Written answers
Wednesday, 14 January 2015
Department of Social Protection
- Action Plan for Jobs
23. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason the Action Plan for Jobs is being cut each year and high skilled workers are not being followed up having completed various State funded... - European Court of Human Rights Rulings
24. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the decision of the European Court of Justice in April 2013 has a wider implication beyond the case of the former Waterford Crystal workers; if... - Property Tax Administration
25. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure that weekly local property tax reductions from payments are synchronised with those payments to avoid extra weeks deductions being... - Citizen Information Services
26. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will introduce the community visitors programme in 2015, in partnership with Inclusion Ireland and other stakeholders; and if she will make a... - Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
27. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for a domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will... - Disability Allowance Appeals
28. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will examine and expedite a disability allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a... - Education and Training Provision
29. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the courses available through her Department or agencies in County Kilkenny to assist those wishing to upskill or return to work; and if she will... - Mortgage Interest Supplement Scheme
30. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding mortgage interest supplement in respect of persons who are long term unemployed (details supplied); the way she plans on... - Departmental Offices
31. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when she will have an Intreo office fully operational in Swords, County Dublin. [49471/14] - Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
32. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will approve and expedite an appeal for jobseeker's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a... - Disability Allowance Appeals
34. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an appeal for a disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [49523/14] - Social Welfare Appeals
35. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an appeal claim for benefit will be expedited and approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will expedite... - Momentum Programme
36. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the difficulties persons may have being forced onto momentum courses while not being able to afford the cost of getting to class for the placement;... - Disability Allowance Appeals
37. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will examine a refusal for disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry in view of the fact that additional... - Community Services Programme
38. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding Pobal funding in respect of an organisation (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Departmental Funding
40. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will support a matter (details supplied) regarding funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49565/14] - Departmental Investigations
41. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the date by which the scope section of her Department plan to complete its investigation into allegations regarding the Kishoge site in Lucan, County... - Exceptional Needs Payment Data
44. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for exceptional needs payments excluding ENP5 applications by county for the years 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014; the... - Social Welfare Code
45. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 140 of 9 December 2014 her views on a change to the current legislation and rules in relation to income earned... - Back to Work Allowance
46. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 171 of 16 December if she will clarify the final paragraph of her reply wherein she makes reference to the... - Defined Benefit Pension Schemes
47. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a profitable company (details supplied) in County Meath has not provided for its employees’... - Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
48. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the current rent supplement limits and revise same, with a view to flexibility on the limits for tenants who are at risk of... - Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
49. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views that persons who have earned through their contributions, an entitlement to a widow's-widower's contributory pension should not be denied... - Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
50. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding rent supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49746/14] - Carer's Allowance Applications
51. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who has submitted all recent documentation... - Departmental Bodies Data
54. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of agencies, quangos or other bodies within, funded by or established by her Department which have been scrapped, merged or reduced since... - Decentralisation Programme Data
55. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the agencies or sections from her Department that were decentralised during the period 1997 to 2011; the travel costs and expenses incurred by... - Pensions Insolvency Payments Scheme
58. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the pension schemes that became insolvent between 25 January 2007 and 25 December 2013 and which availed of the personal insolvency practitioners... - Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
59. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason that there is no disregard of €2,539.48 allowed for money received from agri-environmental schemes such as REPS-AEOS in the... - Rent Supplement Scheme Administration
60. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the action she will take on a matter (details supplied), where a tenant in receipt of rent supplement did not pass this on to the landlord and, when... - Pension Provisions
61. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on State pensioners not having their the basic rates cut; if she will ask the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to reconsider... - Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
62. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on a domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a... - Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
64. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be approved for domiciliary care allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1194/15] - Illness Benefit Appeals
65. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision on an illness benefit appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be expedited; and if she will make a... - Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
66. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there are circumstances where a person over the age of 55 who has been on community employment for three years can continue on this scheme or if... - Maternity Benefit
67. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost to extend paid maternity leave from 26 weeks to 52 weeks over a five year period, year 1, 26 weeks to 36 weeks, year 2, 36 weeks to 40... - Pension Provisions
69. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will support a matter (details supplied) regarding pensioners; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1324/15] - Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times
70. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the average time between an appeal of a decision being registered and the appeal being considered; the causes of delays; the steps her Department is... - Community Services Programme
71. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to reopen the community services programme to new applicants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1346/15] - Insolvency Payments Scheme Payments
73. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when her Department will have completed a review to decide if payments can be made to persons under the insolvency payments scheme after being made... - Inniúlacht sa Ghaeilge sa Stát Seirbhís
76. To ask the Minister for Social Protection bunaithe ar an treoir a thug an Roinn Caiteachas Phoiblí agus Athchóirithe do gach Roinn, cad é líon agus cad iad gráid na... - Supplementary Welfare Allowance Data
77. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a supplementary welfare exceptional needs payment will be provided for persons in need of urgent dental treatment; and if she will make a... - Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
80. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for a domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will... - National Internship Scheme Data
83. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of host organisations on the JobBridge programme that have taken on between one and four interns; the number that have taken on five to... - Youth Guarantee
87. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of jobseeker's under 25 years of age by county in tabular form who to date have been offered and completed a personal progression plan as... - Employment and Youth Activation Charter
90. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of employers who have signed up to the Employment and Youth Activation Charter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1590/15] - JobsPlus Scheme
99. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to detail the number of jobseekers who have qualified for the JobsPlus initiative since July 2013; the number of these jobseekers who are still in... - Employment Support Services
102. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to detail the number of systematic short time workers in receipt of social welfare payments or credits; and if she will make a statement on the... - Live Register Data
104. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to set out the number of part-time and casual workers on the live register who are under 25 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the... - Respite Care Grant Data
105. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to set down the number of persons who received the respite grant in each of the past three years, by county, in tabular form; the cost to the... - Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility
107. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will reconsider her Department's eligibility requirements for separated parents in respect of their accommodation needs in light of a recent... - Consultancy Contracts Data
108. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details of all consultancy firms engaged by her Department during 2014; if she will also provide details of all the relevant... - Carer's Allowance Applications
109. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to outline the position regarding a carer's allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a... - Social Insurance
112. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form details of all loans received by the Social Insurance Fund in each year from 2011 to 2014; and if she will make... - Departmental Offices
114. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will reverse the decision to close the social welfare branch office in Clones, County Monaghan; if her attention has been drawn to the... - EU Directives
115. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the number of EU directives which remain to be implemented within her Department; the name of these directives;... - Legislative Programme
116. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the number, name and date of Bills initiated in her Department that have been subject to the pre-legislative... - Departmental Staff Data
118. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to set out the number of secondments from her Department to external private firms in 2010 to 2014, inclusive, and to date in 2015; the firms...
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