Written answers
Thursday, 25 June 2009
Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Departmental Offices
Question 9: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the date central support units to speed up the processing of welfare claims identified for Roscommon, Tallaght and Wexford will... - Departmental Staff
Question 11: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of additional staff requested for social welfare offices since 1 January 2009; the number received; the number fully... - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she is satisfied with the average time it takes to process social welfare appeals; and if she will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people claiming rent supplement for more than 18 months; her views on the slow transfer of people from rent... - Money Advice and Budgeting Service
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will request the Money Advice and Budgeting Service to collect and publish details on the waiting times to access MABS money... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her views on whether the free broadband for older people as set out in the programme for Government will proceed; and if she will... - Departmental Staff
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of job facilitators; the average waiting time to access support from a job facilitator; and if she will make a statement... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the difficulty experienced by rent supplement claimants in negotiating reductions in rental... - Employment Support Services
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the measures which have been put in place by her to incentivise people in employment action plan areas who received redundancy to... - Departmental Schemes
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her plans to amend the mortgage interest supplement scheme; if she will make revised guidelines publically available; and if she... - Pension Provisions
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the expected cost to the Exchequer arising from measures adopted in the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2009 to address problems... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will indicate on a county basis, the length of time it takes to process the different schemes under jobseeker's allowance,... - Departmental Staff
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she has conducted an assessment on the impact of the early retirement scheme on the management of social welfare services and... - Pension Provisions
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps she will take to facilitate women, who were forced out of employment due to the marriage rule, to avail of contributory... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of applications for jobseeker's allowance received from people who were formerly self-employed since 1 January 2009 to... - Departmental Expenditure
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the discussions she has had with the group established by the Government to identify potential cost savings in the public sector in... - Social Welfare Code
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the action she has taken to ensure that her Department is notified when a person in receipt of a payment from her Department enters... - Departmental Staff
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of the 300 new staff sought by her to process welfare claims who have been transferred to welfare offices; and if she... - Social Welfare Code
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her plans in relation to the means testing of child benefit. [23280/09] - Departmental Expenditure
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps she proposes to take to ensure adequacy of the social welfare budget to meet the demands arising from the downturn in the... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her plans in relation to reducing social welfare payments. [23302/09] - Social Welfare Code
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when she will amend the arrangement whereby only those carers meeting the criteria in early June of each year may qualify for the... - Social Insurance
Question 56: 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. [23293/09] - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of new applications for farm assist since 1 January 2009; if there is a limit to the number of dairy cows a farmer can...
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