Written answers
Wednesday, 23 February 2005
Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the welfare traps that are associated to the one parent family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6089/05] - Family Support Services
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has read and considered a policy position paper from an organisation (details supplied) on recognising the realities of the... - Child Support
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of children awaiting assessment for the crèche supplement by a social worker or health sector personal social services... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on claims by the Migrant Rights Centre that restrictions on welfare benefits for non-Irish citizens are placing migrant... - Family Support Services
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will respond to criticism voiced by the One Family group that the delay in reversing changes in the operation of the back to... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has satisfied himself that the definition of fraud in his Department is adequate. [6074/05] - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on a report by the Central Statistics Office of January 2005, which revealed that nearly 15% of children here under the... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he intends to address the gross inequality of treatment of asylum seekers in the context of direct provision; if he will... - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on a EU publication, the Report on Gender Equality between Men and Women, of February 2005, which revealed that Irish... - Pension Provisions
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress to date on the introduction of a personal pension entitlement for pensioner spouses currently in receipt of the... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the way in which increasing the child dependant allowance would result in a welfare trap; the welfare traps which would emerge; and... - Pension Provisions
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps he intends to take to increase the number of workers in the private sector who have pensions; his response to recent data... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has progressed his plan for part of the rent supplement budget to be used for the purchase of housing. [6080/05] - Nursing Home Charges
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding the practice of health authorities holding the pension books of older persons in public nursing homes... - Social Welfare Code
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has reviewed the habitual residence condition; if he has considered the hardship this condition has caused in many cases in... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to extend the Christmas bonus scheme to clients that are on long term disability benefit in view of the unfairness of the... - Family Support Services
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his response to recent comments from a person (details supplied) that family policy in Ireland adds to child poverty and to family... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the safety nets that exist for persons who do not have a history of tenancy but who need an emergency social welfare payment, such... - Pension Provisions
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the consideration he has given to having the homemaker disregard made retrospective from 1973. [6073/05] - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to calls from a lone parents organisation (details supplied) for recognition for lone parent... - Social Welfare Code
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps he has taken or proposals he has considered to make the social welfare system father friendly; and if he will make a... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of one parent families which are in receipt of the one parent family payment; and the percentage of one parent families... - Social Welfare Code
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the extent to which cuts imposed in the budget of a year ago have impacted on social welfare recipients; the full extent of the... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has plans to change the dual eligibility rule for persons in receipt of the carer's allowance; and if he will make a... - Social Welfare Code
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will report on the criteria which guide the denial of benefit of unemployment assistance to persons particularly the phrase... - Pension Provisions
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of applications received to date for the pre 1953 pension; the number of applications rejected by his Department; the...
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