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Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: Where do I start? I am surprised that the Deputy is surprised by what he considers to have been an announcement today. It was not an announcement. It was made clear in the Dáil in January that I would introduce new legislation and what that new legislation would do. That is what the couple of hundred people outside the gates were told. In the correspondence I have received from most...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: I will send them to the Chairman in the next couple of days. To reply to the question on working age and the possibility of giving everyone under 25 years of age an increase to the level of the full unemployment payment made to everyone aged over 25 years, I will revert to the Deputy on the issue in the next couple of days. I beg the committee's pardon, I have the information. The cost...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: Some of the information and statements made by Deputy Brady are factually incorrect with regard to branch managers. I do not mean to be facetious when I respond to the Deputy. I am unsure who has told Deputy Brady that the workload has increased, but it has actually drastically decreased in recent years because our jobseekers have drastically decreased. The workload of our branch managers...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

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Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: I want to put this on the record because I believe the Deputy is misinformed. It was never compulsory for people to go on CE schemes. It was always voluntary and it is entirely voluntary. We do not refer people to CE schemes.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: Different people were paid on different days because people are on different schemes.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: Refundables.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised) (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: We had this conversation at the meeting before Christmas. It is in another column now, but they are still being funded. Do not worry.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Sector Staff Retirements (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: I welcome the recent confirmation by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to increase to 70 the compulsory retirement age of public servants recruited before the 1st April 2004. In relation to compulsory retirement ages in the labour market more generally, there is no universal mandatory retirement age in Ireland. The setting of retirement age remains a matter for agreement...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Civil Registration Legislation (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: The provisions for registering the name of a father, other than the person to whom the mother is married, are contained in section 22(3) of the Civil Registration Act 2004 (as amended): - Section 22(3)(a) provides for the registration of a person, other than the husband, as the father of the child on foot of a statutory declaration by the husband that he is not the father of the child. -...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: There is no separate legal definition of the term “au pair” in Irish legislation, and individuals described as “au pairs”, “nannies” or “child-minders” are not exempted or treated as separate categories of workers under Irish employment law. Ireland’s body of employment rights legislation protects all employees who are legally...

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

Regina Doherty: The Department operates a range of means tested social assistance payments. The means test takes account of the income and assets of the person (and spouse/partner, if applicable) applying for the relevant scheme. Income and assets include income from employment, self-employment, occupational pensions, maintenance payments as well as property owned (other than the family home) and capital...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: SAFE Level 2 registration is carried out by my Department and allows a person to verify their identity once, not just for access to services provided by the Department but also for an increasing number of public services. Once a person completes a SAFE 2 registration, they may be issued with a Public Services Card (PSC) as a physical token that proves they have had their identity verified to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: A policy to introduce the Total Contributions Approach (TCA) to pensions calculation was adopted by Government in the National Pensions Framework in 2010, as was the decision to base the entitlements of all new pensioners on this approach from around 2020. The Government has confirmed its intention to proceed with that policy in its recently published Roadmap for Pensions Reform. To that...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: The information requested by the Deputy, where available, is detailed in the attached in the following tabular statements. Please note that ‘wait times for reviews by scheme’ is not currently a defined metric. Average Weeks to Award As at end February 2018 State Pension Contributory 4 State Pension Non-Contributory 12 Jobseeker's Benefit 1 Jobseeker's Allowance 2...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Appeals (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: I have been notified by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer having considered all of the available evidence before her, disallowed the state pension (contributory) appeal of the person concerned on 16th March 2017 on the grounds that the person concerned did not have sufficient reckonable contributions or credits over the period from their date of entry into insurable...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: The information requested by the Deputy is detailed in the attached in the following tabular statement. Average Weeks to Award Feb-18 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 State Pension Contributory 4 5 7 5 5 5 6 State Pension Non-Contributory 12 12 14 14 13 16 12 Jobseeker's Benefit 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 Jobseeker's Allowance 2 2 2 2 2 3 4 One-Parent Family Payment 5 6 6 9 11 13 15 Widow(er)'s...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: The tables provide the details which have been requested by the Deputy for the years 2012 to 2017 and to the end of February 2018. They only include the appeal processing times for schemes paid on a weekly basis. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection and of the Department and is responsible for determining...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: Self-employed workers who earn €5,000 or more in a contribution year, including those brought into social insurance as a result of Directive 2010/14/EU, are liable for PRSI at the class S rate of 4%, subject to a minimum annual payment of €500. This provides them with access to the following benefits: State pension (contributory), widow’s, widower’s or surviving...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (27 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: The purpose of the Technical Employment Support Grant (TESG) now known as the Training Support Grant (TSG) is designed to fund quick access to short term training or related interventions, obtain/renew certification/permits for individual jobseekers looking to exit the live register. The grant is awarded where Case Officers have identified an immediate skills gap that represents an obstacle...