Written answers

Thursday, 9 July 2009

Department of Social and Family Affairs

 
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 613: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding an application for rent subsidy in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [28877/09]
  • Departmental Staff
    Question 617: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of staff employed by her Department in County Louth by location; if such staff are permanent, temporary, part time or...
  • Public Service Review
    Question 618: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if her Department made submissions to the McCarthy group on potential savings in her Department; the contents of the submissions...
  • Public Service Staff
    Question 619: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of staff in her Department, including all authorities, agencies or other institutions under the aegis of her...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 620: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if those people who have applied for the jobseeker's allowance or jobseeker's benefit but whose application has not yet been...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    Question 621: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will provide a monthly schedule, in respect of 2009, of the planned expenditure under each sub-heading as set out in the...
  • Irish Language
    Question 622: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 cannot receive correspondence from her Department in an Irish language...
  • Social Insurance
    Question 623: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding the status of the employer's PRSI exemption scheme in view of the policy changes in budget 2009. [29353/09]
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 624: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will publish information for jobseeker's on the full financial implications for them in terms of lost payments, secondary...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    Question 633: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position in relation to the rent allowance appeal in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 634: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare qualifies for the back to school allowance; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Anti-Poverty Strategy
    Question 635: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the level of consistent poverty; those at risk of poverty respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29538/09]
  • Child Support
    Question 636: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the level of consistent and at risk of poverty levels respectively for children under 18 years; if research has been conducted by...
  • Domiciliary Care Services
    Question 639: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason she is removing the DCA for children with autism; if her attention has been drawn to the hardship that this is causing...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 640: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of applications for rent allowance currently being processed; the average processing time; the equivalent figures for...
  • Social Insurance
    Question 641: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount of PRSI contributions, separated by class, paid to her Department for each of the years 2000 to 2008. [29760/09]
  • Departmental Contracts
    Question 643: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the companies which have been successful in tendering for contracts for her Department in the past 20 years; the other companies...
  • Adoption Services
    Question 645: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason birth certificates for adopted persons are not available from Joyce House in Dublin on the same basis as all other...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 646: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position, in view of the current economic climate and the financial circumstances which so many people who have mortgages find...
  • Child Support
    Question 650: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the plans to tax or means test the child benefit payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29899/09]
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 652: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number and value of child benefit payments made to children resident outside of the State since 2004 to date in 2009; the...
  • Social Welfare Fraud
    Question 657: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of staff employed by her who deal with fraud control; the number of staff who have been assigned away from fraud...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 662: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount of overpayment awarded by her per year from 2004 to 2008 in each payment area; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Budget Allocations
    Question 664: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the budget allocation to her Department per year since 2000 and to date in 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Departmental Expenditure
    Question 665: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount of money allocated to the family resource agency; the amount of money allocated to each family resource centre; the...
  • Consultancy Contracts
    Question 667: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount of money paid to consultants in each of the years from 2004 to date in 2009; the name of each consultancy firm; the...
  • State Agencies
    Question 668: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the bodies or agencies operating under the aegis of her Department; the financial allocation to same per year since their...
  • Departmental Bodies
    Question 669: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the current working groups established by her and what they are examining; when they are due to report; and if she will make a...
  • Job Creation
    Question 670: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when the JobSearch programme, which is being undertaken by FÁS in co-operation with her, was set up; and if she will make a...
  • Departmental Staff
    Question 672: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 51 of 10 June 2009, the number of facilitators in each location; and if she will make a...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 674: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people in receipt of the back to education allowance for each of the past five years and to date 2009; the cost for...
  • Tax and Social Welfare Codes
    Question 679: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress made regarding the programme for Government commitment to integrate the tax and social welfare systems fully to allow...
  • Social Welfare Code
    Question 680: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress regarding the programme for Government commitment to maintain policy of phasing and use of transition payments for...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 685: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress regarding the programme for Government commitment to double the non-means tested respite care grant to €3,000 per...
  • Social Welfare Code
    Question 686: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress regarding the programme for Government commitment to extend the national fuel allowance scheme to cover eligible...
  • Social Welfare Code
    Question 692: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress in relation to the programme for Government commitment to implement significant improvements to the back to school...
  • Departmental Programmes
    Question 693: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress in relation to the programme for Government commitment to implement significant improvements to the school meals...
  • Social Welfare Code
    Question 694: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress in relation to the programme for Government commitment to review the standard means test for rent supplement and...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    Question 698: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress in relation to the programme for Government commitment to invest further in the Citizens' Information Board to enable...
  • Money Advice and Budgeting Service
    Question 699: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress in relation to the programme for Government commitment to enhance the Money Advice and Budgeting Service by...
  • Social Inclusion
    Question 700: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress in relation to the programme for Government commitment to continue to support the Office of Social Inclusion and...
  • Departmental Agencies
    Question 701: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress in relation to the programme for Government commitment to continue to fully resource the Family Support Agency and...
  • Departmental Staff
    Question 702: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the date on which the decision was made to transfer community welfare officers from the employment of the Health Service Executive...
  • Departmental Offices
    Question 703: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will ensure that the Office for Social Inclusion will report to the Joint Committee on Social and Family Affairs on a...

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