Results 41-60 of 115 for 5 million speaker:Regina Doherty

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Maternity Benefit Data (23 Jan 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...year and assume that any increase in duration is implemented from the beginning of the year. The estimated additional cost of extending the duration of maternity benefit is approximately €9.6 million for each extra week, at the rate of €240 per week. It should be noted that Budget 2018 provides for the rate of maternity benefit to be increased by €5 per week from 26...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Expenditure (17 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...its vital role in supporting families and individuals in private rented accommodation, with the scheme currently supporting 17,200 recipients for which the Government has provided €132.4 million for 2019. The additional full year cost for 17,200 customers, increasing rent limits by: 5%; 10%; 15%; 20%; and 25%, respectively, is provided in the tabular statement below....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Farm Assist Scheme Data (2 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...the advantages of the JA scheme such as the retention of secondary benefits and access to activation programmes. The 2019 Revised Estimates for this Department provides for expenditure of some €72 million for the FA (which also includes the Fish Assist provision). Budget 2017 fully reversed the previous cuts to the FA means test. The changes included that 70% of farm income is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme (1 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...services provided by companies such as Bus Átha Cliath, Bus Éireann and Iarnród Éireann, as well as Luas and services provided by over 80 private transport operators.  There are currently approx. 953,000 customers with direct eligibility.  Following announcements in Budget 2019 the funding for the free travel scheme was increased by €5 million to a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Payments (7 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: On Budget Day last year, I was pleased to announce a €5 increase in the maximum rates of all weekly social welfare payments at a cost of €264 million in 2018. This built on a similar increase provided in Budget 2017, which was the first across the board rate increase since 2009. Budget 2018 increases commenced in March. In the context of budgetary parameters, payment...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (26 Jul 2017)

Regina Doherty: My Department commenced issuing Public Services Cards (PSC) on a phased basis from October 2011. Since then it has issued over 2.71 million PSCs. A breakdown of the number of PSCs issued per annum is - PSCs issued from 2012 to 2017 (to date) Year 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017(to date 21/7/17) PSCs issued 4,001 79,773 355,721 689,627 627,943 610,519 347,537 Running total 4,001...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Farm Assist Scheme (7 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...of the jobseeker’s allowance scheme such as the retention of secondary benefits and access to activation programmes. The 2017 Revised Estimates for my Department provide for expenditure of €82.8 million on the farm assist scheme. Budget 2017 introduced measures in relation to the assessment of means for farm assist which reversed all changes introduced in Budgets 2012...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Paternity Benefit (23 Jan 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...scheme on 1 September 2016, 32,784 paternity benefit claims have been awarded to 31 December 2017. The estimated additional cost of extending the duration of paternity benefit is approximately €5.2 million for each extra week. The following table estimates the additional cost of increasing the duration of paternity benefit above its current 2 week duration at a weekly rate of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Citizens Information Board (24 Apr 2018)

Regina Doherty: In 2018 the Citizens Information Board (CIB) has been allocated €57.4 million from Exchequer funds to fund its activities and that of its service delivery partners, including the countrywide network of Citizens Information Services (CISs) and the Money Advice and Budgeting Services (MABS). Provision has been made in the 2018 allocation for the costs involved in the restructuring...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (3 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...September 2016. It is paid for 2 weeks and is available for any child born or adopted on or after 1 September 2016. The 2018 Estimates for my Department provide for expenditure of nearly €16 million for the paternity benefit scheme. The estimated additional cost of extending the duration of paternity benefit is approximately €5.2 million for each extra week. The table...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...to 7.4%, following the cuts made because of the economic crash in recent years. Members of the Defence Forces are benefiting from pay restoration. Under the FEMPI legislation, there was a cut of 5% in their allowances. I wish to God none of those cuts had been made, as I am sure every single person in this House does, but they were made. Now, the country is in a position financially to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Maternity Benefit Data (20 Jun 2017)

Regina Doherty: It is currently estimated that my Department will spend approximately €266 million this year on maternity benefit in respect of an average of 22,000 recipients per week. The table below estimates increasing the duration of maternity benefit by one to twenty-six weeks at the current rate of €235 per week. The table also estimates increasing the duration by one to twenty-six weeks...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Paternity Benefit (29 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...scheme on 1 September 2016, 28,969 paternity benefit claims have been awarded to 31 October 2017. The estimated additional cost of extending the duration of paternity benefit is approximately €5.5 million for each extra week. The table below estimates the additional cost of increasing the duration of paternity benefit above its current 2 week duration at the current weekly rate of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Paternity Benefit (16 Jan 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...scheme on 1 September 2016, 32,784 paternity benefit claims have been awarded to 31 December 2017. The estimated additional cost of extending the duration of paternity benefit is approximately €5.5 million for each extra week. The following table estimates the additional cost of increasing the duration of paternity benefit above its current 2 week duration at the current weekly rate...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Farm Assist Scheme Payments (10 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...of the jobseeker’s allowance scheme such as the retention of secondary benefits and access to activation programmes. The 2017 Revised Estimates for my Department provide for expenditure of €82.8 million on the farm assist scheme. Budget 2017 introduced measures in relation to the assessment of means for farm assist which reversed all changes introduced in Budgets 2012...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (27 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...the EU (recast) Reception Conditions Directive with effect from 30 June 2018. As a result, direct provision allowance is being renamed daily expenses allowance. The Government has provided over €5.6 million for the allowance in 2018. This is paid to applicants for international protection who live in the direct provision system where they are provided with full board accommodation...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Expenditure (13 Jul 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...be paid in respect of children up to their 18th birthday who are in full-time education, or who have a disability. Child Benefit is currently paid to around 627,000 families in respect of some 1.2 million children, with an estimated expenditure of over €2 billion in 2017. Between 2000 and 2009, there were significant increases in Child Benefit payments and during that period...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (12 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 353 and 354 together. In order to provide for sustainable pensions and to facilitate a longer working life, successive Governments have considered the sustainability challenges faced by the Pensions system as a result of changing demographics in Ireland. In 2007, Minister Cullen launched the Green Paper on Pensions, which proposed raising the Pension Age....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Household Benefits Scheme (20 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...a license already purchased is based on the approved date of the Household Benefits Package. In 2011, expenditure for the TV licence scheme was capped at 2010 levels and was subsequently cut by €5 million in the 2014 Budget. Prior to the cap and the cut to funding payments were made to DCCAE on a monthly basis using an agreed formula based on a percentage of the Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Advocacy Service (27 Jun 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...or natural supports. NAS operates with the following staffing complement: National Manager Senior Advocates Advocates Regional Managers Administrators Corporate Services Manager 1 7 28 4 5 1 NAS is fully funded and supported by the Citizens Information Board (CIB), which has a mandate under the Citizens Information Act 2007 to provide advocacy for people with disabilities. The NAS...