Written answers
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Department of Social Protection
- Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress that has been made in the ongoing issue around part time fire fighters being refused jobseeker's payments on the stated grounds that the... - Rent Supplement Scheme Administration
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if consideration has been given to making payment of rent supplement directly to landlords through their bank accounts. [4069/13] - Back to Education Allowance Payments
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of people who will be affected by the abolition of the back to education cost allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4056/13] - Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of children affected by the cuts to the back to school footware and clothing allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4051/13] - Child Care Services
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the timeframe her interdepartmental group on the provision of Scandinavian childcare system has met since established; when it is likely to report to... - Child Benefit Rates
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she plans to further cut child benefit in view of the fat that it has already been cut by 22%. [4062/13] - Youth Unemployment Measures
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress that has been made on the establishment of a youth guarantee scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4095/13] - Pension Provisions
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline her plans for a universal pension scheme; her views on when any such proposals will be published; and if she will make a statement on... - Employment Support Services
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which she expects the various employment training, educational and/or other temporary employment measures and youth outreach provisions to... - Social Welfare Benefits
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline the steps that are being taken to reduce and minimise delays in the processing time for applications to the various schemes as... - Social Transfer Data
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the average social transfer in 2012 for the top 10% of income earners and the bottom 10% of income earners; and if she will make a statement on the... - Rent Supplement Scheme Application Numbers
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of rent supplement applications that remain unprocessed at this time; the average length of time it takes to process a rent supplement... - Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of people transferred to partial capacity benefit in 2012; if she will indicate the number of people in each assessment band of capacity; the... - Social Welfare Code
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the Programme for Government commitment to maintain Social Welfare rates still stands; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4093/13] - Departmental Equipment
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details on the progress made in improving the ICT capability of her Department to detect potential irregularities, over payments or... - Household Benefits Scheme
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the discussions that she has held with electricity, telephone and gas providers about costs to household benefits package recipients; the progress made;... - Social Welfare Code
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there has been any study or analysis within her Department or associated agencies of the flexicurity welfare state model that is used in Denmark and... - Community Employment Schemes Places
To ask the Minister for Social Protection of the 2000 new community employment places announced on 19 January 2013, the number that will be allowed for longer than one year. [4058/13] - Exceptional Needs Payments
To ask the Minister for Social Protection following the recent circular directive SWA 1/02013 issued on 11 January 2013 regarding supplementary welfare payments that were traditionally paid... - Social Welfare Code
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress that has been made or her plans to provide unemployment benefits to the self-employed. [4036/13] - Humanitarian Aid Scheme
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of applicants there were under the supplementary assistance payment or other social protection payments for help due to severe flooding in... - Departmental Contracts
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the tender for the payment of entitlements on behalf of her Department; when a decision will be made in relation to the awarding... - Rent Supplement Scheme Administration
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the changes she intends to make to the rent supplement scheme in view of the strain that recent changes are putting on families and persons in Dublin in... - Social Welfare Code
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she still intends to proceed with the introduction of the single working age payment concept, announced by her to the Troika in March 2011; and if a... - Redundancy Payments
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department will meet the cost of the statutory redundancy and unpaid holiday pay of the workers who lost their jobs in a company (details... - Job Initiatives
To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the statement by her appointee as chair of the steering group of the jobbridge programme (details supplied), when she will reconsider the... - Departmental Staff Recruitment
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if sanction has been given by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform for the provision of 150 additional clerical officer posts to allow for the... - Social Welfare Code
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the savings from cuts to pensioners for fuel and elcetricity and the number affected. [3915/13] - Pension Provisions
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has considered the implications of the removal of the transitory pension in 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4083/13] - Jobseeker's Benefit Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will clarify the implementation time frame of the Budget 2013 changes to jobseeker's benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4092/13] - Departmental Staff Numbers
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if, in view of the significant increase in appeals of social welfare decisions, additional resources, including personnel, will be allocated to the... - Job Initiatives
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the implementation of the Pathways to Work initiative; the number of unemployed dealt with by the new system to date;... - One-Parent Family Payment Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is still considering a form of combined income support payment to all low income families including lone parents, similar to that referred to in... - Departmental Staff Numbers
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline the number staff in her Department and the number who have transferred to other Departments excluding former FÁS and Community... - Family Income Supplement Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will report on the waiting time for the processing of a family income supplement application; the number of applicants currently waiting to have... - Tax Collection
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the measures or criteria she intends to use to ensure that basic living standards of social welfare are protected from any deductions in relation to the... - Departmental Staff Redeployment
To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 140 of 13 November 2012, in which she stated that other staff left or retired as normal, if these positions were... - Budget 2013
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department completed a poverty impact assessment of the effects of the recent budget on those dependent on social welfare; and if she intends to... - National Internship Scheme Numbers
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide the number and duties of jobbridge participants which Government Departments availed of since the scheme commenced; and the number... - Rent Supplement Scheme Administration
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the practice of top up, undeclared, payments which landlords are demanding of rent supplement tenants, in order that...
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