Written answers
Tuesday, 21 October 2014
Department of Social Protection
- Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
87. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to reassess the maximum participation time limit with regard to community employment schemes for persons aged 55 and over, which currently... - Fuel Allowance Payments
88. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the persistence of fuel poverty here; if she will enhance the fuel allowance in order to combat this poverty; and... - National Internship Scheme Administration
89. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is satisfied with the appeals process in relation to complaints against the JobBridge scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Child Benefit Administration
90. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of administering the child benefit scheme; the estimated administration cost of a means-tested child benefit scheme; and if she will make a... - Free Travel Scheme Administration
91. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to ensure that the senior citizens of Inishowen may avail of free travel in the same way that their contemporaries can all over the country... - Community Employment Drug Rehabilitation Projects
92. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason those in addiction recovery on community employment drugs rehabilitation schemes, many of whom are early school leavers, are expected to... - Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
93. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has conducted a review of the rent allowance scheme; the way the rent caps relate to current market prices; the way the scheme as it stands is... - Rent Supplement Scheme Data
94. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons that are currently in receipt of rent allowance; the number of persons that have been transferred from rent allowance to... - Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
95. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will address cap anomalies within the rent allowance scheme in view of the fact that it is contributing to family homelessness; and if she... - Social Welfare Offices
96. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to alter the number of social welfare offices in the County Dublin area over the next five years; and if she will make a statement on the... - Poverty Impact Assessment
97. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department conducted an equality and poverty impact assessment of budget 2015, including an examination of the cumulative impact of budgetary... - Pension Provisions
98. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will put a mechanism in place to implement the Labour Court recommendation of 2008 in relation to an agreed pension scheme provision for... - Household Benefits Scheme
100. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of a weekly social welfare payment who do not receive the household benefits package and who consequently will not... - Labour Activation Measures
101. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if existing training schemes and courses are designed to solely reduce numbers on the live register and that opening these schemes to persons on... - Back to Education Allowance Eligibility
102. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will amend the regulations related to the time a person must be in receipt of social welfare payments before being eligible for the back to... - Security of the Elderly
103. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a number of elderly persons have been compelled to abandon security systems within their homes due... - Disability Support Services Provision
104. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which it is possible to address any issues arising for those with special needs and-or respite requirements in the context of budget... - Labour Activation Measures
105. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who have lost or had a deduction of their social welfare allowance because they refused to engage with labour activation... - Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
106. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on a reversal of the reductions in rent supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39862/14] - Rent Supplement Scheme Administration
107. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps that have been taken to address the situation where persons in receipt of rent supplement are unable to find private rented accommodation;... - Insolvency Payments Scheme Eligibility
108. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in cases where workers lost their job due to a business closure and have been awarded a claim for unpaid wages, holiday pay and payment in lieu of... - Social Welfare Fraud Data
109. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure that in future figures released by her Department that a distinction be made between fraud figures and error figures relating to... - Rent Supplement Scheme Administration
110. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will address the growing concerns about the increases in rent being imposed by landlords and the fact that the rate of rent allowance... - Pension Provisions
111. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update regarding discussions she has had with the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in relation to required... - Widow's Pension Eligibility
112. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will revise and reduce the total number of weekly PRSI contribution payments which must be paid to qualify for the widow-widowers and the... - Social Insurance Rates
113. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will address the PRSI anomaly resulting in lower paid workers taking home less pay when they earn more; and if she will make a statement on... - Departmental Programmes
114. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to privatise the Department's Jobs Ireland website and if her attention has been drawn to the experience of same in Britain where the... - Labour Activation Projects
115. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on her proposal to privatise social welfare services via JobPath. [39796/14] - Labour Activation Measures
116. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form, the number of participants in the Department's various labour activation and training schemes, including, but... - Social Welfare Appeals Data
117. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the social welfare appeals office will collate statistics on the number of requests made by appellants for oral hearings to take place in respect... - Labour Activation Projects
118. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the awarding of the JobPath contract to a company (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39864/14] - Supplementary Welfare Allowance Payments
119. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the measures her Department are engaged upon to reduce the crisis in obtaining suitable accommodation caused by the reductions in supplementary... - Social Welfare Benefits
120. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which she and her Department have monitored the most pressing issues dealt with in the context of welfare support over the past 12... - Rent Supplement Scheme Appeals
121. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 124 of 7 May 2014, in view of a person's (details supplied) rent allowance being withdrawn without the review...
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