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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: My Department provides a wide range of income and employment supports to assist jobseekers and employees with disabilities, and their employers. These supports include the Reasonable Accommodation Fund and the Disability Awareness Support Scheme. The Reasonable Accommodation Fund provides financial support for people with disabilities and for employers to help make their workplaces more...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Where an application for Domiciliary Care Allowance (DCA) is awarded, payment is effective from the first of the month following receipt of the application. However, DCA applications may be backdated in cases where good cause for the delay in making the claim can be shown to the satisfaction of a Deciding Officer. This maximum permitted period is governed by social welfare legislation and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (23 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered on the 22nd February 2024....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's Allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. It is a condition for receipt of CA that every claimant shall furnish such certificates, documents, information, and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (23 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: My Department provides a suite of income supports for those who are unable to work due to an illness or disability. These include contributory payments, based on PRSI contributions, such as Illness Benefit and Invalidity Pension, and non-contributory payments, based on a means test, such as Disability Allowance. Entitlement to these supports is contingent on the extent to which a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Registration of Births (23 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The registration of a stillbirth is voluntary. The General Register Office (GRO), who operate the Stillbirth Register on behalf of my Department, have observed that around half of parents who experience a stillbirth select to register the event, perhaps in part reflecting, the huge loss and trauma experienced by parents and their families. Those parents who registered the stillbirth of their...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I can confirm that an application for Domiciliary Care Allowance (DCA) from the person concerned was received by my Department on 21 November 2023. The application was awarded as per decision dated 8 April 2024. The person was notified of the above decision in writing on 8 April 2024. As advised in the above decision notification, the DCA payment commenced on 16 April 2024. The payment...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (23 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: A vital part of my Department's mission is to support vibrant and sustainable communities across this country. While funding for arts and culture is primarily the responsibility of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media, I am happy to confirm that there are competitive funding streams provided by my Department which could contribute to supporting the...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 714 and 715 together. Under the range of capital investment programmes operated by my Department, I have prioritised in recent years the development and enhancement of community centres across the country as they are a vital resource for all of the community. Under the 2022 Community Centre Investment Fund, which was the first year of the Fund's...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Control of Dogs (23 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: As the Deputy is aware, I recently announced the establishment of a high level stakeholder group to consider and make recommendations to strengthen policy in relation to Dog Control issues. I have appointed John Twomey as Chair of the stakeholder group, which comprises members with a broad range of expertise including academics, veterinary surgeons, local authorities, dog trainers and...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (23 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 717 to 735, inclusive, together. Our Rural Future, Ireland's Rural Development Policy 2021 – 2025, represents the Irish Government’s blueprint for the development of rural Ireland. It sets out a range of actions for delivery across Government, and sets the strategic framework for the delivery of capital investment under my Department's Rural...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (18 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The objective of the School Meals Programme is to provide regular, nutritious food to children to support them in taking full advantage of the education provided to them. The Programme is an important component of policies to encourage school attendance and extra educational achievement. Following the expansion of the Programme in recent years, some 2,600 schools and organisations, covering...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Under the Supplementary Welfare Allowance (SWA) scheme, my Department may make an Additional Needs Payment (ANP) to help meet essential expenditure which an eligible person could not reasonably be expected to meet from their weekly income. ANPs are awarded at the discretion of the Designated Persons administering the scheme considering the requirements of the legislation and all the relevant...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (18 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: In November 2022 the European Commission made a non-binding recommendation on the recognition of COVID-19 as an occupational disease if ‘caused by work in disease prevention, in health and social care and in domiciliary assistance, or, in a pandemic context, in sectors where there is an outbreak in activities in which a risk of infection has been proven.’ This is a non-binding...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (18 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer, having fully considered all the evidence, disallowed...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (18 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: International Protection Applicants are not permitted to leave Ireland without the permission of the Minister of Justice. Any impact on a payment in respect of absence from the State depends on the conditions of the underlying scheme. Some social welfare payments, mainly contributory pensions and long-term benefits payable under the social insurance fund, are payable while the recipient...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (18 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. I have been advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that appeals are not accepted unless the notice of appeal sets out the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (18 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that a Carer's Allowance appeal by the person concerned was registered in that...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's Allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. I confirm that my Department received an application for CA from the person concerned on 7 February 2023. It is a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (18 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Primary weekly social welfare payments are intended to enable recipients to meet their basic day-to-day income needs. In addition to these primary payments, my Department also provides a range of other payments on a weekly, monthly, or less frequent basis. These payments are considered secondary in nature and cannot be made available to those who are not in receipt of a primary payment. ...