Results 141-160 of 288 for 5 million speaker:Joan Burton

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Jun 2014)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 305 to 309, inclusive, together. The cost of increasing the personal weekly rate of jobseeker’s allowance payable to certain persons aged under 26 years to the maximum personal weekly rate payable to those aged 26 years or over is estimated at €161 million in 2015. The cost includes an increase, where applicable, in the qualified adult rate to...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Joan Burton: ...by the Oireachtas, before the normal early January implementation dates for many of the measures. The main reason this Bill needs to be enacted before the summer recess is in order to comply with the 5 August 2014 deadline for the transposition of Articles 7 and 8 of the EU Directive 2010/41. The directive provides equal treatment between men and women engaged in an activity in a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Employment Initiative (10 Jun 2014)

Joan Burton: The Government will spend over €500 million in 2014 on employment, education and training opportunities for young people. This will support the gradual implementation of the new Youth Guarantee which will seek to offer young people employment, continued education, an apprenticeship or a traineeship within four months of becoming unemployed. As part of the Intreo process young people...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud Data (10 Jun 2014)

Joan Burton: ...Department’s books. This time varies from scheme to scheme. In general, long-term schemes have a multiplier of 136 weeks (termination cases) and short-term schemes have multipliers ranging from 32 to 52 weeks. Validation exercises are undertaken to ensure control savings are recorded correctly. These involve an examination of the various control savings reported to ensure that...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)

Joan Burton: ...customer of An Post's services both in terms of mail delivery and through the contract for the delivery of welfare payments in cash. This is reflected in the scale and volume of business during 2013 with 14 million mail items to a value of over €11.5 million and some 43.7 million over-the-counter cash payment transactions with a value of over €57 million. Additional...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Second Stage (4 Jun 2014)

Joan Burton: ...Pathways to Work, we are getting people back to work and that is the single best way of reducing welfare expenditure. Every 10,000 people we help to leave the live register saves approximately €95 million in welfare expenditure per year. That in turn creates the room to protect key services, supports and schemes in other areas of the Department. People at work, through their...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Expenditure (27 May 2014)

Joan Burton: ...to take Questions Nos. 386, 387 and 389 together. The cost of increasing the family income supplement (FIS) multiplier by 10 percentage points, from 60% to 70%, is estimated at approximately €43 million in a full year (costing is based on the estimated number of weekly recipients in 2014). The data requested by the Deputy in relation to the FIS scheme are outlined in the following...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pensions Reform (30 Apr 2014)

Joan Burton: ...ensure that those who contribute more during a working life benefit more in retirement than those with lesser contributions. The Exchequer savings arising are estimated to be in the region of €5 million for 2014. However, it is expected that this will increase over time, as the provisions are applied to new pensioners entering the system.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Applications (16 Apr 2014)

Joan Burton: ...who do not have accommodation available to them from any other source. There are currently approximately 78,000 rent supplement recipients for which the Government has provided in excess of €344 million in 2014.In Waterford City and East Waterford, approximately 1,280 rent supplement applications are administered in a centralised unit, based at the Intreo Office. The timescale for...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Measures (16 Apr 2014)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 92 to 95, inclusive, 100 and 101 together. In the first instance, the Government’s primary strategy to reduce unemployment (including long-term and youth unemployment) is through policies to create the environment for a strong economic recovery by promoting competitiveness and productivity. Economic recovery will underpin jobs growth. This strategy is...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance (25 Mar 2014)

Joan Burton: Section 10 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 requires my department to commission an actuarial review of the position of the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) at 5-year intervals. The third Actuarial Review of the SIF was published in 2012 and covers the period to 2066. Projections in respect of the State pension (contributory) are as follows: - 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2030...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (5 Mar 2014)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 3 and 5 together. There are approximately 78,000 rent supplement recipients for which the Government has provided more than €344 million in 2014. While the Deputy may find it difficult to accept, there are clearly many tens of thousands of people in receipt of rent supplement. Following an extensive review of the private rental market, revised...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (18 Feb 2014)

Joan Burton: ...material. In 2013, MABS also dealt with approx. 4,000 emergency clients who were seen immediately without any waiting period. Altogether, the number of new clients presenting to MABS in 2013 was 20,552. While statistics for 2014 have not yet been compiled, initial indications are that waiting times for those services with above average waiting times in 2013 are reducing, e.g. Leitrim...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Flood Relief Schemes Expenditure (12 Feb 2014)

Joan Burton: ...to meet costs for essential needs, household items and in some instances structural repair. Total expenditure on the humanitarian assistance scheme to the end of 2013 was approximately €2.2 million in respect of approximately 3,500 payments. The statistics available show that payments issued ranged from approximately €50 to €28,000. The Government has not set a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (5 Feb 2014)

Joan Burton: There are currently approximately 79,000 rent supplement recipients for which the Government has provided over €344 million for 2014. Statistics are not available on the number of persons 23 years of age and younger in receipt of rent supplement for each of the past five years. The rent supplement age statistics that are available profiles recipients’ age subtotalled for...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (28 Jan 2014)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 119, 121, 124, 130 and 136 together. There are currently approximately 80,000 rent supplement recipients for which the Department has provided over €344 million for 2014. Almost 30,000 of these recipients are in the Dublin area, The purpose of rent supplement is to provide short-term support to eligible people living in private rented...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection (Revised) (23 Jan 2014)

Joan Burton: ...'s expenditure on its various programmes in 2014. These are outlined in table 1 of page 3 of the briefing. The biggest single block of expenditure in 2014 will be on pensions, amounting to €6.5 billion or just over 33% of overall expenditure. Expenditure on workingage income supports,including jobseeker's and one-parent family payments, accounts for some 25% of overall...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (21 Jan 2014)

Joan Burton: ...an alternative to the other social housing schemes operated by the Exchequer. There are currently approximately 80,000 rent supplement recipients for which the Government has provided over €344 million for 2014. The implementation of revised maximum rent limits under the rent supplement scheme was approved by Government on 5 June 2013, following an extensive review of the private...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Work Initiatives (15 Jan 2014)

Joan Burton: ...work opportunities for those who are fully unemployed for 12 months or more. Overall responsibility for the Tús rests with the Department of Social Protection with day-to-day operations delivered by 50 local development companies and Údarás na Gaeltachta (implementing bodies). The sum of €119.6 million has been allocated for 2014 to maintain 7,500 placements and...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2013)

Joan Burton: ...arises in the context of a recent High Court case. The social welfare system has a practice of appeals officers revising decisions in a particular set of circumstances. There are approximately 2 million applications per year to the Department for a whole range of benefits. When the appeals process has been exhausted but where circumstances have changed, the Department allows a fresh...