours per week under a contract of employment. The objective of the wage subsidy scheme (WSS) is to increase the likelihood of people with disabilities participating in the open...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Legislative Reviews (6 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: Section 18 of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2014 allows for the discrimination on the grounds of age in respect of a prescribed class of persons in the provision of employment services and supports. The provisions in Section 18 facilitate the implementation of the Youth Guarantee, which was agreed by the European Council on 22 April 2013 to tackle the challenge of youth joblessness....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: North-South Implementation Bodies (6 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Department's budget allocation for 2019 is €20.498 billion, providing for schemes and services relating to pensions; working age income supports; working age employment supports; illness, disability and carers; children; supplementary payments; as well as pay and non-pay administration. While there is no specific allocation within my Department's 2019 Budget Estimates for north...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Commissions of Investigation Data (6 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: In 2018, there have been no tribunals under the Tribunals of Inquiry (Evidence) Acts 1921 to 2004 concerning my Department. Neither has there been a commission of investigation under the Commission of Investigations Act 2004 in relation to the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. Therefore no costs have incurred in relation to the carrying out of a tribunal of enquiry...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payments (25 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: Under the supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme, my Department may make a single exceptional needs payment (ENP) to help meet essential, once-off expenditure which a person could not reasonably be expected to meet out of their weekly income.   An ENP is a means tested payment payable at the discretion of the officers administering the scheme taking into account the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (25 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: As the Deputy will be aware, CE scheme supervisors are employees of private companies in the community and voluntary sector that receive public funding. They are not employees of my Department or public servants, and as such were not subject to pay reductions under the provisions of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (FEMPI) which only applied to public servants.  ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff Data (25 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: My Department will be in touch with the Deputy directly to clarify precisely what information he requires.  The information may not be readily available and may take some time to compile.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (25 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: My Department will be in touch with the Deputy directly to clarify precisely what information he requires.  The information may not be readily available and may take some time to compile.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Programmes Data (25 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 344 to 346, inclusive, together. The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (DEASP) provides a range of activation supports catering for long-term unemployed jobseekers and those most distant from the labour market to secure and sustain full-time paid employment. These supports include the JobPath service.  JobPath is an employment...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (25 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Government intends to introduce a Total Contributions Approach (TCA) to establishing the level of entitlement for all new state pension contributory claims from 2020 onwards (TCA2020). I launched a public consultation on this proposal earlier this year in May, which closed last month.  The consultation sought input on a range of relevant factors which included the amount of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff Data (25 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: The following table provides the breakdown of staff in my Department by grade as at the end of September 2018. The Full Time Equivalent (FTE) and staff count are provided. Grade  FTE People Secretary General 1.00 1  Deputy Secretary 1.00 1  Assistant Secretary 10.00 10  Principal Officer 85.50 89  Assistant Principal 281.38 286  Administrative Officer...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Telephone Call Charges (25 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: My Department has several measures in place aimed at reducing the potential cost for telephone callers. This includes the provision of a “Freephone” service for callers to the Homeless Women, Families and New Communities, and Homeless Men’s Units.  A dedicated team handles high volumes of calls to these services.   Another measure is the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (25 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: 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. I confirm that my department received an application for carer’s CA from the person concerned...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (25 Oct 2018)

Regina Doherty: My Department’s 2019 capital allocation of €14m will be split across three subheads as follows: Subhead Estimate A.2.v Office Equipment and External IT Services €8.8m A.2.vi Office  Premises Expenses €5m A.2 ix eGovernment  Related Projects €0.2m This allocation will primarily assist my Department in delivering additional IT modernisation and...