Written answers
Thursday, 11 May 2006
Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 9: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if there is information to suggest whether the cap on supplementary rent allowance has had the effect of reducing or stagnating... - Partnership Agreement
Question 11: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the role of his Department in the negotiations for a possible new partnership agreement, particularly in regard to those areas for... - Pension Provisions
Question 12: 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... - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the claims made by CORI (details supplied) that in 1994 just 10.4 per cent of people receiving... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if, in relation to unemployment assistance claims by wives who are actively seeking work, he plans to individualise the means... - Proposed Legislation
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if it has been agreed to change the name of the organisation Comhairle; the reason for such a change; and if the making of this... - Child Support
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on whether the back to school clothing and footwear allowance is adequate; and if he will increase this allowance. [17558/06] - Family Support Services
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his Department's input in the action plan for lone parents being developed by FÁS (details supplied); if same has been completed;... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 19: 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... - Family Support Services
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the outcome of his consultative forum with lone parent groups held at Farmleigh House regarding his recent discussion paper on... - Pension Provisions
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress made with regard to his consideration of the recent report of the National Pensions Review; if it is intended to... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people who are claiming reduced rent supplement under the terms of SWA Circular 8 of 2000; the number in years one,... - Partnership Agreement
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the views on the recent submission made by the Combat Poverty Agency to the social partners on a new partnership agreement; and if... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he intends to progress with the granting of free travel to all beneficiaries of an Irish pension; and when he proposes to do so.... - Social Welfare Code.
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to make changes to the social welfare system to make it more equitable for women; and if he will make a statement on the... - Departmental Websites.
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason there is no link to the Office for Social Inclusion on the homepage of his Department's website. [17544/06] - Departmental Schemes.
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress to date on the abolition of all peak time restrictions under the free travel scheme (details supplied); and if he will... - Social Welfare Benefits.
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 90 and 96 of 22 March 2006, his progress in consultations with the Department of Health and... - Social Welfare Appeals.
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to improve the transparency of the decision making process regarding the awarding of claims by deciding officers and the... - Social Welfare Benefits.
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on whether social assistance payments based on means tests are effectively targeting poverty (details supplied); and if he... - Poverty Impact Assessments.
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when he expects the new guidelines on poverty impact assessment to be finalised; and the policy application which they are designed... - Social Insurance.
Question 40: 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... - Anti-Poverty Strategy.
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the recent ESRI report which found that between 8 per cent and 10 per cent of the population were living in consistent... - Post Office Network.
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the claim made by the president of the Irish Postmasters Union that the survival of the country's remaining sub-post... - Care of the Elderly
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress made to date with regard to the recommendations contained in the report of the Joint Committee on Social and Family... - Departmental Schemes
Question 47: 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... - Traveller Community
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the efforts he is making to combat the social exclusion experienced by the travelling community; and if he will make a statement on... - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that up to one third of landlords advertising on the internet state that rent allowance... - Family Support Services
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the location of the outstanding family resource centres which are to be funded by the Government in order to meet its target of... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to revise and shorten the time period that people have to be in receipt of social welfare payments for before they can... - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on whether the social welfare system here discriminates against the self-employed; and if he will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Fraud
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps he is taking to prevent bogus applications for PPS numbers and to ensure the integrity of the PPS number system; and if he... - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he intends introducing changes to the Social Welfare Appeals Office practice of only partially publishing its decisions. [17548/06] - Income Continuance Scheme
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the action he intends to take to rectify the absence of a source of recourse for employees in the event of a dispute between an... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will have examinations made into the possibility of awarding an appropriate employment related payment to sufferers of...
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