Written answers
Thursday, 1 March 2007
Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Payment Delivery Service
Question 10: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding the decision of his Department to extend the delivery services contract with An Post. [7918/07] - Social Welfare Code
Question 11: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of Irish nationals who have been refused social welfare payments under the two year habitual residence requirement... - Pension Provisions
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if will make amendments to current legislation and deliver new guidelines in order to protect existing defined benefit pension... - Adult Education
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the education and training programmes currently available through his Department to carers who wish to return to the workforce; and... - Budgeting Advice Services
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the Money Advice and Budgeting Service has a role to play in investigating high levels of interest being charged by financial... - Advocacy Services
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if work has begun on establishing a personal advocacy service for people with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the... - Pension Provisions
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he is satisfied with the take-up rate of the weekly earnings disregard among non-contributory pensioners in view of the Budget... - Social Protection Expenditure
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the comparison between public social expenditure here and that in each of the other EU countries and the EU average respectively;... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the status of his plans to merge the family income supplement and child dependent allowance into a second tier child income support... - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the request by the Combat Poverty Agency to establish a National Implementation Group to monitor the delivery of the... - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will report on the progress of the arrangements that were put in place in 2004 further to the review of illness and... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if reform is taking place of the Health Services Executive urgent needs loan scheme operated through his Department to allow for... - Citizens Information
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if, in the view of the Citizens Information Act 2007 Comhairle, the Citizens Information Board will continue to provide resources... - Pension Provisions
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his Department has conducted surveys and consulted members of the public on their views on different types of pension schemes;... - Family Support Services
Question 28: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will make provision for the establishment of a number of pilot child and family centres to provide information and support to... - Pension Provisions
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of working and non-working women respectively who have personal or occupational pensions; and if he will make a... - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the efforts his Department is making to address concern raised by the European Commission report (details supplied) that there is... - Social Welfare Code
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will revise the eligibility criteria for the back to education allowance to include low paid workers as called for by AONTAS.... - Family Support Services
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount of money made available by his Department and the agencies under his Department to offer parenting courses in view of... - Personal Public Service Numbers
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the investigations that have been held into allegations in regard to his statement of 29 January 2007, regarding the exploitation... - Social Insurance
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of employers currently availing of the employers PRSI exemption scheme; the number of employees currently covered under... - National Carers Strategy
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress made to date with regard to implementation of the 2003 Report of the Joint Committee on Social and Family Affairs on... - Social Welfare Code
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the benefits PRSI class D contributors are entitled to when they reach retirement age; and if he will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 43: 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... - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of appeals awaiting decision in the Social Welfare Appeals Office; the average time it takes for an appeal to be... - Pension Provisions
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on whether the State pension system is equitable and that it ensures pensioners can live with dignity and not in poverty.... - Pension Provisions
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps he has taken or plans to take arising from criticism by the Pensions Ombudsman of what he called the theft by employers... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people in receipt of a free travel pass but who are not eligible for the all-Ireland free travel scheme; the reason... - Social Welfare Fraud
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress of Operation Gull aimed at curbing cross-border social welfare fraud; and if the operation has been concluded, or if... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 165 of 14 November 2006, if he will address the matter whereby some women in occupational... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if there will be changes to the criteria to qualify for the back to education allowance in view of the fact that the qualifying age... - Social Welfare Code
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the recommendation of the Law Reform Commission that same sex cohabitants should be treated in the same way as... - Pension Provisions
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the extent to which he and his Department have examined the various options for awarding non-contributory pensions to Irish... - Social Welfare Payments
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the estimated increase in the cost of welfare claims in 2008 arising from the entitlement of EU migrant workers to the new child... - Departmental Advertising
Question 69: 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... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a homeless person is entitled to a social welfare payment; the procedure to obtain such a payment; and if he will make a... - Social Welfare Code
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people who availed of PRSI refunds on maintenance payments in 2006; the amount of money refunded; and if he will make... - Pension Provisions
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the comparison between pensioner incomes here and pensioner incomes in each of the other EU countries and the EU average... - Public Service Cards
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress and development his Department has conducted into the new public service card which is provided for in the Social... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will address the anomaly whereby Family Income Supplement is only paid to those in work and not in training. [8006/07] - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the way he will ensure that the forthcoming National Action Plan for Social Inclusion is effectively implemented at local level;... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 53 and 93 of 14 December 2006, regarding a research project into the low take up rates of... - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the reaction by Age Action to the new National Action Plan for Social Inclusion 2007 to 2016 and their disappointment... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress made to date with regard to consideration by his Department of a new mortgage support plan; when the consultation... - Pension Provisions
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he is referring to the contributory or non-contributory rate in his commitment in Budget 2007 to raise the qualified adult...
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