Written answers
Thursday, 30 June 2005
Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 7: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has plans to address the apparent anomaly whereby those in receipt of the non-contributory pension who save a portion of their... - Tax and Social Welfare Codes
Question 8: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has ever had any discussions with the Department of Finance regarding the granting of the family income supplement through the... - Social Welfare Code
Question 9: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if it is his Department's policy to pursue unmarried mothers to bring the father of their children to court with the threat that, if... - Pension Provisions
Question 10: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the details of the consultants his Department employed to conduct a marketing campaign to persuade more persons to take out PRSAs;... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 11: 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. [22903/05] - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the details of the facilitator network; when this network was set up; the number of persons with a disability it has assisted each... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding the introduction of an all-Ireland free travel scheme; the latest discussions he has had on this issue; the... - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will identify the welfare traps that are associated with the one-parent family payment; and if he will make a statement on... - Social Welfare Code
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the situation whereby migrant workers from the accession states and other countries, who come here to take up... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the discussions he has had to date concerning the logistics of allowing Irish senior citizens in Britain to have access to free... - Pension Provisions
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans for older persons as announced on 15 June 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22916/05] - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he does not accept relative income and consistent poverty as measures of poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when he expects social welfare recipients to be able to receive their payments in credit union accounts; and if he will make a... - Social Welfare Code
Question 28: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he intends to introduce a second tier support payment for children in unemployed or low wage households; if so, the progress... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will provide details of the new benefits and supports for carers that he recently announced; when he will introduce a... - Social Welfare Code
Question 36: 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... - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the efforts his Department is making at local authority level to reduce poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his Department has ever calculated the number of persons who are eligible for the family income supplement scheme; and if he... - National Minimum Wage
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the failure to increase the cut off wage level for PRSI payments means that many... - Social Welfare Code
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the efforts his Department makes to encourage and assist persons with disabilities and long-term illnesses to identify and take up... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the way in which An Post is expected to improve its services if it is to retain social welfare payments, in view of the fact that... - Social Welfare Code
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his Department has carried out a recent evaluation of supplementary welfare allowance rent caps with a view to revising caps to... - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has met with the Bankers Federation of Ireland to discuss the report Do the Poor Pay More? in view of its finding that the... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will consider introducing index linked social welfare payments in view of recent and future increases in fuel costs. [23040/05] - Social Welfare Policy
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has received a copy of the NESC report, The Developmental Welfare State; his views on its conclusion that addressing... - Social Welfare Code
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his Department has had any discussions with the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government on the introduction... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 65: 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... - Pension Provisions
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that thousands of construction workers are affected by the failure of their employers... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 74: 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... - Tax and Social Welfare Codes
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of personnel in the construction industry who are employed on the basis of the C45 system; his views on the fact that... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the six Departments required to produce outline sectoral plans within 12 months of the commencement of the Disability Bill 2004... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 91: 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. [22909/05]
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