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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Rates (11 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: The cost of adjusting the class A PRSI employer’s rate for those earning less than €380 per week is contained in the table below. New Rate Cost 8.00% €19.5m 7.75% €28.7m 7.50% €37.9m 7.25% €47.1m 7.00% €56.3m 6.75% €65.5m 6.50% €74.7m 6.25% €83.9m 6.00% €93.1m 5.75% €102.3m 5.50% €111.4m...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Court Recommendations (11 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Labour Court is an independent workplace dispute resolution body providing a comprehensive service for the resolution of disputes concerning industrial relations and employment rights. The Labour Court is not a court of law. The operation of the Court andits businessis a matter for the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Bodies Data (11 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: There are two non-commercial State sponsored bodies working under the aegis of this Department. These are the Citizens Information Board and the Pensions Authority. The following tables provide the percentage of female staff working in both of these agencies from 2010 to date. % Female staff in the Pensions Authority at 31 December 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 (at 1 September)...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff Data (11 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: The following table provides a breakdown of the percentage of female permanent staff employed by this Department from 2010 to end July 2017. Year Female FTE % 2010 67 2011 68 2012 68 2013 69 2014 69 2015 69 2016 68 End July 2017 68

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Training Support Grant (11 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Training Support Grant (TSG) previously known as the Technical Employment Support Grant (TESG) is funded by my department TSG is designed to facilitate quick access to short-term training where this cannot be provided by a state provider within a reasonable time or where an intervention is identified that can support individual jobseekers to access work opportunities. The scheme is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (11 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: An application for carer's allowance (CA) was received from the person concerned on 7 December 2016. It is a condition for receipt of a CA that the person being cared for must have a such disability that they require full-time care and attention. This is defined as requiring from another person, continual supervision and frequent assistance throughout the day in connection with normal bodily...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (11 Sep 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: Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme Eligibility (11 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: The back to school clothing and footwear allowance scheme provides a once-off payment to eligible families to assist with the costs of clothing and footwear when children start or return to school each autumn. The Government has provided €47.4 million for the scheme in 2017. Foster care allowances are payable by the Child and Family Agency, Tusla, which falls under the remit of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (11 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned has been referred to an Appeals Officer who will make a summary decision on the appeal based on the documentary evidence presented or, if required, hold an oral hearing. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the Department and is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Data (11 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: Penalty rates were introduced as a means of encouraging jobseekers to engage with activation measures and co-operate with efforts of the Department to assist them in securing employment. The Department is committed, under Pathways to Work, to incentivise the take-up of activation opportunities, including implementing sanctions for failure to engage. The legislation underpinning the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Data (11 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: Under the supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme, my Department may make a single exceptional needs payment (ENP) to help meet essential, once-off and unforeseen expenditure which a person could not reasonably be expected to meet out of their weekly income. The Government has provided €31.5 million for exceptional needs payments (ENPs) and urgent needs payments (UNPs) in 2017....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reports (11 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: On foot of the legislative commitment contained in the Social Welfare Act 2016 to carry out an independent report on the amendments to the one parent family payment, and following a tendering process, Indecon Economic Consultants were selected and commenced work on the report in April of this year. I would like to clarify for the Deputy that this report was not due to be completed within...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Data (11 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: The latest Eurostat European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions data show that the severe material deprivation rate for lone parent households was 22.6% in Ireland in 2015. This is the second successive year the rate reduced – representing a 9.7 percentage point reduction on the 2013 rate of 32.3%. The Irish rate compares to the EU average of 17.1% in 2015 (see Table 1). The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Data (11 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: Eurostat does not report on consistent poverty, at-risk-of-poverty or basic deprivation measures based on the principal economic status “unable to work due to disability or illness”. However, in the European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), disability is based on the concept of global activity limitation. This is defined as a “limitation in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Waiting Times (11 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: The information (where available) requested by the Deputy is detailed in the attached tabular statement. Number of claims Pending and Average time to Award by scheme at 31 August 2017 Schemes Pending Average time to award (weeks) Jobseeker's Benefit 1,927 1 Jobseeker's Allowance 6,235 2 One-Parent Family Payment 1,092 6 State Pension Contributory (Dom) 2,769 5 Widow, Widower’s...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (11 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Department cannot at present reliably identify claimant addresses by constituency boundaries. However the following table shows jobseeker payment recipients in Dublin broken down by payment type and claimant’s Intreo Office. Recipients of a jobseekers payment in Dublin INTREO offices 31 August 2017 Office Jobseeker's Allowance Jobseeker's Benefit Jobseeker's Credits Only Total...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Yield (11 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: The estimated additional revenue that would be generated if the higher rate of PRSI of 10.75% was increased to 12.75% for persons earning over €110,000 is €119m. This estimate is based on the latest available data and reflects macro-economic indicators for 2018 only. It should be noted that the estimates do not take possible changes in behaviour arising from increasing the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (11 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: An application for carer's allowance (CA) was received from the person concerned on 6 June2017 in respect of two care recipients. It is a condition for receipt of a CA that the person being cared for must have such disability that they require full-time care and attention. This is defined as requiring from another person, continual supervision and frequent assistance throughout the day in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (11 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: I confirm that my department received an application for carer’s allowance from the person concerned on the 4 August 2017. The application is currently being processed and once completed, the person concerned will be notified directly of the outcome. I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (11 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer, having fully considered all of the available evidence, has decided to allow the appeal of the person concerned by way of a summary decision. The person concerned has been notified of the Appeals Officer’s decision. The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection...