Written answers

Tuesday, 27 January 2009

Department of Social and Family Affairs

 
  • Social Welfare Code
    Question 918: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress made on the programme for Government proposal to continue to support low-income farmers through the farm assist...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 919: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath has been refused a supplementary welfare allowance in view of the fact...
  • Proposed Legislation
    Question 920: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she proposes to introduce legislation to vindicate the rights of transsexual Irish citizens; and if she will make a statement...
  • Social Insurance
    Question 922: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will estimate the amount of money that would be raised by abolishing the PRSI ceiling; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 924: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare was not successful with an application; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Pension Provisions
    Question 926: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the action she plans to take to protect the pension entitlements of current employees of a company (details supplied) and former...
  • Departmental Properties
    Question 932: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the addresses and size in square feet of every building and premises here that are being leased or rented by her Department; the...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 933: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will respond to correspondence from a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Departmental Staff
    Question 936: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the allocation made by her Department for community welfare office staff to the Health Service Executive in the Waterford and...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 938: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Social Welfare Code
    Question 940: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her views on the two year limit on illness benefit payable to people with 260 contributions as it impacts in general terms as well...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 942: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when rent support will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    Question 944: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if an appeal application will be reviewed on an application for social welfare payment in the case of a person (details supplied)...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 945: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will review the decision regarding retrospective payment of jobseekers allowance in the case of a person (details supplied)...
  • National Carers Strategy
    Question 953: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the status of the national carers strategy; when the report will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 954: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will report on recent media reports that carers allowance payments will be reduced; her plans for the various carers...
  • Ministerial Travel
    Question 955: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount spent by her and Ministers of State, officials, persons in agencies, offices or bodies under the remit of her...
  • Social Welfare Code
    Question 956: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the specific section and sub-section or regulation which sets down the rules for the means testing of self-employed people and in...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    Question 957: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a jobseeker's allowance appeal will be finalised for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [1498/09]
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 959: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be approved and granted disability allowance; and if this case will be...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    Question 960: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a carers allowance appeal will be finalised for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in respect of the full-time care...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 964: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a decision has been made following further information which was submitted to her Department in respect of a person (details...
  • Departmental Staff
    Question 965: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if in respect of a recent article regarding the employment of extra staff (details supplied), these jobs will be publicly...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 966: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be approved and granted the arrears of jobseekers allowance due to them; the...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    Question 967: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the length of time an average appeal takes; the number of people waiting to be called for an oral hearing; the average waiting...
  • Social Insurance
    Question 969: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount of money collected in PRSI during each of the past four years. [1515/09]
  • Pension Provisions
    Question 973: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be awarded a State contributory pension. [1519/09]
  • Departmental Staff
    Question 974: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of staff in her private office and constituency office in 2008 broken down by grade; the salary cost including...
  • Departmental Bodies
    Question 975: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the way she will maintain the independence of the Combat Poverty Agency if it is absorbed into her Department; and the way she...
  • Social Welfare Offices
    Question 976: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason staff at the social welfare office in Newbridge County Kildare informed an unemployed person who wished to sign-on on...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 977: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when rent support will be reviewed in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement...
  • Pension Provisions
    Question 978: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if her attention has been drawn to a television programme (details supplied), wherein it was alleged that certain irregularities...
  • Civil Registration
    Question 980: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of objections which have been registered to a marriage under section 58 of the Civil Registration Act 2004 since the...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 981: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will support persons (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [1761/09]
  • Departmental Staff
    Question 982: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1770/09]
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 983: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when mortgage relief will be reinstated to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Social Welfare Code
    Question 985: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her proposals to make changes to the lone parents allowance scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1836/09]
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 986: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding the one-parent family payment for a person (details supplied) in County Galway. [1962/09]
  • Grant Payments
    Question 994: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will support a centre (details supplied). [2161/09]
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 996: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she has plans to speed up the process for signing on in order that the many people who have lost their jobs, or have had their...
  • Legal Proceedings
    Question 1001: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the case title or case reference number of each High Court and Supreme Court judgment since 2000 to date in 2009 where her...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    Question 1002: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a rent support review will be undertaken in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make...
  • Departmental Schemes
    Question 1006: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when she expects the transfer of income support and maintenance schemes from the Department of Health and Children to her...
  • International Agreements
    Question 1007: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the action she must take for ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to proceed; and if she...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    Question 1008: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the expenses and allowances paid to each Minister and to each Minister of State by her Department since the formation of the...

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