Written answers
Tuesday, 19 April 2005
Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons who were refused the carer's allowance on the grounds of the means test; the number of persons who were... - Pension Provisions
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps he intends to take to facilitate or encourage working women to take out pension cover, in regard to his recent statement... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons in receipt of the rent supplement who have children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11922/05] - Social Insurance
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of women who availed of unpaid maternity benefit in each of the years 2000 to 2004, inclusive; the cost of such payments... - Pension Provisions
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her plans to review the means test for farmers applying for the old age non-contributory pension; and if he will make a statement... - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the recent OECD report, Society at a Glance, which shows that Irish people retire later than... - Pension Provisions
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the recent report produced by a company (details supplied) which shows that the ten biggest... - Social Welfare Fraud
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his department has made efforts to prevent fraud through the EFT system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11899/05] - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he is considering changing the dual eligibility rule for people in receipt of the carer's allowance, for example, a person who... - Departmental Programmes
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the estimate provided in 2004 for the school meals community programme; the amount expended in 2004; the number of schools and... - Social Welfare Code
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his Department has carried out any research on the [i]de facto[/i] wage penalty imposed on mothers who work part-time; and if he... - Tax and Social Welfare Codes
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will examine the way in which a closer integrated system may be established between the Revenue Commissioners and the... - Social Insurance
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to introduce the sickness allowance as legislated for in the Social Welfare Act 1997; and if he will make a statement on... - Pension Provisions
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons currently in receipt of a State pension; the implications for pension policy of the changing age structure of... - Social Welfare Code
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if and when he intends to introduce new regulations for the diet supplement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11894/05] - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons currently in receipt of family income supplement and the average payment made; his plans to promote greater... - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the recent report produced by the Community Platform that national partnership is not meeting... - Family Support Services
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the assistance which is available to persons who experience difficulties with funeral expenses; and if he will make a statement on... - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the recent study produced by the EU Commission, the Report on Gender Equality Between Men and... - Child Care Policy
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs further to his comments in a newspaper (details supplied) regarding payments to grandparents for child care, if his Department's... - Anti-Poverty Strategy.
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his Department is on target to achieve its NAP-inclusion target of setting child benefit and child dependant allowance at... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his Department has research which gives an indication of the number of persons currently receiving payments through methods... - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he is excluding children of refugees and asylum seekers from his plans to alleviate child poverty; if, alternatively, he will... - Employment Support Services
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs further to his comments in newspapers (details supplied) when he expects recruitment and training to be completed for personal... - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress made to date with regard to the implementation of the national action plan against poverty and social exclusion; and... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the restrictions on the cashing of social welfare cheques in retail outlets; if he has plans to... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when he intends introducing the advocacy service for people with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Public Service Cards
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when the public services card framework using the personal public service number will be introduced; and if he will make a... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the efforts he is making to encourage and assist persons with disabilities and long-term illnesses to identify and take up... - Social Welfare Code
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he intends to reduce the qualifying period for the back to education allowance to nine months; if so, when he will introduce... - Family Rights
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to calls from a lone parents organisation, One Family, for recognition for lone families under the... - Family Support Services
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the locations of the 75 family and community resource centres; the number of extra family and community resource centres he plans... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he intends to bring in advisers on education and employment for those with a disability, in the same way that he is introducing... - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on research carried out by the Combat Poverty Agency on the working poor; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 132: 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... - Nursing Home Charges
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if any refunds made to pensioners residing in nursing homes, arising from the recent Supreme Court decision that found that... - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the recent findings of the report, Inclusion is Everyone's Business, produced by the social... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 143: 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... - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the recently published three year strategy from the Combat Poverty Agency to address poverty here; the steps he... - Social Welfare Code
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if phase I of his Department's review of the supplementary welfare allowance in 2000 was finished; the findings and... - Family Support Services
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his Department has carried out or commissioned any research specifically on the needs of separated fathers; and if he will make... - Social Welfare Fraud
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he intends to act on the basis of a recent criticism (details supplied) of his Department's [i]modus operandi[/i] when dealing... - Child Support
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the average amount requested by his Department from liable relatives for child maintenance; and if he will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Offices
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the location of the local social welfare offices which will be dealing directly with one-parent family claims by the end of 2005... - Pension Provisions
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he intends to address the issue of 1950s homemakers who either were not in a position to accumulate stamps or were not in a... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if, when a person reaches the age of eligibility for the old age pension, his Department informs that person by letter that they...
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