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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure (16 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: ...of the free six-monthly scale and polish treatment and contribution payments towards extended gum treatment and fillings for qualified customers under the dental benefit scheme would depend on the fees to be agreed with dental contractors for such treatments and on the numbers opting to avail of the treatments. Approximately 2 million people are currently eligible for Dental Benefit. In...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Student Grant Scheme Payments (9 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: ...receives activation support from Northside Local Employment Services and their Case Officer/Mediator will be able to discuss the options in relation to possible funding support for the course fees. However, there is no provision under the scheme for support for resource materials or apparel. Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI), as the single grant-awarding authority for student...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service Staff (21 Apr 2015)

Joan Burton: ...to the 51 local MABS local companies over the past five years, the number of Board members per company (as registered with audited accounts submitted to Companies Registration Office for 2013), the cost of each Board, including professional fees andthe % cost of the Boards relative to overall administrative costs. - - - - 2014 - - 2013 MABS Board Members (2013) Funding Board costs*...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Financial Resolution (16 Apr 2015)

Joan Burton: ...made by the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, of fees by the Environmental Protection Agency, or such other public authority or other body as may be specified, for certain reviews of licenses or revised licenses which are carried out under the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Irish Language (15 Apr 2015)

Joan Burton: .... Supports available include funding for attendance at Irish language training courses; training resources such as language discs and books available; and funding through the Department’s Refund of Fees scheme, to encourage staff to pursue Irish Language education outside of work hours. The Department of Social Protection’s Language Scheme 2015 – 2018, as required...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payments (15 Apr 2015)

Joan Burton: ...week) if the course is located over 45 kilometres from the student’s home, or €2,375 per annum (or €45.70 per week) if the course is located within 45 kilometres of the student’s home. They also receive tuition fees – the rate of which depends on their course. All customers who will be transitioning out of the OFP scheme from 3 July, 2015, onwards,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Bodies Data (25 Mar 2015)

Joan Burton: ...Authority The Pensions Authority consists of a Chairperson, an official from the Department of Social Protection and an official from the Department of Finance - all of whom are female. No fees are payable to the members. Any travel and subsistence expenses will be remunerated at civil service rates. The Pensions Council A separate unpaid Pensions Council was established to advise me...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Springboard Programme (24 Mar 2015)

Joan Burton: ...upskill, or re-skill, for work in areas where there are identified labour market skills shortages or employment opportunities. Springboard courses are free and, therefore, they do not incur any fees. As such, students who are availing of a Springboard course would not be in receipt of student universal support Ireland (SUSI) grants (maintenance or fees). Given that there is no...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (5 Mar 2015)

Joan Burton: ...or the VTOS allowances for a post-leaving certificate course, for example, became ineligible for receipt of the student maintenance grant. However, the student service charge, as well as any fee payable to third level colleges, have continued to be met by the Exchequer on their behalf. This change has applied to all new student grant holders from the 2010-11 academic year onwards. ...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Legal Costs (3 Mar 2015)

Joan Burton: The Department made no payments to the law firms mentioned in respect of legal fees for services rendered to it in the years 2011 to 2014. The Department’s legal advisors are the Office of the Chief State Solicitor and the Office of the Attorney General. The statutory bodies operating under the aegis of the Department of Social Protection are the Citizens Information Board, the...

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2015)

Joan Burton: ...the privilege of visiting one to two schools per week - not just in my current job but since I became a Deputy - because one of my abiding interests is education. I go into very well-off schools - fee-paying schools. Deputy McDonald would be familiar with them. What I find is that the students have a collaborative learning experience. Often when I go into a poorer community, I find...

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2015)

Joan Burton: ...the parties and them sitting down to resolve it. For the nurses who are working in the health service or who travel abroad to work in other health services, it is important that the registration fee be fair and that the dispute be resolved as soon as possible.

Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2015)

Joan Burton: On 17 September 2014, the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, NMBI, voted to increase the annual registration fee for nurses and midwives, from €100 to €150 for 2015. I agree this is a large increase, particularly at a time when the danger to the eurozone is not inflation but the risk of deflation. The staff associations have undertaken a campaign against paying the new...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (20 Jan 2015)

Joan Burton: ...of support in securing work and achieving financial self-sufficiency. Accordingly, the employment services and schemes provided by the Department – including some limited support for payment of fees on training courses – are focused, in the first instance, on the cohort of people who are unemployed and in receipt of a qualifying social welfare payment. There are no plans to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Social Welfare Code (17 Dec 2014)

Joan Burton: ...charge of PRSI. Article 27(f)(iv) of the Statutory Instrument exempts income received in respect of “Public Offices under the State”. As the portion of income that comes from worker director fees in CIE comes within the scope of this provision, the individual is exempt from having to pay PRSI on this income.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Personal Insolvency Practitioners (10 Dec 2014)

Joan Burton: .... I am advised by my colleague the Minister for Justice and Equality, with responsibility for the Insolvency Service of Ireland, that a number of personal insolvency practitioners do not charge an upfront fee for an initial consultation. The Insolvency Service of Ireland does not prescribe practitioner fees. Fees are negotiated by the Personal Insolvency Practitioner in each individual...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (6 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 56 and 57 together. The Department of Social Protection does not pay fees to recruitment or employment agencies because all department staff, both temporary and permanent are recruited and appointed through the Public Appointments Service The agencies that operate under the aegis of the Department are the Citizens Information Board, the Pensions Authority,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Services Programme (7 Oct 2014)

Joan Burton: ...day-to-day management of contracts undertaken by Pobal. Contract holders must deliver tangible services that are capable of generating non-public revenues from their operations by way of charging fees, sales and/or fundraising and other public funds. Funding is provided on the basis of a contribution to the cost of a full-time position to support the delivery of the service and includes...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: IBEC Membership (7 Oct 2014)

Joan Burton: ...services. In 2012, CIB made payments to IBEC amounting to €20,439. This comprised a figure of €14,092 in respect of the extension of contract for support services as detailed above, €3,667 in respect of a membership fee for CIB staff and €2,680 in respect of staff training. No payments have been made by CIB to IBEC since 2012. The Pensions Authority The...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Agencies (30 Sep 2014)

Joan Burton: ...in relation to some aspects of the legislation and; To advise the Minister for Social Protection on pensions matters generally 47 The operations of the Pensions Authority are financed by annual fees payable to it by occupational pension schemes and by providers of Personal Retirement Savings Accounts. N/A Pensions Board 1990 Pensions Authority 7 March 2014 The Pensions Acts 1990 to...