Written answers
Wednesday, 22 March 2006
Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the clearance time targets set by his Department for assessing claims for the carer's allowance in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and... - Social Welfare Code
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will set up a redress board to deal with the claims of mature students regarding the back to education scheme. [10983/06] - National Partnership Agreement
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views of the recent submission made by the Combat Poverty Agency to the social partners on a new partnership agreement; and if... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his Department maintains statistics on the number of children born here not entitled to be in receipt of child benefit payments;... - Social Insurance
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will confirm reports that his Department has discovered a significant level of fraud involving the use of bogus PPS numbers;... - Social Welfare Code
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his Department has carried out research into the particular barriers that social welfare claimants encounter when trying to... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if there is discretion for officials in his Department to write off overpayments made to customers; the criteria by which such... - Social Welfare Code
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position with regard to his discussions with the European Commission regarding the Government's implementation of the two year... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons in receipt of rent supplement; the amount paid out in rent supplement and the number of landlords to whom rent... - Pension Provisions
Question 74: 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 79: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the level of uptake for the farm assist scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10930/06] - Departmental Investigations
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his Department's investigation into the circumstances in which a number of civil servants are reported to have accessed the... - Pension Provisions
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the recent call from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions for a clampdown on pension abuses in the... - Computerisation Programme
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the budget allocated to information technology systems for 2004, 2005 and 2006; the increase or decrease for each year; and if he... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if there is a time target for dealing with queries from members of the public to the lo-call helpline for the people inquiring about... - Pension Provisions
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he intends to utilise the pay related social insurance mandatory pension scheme more effectively to ensure pensioners do not have... - Family Support Services
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will expand on his recent comments made at the ACCORD conference in Ballyconnell, County Cavan. [11041/06] - Social Welfare Code
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to reform the eligibility criteria for disability allowance so that all people with a mental illness or disability in... - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some people, whose social welfare benefits have been cut, have to wait over three... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 98: 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 are... - Social Welfare Code
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to change the way in which the supplementary welfare allowance is to be administered; and if he will make a statement on... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number in receipt of farm assist, on a county basis; the average amount awarded to recipients in each county at present; and if... - Departmental Reports
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of reviews and studies undertaken by consultants or ordered from within his Department since he became Minister; the... - Social Welfare Code
Question 109: 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... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the claim made by the director of the organisation, Caring for Carers Ireland, that thousands of... - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 111: 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 dependent allowance at... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people who are being refused unemployment assistance/benefit on the grounds that they are not genuinely seeking work... - Departmental Staff
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of information officers employed in his Department; the location of each officer; the grade of each officer; the... - Social Insurance
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of exemptions from payment of social insurance employment contributions, for a period not exceeding 52 weeks, granted in... - Social Welfare Fraud
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he intends to respond to the recommendation of the Committee of Public Accounts that doctors who certify people as being unable... - Social Welfare Code
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding the social welfare entitlements of returned development workers, including missionaries, and in particular,... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of applicants in receipt of a one-parent family allowance; the number of such recipients who are in employment and... - Official Engagements
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will report on his official visit to Boston for St. Patrick's Day festivities; the length of his visit; the events attended;... - Ministerial Staff
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the persons appointed by him as programme managers, advisers, assistants or back-up staff either in his Department or in... - Social Welfare Code
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he intends to approach the Department of Finance regarding the anomaly that has arisen with the ability of those in receipt of...
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