Written answers
Wednesday, 31 October 2007
Department of Social Protection
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people in receipt of the age allowance; the amount paid out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26195/07] - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of oral hearings for social welfare appeals held each year, by county; the way the locations are determined for each... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people in receipt of the one parent family payment; the amount paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Social Welfare Code
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will alter the qualifying criteria for the back to education allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26186/07] - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if and when it is intended to implement the proposal to transfer the administration of rent allowance from health centres to local... - Social Insurance
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the implications for the proposals contained in the Programme for Government to cut PRSI contribution rates of the findings of the... - Employment Support Services
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the pro-active measures currently undertaken by his Department to discourage welfare dependence among teenagers; and if he will... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps he proposes to take to alleviate hardship to recipients of rent allowance whose rent has increased and who are expected... - Advocacy Services
Question 87: 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... - Combat Poverty Agency
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his Department has received either or both reviews recently undertaken of the Combat Poverty Agency; and the action he will take... - Social Welfare Code
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the timeframe envisaged for the completion of his Department's technical review of the entire social welfare code to examine its... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people in receipt of the living alone allowance; the amount paid out; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Social Insurance
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on whether there is an injustice arising from many self employed spouses on family farms and in family businesses not... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on allowing people to transfer the free electricity to the free gas allowance; and if he will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Fraud
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he is satisfied that the new measures planned to control overpayments are sufficiently robust; the targets that have been set... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding the proposed fundamental changes in State support for lone parents, referred to as activation strategies... - Departmental Schemes
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will provide details of each of the non-statutory schemes provided by his Department; the expected expenditure on each of... - PPS Numbers
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he is satisfied with the procedures in place regarding the issuing of PPS numbers to foreign nationals; and if he will make a... - Social Welfare Fraud
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the action he is taking to reduce the rate of fraud or overpayments generally and specifically among non Irish national groups;... - Employment Support Services
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progression rate of long-term recipients of disability payments off welfare and back into the workforce; and his Department's... - Money Advice and Budgeting Service
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps he will take to fulfil the commitment in the Agreed Programme for Government where the Money Advice and Budgeting... - Pension Provisions
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his policy in relation to relaxing or abolishing the means test for qualified adults on contributory pensions. [26281/07] - Social Welfare Code
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on whether it is time to develop a new longer term benchmark against which the evolution of social welfare rates can be... - Social Insurance
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of personnel devoted to the enforcement of the law requiring employers to make PRSI contributions; the level of... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the action he will take to extend the all-Ireland free travel pass to all free-travel pass holders. [26288/07] - Pension Provisions
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps he will take to fulfil the commitment in the Agreed Programme for Government to introduce phased retirement which allows... - Departmental Expenditure
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his priority areas for additional expenditure in 2008; and if he will make a statement on the pre-Budget 2008 outlook in so far as... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the way and when he will increase eligibility for the carer's allowance. [26273/07] - Pension Provisions
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the time-frame envisaged for completion of the public consultation on pension reform and acting on any policy proposals that... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people in receipt of qualified children's allowance; the amount paid out; and if he will make a statement on the... - Pension Provisions
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the action he will take on foot of the issues highlighted in the Pension's Ombudsman's 2006 annual report; and if he will make a...
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