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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Redundancy Payments (28 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Redundancy Payments Act 1967, as amended, provides for the making of payments by employers to employees in respect of redundancy. It is the employer’s responsibility to pay statutory redundancy payments to all eligible employees. In the event that an employer is unable to pay due to financial difficulties, an application for payment from the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) may be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (28 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The person concerned applied for Partial Capacity Benefit (PCB) on the 9 January 2023. Partial Capacity Benefit is a social welfare scheme which allows the claimant to return to work or self-employment (if the have reduced capacity to work) and continue to receive a payment from my department. The rules governing PCB are that a person must be in receipt of payment of Illness Benefit or...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (28 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Working Family Payment (WFP), formerly Family Income Supplement, is a weekly in-work support which provides an income top-up for employees on low earnings with children. To qualify for Working Family Payment, the customer must be working a minimum of 38 hours per fortnight in ongoing insurable employment and have at least one qualified child who normally resides with them. An application...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (28 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Person Concerned has not made an application for a Jobseekers payment. If unemployed the Person Concerned should make an application either by way of MyWelfare.ie or by paper application which they can obtain through their Local Intreo Office.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (28 Mar 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. My Department received correspondence from the person concerned on 24 February 2023,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (28 Mar 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 there are currently 7,558 appeals at various stages of the appeals process. Under Article 13 of the Social Welfare...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (28 Mar 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 and requires continuous or continual care and attention in the home, substantially in excess of that required by a child of the same age and the child must be likely to require this level of care for at least 12 months. The following table sets out the number of DCA...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (28 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 479, 480, 482 and 483 together. The information requested by the Deputy is available in the table below. These figures refer to the period March 2022 to February 2023. The appeals overturned figure refers to those allowed/partially allowed by an Appeals Officer or by way of a revised decision by a Deciding Officer. Table 1: Claims registered, claims awarded,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (28 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: There are a number of payments and pensions paid by my Department to people over State Pension Age. One of these is the State Pension Contributory (SPC). This scheme's entry criteria require applicants to have at least 520 social insurance contributions paid from either employment or self-employment. For those who have paid the required contributions, these will be used in the calculation...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (28 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Disability Allowance (DA) is a weekly allowance for people with a disability aged between 16 and 66 with a disability expected to last for at least one year and who satisfy the medical condition, means test and are habitually resident in Ireland. The number of persons in receipt of DA at the end of February 2023 was just over 158,000. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (28 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: A total of 829 individuals aged 100 years or over were a beneficiary of a social protection scheme at the end of December 2022. The CSO also publishes an annual estimate of the resident population, in its Population and Migration Estimates publication. This contains estimates of the usually resident population broken down by age. The latest figures are for April 2022 and estimated 4,048...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (28 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: I fully recognise the challenges the increased the cost of living has brought to many people and families. That is why, in September, I announced the largest social protection Budget package in the history of the State - comprising measures worth almost €2.2 billion. This included eight separate cost of living lump sum payments paid in Quarter 4 last year to ease the pressure that...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (28 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Under the Supplementary Welfare Allowance scheme, my Department may make Additional Needs Payments (ANPs) to help meet expenses that a person cannot pay from their weekly income. This is an overarching term used to refer to Exceptional and Urgent Needs Payments, and certain Supplements to assist with ongoing or recurring costs that cannot be met from the client’s own resources, and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (28 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Domiciliary Care Allowance (DCA) is payable to a parent/guardian in respect of a child aged under 16, who has a severe disability and requires continual or continuous care and attention in the home, that is substantially over and above the level of care and attention normally required by a child of the same age and the child must be likely to require to require this level of care for at least...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (28 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: I recently announced a further range of measures to support individuals and families with the cost of living. This package includes a €200 lump sum payment, which will be paid to over 1.3 million recipients of long-term social welfare payments by the end of April. This support will be paid on a similar basis to the Christmas Bonus, including to those on jobseeker's payments or Illness...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Public Procurement Contracts (28 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: I can confirm to the Deputy that no contracts were won by the organisations referenced since my Department was established in 2017.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Official Travel (28 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: As Minister for Rural and Community Development and Minister for Social Protection, I represented the Irish Government in the UK this year as part of the St. Patrick's Day overseas programme. Minister of State O'Brien represented the Government in Poland. While all costs are currently not yet available due to the time lag in processing all relevant costs, details that are available are set...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Animal Breeding (28 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 790 and 791 together. My Department has policy responsibility for the Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010. The Act provides a robust regulatory framework for the licensing, monitoring and inspection of dog breeding establishments by local authorities and, where a serious and immediate threat exists to public health or animal health and welfare, for the...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Control of Dogs (28 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: My Department has policy and legislative responsibility regarding the Control of Dogs Acts 1986 to 2014. Under Section 14 of the Act, every local authority shall keep a register of all seized dogs; Every register maintained under this section shall contain the following particulars, that is to say: (a)a description of the dog; (b)in the case of a dog seized by a dog warden or a member...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Control of Dogs (28 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: My Department publishes annual statistics in respect of a range of the dog control responsibilities of local authorities. Information up to and including 2021, by county and in tabular form, is available on the dog control statistics page on gov.ie. The 2022 dog control statistics are currently being collated and when checked and verified will be published on gov.ie. My Department will scope...