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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Water Conservation Grant (14 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: The eligibility criteria for the Water Conservation Grant are set out in the Water Services Act 2014 (Water Conservation Grant) Regulations. Under regulation 5(1) a person who registers with Irish Water, as required under section 5(2)(a) of the Water Services Act 2014, on or before 30 June 2015 shall be eligible to receive the grant in 2015 if they were normally resident at the principal...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (14 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: Following a review of the entitlement of the person in question, it was established that the person concerned had failed to disclose to the Department a relevant change to her circumstances as she is required to do. On 9 August 2013 a deciding officer decided that the person concerned was not entitled to an increase for a qualified child on her disability allowance from 21 January 2009 to 23...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (14 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance (DCA) was received from the person concerned on the 8th September 2015. This application has been forwarded to one of the Department’s Medical Assessors for their medical opinion. Following receipt of this opinion, a decision will be made by a Deciding Officer and notified to the person concerned. It can currently take 12 weeks to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (14 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person concerned on 18 August 2015. The application is currently being processed and once completed, the person concerned will be notified directly of the outcome.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (14 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: As previously outlined to the Deputy as recently as last week on the 8thof October 2015 in response to Parliamentary Question No 47, the client concerned should provide the Department with an up to date Rent Supplement application form and lease agreement in order for their entitlement to be re-assessed. This documentation has not, to date, been received by the Department.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (14 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: For persons up to the age of 55, the maximum duration of participation on a Community Employment Scheme is 3 years, as set out by the Departments scheme guidelines. As the person concerned is under 55 years, regrettably an extension cannot be considered.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Unemployment Benefits (14 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: The Department of Social Protection operates two schemes to assist people on certain social protection payments who wish to become self-employed; namely the Short Term Enterprise Allowance and the Back to Work Enterprise Allowance. The Short Term Enterprise Allowance provides immediate access to a monetary incentive to support jobseekers who qualify for jobseekers’ benefit to set up a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Water Conservation Grant (14 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: I understand an officer of my Department has contacted you regarding this matter and is awaiting details from your office. On receipt of the necessary details, the case will be examined and you will be notified of the outcome by my Department.

Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (13 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: On those ones alone it comes to €270, which is more than €5 a week. The Deputy is clearly locked in here in the Leinster House bubble and has not seen that there are significant improvements. We have not made all the improvements that we would like. That is on the increases in payments alone.

Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (13 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: In addition, for people who are on FIS there is an increase of €5 for the first child and €10 for the subsequent children. We also have the disregard for the jobseeker's transitional arrangements. So there are very specific measures. I would certainly hope that as little as possible of the increase in payments to lone parents or anyone else on social welfare would be spent on...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (13 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: Pricing is a deterrent and the more people we can deter from smoking, the better for everyone involved.

Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (13 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: We have had this debate on cigarettes on many occasions in the House. I have been at odds on many occasions with Deputy Finian McGrath but I favour measures to cut down smoking to the maximum level possible as a society. Anybody who visits hospices and sees the suffering, the pain and the difficulties people go through would certainly see that smoking causes extraordinarily difficult health...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (13 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: Can we persuade the Deputy?

Deaths of Garda and Members of the Traveller Community: Expressions of Sympathy (13 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: As Tánaiste and on behalf of the Labour Party, I want to express my deepest sympathies to the families who have lost their loved ones in the terrible tragedies at Carrickmines and Omeath. This was a truly horrific weekend, a desperate weekend that affected not just one family or one community or many and it was all the more heartbreaking because it took place against a weekend which was...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Qualified Child Increase Payments (13 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: The full year cost of increasing the weekly rate of the Qualified Child Increase by €5, €10 and €15 in 2016 is €94 million, €187 million and €281 million, respectively.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Farm Assist Scheme Payments (13 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: The person concerned is currently in receipt of a farm assist payment. Based on new information received a review of the means involved will be carried out by a social welfare inspector in due course as part of the inspector’s caseload.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Applications (13 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: The person concerned applied for a supplementary welfare allowance payment towards clothing on 5thNovember, 2014. This application was refused as no exceptional need was considered to exist. The person concerned was informed of and afforded the right to a review of this decision. The original decision of the designated person was upheld on review.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (13 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: Following a review of his entitlement, it was established that the person concerned had means not previously disclosed to this department. These means are derived from his spouse’s employment. On 4 September 2014, a deciding officer, decided that the person concerned had a reduced entitled to disability allowance from 23 March 2011 to 2 July 2013, because of the means from his...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Appointments to State Boards (13 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: The legislative provisions governing membership of the Citizens Information Board are contained in the Comhairle Act 2000, the Citizens Information Act 2007, and the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2011. The legislation provides for a quorum of 8, or such lesser number (being not less than 5) as the Board may from time to time determine. On 3rdMarch 2015, eight vacancies, including that of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Payments (13 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: Disability allowance is in payment to the person concerned at the maximum rate. The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme is currently in operation in Kilkenny. Under this scheme the Local Authority are now responsible for the housing needs and the payments for new rented accommodation and are also responsible for homeless persons in the area. All new applicants are advised to apply to...