Written answers
Tuesday, 20 June 2006
Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to a new study from the Combat Poverty Agency which shows that the increasing levels of indirect... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the impact the lone parent proposals will have on the introduction of a part-time unemployment payment if enacted; and if he will... - Social Welfare Code
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the details of the new mortgage support plan being considered by his Department; the reasons this new plan is being considered; when... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to a report from Mercer Human Resource Consulting that found that Ireland has among the lowest... - Social Welfare Code
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the targets his Department has set in relation to the timescale for the processing of claims and of appeals for the respective... - Employment Support Services
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of meetings his Department has held with FÁS in the last year in relation to lone parents and encouraging them into the... - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will be pursuing the issue of extended preschool provision with the Minister with responsibility for Children, in view of the... - Social Welfare Code
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the plans he has to amend the back to work allowance; the changes to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23105/06] - Social Welfare Fraud
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on recent findings of the Comptroller and Auditor General in relation to rent supplement overpayments and the need to... - Child Poverty
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the data on child poverty here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23104/06] - Social Welfare Code
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on increasing the living alone allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22951/06] - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress which has been made in realising an all-Ireland free travel scheme. [23020/06] - Pension Provisions
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the efforts he has made to date in ensuring that workers in the construction industry receive their pension entitlements; and if he... - Departmental Reports
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has received the special report from his officials regarding the issue of maintenance referred to in the Joint Committee on... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of personnel who are receiving farm assist; if there has been an effort in recent times to promote this scheme in view of... - Social Welfare Code
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the impact the lone parents proposals will have on the limitation rule if enacted; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to introduce assistance towards the cost of refuse collection for low income families; the consideration he has given into... - National Partnership Agreement
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding his role in negotiations for a new national partnership agreement; if he anticipates a successful outcome to... - Pension Provisions
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has received the report from the Pensions Board that he requested regarding mandatory pension options; its main findings; if... - Budgeting Advice
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the support he has given to the Money Advice and Budgeting Service in view of the concerns expressed by the organisation that they... - Social Welfare Code
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on changing the dual eligibility rule for people in receipt of the carer's allowance, for example a person who has been in... - Departmental Properties
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of offices his Department has throughout the country; the number of these that are accessible to people with... - Budgeting Advice
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the efforts he is making to prevent the situation where many vulnerable people are being forced to use the services of money... - Pension Provisions
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the situation whereby many companies with defined benefit pension schemes are unilaterally... - Employment Support Services
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will expand on his recent comments that visionary initiatives are required in social welfare if the State is to adequately... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the average length of time people are waiting on applications for rent allowance to be processed; and if he has satisfied himself in... - Tax and Social Welfare Codes
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the discussions he or his officials have had with the Department of Finance and the Revenue Commissioners regarding the one parent... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if progress has been made since May 2006 regarding his commitment to examine the proposal of granting free travel to all... - Social Insurance
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the awarding of pre-entry credits to people who have been absent from the workforce for a considerable time as a... - Pension Provisions
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress to date on the introduction of a personal pension entitlement for pensioner spouses in receipt of the qualified adult... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the estimated increase in the cost of welfare claims in 2007 arising from the entitlement of EU migrant workers to the childcare... - Social Inclusion
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the role his Department plays in the policy direction of the social inclusion units at local authority level; and if there is to be... - Family Support Services
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the success of the Family Mediation Service and the services provided by this service; if there are plans to extend... - Social Welfare Code
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the plans he has to change the way in which the supplementary welfare allowance is to be administered; and if he will make a... - Child Support
Question 116: 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 Code
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has intentions of commissioning an investigation into his Department's practice of re-assessing savings derived from... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the controls which he intends to introduce to ensure that the child benefit payments only go to those migrant workers who are... - Social Welfare Code
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has intentions of abolishing the limitation rule which applies when two adults have eligibility for social assistance in... - Community Development
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the supports he is making available to encourage the development of community councils and other such groups; and if he will make a...
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