Seán Kyne (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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232. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if, while acknowledging the positive additional engagement by her Department with jobseeker's including offers of educational placements, she will confirm if a person in receipt of a jobseeker's payment as a result of an appeal regarding a disability payment will be negatively affected for not taking up an offer of a labour activation measure. [48385/13]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Legislation provides that a person’s weekly jobseeker's payment may be reduced for refusal or failure, without good cause, to engage with activation measures.

Decisions regarding whether to apply the above sanctions are made by a Deciding Officer and are subject to appeal to the independent Social Welfare Appeals Office.