Written answers
Thursday, 1 March 2012
Department of Social Protection
- Departmental Statistics
Question 10: To ask the Minister for Social Protection of the 140,000 persons that she has stated left the live register to take up work last year, the number that took up full-time work, the... - Employment Support Services
Question 11: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if it is the case that unemployed workers who are highly skilled and qualified in particular fields, for example, nurses, will be forced to... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will conduct research on qualified adult dependents in order to ascertain a breakdown as to their age, gender, caring or parenting... - Private Rented Accommodation
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the fact that the new maximum rent limits which came into force on 1 January 2012 will force many families to move in view of... - Social Welfare Fraud
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total verifiable amount of fraud in the social welfare system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11720/12] - Social Welfare Code
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has read the report Seven is too Young, published by OPEN; if she will reconsider her decision to reduce the one parent family... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has instructed her inspectors to request car insurance certificates and bank account numbers from recipients of one parent family... - Employment Support Services
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way the rights and responsibilities contract will be enforced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11742/12] - Social Welfare Code
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will make changes to the family income supplement scheme to allow for a more regular review of the payment level especially in... - Employment Support Services
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will make a statement providing details on the group engagement sessions, group engagement seminars and group information seminars... - Departmental Schemes
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the measures she intends to put in place to ensure that JobBridge is not exploited by private sector employers resulting in persons being... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will specifically ensure that claimants for disability benefit and allowance or invalidity pension, who are cancer patients are... - Social Welfare Code
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to change sick pay arrangements; the revenue implication of this decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11728/12] - Community Employment Schemes
Question 28: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the report Downsizing the Community Sector and her response to its conclusion that she is singling out... - Employment Support Services
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way she tallies the commitment in Pathways to Work to get persons back into the workforce with budget 2012 measures that will see jobs... - Departmental Staff
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons working in the Bray Social Welfare Office, County Wicklow; the way this compares to the staffing levels for the years... - Social Welfare Fraud
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if State agencies including, but not exclusively, Departments, local authorities, Revenue and Health Service Executive are prevented under... - Employment Support Services
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will make a statement on the future of local employment centres and congress centres; and if she has any plans that will impact on... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps being taken to identify overpayments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11694/12] - Social and Affordable Housing
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider making a policy decision in respect of social housing that the 300,000 vacant houses will be matched with the 100,000... - Tax and Social Welfare Codes
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the approach taken for those seeking a social protection payment who have left the US because they are undocumented Irish or who are Irish... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will detail the scope, format and timeframe of the review she is conducting of the domiciliary care allowance scheme; if she is... - Community Employment Schemes
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the way her review of community employment is progressing; and if she is concerned that the shortening of the... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider extending the partial capacity benefit to those in receipt of disability allowance; and if she will make a statement... - Proposed Legislation
Question 43: 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. [11695/12] - Departmental Functions
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps she can or will take to eliminate backlogs resulting in long delays in the issue of the various payments for which she is... - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the actions she will take to tackle child poverty here in view of the fact that 19% of children are at risk of poverty, 9% live in... - Departmental Offices
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will urgently prioritise the development of a single means testing unit or facility in her Department whereby persons could submit... - Departmental Programmes
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will amend the rules of eligibility for activation programmes that often required the applicant to have spent one year on... - Social Welfare Fraud
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider the introduction of biometric and photographic identification as a measure to tackle the issue of social welfare... - Employment Support Services
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will report on any new measures that she is considering to incentivise the hiring of unemployed persons from the live register in... - Social Welfare Benefits
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there has been any increase in the number of applications for exceptional or emergency needs payments; if so, the scale of same; and if... - Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the claim made at a conference on the 7 February 2012 that half the population will be living in fuel... - Social Welfare Code
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if steps can be taken to ensure that social welfare recipients who are required to transfer from one payment to another are notified on... - Social Welfare Fraud
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will emphasise the actual values attributable to fraud in real money and that which is down to error; if her attention has been...
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