Written answers

Tuesday, 8 July 2014

  • Free Travel Scheme Administration
    356. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to limit the use of bus passes for older persons on any of the bus routes which are being considered for privatisation; if she will...
  • Birth Certificates Administration
    357. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the need for an apostille stamp on a birth certificate for persons born in Northern Ireland when notifying intent...
  • Civil Marriages Data
    358. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of registered solemnisers here, categorised by county and religious or secular group, currently and in each of the past ten years; and if...
  • Rural Social Scheme Administration
    359. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the rural social scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29645/14]
  • School Meals Programme
    360. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has ever examined or had costed or conducted a feasibility study for a school meals programme for every school. [29728/14]
  • JobsPlus Scheme
    363. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason persons who are in receipt of one parent family as opposed to other payments are being denied the chance to participate on JobsPlus,...
  • Social Welfare Benefits Data
    364. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current number of citizens who are signing for credited contributions with her Department and are not in receipt of a social protection payment;...
  • One-Parent Family Payments
    365. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of reversing reductions in the earnings disregard for the one parent family payment introduced in Budget 2012. [28998/14]
  • Family Income Supplement Expenditure
    366. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the budget allocation in her Department for family income supplement in the years 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014. [28999/14]
  • Back to Education Allowance Payments
    367. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of increasing the rate of back to education allowance to recipients of the payment aged under 26 years to €188 per week. [29000/14]
  • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
    369. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the number of staff in her Department currently on a sabbatical/career break broken down by 0-6 months; 6-12...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    370. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form, the total photography costs for her Department since coming to office inclusive of costs incurred from use of...
  • Carer's Allowance Applications
    372. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in determination of an application for carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; when a...
  • Disability Allowance Appeals
    373. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a determination will be made on an appeal for a disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork [29134/14]
  • Free Travel Scheme Payments
    374. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department will immediately allocate funding support to the provider and licence holder of the Buncrana, County Donegal to Derry City bus...
  • Rent Supplement Scheme Expenditure
    375. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons that have been given rent supplement in excess of the maximum amount by her Department after making contact with the Threshold...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    376. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total amount spent on external IT consultants by her Department in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and if she will make a statement...
  • Appointments to State Boards
    378. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the number of appointments to State boards under her Department's remit made since March 2011 to date; the...
  • Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility
    379. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure that a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6 will be provided with the rent allowance they are entitled to as a matter of urgency...
  • Carer's Allowance Appeals
    380. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in determination of an appeal for carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if she will...
  • Legislative Process
    386. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of bills her Department has published since March 2011; the number of regulatory impact assessments that her Department has published...
  • One-Parent Family Payment Appeals
    388. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an appeal for one parent family payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will...
  • Debt Collection
    389. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department or agencies under its auspices has engaged the services of a debt collection agency in pursuing money owed to her Department or...
  • Carer's Allowance Appeals
    393. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a decision has not yet issued on a carer's allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan; and if she will...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    394. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will clarify whether a married couple regarding a married couple, one of whom is in receipt of a jobseeker's payment, if the temporary income...
  • Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
    396. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will initiate a review of the eligibility criteria for participation in community employment schemes; and if she will ensure that as part of...
  • Social Welfare Payments Administration (1 comment)
    398. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the highest weekly payment from all payments from her Department to any one family and person; the highest annual monetary value from all payments...
  • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
    402. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on an appeal lodged in respect of entitlement to domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied)...
  • Departmental Funding
    405. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount of funding her Department provides for library services for persons with a visual impairment; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Ministerial Advisers Remuneration
    408. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide the name, position and annual salary awarded to each of her special advisors; if she will provide details of any request made...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    410. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding illness benefit and carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if she will make a statement...
  • Carer's Allowance Appeals
    411. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for carer's allowance will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if she will make a statement...
  • Pensions Legislation
    413. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm that before deciding to support the conclusion by the chairperson of the Pensions Board that a complaint of failure by the...
  • Carer's Allowance Appeals
    415. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on a carer’s allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) County Donegal; and if she will make a...
  • Water Charges Exemptions
    417. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider extending the water allowance payment to all full-time carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29711/14]
  • Farm Assist Scheme Data
    418. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form by county the number of persons who lost their farm assist payments under the terms of budget 2013. [29745/14]
  • Traveller Community
    421. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will meet the National Traveller Partnership as soon as possible (details supplied). [29775/14]
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    422. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is satisfied with a social welfare appeal being furnished to an appeals officer in early February of this year in respect of a person...
  • Youth Guarantee
    423. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to increase the age of eligibility for the Youth Guarantee scheme ahead of the next budget. [29813/14]
  • Skills Development
    424. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the services and opportunities that are offered to those seeking work by the Skills to Work initiative; if the Skills to Work roadshow will visit...
  • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
    425. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the correct level of jobseeker's allowance payable in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Household Benefits Scheme
    426. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will undertake to review the decision to discontinue the telephone allowance; the implications this decision has had on old age pensioners...
  • Living Alone Allowance
    428. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will increase the living alone allowance form €7.70 a week in budget 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29898/14]
  • One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility
    429. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to introduce an adequate number of free child care places, as previously promised, to counteract the difficulties being faced by parents...
  • Departmental Staff Rehiring
    433. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of retired civil and public servants that have been rehired on temporary contracts or as consultants under her remit; if she will provide...

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