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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (8 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is an employment service, designed to support people who are long-term unemployed to secure and sustain paid employment. The service is delivered by Turas Nua in County Kerry. Under the service jobseekers have access to a personal adviser (PA) who works with them over two phases. During the first phase, of 12 months duration, the PA provides practical assistance in searching,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Applications (8 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: Fuel allowance is a means-tested payment to assist householders on long-term social welfare payments towards the cost of their heating needs. It is not intended to meet those costs in full. Only one allowance is paid per household. The main eligibility conditions that apply to the fuel allowance scheme are that a person must be in receipt of a qualifying payment, must satisfy a means test...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Strategic Communications Unit (8 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Secretary General of the Department met with the head of the Strategic Communications Unit in August at the Department’s headquarters at Áras Mhic Dhiarmada, Store Street, Dublin 1. This meeting was an introduction to and discussion on the future role of the unit. The Minister, the Secretary General, the Minister’s advisor Gerry Mullins and Assistant Secretary Helen...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (8 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: Currently there is a provision which allows Community Employment (CE) participants aged 62 or over to apply to extend their participation on CE beyond the standard lifetime participation limits, providing the eligibility conditions of CE are met. Participants, aged 62 or over, are allowed to participate on a continuous basis up to the State Pension age, subject to satisfactory performance on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals (8 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: A claim for jobseekers allowance by the person concerned was disallowed on 07/12/2017 as means could not be determined. This decision was appealed by the person concerned on 21/12/2017. Subsequently a Deciding Officer issued an Appeal Submission to the Social Welfare Appeals Officer on 5/2/2018. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant papers and comments by...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Freedom of Information Data (8 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: The number of freedom of information (FOI) requests received in the Department is set out in the table: Number of Freedom of Information (FOI) Requests Received in the Dept 2013 - 2017 YEAR PERSONAL NON-PERSONAL MIXED TOTAL 2013 2,060 84 4 2,148 2014 2,070 119 4 2,193 2015 1,932 223 1 2,156 2016 1,848 231 10 2,089 2017 2,280 343 18 2,641 Regarding the average time taken, and the number...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (7 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is an employment service, designed to support people who are long-term unemployed to secure and sustain paid employment. The service is delivered by Turas Nua Limited in County Clare. Currently, circa 35 customers per week are referred by my Department to the JobPath service in County Clare. Through the service jobseekers have access to a personal adviser (PA) who works with...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Applications (7 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: My Department identifies customers who appear to have an entitlement to state pension (contributory), in advance of reaching pension age (currently 66 years of age), to invite them to make a timely application for pension. This customer service initiative is aimed at helping approx. 14,000 applicants annually to receive their pension entitlement by the due date (currently their 66thbirthday)...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (7 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 286 and 293 together. The JobPath service is one of a range of activation supports provided by my Department to assist long-term unemployed jobseekers to secure and sustain full-time paid employment. Participants spend 52 weeks with the service, during which time they receive intensive individual support to help them address barriers to employment and to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (7 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: Only bodies specified in legislation and currently included in Schedule 5 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (as amended) or their agents can ask for and use the Public Services Card (PSC). The current proposal in Section 5 of the Social Welfare Bill does notchange this. That protection will remain if the legislative proposal is adopted. As the law currently stands, even if a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (7 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: A Public Services Card (PSC) may be issued to a person who has successfully completed a SAFE 2 identity registration. The person’s Public Service Identity Dataset is verified as part of this process. Adopted people are treated in the same way as other individuals in terms of verification of identity. Name, date of birth, place of birth and mother’s birth surname are generally...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (7 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: The information requested (where available) by the Deputy is detailed in the tabular statement. Social Welfare claims by average waiting times December 2017 Claim Processing Appeals Processing Scheme Average Waiting Time (weeks) Average processing times (weeks) Summary Decisions Average processing times (weeks) -Oral Hearings Carer’s Benefit 10 17.8 21.3 Carer's Allowance 17...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (7 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Action Plan for Jobless Householdsis an example of one of the many measures that Government is implementing with a view to assisting people and families to become work ready and gain employment. Adults in jobless households are not all unemployed; they include people who are not seeking work for reasons such as disability or caring responsibilities. The plan therefore sets out to extend...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Administration (7 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: My Department provides a range of activation supports catering for long-term unemployed jobseekers and those most distant from the labour market. These supports include employment schemes such as Community Employment (CE). The purpose of CE is break the cycle of unemployment; maintain work readiness; and improve a participants opportunity of returning to the labour market. Participation...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Applications (7 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Department received a Rent Supplement application for the property in question on 4/1/18. Additional documentation was requested on 8/1/18 and has not, to date, been returned. Upon receipt of same, entitlement to Rent Supplement can be assessed for the period of the tenancy. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (7 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 09thJanuary 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: Brexit Data (7 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: Contingency planning at both a domestic and an EU level is focused on three areas: preparing for a no-deal scenario or so-called “disorderly Brexit”; preparing for a transition period based on the “status quo”; and preparing for the future EU-UK relationship. While the outcome of the December European Council and the move on to Phase 2 has lessened the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Brexit Data (7 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: The Brexit Unit in the Department is led by an Assistant Secretary. The Unit has, at present, three 3 members of staff assigned to it, one Principal Officer, one Assistant Principal Officer and one Executive Officer. In addition to the salary costs for the three members of staff referenced above, budgetary resources of €13,718 were assigned to this unit in 2017 and a further budget of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Contracts Data (7 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: My Department is currently not engaged in any Public Private Partnership arrangement and has no plans to engage in any such arrangements at this time.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Appointments to State Boards Data (7 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: The statutory bodies operating under the aegis of my Department are the Citizens Information Board, the Low Pay Commission, the Pensions Authority, the Pensions Council and the Social Welfare Tribunal. Appointments to the Boards of these bodies are made in accordance with the requirements of the governing legislation and the Government Guidelines on Appointments to State Boards. The...