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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Registration of Births (1 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The relevant legislation in this area is the Stillbirths Registration Act 1994 which applies to a child born weighing 500 grammes or more or having a gestational age of 24 weeks or more who shows no sign of life. Such thresholds are a feature of such registrations internationally and are in line with World Health Organisation guidelines in this area. I understand that these thresholds are...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance (1 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: Fuel Allowance is a means tested payment to assist pensioners and other long-term social welfare dependent householders with their winter heating costs. The payment is a contribution towards heating costs. It is not intended to meet these costs in full. The payment is made at the weekly rate of €28.00 or, if preferred, by way of two lump sum payments and is paid over the winter...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance (1 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The Fuel Allowance is a payment of €28.00 per week for 28 weeks (a total of €784 each year) from October to April, to over 372,000 low income households, at an estimated cost of €300 million in 2021. The purpose of this payment is to assist these households with their energy costs. The allowance represents a contribution towards the energy costs of a household. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance (1 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered with that office on 19 March 2021. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought. When these papers have been received from the Department, the case in question will be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (1 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The school meals programme provides funding towards the provision of food to some 1,557 schools and organisations benefitting 227,000 children. The objective of the programme is to provide regular, nutritious food to children who are unable, due to lack of good quality food, to take full advantage of the education provided to them. The programme is an important component of policies to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Food Poverty (1 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: I have read the report provided by the Deputy which documents the challenges posed in the Finglas area by COVID-19 and related restrictions. I can confirm that the Department of Social Protection is helping communities to address food poverty in the Finglas and wider Dublin 11 community through the School Meals programme and Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD). FEAD supports...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Living Alone Allowance (1 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: According to the records of my Department, the person concerned was awarded State Pension (contributory) from 22/08/2012, when they reached 66 years of age. At that time they were also awarded an Increase for Living Alone allowance, at the rate of €7.70. Their pension award along with additional allowances was confirmed in writing on 23 July 2012. They continue to be in receipt of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (1 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme is the safety net within the overall social welfare system in that it provides assistance to eligible people in the State whose means are insufficient to meet their needs and those of their dependents. Supports provided under the SWA scheme can consist of a basic weekly payment, a weekly or monthly supplement in respect of certain expenses, as...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobsPlus Scheme (1 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: JobsPlus is a subsidy paid to employers who recruit long-term unemployed people for new positions in their workplace. Employers can avail of JobsPlus when filling new positions or positions that arise as a consequence of natural turnover and receive a subsidy of €7,500 or €10,000 per employee. The value of the grant is dependent on the age of the new employee and their duration...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobsPlus Scheme (1 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: JobsPlus is a subsidy paid to employers who recruit long-term unemployed people for new positions in their workplace. Employers can avail of JobsPlus when filling new positions or positions that arise as a consequence of natural turnover and receive a subsidy of €7,500 or €10,000 per employee. The value of the grant is dependent on the age of the new employee and their duration...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme (1 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The Free Travel scheme provides free travel on the main public and private transport services for those eligible under the scheme. These include road, rail and ferry services provided by companies such as Bus Átha Cliath, Bus Éireann and Iarnród Éireann, as well as Luas and services provided by over 80 private transport operators. There are currently approx. 990,000...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance (1 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: Social welfare legislation provides that, for social assistance schemes, all income and capital (such as savings, investments and property other than the family home) belonging to the claimant and his or her spouse/partner, where applicable, are assessable for means assessment purposes. Disability allowance (DA) is a statutory means-tested payment and the provisions governing the assessment...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (1 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The below tables provide a breakdown of the higher executive officers, administration officers, assistant principal officers, principal officers and assistant secretaries in my Department by gender. These figures are as at the end of February and are full time equivalents. The figure for full time equivalents takes account of staff that avail of work-share options. ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (1 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: My Department shares data with the Department of Health, primarily for the purpose of assisting with the delivery of services to their customers. However, it is not possible to provide an inventory to cover all such data sharing over the extended period covered in the question, especially in view of the short time frame available. As an indication of the type of data sharing that is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: General Data Protection Regulation (1 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the table below: Total Reason for refusal Complaints 52 N/A Subject Access Requests* 1518 Accepted 1510 Refused 8 6 were refused under Article 15(4) GDPR – Third party data1 was...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Calafoirt agus Céanna (1 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: Mar is eol don Teachta is iad Comhairle Chontae na Gaillimhe atá freagrach as Cé Inis Oírr agus is iadsan a bheidh ag tabhairt faoi aon phróiseas tairisceana. Tá mo Roinn agus an Comhairle Chontae ag obair le chéile le tamall chun an cás gnó maidir leis an bhforbairt a thabhairt chun críche. Pléadh an cás gnó ag cruinniú don...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Calafoirt agus Céanna (1 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: Tá teagmháil rialta idir oifigigh na Roinne agus oifigigh an Chomhairle Contae chun forbairt an Chalaidh Mhóir in Inis Meáin, a phlé. I 2020 chuir mo Roinn maoiniú ar fáil do Chomhairle Chontae na Gaillimhe, chun ionsamhlú den chéibh a choimisiniú ón gColáiste Náisiúnta Mara na hÉireann - National Maritime College...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Staff (1 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The below table provides a breakdown of staff at the grade of higher executive officers, administration officers, assistant principal officers, principal officers and assistant secretaries in this Department by gender only: Grade Male Female Assistant Secretary 1 2 Principal Officer 9 4 ...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: General Data Protection Regulation (1 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: My Department has not received any complaints from members of the public under the heading of GDPR in the timeframe set out. The annual figures for data information requests, also known as subject access requests, received are outlined below: 2018: 0 2019: 0 2020: 1This request was withdrawn and was handled under Freedom of Information legislation 2021 to date: 0

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (31 Mar 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The Department of Social Protection (DSP) is committed to protocols which provide for a safe working environment for all staff in line with The Resilience and Recovery Plan 2020-2021: Plan for Living with COVID-19 and the Guidance for Public Service Employers during COVID-19 from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. In order to provide essential services to customers, some...