Results 18,261-18,280 of 40,330 for speaker:Leo Varadkar
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Data (23 May 2017)
Leo Varadkar: The number of Public Servants in receipt of Family Income Supplement (FIS) is 3,629. The most recent aggregate data (based on pay bands) available to the Department indicates that some 93% of all public service staff are on salary points in excess of €25,000 per annum.The commonly referenced living wage rate of €11.50 per hour, based on the Civil Service 37 hour standard net...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (23 May 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I confirm that my department received an application for carer’s allowance (CA) from the person concerned on 4 November 2016. The application was referred to a local social welfare inspector (SWI) to assess the level of care being provided, assess means and confirm that all the conditions for receipt of carer’s allowance are satisfied. The SWI has confirmed that the report...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (23 May 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an oral hearing of the appeal of the person concerned took place on 26thApril 2017 and that the Appeals Officer is now considering the appeal in the light of all of the evidence submitted, including that adduced at the oral hearing. The person concerned will be notified of the Appeals Officer’s decision when the appeal has been...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (23 May 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I confirm that my department received an application for Carer’s Allowance from the person concerned on 1 March 2017. Additional information was requested from the person concerned on 18 May 2017. Once the information is received the application will be processed without delay and he will be notified directly of the outcome. I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (23 May 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I confirm that my department received an application for carer’s allowance (CA) from the person concerned on 30 January 2017. The application was referred to a local social welfare inspector (SWI) on 14 March 2017 to assess the level of care being provided, assess means and confirm that all the conditions for receipt of carer’s allowance are satisfied. Once the SWI has...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (23 May 2017)
Leo Varadkar: An application for carer’s allowance (CA) was received from the person concerned on 13 January 2017. This application has been awarded for the period from 19 January 2017 to 25 January 2017 and payment issued to the nominated post office on 26 April 2017. The person concerned has no entitlement to carer’s allowance from 26 January 2017 as another person was awarded...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (23 May 2017)
Leo Varadkar: Carer’s allowance was awarded to the person concerned on 28 April 2017 and the first payment issued to their nominated post office on 11 May 2017. Arrears of allowance due from 15 December 2016 to 10 May 2017 also issued to the post office. The person concerned was notified of these details on 28 April 2017. I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (23 May 2017)
Leo Varadkar: Overpayments of benefit or assistance arise where a person is paid in excess of their entitlement or paid where no entitlement exists. At the end of 2016, the outstanding value of these overpayments was €482.4m in respect of 174,440 persons involving 191,600 individual overpayments. The breakdown sought by the Deputy is provided in the following table. TABLE: Overpayment outstanding...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (23 May 2017)
Leo Varadkar: Overpayments of benefit or assistance arise where a person is paid in excess of their entitlement or paid where no entitlement exists. In 2016, the Department overpaid customers by €110 million. Of this, customer fraud accounted for €41 million and relates to cases where customers were deemed to have intentionally provided incomplete or inaccurate information in order to...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Memoranda of Understanding (23 May 2017)
Leo Varadkar: The Department of Social Protection and the Revenue Commissioners have a Memorandum of Understanding which governs the exchange of all information between the two bodies, including all redundancy and insolvency scheme liaison and communication. The employer PAYE number provided by the Revenue Commissioners is used to identify a company or business which is subject to redundancy or...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Fund Data (23 May 2017)
Leo Varadkar: Employers pay into the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) at a rate of up to 10.75% of employee salaries. This payment is designed to contribute to the cost of benefits paid out of the social insurance fund. One of the benefits funded by the SIF is the provision of redundancy related payments in circumstances where the employer making the redundancies is unable to fund these payments itself –...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (23 May 2017)
Leo Varadkar: It is the policy of the Department to seek recovery of overpayments. The client concerned accrued an overpayment of rent supplement during the period 1/6/12 – 28/2/13 as her combined household income from one parent family payment, family income supplement and maternity benefit during this period, exceeded her rate of rent supplement entitlement. While the client concerned has repaid...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance (23 May 2017)
Leo Varadkar: The information requested by the Deputy is not captured by the information systems of my Department. However, the department will revert to you in due course with an estimate in response to your question.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (18 May 2017) Leo Varadkar: Departmental officials have provided for the use of the committee detailed briefing material which includes comprehensive financial and recipient data. It also provides updates on the Department's performance in meeting its output targets for 2016. It is useful, in the first instance, to outline the scope and scale of the Department's expenditure and its importance, not alone for those who...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (18 May 2017) Leo Varadkar: I will starting with the Deputy's first question concerning administration. There are two key reasons for the increase in the administration subhead. First, we have engaged in a detailed staff education and training programme whereby the Department now has a contract, or a partnership, with the National College of Ireland to upskill and educate our staff. This is for many reasons....
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (18 May 2017) Leo Varadkar: Yes.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (18 May 2017) Leo Varadkar: I do not. Averaging would form the bulk of it, though. I apologise - the figures I have given the Deputy concern a reversal of the change made to the averaging system. I do not have the figures for the change made to the number of contributions required. However, the Deputy knows where we are going on this. I am not satisfied with the way we contribute to the State contributory pension....
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (18 May 2017) Leo Varadkar: I did not quite catch the question about the bereavement grant.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (18 May 2017) Leo Varadkar: I am accused of many things these days but being bewildered is not one of them.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (18 May 2017) Leo Varadkar: I have been accused of so many things in the past few weeks but being bewildered is not one of them. I will add it to the list.