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

Heather Humphreys: For the purposes of this response, we have interpreted social media influencers as individuals who advertise, endorse or review goods or services on social media, in return for payment or other consideration. I can confirm that my Department has not engaged with any social media influencers or online personalities as part of our internal or external communication activities, including public...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (28 Feb 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 that the carer's allowance application of the person concerned was disallowed by a Deciding Officer of the Department on 20 October 2022. The Social...

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

Heather Humphreys: Disablement Benefit is one of the benefits payable under the Occupational Injuries scheme to an insured person who suffers a loss of physical or mental faculty as a result of an occupational accident or prescribed occupational disease, on or after 1 May 1967. In order to qualify for Disablement Benefit, the person must be in employment which is insured at PRSI Class A, B, D, J or M. The...

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

Heather Humphreys: Invalidity Pension is payable to an insured person who satisfies certain Social Insurance (PRSI) contribution conditions and who is permanently incapable of work due to an illness or incapacity and for no other reason. Claimants must have at least 260 (5 years) paid PRSI contributions class (A, E, H or S) since entering social insurance and 48 contributions paid or credited in the last or...

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

Heather Humphreys: The current State Pension (Contributory) system gives significant recognition to those whose work history includes an extended period outside the paid workforce, often to raise families or to provide another full-time caring role. Applicants for the State Pension (Contributory) have their entitlement assessed under two separate criteria, receiving a payment based on whichever method is...

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

Heather Humphreys: The number of individuals that received at least one Social Welfare payment from Q1 2022 to Q4 2022 are shown in the table below. Household benefits recipients include recipients of cash payments only. Recipients who had payments made directly to their energy supplier as credit against their bills are not included. Table 1: Recipients of the main weekly Social Welfare payments, by scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Procurement Contracts (28 Feb 2023)

Heather Humphreys: As the Deputy is aware, Employability provides support to people with disabilities to secure and maintain paid employment in the open labour market. It is a state-wide service, funded by my Department. Planning for the tendering process for the procurement of new EmployAbility services is at the initial stages within my Department. It is intended to publish a Request for Tender (RFT) in...

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

Heather Humphreys: The Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance scheme provides a once-off payment to eligible families to assist with the costs of clothing and footwear when children start or return to school each autumn. The scheme operates from June to September each year. The allowance is payable in respect of eligible children between the ages of 4 and 17 in respect of whom a qualified child...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Ukraine War (28 Feb 2023)

Heather Humphreys: In accordance with the Temporary Protection Directive implemented in March 2022, people fleeing the war in Ukraine have been granted the status to avail of supports and services from my Department. This means that they can work in Ireland and access the full range of social welfare supports if eligible, including jobseekers payments, pensions, child benefit, and rent supplement. My...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Procurement Contracts (28 Feb 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Information on contracts awarded by the Department over €25k are published every quarter on www.gov.ie. In addition, details of expenditure each year under Consultancy, IT External Provision and eGovernment are published annually on www.gov.ie as well as the Department's Policy on Procurement. The Department has an ICT framework in place and procures IT services from Accenture,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Procurement Contracts (28 Feb 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Department and the Citizen Information Board (CIB) procure licenses and support through a licensed vendor, Micromail. All other bodies under the aegis of the Department did not hold a contract with the organisation concerned for the period in question. The information requested by the Deputy in respect of the Department and the CIB is set out in tabular form in the document attached.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Poverty (28 Feb 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Fuel Allowance is a contribution towards the energy costs of a household. The payment of €33 per week for 28 weeks (a total of €924 each year) is paid from late September to April to assist households with their energy costs. Under the current qualifying conditions for fuel allowance a person must satisfy all the qualifying criteria including the household composition...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Poverty (28 Feb 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Fuel Allowance is a contribution towards the energy costs of a household. The payment of €33 per week for 28 weeks (a total of €924 each year) is paid from late September to April. One of the conditions for receipt of fuel allowance is that a person must satisfy a means test. From January 2023, the threshold for the fuel allowance means test for those aged over 70 is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (28 Feb 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. A completed DA application form must be submitted to the Department in order to establish...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (28 Feb 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 no communication from the person concerned was received by my...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Job Creation (28 Feb 2023)

Heather Humphreys: As the Deputy is aware Job Initiative (JI) is an employment support scheme which was designed to provide eligible long-term unemployed people and other disadvantaged persons with an opportunity to engage in useful work within their communities. Recruitment onto the scheme ceased from November 2004. The Department funds wages for JI team leaders and JI participants along with a grant...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (28 Feb 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The Rural Regeneration and Development Fund (RRDF) provides investment to develop and deliver large scale capital projects in towns and villages with a population of less than 10,000, and outlying areas. The RRDF and the Urban Regeneration and Development Fund were both established under Project Ireland 2040. Calls for applications to the Rural Regeneration and Development Fund are sought...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (28 Feb 2023)

Heather Humphreys: Last November, I was delighted to announce funding of €800,000 to support Men’s Sheds throughout the country. The initiative will see grants of up to €2,000 provided to over 400 registered Men’s Sheds nationwide, to assist them with running costs such as electricity or insurance bills. The individual grants will be distributed to the over 400 Men’s...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Planning Issues (28 Feb 2023)

Heather Humphreys: While my Department has legislative responsibility regarding burial grounds, this responsibility does not extend to the burial fees charged by local authorities. These costs are a matter for each local authority in respect of the cemeteries and burial grounds they provide. Furthermore, guidelines or legislation governing planning permission and the fees associated with any planning...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Data (28 Feb 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The table below relates to media personalities engaged by my Department from 2021 to date: Name of personality engaged Fee expended Campaign & date Key performance indicator Mary Kennedy (TV personality) €4,305 Launch of ‘Our Rural Future - Rural Development Policy 2021-2025’, March 2021 ...