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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Numbers (30 May 2013)

Joan Burton: JobBridge, the National Internship Scheme, came into operation on 1 July, 2011. The Scheme has made very significant progress in a relatively short period of time. I wish to advise the Deputy that 3,748 internships had commenced as at year end 2011. An additional 9,725 internships commenced in 2012. An additional 4,136 internships have commenced so far in 2013. In total 17,609...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Measures (30 May 2013)

Joan Burton: The official labour market figures published by the CSO indicated that the number of young unemployed at the end of 2012 was 59,000, of whom 27,300 were long-term (over one year) unemployed. The number of young long term unemployed represented a fall of 8,300 on the figure of 35,600 at the end of 2011. In the first instance, the Government’s primary strategy to tackle all forms of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (30 May 2013)

Joan Burton: The person concerned will have a decision on the review next week.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (30 May 2013)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that the person concerned was assessed by a Medical Assessor of the Department of Social Protection who was of the opinion that she was capable of work. She appealed this decision on 13 May 2013 and the relevant Departmental papers and comments by or on behalf of the Deciding Officer who made the decision have been sought. On receipt of the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Issues (30 May 2013)

Joan Burton: The JobBridge Scheme has made exceptional progress since it came into operation on 1 July 2011. A recent independent evaluation conducted by Indecon Economic Consultants found that 61% of interns progress to paid employment after completing their internship. The 61% progression rate for JobBridge is among the best in Europe, where progression rates for similar internship schemes average...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Issues (30 May 2013)

Joan Burton: The purpose of the rent supplement scheme is to provide short-term income support to eligible people living in private rented accommodation whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs and who do not have accommodation available to them from any other source. There are approximately 86,000 recipients of rent supplement for which the Government has provided over €403...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Work Allowance Eligibility (30 May 2013)

Joan Burton: The Back to Work Enterprise Allowance (BTWEA) encourages unemployed people and those receiving other social welfare payments to develop a business while allowing them to retain a reducing proportion of their qualifying social welfare payment, and possibly secondary benefits, over two years -100% of existing social welfare entitlement in the first year and 75% in the second year. In general...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Illness Benefit Appeals (30 May 2013)

Joan Burton: Payment of illness benefit, to the person concerned, was disallowed by a Deciding Officer following an examination by a Medical Assessor of the Department who expressed the opinion that he was capable of work. An appeal was registered on 8 May 2013 and the Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that, in accordance with statutory requirements, the Department was asked for the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (30 May 2013)

Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance (DCA) was received from the person concerned on the 20 May 2011. This application was referred to one of the Department’s Medical Assessors who considered that the child was not medically eligible for DCA. A letter issued on16 August 2011 outlining the decision to refuse the allowance. An appeal against the disallow decision was...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (30 May 2013)

Joan Burton: I confirm that the Department received an application for carer's allowance from the person in question on 27 February 2013. An information request was made to the person in question on 26 April 2013 requesting statements from financial institutions which had been omitted from the original application. In accordance with normal procedure, the person concerned was told that if the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: School Meals Programme (30 May 2013)

Joan Burton: The school meals programme provides funding towards the provision of food services for disadvantaged children through two schemes. The first is the statutory urban school meals scheme, operated by local authorities and part-financed by the Department. The second is the school meals local projects schemes through which funding is provided directly to participating schools and local and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Payments (30 May 2013)

Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance was received from the person concerned on the 10th October 2012. This application was referred to one of the Department’s Medical Assessors who found that the child was not medically eligible for the allowance. A letter issued on the 15th November 2012 advising of the decision. The person concerned subsequently lodged an appeal against...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (30 May 2013)

Joan Burton: The person concerned is in receipt of their full entitlement to rent supplement based on their household circumstances. The rent supplement claim was reassessed on 1 August 2012 in accordance with the new lease.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (30 May 2013)

Joan Burton: The person concerned is currently in receipt of a one parent family payment of €247.60. This represents the full personal rate payable with an increase in respect of two qualified children.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (30 May 2013)

Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance was received from the person concerned on the 18th February 2013. This application was referred to one of the Department’s Medical Assessors who found that the child was not medically eligible for the allowance. A letter issued on the 26th April 2013 advising of the decision. The person concerned subsequently lodged an appeal against this...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Death Certificates Issues (30 May 2013)

Joan Burton: Particulars to be entered on the Register of Deaths are listed in Part 5 of the First Schedule of the Civil Registration Act, 2004. My Department is currently examining a range of issues in relation to the Civil Registration Act, 2004, including the provision to issue a short-form death certificate which would omit the cause of death. It is hoped that legislation amending the Civil...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Application Numbers (30 May 2013)

Joan Burton: There were 87,918 persons in receipt of a one-parent family payment at 31 December 2012. I attach a tabular statement detailing the breakdown of this number on a county by county basis. One-Parent Family Payment recipients at 31 December 2012 County Recipients at 31 December 2012 Carlow 1,646 Cavan 957 Clare 1,390 Cork 5,712 Donegal 2,881 Dublin 33,871 Galway 3,126 Kerry 2,966...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Farm Assist Scheme Statistics (30 May 2013)

Joan Burton: The information requested by the Deputy is collated by my Department annually for inclusion in the Statistical Information on Social Welfare Services report which is laid before the Dáil when published and copies lodged in the Oireachtas library. Furthermore these reports are available to the public at www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/Annual-Statistical-Information-Repor ts.aspx. I enclose for...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (30 May 2013)

Joan Burton: Child benefit was originally awarded to the person concerned under EU Regulations from 1/4/2008 in respect of her two children who were resident in Poland at the time. Payment was awarded based on her employment in this State. Payment was stopped from 1/1/2009 when she failed to reply to correspondence. No further correspondence was received until November 2012, when she lodged a further...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (30 May 2013)

Joan Burton: The jobseeker's allowance claim of the person concerned is currently under review. The person concerned will be advised of the outcome once the review is complete.