Written answers
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps she is taking to reduce the backlog of jobseeker's allowance claims; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Identity Cards
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when she plans to issue photo identification cards; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40623/09] - Social Welfare Fraud
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she is satisfied with the arrangements for recording and calculating control savings and pursuing perpetrators of social welfare... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of farmers who may qualify for farm assist payments following the closure of the REP scheme four; and if she will make a... - Money Advice and Budgeting Service
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she is satisfied with the capacity of the Money Advice and Budgeting Service to negotiate on a person's behalf with financial... - Social Welfare Code
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will review the efficacy of rent allowance and mortgage support with particular reference to the need for early and positive... - Child Support
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the regularity with which review forms for child benefit payment are issued; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40647/09] - Social Welfare Fraud
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her views on the Comptroller and Auditor General's report that stricter controls and more accountability are needed to eliminate... - Social Welfare Code
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her plans to review the habitual residency condition rules in view of the recent decisions of the appeals office concerning cases... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the limitations of the back to education allowance scheme in respect of unemployed graduates;... - Pension Provisions
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps she will take to facilitate women, forced out of employment due to the marriage rule, to avail of contributory pensions;... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps she is taking to facilitate the transfer from rent supplement to the rental accommodation scheme; and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Code
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her plans to means test child benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40650/09] - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she is satisfied with the average time to process social welfare appeals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40640/09] - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her plans for carers following the decision not to publish the National Carer's Strategy; and if she will make a statement on the... - Departmental Staff
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the action she is taking to deal with the problem of absenteeism in her Department. [40735/09] - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps she is taking to increase the uptake of family income supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40600/09] - Social Welfare Fraud
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the discussions she has had in the past 12 months with the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform or the gardaí on the... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her plans to review the free travel scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40665/09] - Pension Provisions
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason for the delay in processing a contributory State pension application in respect of a person (details supplied) in... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the processing time for each individual social welfare office to deal with a claim for jobseeker's benefit; and if she will make a... - Family Support Services
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her views on families falling into the hands of money lenders as a result of the Christmas bonus cuts. [40671/09] - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she has advised her inspectors at local level that they are to accept the current economic situation of self-employed persons... - Tax and Social Welfare Codes
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she has completed her deliberations on the Commission on Taxation Report; and if she will outline her conclusions. [40730/09] - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that most pensioners use the Christmas bonus to heat their homes over the extended... - Civil Registration Legislation
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when she will bring forward legislation to provide for recognition of transgendered persons' self-identified gender as agreed in...
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