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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (28 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 661 and 678 together. The National Pensions Framework proposed that a total contribution approach should replace the yearly average approach. Under this approach, the rate of pension paid would more closely reflect the total number of Social Insurance contributions made by a person throughout her or his working life and the anomalies of the Yearly Averaging...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (28 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: As the Deputy will be aware, the State’s Public Employment Service is managed by my Department and delivered directly by its own Intreo service as well as by contracted private companies, such as JobPath, Local Employment Service (LES) and Job Club providers. My Department has for many years contracted with third parties for the delivery of a range of services/programmes/schemes....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (28 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: The State pension contributory is a very valuable benefit and is the bedrock of the Irish pension system. Therefore, it is important to ensure that those qualifying have made a sustained contribution to the Social Insurance Fund over their working lives. To ensure that the individual can maximise their entitlement to a State pension, all contributions paid or credited over their working...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Contracts Data (28 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: The public contracts awarded to the companies concerned, in each of the years 2011 to 2016, and the value of each contract, is outlined in the table in Appendix 1. A breakdown of annual expenditure on consultancy and IT external service provision, and a list of purchase orders for €20,000 or greater, is published routinely on the Department website at .. Under the FOI publication...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Education and Training Boards (28 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Department’s activation service is tailored to the individual needs and circumstances of the jobseeker, with the aim of him/her progressing to suitable, sustainable full-time employment. In the context of the agreed Personal Progression Plan, a need may be identified for the jobseeker to pursue a course of education, training or development, in which case the Case Officer will...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (28 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: The changes made to State Pension (contributory) rate bands made in budget 2012, affected those pensioners who had a yearly average of less than 39 social insurance contributions over the course of their working life. As such, the changes did not preclude any pensioner who would have qualified for a full State Pension (contributory) pre-2012 from qualifying for a full rate after September...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (28 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Department takes customer privacy very seriously, works diligently to protect customer data, and has in place a suite of measures to support data protection and information security awareness and compliance. As custodian of personal information, staff members of the Department are reminded continuously about the importance of information security and to be vigilant and aware of data...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card Data (28 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 669 and 674 together. My Department (on behalf of the public service) entered into a contract for the production, personalisation, distribution and associated helpdesk support of 3 million PSCs by the end of 2017. The contract was awarded to Biometric Card Services (BCS), an Irish registered company based in Co. Wicklow. It was a condition of award of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (28 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: I confirm that my Department received an application for carer’s allowance (CA) from the person concerned on 11 July 2017 in respect of two care recipients. A person can be considered to be providing full-time care and attention where they are engaged in employment, self-employment or on training courses outside the home for a maximum of 15 hours per week, provided that they can show...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Communications (28 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: My Department is a major user of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and invests on an ongoing basis in securing the ICT technical infrastructure and the services and data used in support of our business. This includes traditional, defence-in-depth deployments of preventative controls like firewalls and endpoint protection and advanced threat detection tools. My Department also...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (28 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: In 2005, the Government approved a rules-based standard for establishing and authenticating an individual’s identity for the purposes of access to public services. This standard is known as the Standard Authentication Framework environment – or SAFE. A person who successfully completes a SAFE 2 registration process (i.e. verifies their identity to a substantial level of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (28 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: As the Deputy will be aware, JobPath is a service that supports people who are long-term unemployed and those most at risk of becoming long-term unemployed to secure and sustain paid employment. The service commenced operations in mid-2015, and reached full State-wide delivery of the service in July 2016. Jobseekers who are selected for JobPath, are invited to attend an initial...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (28 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will come into force on the 25th May 2018, replaces the existing data protection framework under the EU Data Protection Directive and imposes a general necessity to have specific legislative provisions underpinning the methods organisations use to process data. The main legal powers providing for and relating to SAFEregistration and the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (28 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection operates its contract for cash payment services with An Post. The Department and An Post agreed a protocol in 2014 governing the forms of identification which claimants, or their agents, must produce in order to collect payments. There has been no change in this agreed protocol or in the forms of identification required of claimants...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Non-Contributory) Appeals (28 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 21stSeptember 2017. 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 Employment Affairs and Social Protection. These papers were...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Foireann Roinne (28 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 679 and 680 together. Tá mo Roinn tiomanta do sheirbhís do chustaiméirí ar ardchaighdeán a sholáthar i nGaeilge agus i mBéarla. Tá Scéim Teanga 2015 - 2018 na Roinne i bhfeidhm ón 16 Márta 2015 agus beidh feidhm léi ar feadh tréimhse trí bliana nó go dtí go ndeimhneoidh an tAire...

Social Welfare Bill: Second Stage (23 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: I am sorry to interrupt but will Deputy Brady correct the record? He has misled the House in his opening statement. He referred to the fact that this budget contains absolutely nothing for the 42,000 people who are suffering from a pension anomaly based on rate band changes in 2012. That is incorrect and I want him to withdraw it. They will benefit from the €5 increase in their...

Social Welfare Bill: Second Stage (23 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: Then the Deputy is misleading the Dáil.

Social Welfare Bill: Second Stage (23 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: That is not what the Deputy said. Is the Deputy going to continue to mislead the Dáil? That is misleading.

Social Welfare Bill 2017: Order for Second Stage (23 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: I move: "That Second Stage be taken today."