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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payments (3 Nov 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: Under the supplementary welfare allowance (SWA) scheme, the Department may make a single exceptional needs payment (ENP) to help meet essential, once-off and unforeseen expenditure which a person could not reasonably be expected to meet out of their weekly income. The Government has provided €30.3 million for the scheme in 2016. The ENP scheme is demand led and provides assistance...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (3 Nov 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: Rent supplement plays a vital role in housing families and individuals, with the scheme currently supporting approximately 63,000 people at a cost of over €298 million in 2015. Rent supplement is a statutory means tested scheme which is payable at differentiated rates of payment taking into account the applicant’s means and their family's accommodation requirements. Rent...

Finance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Referral to Select Committee (22 Oct 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: I move:That the Bill be referred to the Select Sub-Committee on Finance pursuant to Standing Order 82A(3)(a) and (6)(a) and 126(1) of the Standing Orders relative to Public Business.

Finance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: On behalf of the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, I thank Deputies for their contributions and for their constructive engagement with the Bill. I look forward to a more detailed consideration of the provisions on Committee Stage. Before he left the Chamber, the Minister told me that he is looking forward to that engagement because many important points were made during the debate. I...

Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: Is this Topical Issue Matters?

Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: Maybe not.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Services Programme (22 Oct 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 99, 100, 102 and 103 together. The company referred to by the Deputy operates a community-owned social enterprise delivering transport and related services in County Kerry. From the information available to me, the company provides good quality employment to 19 people with seven and a half of the positions being co-funded by the Community Services...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Eligibility (22 Oct 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: JobBridge, the National Internship Scheme, is one of a range of activation and labour market initiatives that offer assistance to people trying to secure work. Key policy objectives of these initiatives are to target support and prioritise scarce resources at those most in need of assistance. The particular focus of the JobBridge Scheme is to provide unemployed people with an opportunity to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Ministerial Meetings (22 Oct 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: A meeting was held on 1st September between the Minister of State, officials and representatives from Killinarden Parish Community Employment Scheme. A number of issues, relating client eligibility/duration and the budget allocation, were discussed. Clarification on these matters was provided to the delegation.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: EU Funding (21 Oct 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: The European Fund for Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) is designed to support Member States in addressing the basic needs of the most deprived people in our community. The Department of Social Protection has been designated as the managing authority for the delivery of the programme. The EU and the Exchequer have committed some €27 million to the programme over the period to 2020. ...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobs Initiative (21 Oct 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: I understand that the Department provides wage subsidies to the company referred to by the Deputy under the JobsPlus Scheme. The Department has not been made aware nor has it received any labour complaints in relation to the company.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (21 Oct 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: Community Employment (CE) is an active labour market programme with the aim of progression into employment and/or further education and training for jobseekers that have been unemployed for a minimum of one year and in receipt of Jobseekers Allowance. The eligibility information for the scheme is available on . For those who do not meet the published CE eligibility criteria, it is...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Local Employment Service (20 Oct 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: The Local Employment Service (LES) issues grants to jobseekers for short term training and other similar supports. The money allocated for these grants is known as the Mediator Fund. The Mediator Fund provides funding for an individual client up to a limit of €500 in a 12 month period and provided the cost of the intervention does not exceed the limit no cost is incurred by the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (20 Oct 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: Rent supplement plays a vital role in housing families and individuals with the scheme currently supporting approximately 63,800 people at a cost of €298 million in 2015. The provision for 2015 represents a transfer of funding in excess of €20 million to the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government to support the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP)....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (20 Oct 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: The eligibility requirements for Community Employment (CE) are published on the Department’s website, . The requirement to be in receipt of a qualifying social welfare payment for 12 months or more has been a central criterion of CE since the programme’s commencement in April 1994. Community Employment is a programme which helps long-term unemployed people to re-enter the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: School Meals Programme (20 Oct 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: The school meals programme provides funding towards the provision of food services to some 1,700 schools and organisations which benefits over 217,500 children. Government has allocated an additional €3 million for the programme in the recent Budget, providing a total allocation of €42 million for 2016. The provision for the scheme was also increased by €2 million in...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Work Initiatives (20 Oct 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 177 to 179, inclusive, together. Tús, the community work placement initiative, provides up to 8,000 short-term, quality work opportunities for those who are unemployed for more than a year. This initiative is being delivered through the network of local development companies and Údarás na Gaeltachta. Eligibility for Tús is confined to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Direct Provision Allowance Payments (20 Oct 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 184 and 186 together. The Government in its decision of the 30 June 2015 recommended that the Report of the Working Group on the Protection Process should in the first instance be the subject of detailed discussion at the Cabinet Committee on Social Policy and Public Service Reform. The Committee agreed that the Department of Justice and Equality should...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (20 Oct 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: The Community Employment Scheme is an active labour market programme with the aim of progression into employment and/or further education and training for jobseekers that have been unemployed for a minimum of one year and in receipt of Jobseekers Allowance. The eligibility information is available on . For those who do not meet the published CE eligibility criteria they are recommended to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Data (20 Oct 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 190 and 195 together. JobBridge, the National Internship Scheme, was introduced in July 2011 in response to the unprecedented collapse in the economy – particularly the sharp increase in unemployment. The aim of the JobBridge Scheme is to give unemployed people an opportunity to secure work experience and to prove their competence to prospective...