Written answers

Tuesday, 15 July 2014

  • Death Certificates
    356. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there has been any progress in the consideration being given to the introduction of a shortened version of a death certificate, omitting the...
  • Social Insurance Yield
    357. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the partial and full year revenue that would be raised for the Exchequer by introducing a new employers’ rate of PRSI of 15.75% on the...
  • Employment Rights
    358. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will amend the Protection of Employees (Employees Insolvency) Acts, 1984 to 2006, to ensure they encompasses the definition of deemed...
  • Unemployment Data
    359. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to tackle the high unemployment statistics in County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31469/14]
  • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
    360. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the correct level of rent allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; if and when it will be reinstated; and if she will...
  • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
    361. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding social protection payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30713/14]
  • Work Placement Programmes
    363. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who have chosen to forego their social welfare payment rather that than take up a position on the Gateway scheme after being...
  • Invalidity Pension Appeals
    364. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied|) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
    365. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
  • Housing Data
    366. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of the 2,756 persons accommodated by the new communities unit who had a letter of housing need from a local authority; and the number of...
  • Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (1 comment)
    369. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the measures she has implemented to ensure college applicants for the back to education schemes for the 2014 and 2015 year will be advised of their...
  • Rent Supplement Scheme Expenditure
    370. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will reconsider the implementation of an increase in rent supplement payments to alleviate the accommodation crisis for families enduring a...
  • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Eligibility
    371. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has made allowances for the hardship faced by families applying for social welfare schemes who are not entitled to supports under the...
  • Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme
    372. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the Irish airlines superannuation scheme pension (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30952/14]
  • Social Insurance Yield
    375. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the yield from the extension of PRSI to unearned income for first six months of 2014; the projected outturn for this period and for the year as a...
  • JobsPlus Scheme
    376. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the success of JobsPlus to date; the amount of funding available; the number of positions it covers; her plans to extend or increase the funding...
  • Back to Education Allowance Eligibility
    377. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the qualifying criteria for back to education allowance; if a person who has previously received the allowance may reapply if undertaking studies at...
  • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
    381. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding rent supplement in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Rent Supplement Scheme Administration
    382. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her Departments policy regarding tenants who are in receipt of rent supplement but fail to pass this payment to landlords; the avenues available to...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    383. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary who has applied for optical benefit. [31101/14]
  • Departmental Offices
    384. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans for Intreo offices in west Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31112/14]
  • Departmental Reports
    385. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when her Department will publish its annual report for 2013. [31133/14]
  • Springboard Programme
    386. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will indicate eligibility for social welfare payment in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who is undertaking a...
  • Invalidity Pension Appeals
    389. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a disability pension appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
    393. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for domiciliary care allowance will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford. [31379/14]
  • One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility
    394. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the social protection schemes recipients of the one parent family payment transfer to when ceasing to be...
  • Social Insurance
    395. To ask the Minister for Social Protection how plans by her Department in respect of the provision of supports for persons that are self-employed, similar to those of PAYE workers, are...
  • State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
    396. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the recent proposals made by the Carers Association in relation to the contributory State pension entitlement for lifetime family...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    397. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the improvements made in relation to domiciliary care allowance can be extended to carer's allowance, carer's benefit and the respite care grant,...
  • Live Register Data
    398. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a breakdown by month since March 2011 of the number of persons who are on the live register in County Louth; including the...
  • One-Parent Family Payments
    399. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if paid work is seen as a route out of poverty; the reason lone parents are now financially penalised if they are in part-time work (details...
  • Disability Allowance Eligibility
    401. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 226 of 9 July 2014, her views on whether it is reasonable that a MS sufferer (details supplied) was refused...
  • Public Relations Contracts Expenditure
    402. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total cost of public relations-communications to her Department in 2013; the spend to date in 2014; the total estimate for 2014; the...
  • After-School Support Services
    403. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the size of the afterschool child care scheme is demand-led or if there is a cap on places; if the announcement on the 8 July 2014 of changes to...
  • Child Care Services Provision
    404. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the size of the community employment child care programme is demand-led or if there is a cap on places; if the announcement on the 8 July 2014 of...
  • Youth Unemployment Measures
    406. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress made in implementing the youth guarantee scheme; if data is available on the progress of the pilot programme under the scheme; when the...
  • Carer's Allowance Applications
    407. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for carer's allowance will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford. [31600/14]
  • Social Welfare Benefits Data
    409. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which the number in receipt of jobseeker's allowance has fluctuated in each of the past five years to date; and if she will make a...
  • Departmental Staff Data
    411. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which adequate staff remain available to her Department with particular reference to extra administrative activity workload arising...
  • Departmental Budgets
    412. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which the budget available to her Department remains adequate to meet requirements; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Rent Supplement Scheme Administration
    413. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which her Department continues to monitor the level of rent support available to applicants on local authority housing waiting lists...
  • Job Initiatives
    414. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which the various jobs, training, internship or other similar opportunities remain to be availed of by those on the live register and...
  • Social Welfare Benefits Applications
    417. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the degree to which applications for various forms of assistance or allowance including jobseeker's allowance from the self-employed continue to be...
  • Social Welfare Benefits Data
    418. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications received and approved for dental benefit in each of the past five years to date; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times
    419. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the length of time taken to process applications for dental or ophthalmic benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31639/14]
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    420. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding social welfare grants or financial assistance with burial costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31661/14]
  • Mortgage Interest Relief Eligibility
    421. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason mortgage interest relief has been reduced or terminated in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; if the decision in...

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