Written answers
Tuesday, 10 October 2006
Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Fraud
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will make a statement on the progress of Operation Gull aimed at curbing cross-Border social welfare fraud. [31739/06] - Pension Provisions
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to address the shortfall in credits that many women face due to past discriminatory regulation where married women had... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the record 79,000 people who have asked his Department in 2006 for assistance with the costs of sending their... - Family Support Services
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the 20% increase in the number of lone parents accessing the services of a lone parent organisation in 2005; and if... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when he expects to be in a position to extend the carer's allowance to cover the full extent of those providing care; and if he... - National Women's Strategy
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the contribution his Department has made towards the development of a national women's strategy; and if he will make a statement... - Social Welfare Code
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to concerns expressed by the Comptroller and Auditor General regarding the rapid rise in the... - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the proposals put forward by CORI in its socio-economic review 2006 as they relate to his Department's... - Budgeting Advice
Question 118: 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... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the assertion made in a newspaper (details supplied) that many people are applying for disability rather than... - Social Welfare Code
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps he will take to improve Ireland's EU rating regarding spending and services for claimants of disability and sickness... - Departmental Contracts
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will elaborate on the opinion of the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice in the case of the European... - Social Welfare Code
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on making all qualified adult payments directly to the qualified adult automatically; and if he will make a statement... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if payments have been restored to all parents who recently had their child welfare halted when his Department became aware it... - Pension Provisions
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps his Department is taking to bring unregulated areas of occupational pensions such as income continuance plans under... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will make a statement on the work and progress of the interdepartmental implementation working group which was set up to... - Social Insurance
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on whether the employee PRSI ceiling is regressive as those over the ceiling pay a smaller proportion of gross income in... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress made in discussions with the EU Commission regarding the possibility of providing free travel passes to Irish... - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the research his Department has undertaken into rural poverty; his views on introducing new initiatives to combat rural poverty in... - Social Welfare Code
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the introduction of a cost of disability payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31848/06] - Budget Submissions
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has received the pre-budget submission from the national one parent family organisation, One Family; his views on the ten... - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he agrees with the views of the Combat Poverty Agency (details supplied) that there have been problems regarding the effective... - Pension Provisions
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views of the comments of the Pensions Ombudsman on page 23 of his Annual Report 2005 regarding a more sinister use of section... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on a national advertising campaign to promote greater awareness of social welfare entitlements, similar to the campaign... - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the recent study from the Combat Poverty Agency which shows that the increasing levels of... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 144: 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 new child... - Pension Provisions
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will make a statement on the recent annual report of the Pensions Ombudsman. [31734/06] - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps he intends to take to ensure that people on low incomes or dependent on social welfare payments will be able to meet... - Social Welfare Code
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on introducing a refuse waiver scheme as part of the household benefits package as the payment of refuse collections is... - Pension Provisions
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the recent report he received from the Pensions Board (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the uptake in the farm assist programme; the cost to the Exchequer of each participant in the programme; and the financial... - Social Welfare Code
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on recent figures produced by the Central Statistics Office showing that expenditure on social protection here at 15.9%... - Pension Provisions
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the assertions of the Pensions Ombudsman to the Joint Committee on Social and Family Affairs on 25 July 2006, that... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the need for an increase in the fuel allowance in view of the increases in electricity and gas prices. [31812/06] - Social Welfare Code
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to review the means test in order to waive part of a non-contributory old age pensioner's income from land leasing in... - Pension Provisions
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps he intends to take arising from criticism by the Pensions Ombudsman of what he called the theft by employers of pension... - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on concerns expressed by social welfare appeals officers regarding the number of migrant workers from EU member states... - Pension Provisions
Question 168: 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... - National Carers Strategy
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the advances which have been made in relation to the development of a national carers strategy. [31791/06] - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the basis on which he believes that figures from the EU and the Central Statistics Office showing that up to one fifth of the... - Social Welfare Code
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on extending the household budget package, including the free travel scheme to polio survivors here; and if he will make... - Social Welfare Fraud
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on whether anti-fraud measures operated by his Department are adequate; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the revelation of the St. Vincent de Paul organisation that it will in 2006 spend a record €34 million on helping... - Departmental Research
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the status of the NESC research into the development of a second tier payment targeted at children from low income families; and... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reasons free travel pass holders are discriminated against regarding the purchase of rail tickets; the efforts he or his... - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the recent annual report of the Social Welfare Appeals Office; his further views on the fact that 47% of all appeals... - Social Welfare Code
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason rural and urban free transport pass holders are not governed by the same guidelines; and if he will make a statement on... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of children for whom child benefit was claimed in each year since 2004; if there is a discrepancy between this figure...
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