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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Transport (6 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The free travel scheme provides free travel on the main public and private transport services for those eligible under the scheme. These include road, rail and ferry services provided by companies such as Bus Átha Cliath, Bus Éireann and Iarnród Éireann, as well as Luas and services provided by over 80 private transport operators. Below shows the number of recipient's of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 152 and 153 together. The supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme is the safety net within the overall social welfare system in that it provides assistance to eligible people in the State whose means are insufficient to meet their needs and those of their dependents. Supports provided under the SWA scheme can consist of a basic weekly payment, a weekly...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Public Sector Staff (6 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: I can confirm that there are no former County Managers or CEOs of local authorities currently employed, in any format, within my Department. My Department currently has four agencies under its remit. They are Pobal, the Western Development Commission, the Charities Regulatory Authority and Water Safety Ireland. I have set out the details in relation to each below. Pobal There are no former...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (6 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Rural Regeneration and Development Fund provides funding for the development and construction of capital projects in towns and villages and rural areas across Ireland. To date, 191 projects have been approved for funding of €278 million for projects costing €377 million. Calls for applications to the Fund are sought under two categories – Category 1 and Category 2....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: We are not swanning off.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (5 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: My Department provides a wide range of services and supports to assist jobseekers with a disability to find work and to incentivise employers to recruit them support them in employment. Disability-related income schemes have been designed to support people with disabilities to enter or return to employment or self-employment.  Both Disability Allowance and Blind Pension are...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (5 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Community Welfare Service of my Department delivers the Supplementary Welfare Allowance scheme which is the safety net within the overall social welfare system.  This scheme provides assistance to eligible people in the State whose means are insufficient to meet their needs and those of their dependents. The Deputy can be assured that I am committed to a Community Welfare Service...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (5 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme, my Department can make additional needs payments to help meet expenses that a person cannot pay from their weekly income.  This is an administrative umbrella term used to refer to exceptional and urgent needs payments, and certain supplements to assist with ongoing or recurring costs that cannot be met from the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Citizens Information Services (5 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Citizens Information Board (CIB) is a statutory independent body, which operates under the aegis of the Department of Social Protection.  CIB provides funding to 22 companies in order to deliver services on its behalf.  This includes eight Citizen Information Services (CIS) companies that operate a national network of Citizens Information Centres.  These eight companies are...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Appointments to State Boards (5 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The state bodies operating under the aegis of my Department are the Citizens Information Board, the Pensions Authority, the Pensions Council and the Social Welfare Tribunal.  There is currently one former Civil Servant serving on the Board of the Citizens Information Board.  No former County Managers or Chief Executive Officers of local authorities are currently serving on its...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (5 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: I confirm that my Department received an application for disability allowance (DA) from the above named person on 10 March 2022. Based on the evidence supplied in support of this person’s application, his application for disability allowance (DA) was disallowed on the grounds that the medical qualifying condition was not satisfied. The person concerned was notified in writing of this...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (5 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: In order to be eligible for fuel allowance, a person must be in receipt of a qualifying payment, satisfy a household means test and live alone or only with certain other qualified people.  Under the means test, an applicant and members of his/her household may have a combined assessable income of up to €120 a week above the appropriate rate of State Pension Contributory, currently...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (5 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The School Meals Programme provides funding towards the provision of food to some 1,506 schools and organisations benefitting 230,000 children.  The objective of the programme is to provide regular, nutritious food to children who are unable, due to lack of good quality food, to take full advantage of the education provided to them.  The programme is an important...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (5 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the tables below. Table 1 refers to recipients of Maternity Benefit and Table 2 refers to recipients of Paternity Benefit. The dates in these tables refer to instances where at least one Maternity/Paternity payment issued in a given year, and at least one means-tested payment issued to that person in that same year. It should be noted...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Funding (5 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: My Department continues to provide learning and development opportunities to all staff.  As part of our refund of fees scheme, the Department is supporting 4 PhD students in their studies at present which are being undertaken on a part-time basis and the staff continue to work in the Department over the course of their studies.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The person concerned made an application for Illness Benefit from the 1st February 2022.  This application was disallowed as she did not satisfy the PRSI contribution conditions necessary for payment.  The person concerned wrote to us to inform us that she had previously worked in the UK, and my Department subsequently requested her contribution record from the UK in order to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (5 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The person concerned reached pension age on 15 January 2020. An application for the State Pension (non-contributory) pension was received in July 2019.  The application was disallowed as their means exceeded the statutory limit.  The decision was appealed by the person concerned and upheld by the Appeals office in May 2020.  A further application was received in May...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (5 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Fuel Allowance is a payment of €33 per week for 28 weeks (a total of €924 each year) from late September to April, to over 370,000 low income households, at an estimated cost of €366 million in 2022.  The purpose of this payment is to assist these households with their energy costs.  The criteria for Fuel Allowance are framed in order to direct the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (5 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Partial Capacity Benefit (PCB) is a scheme which extends the Illness Benefit and Invalidity Pension schemes to recognise and respond to the reality that some people in receipt of these payments have a capacity to engage in open market employment while continuing to need to receive some income support from the State.  People in receipt of Invalidity Pension or Illness Benefit (the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (5 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 392 to 395, inclusive, together. The Work Placement Experience Programme (WPEP) is a key policy initiative under the Government's national employment services strategy, Pathways to Work 2021-2025.  It is a funded work placement scheme to provide quality work experience to unemployed jobseekers to build their skills and experience.  Placements run...