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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment (12 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: If the person concerned is experiencing financial difficulties she can contact her local Community Welfare Service in the Cork Street Intreo Centre where her circumstances will be assessed. Under the Supplementary Welfare Allowance scheme, my Department can make a single Exceptional Needs Payment to help meet essential, once-off expenditure, which a person could not reasonably be expected to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (12 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's Allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment, made to persons who are providing full-time care and attention to a person who has such a disability that they require that level of care. I am advised that no application by the person concerned for Carer’s Allowance has been registered. If the person in question wishes to make an application, she should complete and...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: LEADER Programmes (12 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 385 and 386 together. The current 2014-2020 LEADER programme, which is co-funded by the European Commission, is due to end in December this year as far as new project approvals are concerned. As the Deputy will be aware, due to delays at EU level, the next EU LEADER programme will not commence until 2022 at the earliest. The Programme for Government includes...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Offices (12 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: My Department currently only occupies office space at two locations - Trinity Point, Dublin 2, and Government Buildings, Ballina, Co. Mayo. The offices occupied in Ballina are in the ownership of the Office of Public Works (OPW), while the lease arrangements in relation to Trinity Point are managed on our behalf by the OPW. My Department does not have any lease arrangements with any of the...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Offices (12 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: My Department currently only occupies office space at two locations - Trinity Point, Dublin 2, and Government Buildings, Ballina, Co. Mayo. The offices occupied in Ballina are in the ownership of the Office of Public Works (OPW), while the lease arrangements in relation to Trinity Point are managed on our behalf by the OPW.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Local Improvement Scheme (12 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The Local Improvement Scheme, or LIS, is a programme for improvement works on small private or non-public roads in rural areas which are not under the normal maintenance of the Local Authorities. The scheme is funded by my Department and is administered through the Local Authorities. Since the LIS was re-launched in 2017, over €58 million has been allocated to Local Authorities for...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Remote Working (12 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The third call for Category 1 applications under the Rural Regeneration and Development scheme - relating to large-scale capital projects at an advanced stage of readiness - is currently open. The closing date for applications is the 1stDecember 2020 and no applications have yet been submitted. The application process for the Fund is competitive in nature and applications under this call...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Covid-19 Pandemic (12 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: No expenditure was incurred by my Department or any of the agencies under its aegis in respect of the products referred to by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (11 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: I can confirm that the individuals referred to by the Deputy have been contacted regarding their applications for a Personal Public Service Number (PPSN) by officials of my Department so that we may proceed to progress their applications. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (11 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: I can confirm that the company referred to by the Deputy has been contacted by officials of my Department regarding their employees' Personal Public Service Number (PPSN) applications so that we may proceed to progress their applications. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (11 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: I can confirm that the individual referred to by the Deputy has been contacted regarding his application for a Personal Public Service Number (PPSN) by officials of my Department so that we may proceed to progress his application. I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (11 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The information requested by the Deputy is reported annually in my Department's Statistical Information on Social Welfare Services report which is published on . I have for the Deputy's convenience detailed the expenditure from 2015 to 2019, number of claims that were received, the number awarded expressed as a percentage of the claims received in respect of Carer's Allowance from 2015 to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance (11 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: Fuel allowance is a means-tested payment to assist householders on long-term social welfare payments towards the cost of their heating needs. The main eligibility conditions that apply to the fuel allowance scheme are that a person must be in receipt of a qualifying payment, must satisfy a means test and must either be living alone or with other qualifying persons. The fuel allowance...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance (11 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The fuel allowance is a payment of €24.50 per week for 28 weeks (a total of €686 each year) from October to April, to an average of 352,000 low income households, at an estimated cost of €261.35 million in 2020. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (11 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the Department and is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. The statistics required by the Deputy in relation to carer's allowance appeals are set out in the table below. Appeals which had a favourable outcome for the person...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (11 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 155 and 159 together. Neither my Department nor any bodies under the aegis of my Department rent office space from the company referred to by the Deputies, nor any Irish subsidiary of that company.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Maternity Benefit (11 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: A claim for maternity benefit from was received form the person concerned outside of the prescribed time limits and as a result it was not awarded. Further information was requested in relation to the claim and the reason for the late submission to the department. Following a review she was again notified that her claim was refused. The Department is currently undertaking a further...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance (11 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: An application for Domiciliary Care Allowance was received from the person concerned on the 8th May 2020. The application was not allowed as the child was not considered to satisfy the qualifying conditions for the allowance. A letter issued on the 1st July 2020 setting out the decision of the deciding officer to refuse the allowance. An appeal was registered by the Social Welfare...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (11 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office functions independently of the Minister for Social Protection and of the Department and is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. The statistics required by the Deputy in relation to the percentage of appeals which had a favourable outcome for the appellant and the average processing times for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme (11 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: Partial Capacity Benefit (PCB) allows a person who has been in receipt of Illness Benefit for six months and who may not have full capacity for work, to return to employment and continue to receive a partial or full payment from the Department. The personal rate of payment is based on the assessment of the persons restriction on capacity for work i.e. Moderate, Severe or Profound, where they...