Written answers
Wednesday, 29 September 2010
Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Code
Question 1225: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will support a matter (details supplied). [31813/10] - Social Insurance
Question 1226: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the return to the Exchequer in a full year if the PRSI ceiling were abolished. [31868/10] - Departmental Expenditure
Question 1227: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the social protection expenditure as a proportion of Gross Domestic Product; the social protection expenditure as a proportion of Gross... - Death Certificates
Question 1228: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a death certificate will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 1229: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress that has been made in honouring the programme for Government commitment to provide free broadband for older people; and if... - Employment Support Services
Question 1230: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he has undertaken any research into current unemployment levels by specific job type and sector; if he is examining any initiatives to... - Social Insurance
Question 1231: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the projected revenue forgone in 2011 of a 2% cut in the standard 10.75% rate of employers' PRSI up to €40,000 in earnings; and if he... - Ministerial Staff
Question 1233: To ask the Minister for Social Protection in respect of the current year in terms of full-time equivalents the number of persons employed in his, or if applicable his... - Departmental Properties
Question 1234: To ask the Minister for Social Protection in respect of the offices and properties which his Department are currently renting, if he would give a breakdown of all leasehold... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 1235: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding entitlement to rent allowance for a family who had an apartment, sold it to buy somewhere bigger for the children,... - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 1236: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork was refused for benefits, with the exception of carer's allowance (decision... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 1237: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he... - Pension Provisions
Question 1238: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will ensure that a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be awarded their State contributory pension as a matter of... - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 1240: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason those appealing refusal to grant disability allowance and other such allowances cannot have a witness present when they attend... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 1241: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on an application for disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick.... - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 1244: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused disability allowance on the grounds of failure to meet habitual residency... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 1247: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will support the case of a person (details supplied). [32092/10] - Departmental Responsibilities
Question 1248: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when the community welfare service will be absorbed into the Department of Social Protection; if this will mean that community... - Social Insurance
Question 1249: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties which the changes introduced to the treatment benefit scheme restricting PRSI... - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 1250: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications currently with the social welfare appeals office; his plans to allocate staff to this office; the plans he has... - Social Welfare Code
Question 1252: To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on shortening the duration of unemployment before a person becomes eligible for the back to education scheme in view of the... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 1253: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of qualified adults being claimed for under all current jobseeker's payments with a breakdown by jobseeker's benefit and... - Social Welfare Code
Question 1254: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the principal social welfare payments a person can be in receipt of in order to qualify for mortgage interest supplement; if mortgage... - National Carer's Strategy
Question 1256: To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans for carers following the decision not to publish the national carer's strategy; if he will review this decision; and if he will... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 1257: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for domiciliary allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will... - Social Welfare Code
Question 1258: To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to rectify the anomaly whereby rent allowance is paid to only one parent in a case in which joint custody exists and when the... - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 1260: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in processing an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny;... - Social Welfare Code
Question 1261: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will clarify the situation regarding demands issuing from his Department to those in receipt of forestry income seeking PRSI... - Child Support
Question 1262: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if full child benefit payments were awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 1263: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a review of decision to refuse jobseeker's allowance will be held in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and... - Social Welfare Code
Question 1265: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will qualify for social welfare payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 1266: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the case and make provision for an appeal as agreed in the House in the course of an Adjournment debate in the case of... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 1267: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current social welfare entitlement in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on... - Social Welfare Code
Question 1273: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare currently on disability benefit has entitlement to an invalidity pension; and if he will... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 1275: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when back to education allowance will be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement... - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 1276: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason disability allowance has been disallowed in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 1277: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when rent support arrears will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 1282: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an appeal for carers allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be finalised. [32793/10] - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 1291: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when it is proposed to commence the 10,000 new places on the work programme for dole money and where a person may apply for such work?.... - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 1293: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an oral hearing on disability allowance claim will be held in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [32954/10] - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 1294: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in awarding rent subsidy to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare. [32976/10] - Health Service Allowances
Question 1306: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when back to school clothing and footwear allowance will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make... - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 1309: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on an appeal for jobseeker's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [33136/10] - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 1310: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) rent supplement has been reduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33149/10] - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 1312: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the rent allowance appeal hearing in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford will take place; and if he will make... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 1313: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the average waiting time for disability allowance applications; the reason for the long delay in processing times; the action he is... - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 1314: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to parliamentary Question, reference No. 26315/10 of 22 June 2010, if he will provide an update regarding an appeal in respect of... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 1319: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons that have applied for jobseeker's benefit at employment exchanges (details supplied) in 2009 and to date in 2010;... - Pension Provisions
Question 1322: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the planned changes in the national pensions framework in relation to the self-employed and in particular sole-traders. [33442/10] - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 1323: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an appeal has been opened for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in respect of a carer's allowance refusal. [33443/10] - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 1324: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the processing times for applications (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33473/10] - Social Welfare Code
Question 1325: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person in respect of whom a qualified adult allowance is awarded must undergo a habitual residence test; if such qualified... - EU Directives
Question 1326: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the preparations being made to transpose a EU directive, 2010/41/EU by the 2012 deadline. [33618/10] - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 1327: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the outcome of an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [33627/10] - Departmental Expenditure
Question 1328: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount his Department spent in each of the last three years and in the first six months of this year on mobile phone bills; the... - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 1329: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an oral hearing for carer's allowance will be held in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 1331: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for refusal of mortgage relief to a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [33693/10] - Departmental Staff
Question 1332: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons employed in his Department by grade; the number of agencies under his remit; and the number of staff employed in... - Departmental Expenditure
Question 1334: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total spend by his Department on social welfare schemes in 2009 and to date in 2010. [33723/10] - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 1340: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of one-parent payment recipients on community employment schemes that are not in receipt of the back to school clothing and... - Social Welfare Code
Question 1346: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons refused social welfare benefits by a deciding officer of first instance on the stated grounds of a failure to... - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 1353: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for disability benefit in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; when this... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 1354: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason rent supplement has been suspended in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a... - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 1355: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an oral hearing will be heard in an appeal concerning habitual residence in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork;... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 1356: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for rent supplement in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will... - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 1357: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called for a second medical assessment in order that their illness benefit appeal... - Departmental Staff
Question 1362: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of employees within his Department who have completed their career breaks and who are still waiting to return to his... - Civil Registration Service
Question 1363: To ask the Minister for Social Protection his proposals to amend the Civil Registration Act 2004 to allow the death of an Irish citizen abroad to be registered in this country;... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 1364: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide details of the number of applicants for the back to education allowance to date in 2010; the number of applications... - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 1365: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an appeal for rent allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 1367: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for a disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 1371: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if medical assessors who make decisions for his Department in relation to applicants and those in receipt of illness payments are... - Social Welfare Appeals
Question 1375: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of the disability and invalidity payment appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan. [33901/10] - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 1378: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the average length of time for processing all social welfare applications in the years 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. [33999/10] - Employment Support Services
Question 1379: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the systems in place in his Department to interview jobseekers when they are still unemployed after the National Employment Action Plan... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 1380: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in continuous receipt of an unemployment payment for each of the past ten years and the number in continuous... - Employment Support Services
Question 1382: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to the case of an unemployed person (details supplied) who is leaving the live register to take up...
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