Written answers

Thursday, 26 January 2012

Department of Social Protection

 
  • Social Welfare Fraud
    Question 9: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps she will take to tackle the issue of the black economy, particularly those claiming social welfare payments while carrying out...
  • Social Welfare Code
    Question 10: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who will suffer financial loss as a result of the budget 2012 cut providing that income from employment by the...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 15: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of extra civil and public servants who became entitled to claim family income supplement after the pension levy, the public...
  • Medical Certificates
    Question 16: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will detail the extent of any negotiations held with representative bodies of general practitioners and medical certifiers...
  • Employment Support Services
    Question 17: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans for the current batch of Tús workers when their existing one year contracts expire; if she will consider making these positions...
  • Anti-Poverty Strategy
    Question 18: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason she failed to conduct an analysis of the poverty and distributive impacts of the budget measures; if she will revise or reverse...
  • Social Welfare Code
    Question 19: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if as a consequence of budget 2012 recipients of deserted wife's benefit will not be entitled to qualify for illness benefit should they...
  • Employment Support Services
    Question 20: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who have taken up the internship programme that she introduced late last year; her views on the matter; if there is...
  • Civil Registration Service
    Question 22: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to amend the Civil Registration Act 2004; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4328/12]
  • Community Employment Schemes
    Question 23: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the concerns that abolishing concurrent payments will make participation in community employment unaffordable for many lone...
  • Social Welfare Code
    Question 24: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress that has been made on the single working age payment process; if she anticipates reductions in social welfare assistance...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 25: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of applications for domiciliary care allowance in each of the past three years to date in 2012; the number approved in...
  • Community Employment Schemes
    Question 26: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is sincere in saying that budget 2012 protects the most vulnerable in our society when the cuts in the materials grant to the...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 30: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a significant number of landlords across the State demand a top-up payment from their...
  • Employment Support Services
    Question 31: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views that the six month transitional one parent family payment was a valuable activation support making work pay; and if she will...
  • Social Welfare Code
    Question 32: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the Forfás and National Competitiveness Council recommendation that housing benefits should depend on income rather than...
  • Redundancy Payments
    Question 34: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason she failed to conduct an assessment of the impact of her budgetary measure cutting the redundancy rebate from 60% to 15% on...
  • Social Welfare Code
    Question 37: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views that her decision to reduce the earnings disregarded for lone parents will have the effect of reinforcing unemployment traps and...
  • Community Employment Schemes
    Question 40: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of children that will lose €29.80 each week as a consequence of her decision to cut qualified child increases paid to one...
  • Social Welfare Code
    Question 43: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider removing compensation awarded for damages from means assessment; if she will look into the case of a person (details...
  • Employment Support Services
    Question 44: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the criteria which debars one parent family recipients from availing of the JobBridge scheme in view of the fact that...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    Question 45: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the average number of weeks it is currently taking to register a social welfare appeal; the average time it is taking to allocate an appeal...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 46: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of requests for mortgage interest relief, rent support or other supplementary welfare payment made in each of the past...
  • Enterprise Support Services
    Question 48: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will detail the actions that she is taking to ensure that the long-term unemployed can develop small businesses and enterprises....
  • Employment Support Services
    Question 49: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will detail the actions that she is taking to address the regional disparities in unemployment. [4126/12]

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