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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (28 Jun 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 person who has such a disability that they require that level of care. I confirm that my department received an application for CA from the person concerned on the 12 January 2018. It is a condition for receipt of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Payments (28 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: My Department is committed to providing a quality service to all its customers. This includes ensuring that applications are processed and that decisions on entitlement are made as quickly as possible.Carer's benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce to care for a person(s) in need of full-time care and attention. At the end of May 2018 the average waiting...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (28 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: A review of a social insurance record will be carried out for any person who makes such a request. In this case, the Department has no record of having received a request from the person concerned to have their social insurance record reviewed. Therefore, as a starting point, the person concerned should forward any information they may have in relation to any concern that their record is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (28 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer, who will make a summary decision on the appeal based on the documentary evidence presented or, if required, hold an oral hearing. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection and of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions Payments (28 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: This matter relates to the information provided annually by my Department to the Revenue Commissioners in respect of expected payment for the forthcoming tax year under various schemes which are considered as taxable income. Currently, Revenue makes the necessary adjustment in future tax years to address any underpayment of tax due to increases in the rates of payments. From the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Tús Programme (28 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: Community Employment (CE) and Tús are active labour market programmes with the emphasis on progression into employment and/or further education and training. They are designed to break the cycle of unemployment and maintain work readiness, thereby improving a person’s opportunities of returning to the open labour market. Tús places are reserved for those who are in danger of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Data (27 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: In-work poverty measures the at-risk-of-poverty rate (i.e. the percentage with incomes below 60% of the median income) among adults (16+) who are ‘in-work’, based on their self-defined principal economic status. The most recent CSO Survey on Income and Living Conditions data shows that in 2016 the at-risk-of-poverty rate was 5.6% for those aged 16 years or over with a principal...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Data (27 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: The information requested by the Deputy is detailed in the table. Recipients of One-Parent Family Payment at the end of May 2018 by county County Recipients Carlow 547 Cavan 464 Clare 680 Cork 3,662 Donegal 1,290 Dublin 14,251 Galway 1,215 Kerry 916 Kildare 1,587 Kilkenny 532 Laois 640 Leitrim 168 Limerick 2,034 Longford 420 Louth 1,648 Mayo 777 Meath 759 Monaghan 384...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (27 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer on 29th May 2018, who will make a summary decision on the appeal based on the documentary evidence presented or, if required, hold an oral hearing. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Telephone Support Allowance (27 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: The new weekly Telephone Support Allowance (TSA) is a payment of €2.50. Customers of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection who are in receipt of a qualifying payment and who are in receipt of the Living Alone Allowance and the Fuel Allowance will automatically qualify for the TSA. Approximately 127,000 customers are in receipt of the TSA payment. The estimated...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (27 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: As the Deputy will be aware the primary purpose of the activation services provided by my Department, including the JobPath service, is to assist and support jobseekers to look for and sustain full time employment. My Department refers long-term job seeking customers to the JobPath service to receive one-to one intensive and regular engagement with a personal adviser. The JobPath companies...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (27 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: My Department collects and holds large volumes of personal data on customers and is very aware of the need to have adequate data protection policies, procedures and structures in place in line with the GDPR. Preparations for the GDPR have been overseen by the Department’s Data Management Programme Board. The Department has a dedicated GDPR implementation team in place and has...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (27 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is one of a range of activation supports which includes schemes such as TÚS and Community Employment (CE), catering for long-term unemployed jobseekers. Activation services are also provided by departmental case officers in the Intreo Centres, or by contracted companies and organisations such as Local Employment Services (LES), Job Clubs and the JobPath providers. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Support Grant (27 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: My Department is reviewing the decision to refuse the claim of the person concerned for Carer’s Support Grant. In this regard the Deciding Officer is awaiting a report from a local inspector. The inspector has advised that he will arrange to meet the person concerned within the next week and will furnish a report shortly thereafter. If the outcome of the review is not favourable to the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Eligibility (27 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: Carer's benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce to care for a child or an adult in need of full-time care and attention. It is payable for a maximum of 104 weeks for each person being cared for. This may be claimed as a single continuous period or in any number of separate periods up to a total of 104 weeks. Where a person is receiving CARB for a period of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (27 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: My department received an application for carer's allowance (CA) from the person concerned on the 20 February 2018. 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 person who has such a disability that they require that level of care. A person can be considered to be providing...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (27 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 27thMarch 2018. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant papers and comments by or on behalf of the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought from the Department of Social Protection. These papers have been received in the Social...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (27 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 11thApril 2018. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought. When these papers have been received from the Department, the case in question will be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Electric Vehicles (27 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: There are no e-car charging points provided at the Department’s buildings in Dublin, or at any other locations throughout the country.

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Report Stage (26 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: I will talk for the next two minutes and then we will adjourn. I will undertake to do exactly what the Deputy suggested. I will correct a number of inaccuracies from the past couple of minutes. I am not trying to change anything that I put into the Bill. When the penalisation provisions were attempted to be amended on Committee Stage, the Government voted against the proposal. I...