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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (7 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Drafting of primary legislation is the responsibility of the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel. However, regarding gender, all legislation is drafted in line with Section 18 of the Interpretation Act 2005.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (7 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Dedicated Mortgage Arrears Services (DMA) is delivered by the Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS), a funded company of the Citizens Information Board (CIB). It forms part of the suite of services offered under Abhaile - the national State funded Mortgage Arrears Resolution Service. CIB is a statutory body under the aegis of my Department, and, as Minister for Social Protection,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Domiciliary Care Allowance (DCA) is payable in respect of a child aged under 16, who has a severe disability and requires ongoing continual or continuous care and attention substantially over and above the care and attention normally required by a child of the same age without their disability and the child must be likely to require this level of care and attention for least 12 consecutive...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The person concerned must complete an application form for the Increase for Living Alone and submit it to my Department in order to have his eligibility checked and a formal decision made on his entitlement to the allowance. To date no application for this allowance has been received from the person concerned. An application form issued to him on 03 March 2023. I trust this clarifies the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (7 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The person concerned was in receipt of the Carer's Allowance up to 13 March 2019. The EU state pension (contributory) has been awarded from 14 March 2019 at the current weekly rate of €61.80. This will be paid to their nominated bank account on 10 March 2023 and any arrears due will be paid without delay. The person concerned was notified of this decision on 03 March 2023. He is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (7 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: To apply for a PPSN an adult must, in general, provide proof of identity, proof of address and proof of the reason why they are is applying for a PPSN. The national average processing time for PPSN applications is currently 21 days. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (7 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The provision of residency stamps and associated conditionality attached is a matter for my colleague, the Minister for Justice. Jobseekers Benefit is a social insurance-based scheme and therefore the Habitual Residence Condition (HRC) does not apply to this payment. HRC is one of the conditions that needs to be met to claim Jobseekers Allowance, and each application is considered on a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (7 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The person’s application for a Personal Public Service (PPS) Number has been processed. Confirmation of the PPS Number issued to the person by post on 02/03/2023 I trust this clarifies the matter.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Offices (7 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Local face-to-face engagement with customers by Community Welfare Officers (CWO’s) continues to be a cornerstone of the CWS. Additional clerical support has been put in place in a number of Administrative Support Hubs, one of which is located in Tuam in County Galway, so as to release Community Welfare Officers from administration work and to ensure that their focus is on meeting...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Maternity Benefit is paid by the Department of Social Protection to women who have a certain number of paid PRSI contributions on their social insurance record and who are in insurable employment up to the first day of their maternity leave. A self-employed individual who applied for and was awarded the Pandemic Unemployment Payment in 2020 would subsequently be allocated with a full 52 S...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Free Travel scheme provides free travel on the main public and private transport services for those eligible under the scheme. There are over one million customers with direct eligibility. The estimated expenditure on free travel in 2023 is €95 million. It is important to note that, in general, access to a free travel pass for those aged under 66 is a secondary benefit linked...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Mar 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. In 2022, 648,053 Child Benefit claimants received payment in respect of over 1.2 million children. As of 1st January 2023,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Mar 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. In 2022, 648,053 Child Benefit claimants received payment in respect of 1.2 million children. As of 1st January 2023, Child...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (7 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: A national Employers Disability Information service is co-managed by Chambers Ireland, Ibec and ISME. It was designed to provide employers with an expert source of advice and information on employing staff with disabilities. The service included a helpline for employers, run by employers, which would allow them to seek advice in this area and would ultimately lead to an improved working...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (7 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 an Appeals Officer, having fully considered all of the available evidence, decided to disallow the domiciliary care...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Mar 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 weekly income. 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 the case...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (7 Mar 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. If a person is in receipt of another social welfare payment in their own right (other than unemployment payments or...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Post Office Network (7 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ‘Our Rural Future’,Ireland's Rural Development Policy 2021 – 2025 creates an overarching vision for a thriving rural Ireland which is integral to our national economic, social, cultural and environmental wellbeing and development. Additionally in February of last year the 'Town Centre First'Policy was published, a major cross-government policy that aims to tackle vacancy,...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (7 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Department of Rural and Community Development complies with its statutory duty, under the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 2014, in the performance of its functions, having regard to the need to eliminate discrimination, promote equality of opportunity and protect the human rights of staff when carrying out their daily work and those to whom services are provided. ...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Strategies (7 Mar 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The core spatial principle of “Ireland 2040: Our Plan, National Planning Framework” is to achieve balanced regional development, city and regional centre-focused growth, and more compact urban development in order to achieve an internationally competitive and sustainable economy and a better quality of life for our citizens. In line with this principle, my Department's...