Written answers
Tuesday, 24 May 2005
Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Code
Question 54: 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. [17186/05] - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons receiving the rent supplement for 18 months or more who have been passed on to a local authority for a... - Budgeting Advice
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the proactive educational measures his Department has taken to advise persons of the dangers of excessive indebtedness; and if he... - Social Welfare Code
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he is considering changing the dual eligibility rule for persons in receipt of the carer's allowance, for example, a person who... - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if, as promised in the NAPS, child poverty will be substantially reduced or eliminated by 2007; and if he will make a statement on... - Pension Provisions
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the legislative provision by which he can ensure that workers in the construction industry receive their pension entitlements; and... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if, in view of the anomaly whereby persons claiming disability benefit are not entitled to a Christmas bonus, he will review and... - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans for the next six months to move towards fulfilling objectives two and three in the Combat Poverty Agency's strategic... - Pension Provisions
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his estimate of the likely increase in the Exchequer's exposure with regard to social welfare pensions; and if he will make a... - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, further to his comments (details supplied), the reason families with incomes of between €30,000 and €40,000 per annum are now... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason for the anomaly whereby a lone parent engaged in a community employment scheme is at a disadvantage of more than €45 a... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when he intends to introduce the advocacy service for persons with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied) which shows that the number of persons from accession countries... - Pension Provisions
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to encourage more women to take up pensions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17189/05] - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the measures he has taken to tackle food poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17156/05] - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if refunds made to pensioners under the nursing home repayments scheme will impact on current pension entitlements; if pensioners... - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the efforts he is making to tackle the new phenomenon of the working poor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17150/05] - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount which was awarded in rent assistance by his Department, and the number of families or persons awarded rent assistance,... - Social Welfare Fraud
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the efforts he has made to date to combat welfare fraud; the areas which are most vulnerable to fraudulent claims; the amount of... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the consideration which he is giving to the social welfare treatment of former members of religious congregations. [17133/05] - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the poverty levels, relative, consistent and otherwise, among persons with disabilities; the... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, further to his comments on the back to work allowance (details supplied), if his Department has made any decision on the way in... - School Meals
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of schools receiving assistance from his Department in the provision of school meals; and if he will make a statement on... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if payments of social welfare contributions by the self employed are not recorded on the computer system; if his attention has been... - Social Welfare Code
Question 95: 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... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will consider extending the fuel allowance to mid-May; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17166/05] - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has received a copy of the Combat Poverty Agency's recent report, Irish Social Expenditure in a Comparative International... - Social Welfare Code
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the recent protest by the Irish Farmers Association who claim that most farming women have no social welfare or... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has issued any policy directive with the objective of restricting the availability of the rent allowance; if his attention... - Social Welfare Code
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when he intends to publish the results of his Department's review of lone parents; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons refused the carer's allowance on the grounds of the means test in 2004; the number of persons refused the... - Social Mobility
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his Department has information on levels of social mobility here, compared to other countries; and if he will make a statement... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his 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 121: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on whether the risk of being in poverty has increased substantially for elderly persons over the past ten years; and if...
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