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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: International Agreements (4 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 336. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she has direct contact with other jurisdictions with which a bilateral arrangement for social welfare exists with particular reference to the need to ensure a smooth and expeditious process in dealing with claims, particularly in circumstances in which contributions in two or more jurisdictions arise;...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (4 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 337. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she can take to ensure the minimum waiting time for dealing with appeals having particular regard to the hardship caused to those awaiting decisions over long periods resulting in some cases homelessness and desperation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16015/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Unemployment Levels (4 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 338. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent of long-term unemployment here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16016/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (4 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 339. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which due process and natural justice remains paramount in the context of dealing with social welfare recipients whose cases come under review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16017/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Cessation (4 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 340. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an extension of employment will be facilitated for participants in community employment schemes in which sponsors are anxious that they continue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16018/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (4 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 341. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she continues to take to ensure against the occurrence of overpayments that result in recovery and consequent hardship with particular reference to cases in which the overpayment was not as a result of an oversight or negligence on the part of the applicant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16019/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (4 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 342. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which progress continues to be made in addressing the issue by which women have been deprived of contributory pensions having retired from the workplace while raising their families due to the marriage ban and who have made a major contribution to society in the course of their working lives; if their cases...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Eligibility (4 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 343. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she continues to ensure that undue hardship is not caused to recipients of social welfare payments in cases in which payments have been suspended while under review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16021/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (4 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 344. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for jobseeker's allowance received in each of the past five years to date; the number approved and rejected, respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16022/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (4 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 345. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for a State pension (non-contributory) received in each of the past five years to date; the number approved and rejected, respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16023/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund (3 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 85. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the degree to which he foresees an opportunity to introduce new schemes or the augmentation of the existing structures to direct assistance towards both urban and rural communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15447/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund (3 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 209. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which he expects to be in a position to augment or extend the various grants or incentives administered by his Department nationally affecting rural and urban areas with particular reference to the targeting of areas suffering from social and or economic deprivation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15626/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Action Plan for Rural Development (3 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 98. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the degree to which he is satisfied regarding the benefit accruing to the community and rural sector arising from the various grant awards; his views on whether there is an opportunity for extension of benefit through the system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15446/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Development Programme (3 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 208. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which the various programmes run by his Department have benefited individual rural communities on a county basis nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15625/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Development Programme (3 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 213. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of persons in both urban and rural communities that have accessed the support schemes operated by his Department in 2018 and to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15630/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (3 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 210. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which he expects to be in a position to support applications from County Kildare for assistance under the various schemes operated by his Department in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15627/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (3 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 211. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of applications received in his Department from County Kildare in respect of the various support schemes applicable to both urban and rural communities directly or through the local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15628/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Action Plan for Rural Development (3 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 212. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans for the development of the various community support schemes operated by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15629/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (3 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 214. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the next tranche of grant aid to be awarded by his Department will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15631/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (3 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 215. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the various headings under which applications for grant aid under the various schemes operated by his Department can be made; the opening and closing dates in respect of each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15632/19]