Written answers
Tuesday, 11 November 2008
Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Code
Question 445: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will increase the rate of carer's allowance and benefit to €300 per week to reflect the true value of the work done by... - Departmental Agencies
Question 449: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her detailed plans in relation to the future of the Combat Poverty Agency. [39948/08] - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 450: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding recently proposed reforms to assist lone parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40025/08] - Departmental Staff
Question 453: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the longest and average wait for the processing of a jobseeker's benefit claim and a jobseeker's allowance claim respectively in... - Departmental Expenditure
Question 454: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will provide an estimate of the cost of legal services which her Department paid for in 2007 and to date in 2008; and if... - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 455: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the outcome of an appeal for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in relation to jobseeker's benefit refusal. [39354/08] - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 456: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a retrospective payment has not been made to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [39369/08] - Departmental Expenditure
Question 458: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of capital projects which have gone over budget in each of the past five years; the original estimate for each of these... - Departmental Staff
Question 459: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the severance packages for each retiring staff member in her Department over the past three years; and if she will make a... - Grant Payments
Question 460: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her views on the fact that the Department of Education and Science is not accepting the means tested farm assist payment as proof... - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 461: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the outcome of a disability allowance appeal for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [39588/08] - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 462: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will reconsider the back to work scheme application by a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [39599/08] - Planning Issues
Question 463: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the details of the development works undertaken by her Department under Section 181. (2) (a) of the Planning and Development Act... - Waste Management
Question 464: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if, in the interest of reducing paper use, her Department has plans to relax or drop the requirement to supply three or more hard... - Departmental Transport
Question 465: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the public transport services used by her since she came into office or since 2007 on official business; the destinations... - Social Welfare Code
Question 467: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the qualifying criteria for mortgage interest relief. [39874/08] - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 468: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will deal with an appeal (details supplied) due to certain hardships; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 470: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of applicants for respite care grants to date in 2008; the number approved, refused or pending; and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Code
Question 471: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she proposes to make improvements to qualification guidelines for applicants for the back to education allowance having... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 475: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she has carried out an evaluation of the extra household running costs incurred by widow's or widower's with young families;... - Social Welfare Code
Question 476: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she proposes to introduce full disability occupational injury payment or equivalent for those affected by pneumoconiosis... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 479: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons refused entitlement to an old age pension due to lack of sufficient contributions in the past 12 months; and... - Social Welfare Code
Question 481: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people who have been refused social welfare entitlements on the basis of the habitual residency clause since its... - Social Welfare Payments
Question 483: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will introduce further improvements in respect of the level of payments under the family income supplement in view of the... - Social Welfare Code
Question 484: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she has issued instructions restricting access or curtailing expenditure under the supplementary welfare code; and if she will... - Decentralisation Programme
Question 486: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount the process of decentralisation has cost the taxpayer to date excluding the cost of all sites or buildings acquired;...
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