Written answers
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Insurance
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the balance of the Social Insurance Fund for each of the past ten years; the projected balance for the next three years; the... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the processing time it takes for each individual social welfare office to deal with a claim for jobseeker's benefit to date in 2010... - Employment Support Services
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of job facilitators here; the average waiting times to access support from a job facilitator [15427/10] - Public Service Cards
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the details of the Public Service Card with photo identification to be rolled out from 2010 [15446/10] - Money Advice and Budgetary Service
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of clients dealt with by the Money Advice and Budgetary Service for each of the past five years; the number of new... - Social Welfare Code
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the way he proposes to safeguard the interests of persons suffering from mental health difficulties vis-À-vis the proposed changes... - Pension Provisions
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will undertake to reinstate the pension forecast service previously offered by his Department. [15395/10] - Social Welfare Code
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to reform the one parent family payment [15438/10] - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the supports in place to farm operators suffering from a disability. [12042/10] - Response to Industrial Action
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the action he is taking to ensure that there are no further closures of social welfare offices due to work to rule action being... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons claiming rent supplement for more than 18 months [15474/10] - Pension Provisions
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps he is taking to ensure that Ireland is in compliance with EU Council Directive 80/987/EC on pension security [15367/10] - Unemployment Levels
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will comment on the live register figures for February 2010 which indicate that there are 436,956 unemployed or... - Social Welfare Code
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has conducted a review of the one parent family payment; the details on the recommendations of this review; and if he will... - Fuel Poverty
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the action he will take to alleviate the impact of the carbon tax on lower income households that are more likely to rely on higher... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the qualifying criteria for domiciliary care allowance have been altered since administration of the payment has been switched... - Social Welfare Fraud
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he is satisfied with the method of recording and calculating fraud control savings [15449/10] - National Carer's Strategy
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans for carers following the decision not to publish the National Carer's Strategy [15476/10] - Social Welfare Fraud
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the fraud savings target for 2010; if he will provide an update on the fraud control measures that he has put in place [15460/10] - Pension Provisions
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the details on the implementation of the National Pensions Framework [15406/10] - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the time it took to process social welfare appeals in 2009 [15472/10] - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will give a breakdown per county of the applications for farm assist made since January 2010; and if she will make a... - Ministerial Responsibilities
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when his Department will formally get new powers and functions [15495/10] - Employment Support Services
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the additional supports that have been given to job facilitators to deal with the increased demand for access to support [15433/10] - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a decision will be made on the maximum levels of rent supplement; and if he will provide details of the new levels [15369/10] - Pension Provisions
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he is concerned that people face the prospect of spending up to three years in retirement without the State pension in view of... - Social Welfare Code
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the measures in place to ensure that those from Northern Ireland who are now resident here are being adequately provided for... - Pension Provisions
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding entitlement to contributory old age pension on the basis of the existence of a presumed partnership arising... - Response to Industrial Action
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the effect that action by staff has had on applications for social welfare; and if he will provide a breakdown of the cause of... - Departmental Expenditure
Question 105: To ask the Minister for and Family Affairs the amount expended under the supplementary welfare allowance travel supplement scheme and the funding made available for it in 2010; the... - Social Insurance
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will seek to have the budget changes to the dental treatment benefit scheme, which resulted in the cost of dental services... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if it his policy to ease the qualifying criteria for back to education allowance in 2010 in view of statements (details supplied);... - Social Insurance
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the impact which the limiting of the dental benefit scheme to examinations only will have on the oral health of those... - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the size of the increase in the number of persons living in relative poverty as a result of social welfare cuts in Budget 2010 in... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of applicants for various social welfare payments by category, including those on appeal, who are currently awaiting a...
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