Written answers
Wednesday, 23 November 2011
Department of Social Protection
- Social Insurance
Question 9: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps she will take to encourage persons to sign up for credited contributions. [36261/11] - Redundancy Payments
Question 10: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total amount of money given in rebates to employers for redundancy payments in the years 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and to date in... - Employment Support Services
Question 11: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the specific measures she is considering in relation to labour activation measures, such as reducing social welfare benefits to persons who... - Social Welfare Code
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will reinstate the exceptional needs payment for persons who are offered accommodation by local authorities under the long-term... - Public Services Card
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when she intends to roll out the new identity card scheme; if she will outline the phases to the scheme and the projected savings; and if... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will explain the sense in denying the back to education allowance to a person (details supplied) which will mean that they will be... - Social Welfare Code
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to conflicting interpretations of the rules governing income from Health Service Executive home help work... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Social Protection with regard to persons in receipt of jobseeker's benefit or jobseeker's allowance payments, if her attention has been drawn to delays in... - Employment Support Services
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views that JobBridge internship advertisements and recruitment processes requiring candidates to already have experience contravenes... - Departmental Expenditure
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if finger print scanning equipment that has been purchased by her is being used; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36207/11] - Social Insurance
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Social Protection, further to Parliamentary Question No. 88 of 3 November 2011, in which she rejected a proposal to allow credited contributions accrued on... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the importance of the role played by the half rate carer's allowance; her further views that were this to be cut many family... - Departmental Staff
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of agency staff employed by her Department and any division thereof at present; the breakdown of said agency staff by grade; the... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason residents in Dublin North are required to collect their supplementary welfare allowance in the arrears support unit centre in... - Departmental Staff
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to accommodate the community welfare officers who recently transferred into her Department and to realise the promised one stop... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on whether cuts to social welfare have a negative impact on local economies as demonstrated by the level of retail sales which... - Social Welfare Code
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps she will take to allow time spent on JobBridge to count towards the accrual of time for eligibility for the fuel allowance in... - Departmental Staff
Question 32: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has studied the extent to which medical assessors in her Department frequently discount medical evidence provided by applicants for... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her view that the current scheme of free travel for older persons and those with disabilities both on and off peak times is vital for the... - Civil Registration
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to amend the Civil Registration Act 2004; if she intends to close off the sham marriage loophole in the interim; and if she will... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the numbers of students who are currently in receipt of the back to education allowance in view of the fact that most of the recipients of... - Social Welfare Code
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if, in view of the findings of research on fuel poverty and older people by the Dublin Institute of Technology and the Institute of Public... - Live Register
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons unemployed for more that one year according to the latest live register figures; the number of persons over 25 years... - Social Welfare Code
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps taken to ensure that there is a social welfare net available for self-employed people who suffer a loss of their business. [35957/11]
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