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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. I confirm that an application for CA was received from the person concerned on 20 April 2022. The person concerned was...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (14 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: 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 €58.17m for the scheme in 2022 which operates from June to September. The allowance is payable for eligible children between the ages of 4 and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Jun 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.  Payments are made at the discretion of the officers administering the scheme, taking into account the requirements of the legislation, and all the relevant circumstances of the case in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The person concerned submitted an application for Disability Allowance (DA) on 21 December 2020.  Their application, based upon all the evidence submitted, was refused on medical grounds as it was not found that this person was substantially restricted in taking up employment.  The person concerned was notified in writing of this decision on 19 April 2021. The person...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The information requested by the Deputy is included in the attached tabular statement.  Note that these figures refer to all recipients under 25 who are on jobseeker's benefit, jobseeker's allowance and signing for credits as of 05 June 2022. County Jobseeker's Allowance Jobseeker's Benefit and Credits Total Carlow ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the table below. Recipients under the age of 25 with duration of 12 months or more as of 5 June 2022 Jobseeker's Benefit 12 Jobseeker's Allowance 4,847 Credits 11

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1157, 1158 and 1159 together. The information requested by the Deputy is outlined in the table below.  Note that these figures refer to all recipients under 25 who are on Jobseeker's Allowance as of 05 June 2022. Payment Rate of €117.70 Payment Rate of €208 Other Payment Rates Number...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The estimated full year cost of increasing the rate of payment by an additional €90.30, from €117.70 to €208 per week, is €66.8 million.  This includes a proportionate increase for qualified adults and those on an age-reduced rate of Supplementary Welfare Allowance. This costing is based on the estimated average number of recipients in 2022, and is subject to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (14 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1520 and 1528 together. In general, the criteria for the various secondary benefits schemes administered by my Department are designed to ensure that these benefits go to those who need them the most. Any decision to expand the qualifying criteria for these schemes would have wider budgetary consequences and would have to be considered in the context of...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Programmes (14 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The LEADER Programme is a key intervention of Our Rural Future, the Government’s Policy for rural development launched last year which aims to deliver a range of actions to rural communities over the lifetime of the policy. It is a multi-annual programme for rural development co-funded by the EU through the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The programme is based on a community-led...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Programmes (14 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: LEADER is a multi-annual EU programme which has a total budget of €250 million over the 7 year programming period 2014-2020.  In December 2020, I launched the Transitional LEADER Programme, which came into effect on 1st April 2021 and will run to the end of 2022. A total of €70 million is being made available over this programming period.   An indicative...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (14 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The CLÁR programme provides funding under a number of different measures for small-scale infrastructural projects in designated rural areas that have experienced significant levels of de-population over a defined period.  A total of €45.2 million has been approved for over 1,800 CLÁR projects since the programme was re-established in 2016.   I launched...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (14 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The CLÁR programme provides funding under a number of different measures for small-scale infrastructural projects in designated rural areas that have experienced significant levels of de-population over a defined period. CLÁR was re-launched in 2016 following a number of years when the scheme was closed to new applications.  Since then, almost 1,800 projects have...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (14 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The total gross allocation provided to my Department in 2022 is €378.5 million. This total allocation is split across three programme areas, with €202.3 million allocated to the Rural Development, Regional Affairs and the Islands programme area. The full year cost of increasing funding for this programme area by 5%, 10% and 20% is outlined in the below table. Funding for this...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (14 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Local Improvement Scheme (LIS) supports the improvement of rural roads and laneways that are not normally maintained by local authorities.  As part of Our Rural Future, the Government is committed to ensuring that the Scheme is funded into the future. From 2017 to 2021, my Department allocated €80 million towards improvement works on over 3,000 non-public roads and...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Data (14 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Since 2018 my Department has provided funding of over €2 million to the Irish Shows Association for Agricultural Shows throughout Ireland. The Agricultural Shows support programme is funded under Project Ireland 2040 as part of “Our Rural Future" I recently announced an increase in funding to €700,000 for 2022 to support the return of the agricultural shows...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Bodies (14 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The information the Deputy is seeking is available in my Department's Corporate Governance Framework document which can be found on my Department's website at the following link:  www.gov.ie/en/publication/0ae718-corporate-governance-framew ork/.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Land Issues (14 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: A National Outdoor Recreation Strategy (NORS) is currently being developed by my Department in conjunction with Comhairle na Tuaithe.  The Strategy, which is due to be launched before the year end, will provide a vision and an overarching framework for the growth and development of outdoor recreation in Ireland. As part of the development of the new National Outdoor Recreation...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (14 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Our Rural Future is the most ambitious and transformational policy for rural development in Ireland for decades. The policy contains more than 150 measures for delivery across the whole of Government, with the underlying theme of economic, environmental and societal sustainability. The policy has a vision of ensuring vibrant and thriving rural towns and villages, with a key objective...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Harbours and Piers (14 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 2007 and 2013 together. The Development of the Caladh Mór Pier on Inis Meáin is included in the National Development Plan. As the Deputy will be aware, Galway County Council is responsible for the development of stage 3 of this project.  As part of the preparatory works, the National Maritime College of Ireland (NMCI) was instructed by...