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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (4 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: My officials are collating the information requested and a further reply will be issued to the Deputy shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (4 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: My officials are collating the information requested and a further reply will be issued to the Deputy shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (4 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: My officials are collating the information requested and a further reply will be issued to the Deputy shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Forbairt Calaí agus Céanna (4 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Mar is eol don Teachta, bíonn fadhbanna ag báid theacht le balla ag Céibh a' Chóra in Inis Meáin de bharr an tseilf gainimh a bhailíonn i mbéal na céibhe ó am go chéile. Tá an tseirbhís lastais ag brath go mór ar an gcéibh seo le go féidir lastas a thabhairt i dtír do phobal Inis Meáin. Tá tús...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: I thank Deputy Murnane O'Connor for raising this matter. This was a lump-sum payment of €200 on the primary payment. It was different from the Christmas bonus and the October double payment because they were both double payments. This was not a double payment. It was a lump sum of €200 paid out to 1.2 million people at a cost of more than €250 million. I suspect that...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: You did.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (3 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The School Meals Programme provides funding towards the provision of food services to some 1,600 schools and organisations benefitting 260,000 children.  The objective of the programme is to provide regular, nutritious food to children to support them in taking full advantage of the education provided to them.  The programme is an important component of policies to encourage school...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (3 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Child Benefit is a universal monthly payment made to families with children up to the age of 16 years. The payment continues to be paid in respect of children until their eighteenth birthday who are in full-time education, or who have a disability. Estimated expenditure on the scheme will be approximately €2.1 billion in 2023. There are currently no plans to extend Child Benefit in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (3 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The SAFE registration process, which my Department uses to authenticate a person's identity, is a face- to-face process which results in the issuing of a Public Services Card (PSC). I can confirm that an individual’s adoption certificate is not required for the purpose of a SAFE registration appointment. The individual referred to by the Deputy has been contacted by officials of my...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (3 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Pension entitlement can only be assessed on the basis of the eligibility conditions applicable on the date an individual reaches State Pension age.  Currently, a person who has 2080 paid or credited contributions, or who has in excess of 520 contributions with a yearly average of 48 or more contributions since they entered the social insurance system, would qualify for the full rate...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (3 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 244 and 245 together. The Living Alone Increase (LAI) is an extra payment for recipients of certain social welfare payments who live alone. It is an increase of €22 per week available to persons aged 66 or older who live alone and are in receipt of the State Pension, Widow(er) or Surviving Civil Partner's Pension, Incapacity Supplement or Deserted...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (3 May 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 can confirm that my Department originally received an application for disability...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (3 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the Department and is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer, having fully considered all of the available evidence, has decided to disallow the appeal of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (3 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The main income supports to carers provided by my department are Carer’s Allowance, Carer’s Benefit, Domiciliary Care Allowance and the Carer’s Support Grant. Spending in 2023 is expected to amount to almost €1.6 billion on these payments. The two principal conditions for receipt of Carer’s Allowance are that full time care and attention is required and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (3 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Matters related to foster caring are the responsibility of my colleague, the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and Tusla. More widely, this Government acknowledges the important role that carers play and is fully committed to supporting them in that role. Accordingly, the current State Pension (Contributory) system provides for a range of measures including...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Offices (3 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: My Department is committed to delivering excellent customer service as pledged in the Customer Service Charter. This includes providing the highest quality of services, including information provision, to all customers and to treating customers with courtesy and respect. My officials aim to ensure that all persons are served in a fair, courteous, and timely manner, and provided with full...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (3 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The purpose of the Exceptional Needs Payment (ENP) is to assist people with essential expenditure, which a person could not reasonably be expected to meet out of their available resources. The ENP scheme is demand led and payments are made at the discretion of the officers administering the scheme taking into account the requirements of the legislation and all the relevant circumstances of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (3 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The labour market in Ireland has experienced a welcome recovery following the significant impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated public health restrictions. The most recent figures from the Central Statistics Office (the Labour Force Survey for Q4, 2022) reports that there are 2.57 million people in employment in Ireland, which is the highest recorded level for the State since...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (3 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: A person in receipt of Jobseeker’s Allowance can make an application for Carer’s Allowance. However, they will then not satisfy the available for full-time work condition for a jobseeker payment as they are declaring on their Carer’s Allowance application that they are caring for another person in a full-time capacity. Once the application for Carer’s...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (3 May 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. The Carer's allowance (CA) payment is made up of a personal rate for the person claiming and extra amounts for any child...