Results 11,961-11,980 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Other Questions: Child Benefit Administration (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy is suggesting that the payment of child benefit should be entirely conditional on a child attending school.
- Other Questions: Child Benefit Administration (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: The law requires children to receive an appropriate education. For almost all children, this is provided in a school environment but, as the Deputy is aware, there are families who are dedicated to home schooling.
- Other Questions: Child Benefit Administration (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: We have to allow for parental choice.
- Other Questions: Child Benefit Administration (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: As Deputies will be aware from media reports, the Department of Education and Skills has undertaken to use personal public service numbers, PPSN, for children at primary level, as is already the case at second and third level. The Departments of Education and Skills and Social Protection are co-operating on mapping the location of children for the purpose of planning new schools. When the...
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Code (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: As only a short time remains, I will not read out the reply. As I indicated in answer to the previous question, child benefit is a major payment that is made to more than 600,000 families in respect of 1.2 million children at an annual cost of €1.9 billion.
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Code (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: As I pointed out to Deputy Naughten, it is my view that child benefit should be universal payment. It is one of the few universal payments in our social welfare system. All of our research shows that the payment goes directly to the caring parent who is, for the most part, the mother, and is very well spent on children. I do not have any proposals to tax the payment. I am aware of the...
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: The majority of lone parents are not in work.
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: There is absolutely no change in their payments. The reason the changes are being brought in is to give parents, when their child reaches seven years of age, a six-year transition period to enable them, in particular, to become involved in education or training with a view to being able get employment when their children are older and in second level education, because the best route out of...
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: Deputy Coppinger's colleague was one of the principal organisers of the event in Jobstown.
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: The people who organised that event cast a slur on the very good people of Jobstown.
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: This was an event to celebrate-----
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: -----the success of people from the local community-----
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: -----including a number of lone parents, who were graduating with a degree. Graduating with a degree and going to college might mean nothing to the Deputy, but I come from a very strong working class background.
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: Actually, a lone parent-----
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: Deputy Coppinger can defend-----
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: I am convinced that helping lone parents into education and training and helping them get a job, and the Jobstown-----
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: The Jobstown graduation was to celebrate that, for people from the community. That is the right approach.
- Other Questions: Child Benefit Administration (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: Child benefit is a payment to parents for the support of their children. It is paid to some 615,000 families in respect of 1.18 million children, with an expenditure of approximately €1.9 billion in 2014. This payment, I am happy to say, increased by €5, to €135 per month, with effect from January 2015. Child benefit will remain a universal payment because of its...
- Other Questions: Water Conservation Grant (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: The Department of Social Protection will administer, on behalf of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, a €100 water conservation grant for households that complete a valid response to Irish Water's customer registration process. The grant will be paid to registered householders annually in respect of their primary dwellings. The first payment is to be...
- Other Questions: Water Conservation Grant (5 Feb 2015)
Joan Burton: The Department has put a project team in place to engage in a scoping exercise in respect of the business development structures and so on that will be required to put in place the process that will ensure the efficient delivery of an application and payment system for the grant, including associated consumer communications and support services. That work is ongoing. Assessing the resource...