Written answers
Thursday, 9 July 2009
Department of Social and Family Affairs
Departmental Bodies
12:00 pm
Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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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 statement on the matter. [29919/09]
Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Details of current working groups are set out in the table.
| Name of Board/Agency | Name of Working Group established by the Minister | Purpose of Group | Date Report Due |
| Department of Social & Family Affairs | Working Group to Review the Disability Allowance Scheme | To review the disability allowance scheme having regard to its objectives and the extent to which they are being achieved. | Q4 2009 |
| Department of Social & Family Affairs. | Working Group to Review information services provided to customers | To examine the information provision function of the Department and that of the Citizens Information Board in relation solely to its provision of information on DSFA related schemes. | Q4 2009 |
| Department of Social & Family Affairs | Steering Committee to Review Child Income Support policy and associated spending programmes | To examine the objectives of child income support (CIS) policy, consider if they remain valid, if programme spending and associated administrative costs are well configured to meet these objectives and if alternative approaches would achieve better outcomes and impacts. | Interim report:Late 2009Final report -Early 2010See footnote below *** |
| Department of Social & Family Affairs | Mortgage InterestSupplementWorking Group | To review the mortgage interest supplement scheme. | End 2009 |
| Name of Board/Agency | Name of Working Group established by the Minister | Purpose of Group | Date Report Due |
| Working Group to Review the Disability Allowance Scheme | To review the disability allowance scheme having regard to its objectives and the extent to which they are being achieved. | Q4 2009 |
*** The establishment of the review of Child Income Supports was made in the context of the Government's Value for Money and policy review initiative and predates the Minister for Finance's announcement in the budget to progress with either the means testing or taxation of child benefit from 2010. The review looks at the wider range of Child Income support payments than Child Benefit and therefore will continue its deliberations into 2010.
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