Written answers

Thursday, 1 March 2007

Department of Social and Family Affairs

 
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 161: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the rates allowed for rental properties for persons in receipt of rent supplement are to be reviewed; when the revised rates...
  • Pension Provisions
    Question 162: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if pension losses through major fraud scams have occurred; and if the pension and investment industry here is a safe haven for...
  • Social Welfare Code
    Question 167: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if, in view of the Government's stated intention to eliminate poverty here and the very real exposure to poverty faced by many...
  • Voluntary Sector Funding
    Question 170: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the funding available to groups or organisations that provide counselling services; the mechanism in place to monitor the quality...
  • Social Insurance
    Question 171: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the type of stamp that was paid by FÁS for people who were on community employment schemes; and if he has plans to recognise the...
  • Pension Provisions
    Question 172: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his proposals to allow those persons whose income before their 56th birthday was below the threshold for liability to pay class S...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 173: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount of supplementary welfare allowance payable in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make...
  • Live Register
    Question 174: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the extent to which unemployment levels have fluctuated in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Pension Provisions
    Question 175: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if State pensions will be offered on a [i]pro rata[/i] basis to all contributors regardless of their average number of annual...
  • Grant Payments
    Question 177: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will ease the qualification guidelines for the back to education allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Rural Transport Services
    Question 178: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he or his Department will offer assistance to the development of rural transport in areas where public transport does not...
  • Pension Provisions
    Question 181: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he or his Department have examined the degree to which widows or widowers pensions could be improved in line with increased...
  • Social Welfare Code
    Question 185: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 1191 of 31 January 2007, the schemes whose recipients will be allowed to qualify for the new...
  • Departmental Investigations
    Question 186: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if will provide details of each of the reports and reviews commissioned or conducted by his Department each year since 2003 to...

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