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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Eligibility (23 Sep 2015)

Joan Burton: ...evidence in relation to the person’s medical condition and how it affects him is submitted for consideration at this point. It is open to the person in question to submit any evidence that he feels to be relevant. In the meantime, pending completion of the review, the person concerned will continue to receive payment of DA.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)

Joan Burton: ..., as the secretariat, in particular. knows. The Department's consideration of important policy and organisational outputs should be properly reflected. What I will do as Minister - members might feel free to do the same - is see if I can commission somebody to produce a paper on this issue for the Department. Nobody comes to mind immediately, but the policy, the organisation, the money...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Momentum Programme (22 Sep 2015)

Joan Burton: ...for the employment of people with disabilities and the disability awareness training scheme. For those who are in receipt of invalidity pension or illness benefit (for at least six months) and who feel they now have some capacity for work, the partial capacity benefit (PCB) scheme allows them to work and retain a portion of their social welfare payment. People on disability-related...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Payments (14 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: ...means assessment has issued to the person concerned as part of the communication of the decision. First payment was on 1 July 2015 and any arrears due will follow shortly. If the person in question feels that the means assessed are not correct, it is open to him to request a review of the decision or to appeal it to the Social Welfare Appeals Office.

Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: I feel terribly sorry, as I am sure everyone does, for anybody who finds themselves in Alan and Kelly's position consequent to the crash in construction, banking and everything else we have worked to resolve in the past four years. The suggestion I made to Deputy Murphy to help Alan and Kelly, which he carefully avoided answering, was that in cases such as those of Alan and Kelly, whom he...

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: ...political conviction since I first entered politics and it has informed me throughout my career. The Labour Party is the party of work, the party that believes in providing opportunity for all. Being on social welfare for 18 to 22 years is not opportunity. It is society saying that we have no higher ambition for a person or for their children. At times, listening to the Sinn Féin...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Overpayments (24 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: ...implemented from ongoing social welfare entitlements, the person is notified in writing of the proposed amount to be deducted and provided with the opportunity to detail any circumstances he or she feels may be relevant to the rate of recovery proposed. Any information received from the person is considered in deciding on the amount of the deduction. The total amount of overpayments...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Support Services (24 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: ...involves calling in young people, talking to them and getting them to make a life plan. With people who have a disability, we have taken a voluntary approach, given that we do not want people to feel they are being asked to do something for which they do not feel they are ready. I have no difficulty with the Youth Guarantee.

Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)

Joan Burton: It feels on some days like Deputy McDonald may have gotten out the wrong side of the bed. I know sometimes she is a bit tough but usually she is a little bit more pleasant. On the Fennelly commission, no report has been published. I will receive it when it is published. I have seen media reports that an interim contact or report has been given to some parties, but I do not have any...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Eligibility (26 May 2015)

Joan Burton: I consider it important that the social welfare system facilitates and supports people with disabilities who feel they have some capacity to take up or re-enter employment or take up self-employment. A person in receipt of disability allowance (DA) can work either as an employee or in self-employment– where the employment is certified as being for rehabilitative purposes - and earn...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Activation Projects (6 May 2015)

Joan Burton: ...for the employment of people with disabilities and the disability awareness training scheme. For those who are in receipt of invalidity pension or illness benefit (for at least six months) and who feel they now have some capacity for work, the partial capacity benefit (PCB) scheme allows them to work and retain a portion of their social welfare payment. In addition, now that the...

Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (29 Apr 2015)

Joan Burton: ...in a good direction. There are more people at work, while businesses are opening up again and beginning to prosper. We can even see it in the streets with tourists visiting and local people shopping. The feeling that things are turning is palpably there. The Department of Finance is now predicting 4% growth in the economy this year. If this prediction is met, Ireland will once...

Order of Business (26 Mar 2015)

Joan Burton: The Deputies opposite can read their own history whenever they feel like doing so, as well as that of other parties.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Administration (10 Mar 2015)

Joan Burton: ...is voluntary and an intern may contact the JobBridge team at any stage of their Internship for advice and support. Additionally, any individual, who has concerns regarding an internship or where they feel that an organisation may be in breach of the scheme’s criteria, they should contact the JobBridge team by calling 046 9738080 or Freephone 1890 8000 24. Case Officers in...

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Joan Burton: ...When we saw yesterday a figure of 10.1% for the live register, that showed the CSO and, ultimately, EUROSTAT operating as they should, with independence. I do not know why Fianna Fáil Members seem to feel nervous about or critical of the independence of these institutions. The latter are crucial to how we function in terms of our statistics and the same applies at European level. ...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (5 Mar 2015)

Joan Burton: ...of a means assessment, this is because they have another source of income. When deductions are being considered, the person is provided with the opportunity to put forward any circumstances that they feel may be relevant to the rate of recovery proposed. The deduction does not affect payment of any adult or child dependent allowances, or any other allowances that are in payment. Overall,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (3 Mar 2015)

Joan Burton: ...that gave rise to the overpayment, as well as the person’s circumstances and their overall ability to pay. The person is provided with the opportunity to put forward any circumstances that they feel may be relevant to the rate of recovery proposed. Any circumstances put forward by the person will be considered in the context of agreeing a recovery plan. I am confident that...

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Joan Burton: ...has complaints to make, he is perfectly entitled to make a complaint in that respect to the Garda Síochána and to the Garda Ombudsman Commission. That is his option, as it is with any other citizen, if he feels that, as Deputy Coppinger suggests, he was manhandled by the gardaí.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (5 Feb 2015)

Joan Burton: .... Officials in the Department are also engaging with those in the Department of Justice and Equality in relation to this matter. It open to any person who has been refused a private tenancy and who feels discriminated against on the basis of his or her gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race and membership of the Travelling community to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (5 Feb 2015)

Joan Burton: ...raised with the leading websites. The Department is also engaging with the Department of Justice and Equality regarding this matter. It open to any person who has been refused a private tenancy and who feels discriminated against on the basis of the nine grounds set out in the equality legislation to refer a discrimination complaint to the Equality Tribunal under the Equal Status Acts.