Written answers
Thursday, 5 March 2009
Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Employment Support Services
Question 10: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she is satisfied with the integration of local social welfare offices, local partnership areas and local employment services in... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 11: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her plans to review the mortgage interest supplement scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9178/09] - Social Welfare Code
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her views on whether the new PRSI requirements for jobseeker's benefit unfairly penalise young people who may have lost their first... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding the measures put in place by her in conjunction with other Departments to meet the growing applications for... - Pension Provisions
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the discussions and correspondence between her Department and the European Commission in relation to Ireland's compliance with... - Decentralisation Programme
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her plans to decentralise sections of her Department to Donegal town; if a site has been identified and purchased; when its is... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the average time it took for a jobseeker's benefit claim to be processed during the period from the start of October 2008 to the... - Departmental Staff
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she is satisfied with the funding arrangements for community welfare officers outside Dublin and that the percentage of the cost... - Pension Provisions
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the date the long-term pension framework will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9140/09] - Services for People with Disabilities
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the personal advocacy service for people with disabilities will be rolled out in 2009; and if she will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Code
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the discussions which have taken place with her regarding the top up scheme to allow jobless people retain their jobseeker's... - Carer's Strategy
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the date the national carer's strategy will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9125/09] - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she has had discussions regarding inter-departmental pooling of funds in terms of training and resources that will be available... - Social Insurance
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her plans to expand the range of income that is subject to pay related social insurance. [9283/09] - Social Welfare Code
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by people who had been on low wages and who are not entitled... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the details of process improvement initiatives introduced to reduce processing times of jobseeker's applications; the locations at... - Departmental Staff
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps she is taking to address the particular problems of backlogs in the processing of jobseeker payments in social welfare... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps she will take to ensure that ex-miners are compensated for the health problems that they have suffered after years of... - Departmental Staff
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount of the 115 additional staff announced by her in December 2008 to deal with the rising number of social welfare... - Departmental Expenditure
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount in extra overtime spent in 2008 and in 2009 to deal with the backlog in processing jobseeker claims. [9268/09] - Pension Provisions
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her plans to amend the State non-contributory pension income calculation for land owners; and if she will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Fraud
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will make a full statement on the suggestion that fraud has been permitted in connection with the school meals scheme. [9013/09] - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the criteria by which she is judging the affordability of rent for persons on rent supplement; and the savings she will make on... - Social Insurance
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her plans to allow self-employed persons pay extra social insurance in order that they are covered for jobseeker's benefit in the... - Social Welfare Code
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her intentions to allow the long-standing partner of a deceased person to claim widows or widower's pension. [9296/09] - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her estimate for the increase in family income supplement claims arising from the introduction of the pension levy on public... - Human Rights Issues
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the action she proposed to take arising from the High Court's 2007 ruling that the State is in breach of the European Convention on... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the full extent and requirement in terms of social welfare, supplementary welfare and associated... - Social Insurance
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will amend legislation to allow a person who takes a career break during the recession to be credited with a full credit... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if changes will be made to the back to work enterprise allowance. [9245/09]
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