Written answers

Tuesday, 14 July 2015

  • Community Employment Schemes Funding
    145. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the Government's previous commitment to provide gratuity payments to Foras Áiseanna Saothair, the Irish national training and...
  • Registration of Marriages
    146. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding marriage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28980/15]
  • Exceptional Needs Payments
    147. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on an application for a death grant by a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [28211/15]
  • Farm Assist Scheme Data
    148. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the expenditure on the farm assist scheme over the past four years; the number of persons in receipt of this...
  • One-Parent Family Payment Scheme
    149. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider introducing a six-month review of the recent changes to the one-parent family payment scheme to ensure that significant numbers...
  • Job Initiatives
    150. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who have been employed nationally; and by South Dublin County Council, through the Gateway Scheme. [28244/15]
  • National Internship Scheme Data
    151. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons and companies in the South Dublin County Council area who have taken part in the JobBridge scheme. [28245/15]
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    154. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who have had a penalty applied to their social welfare payments for refusing to take part in an activation scheme. [28248/15]
  • Unemployment Data
    156. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of long-term unemployed persons in the South Dublin County Council area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28250/15]
  • Disability Allowance Payments
    157. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and when the person may expect a decision on an...
  • Disability Allowance Applications
    159. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and when the person may expect a decision on a disability...
  • Invalidity Pension Appeals
    161. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and when the person may expect a decision on an...
  • Invalidity Pension Payments
    162. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and when the person may expect a decision on an...
  • Disability Allowance Payments
    164. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will an update on the case of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and when the person may expect a decision on a disability...
  • Carer's Allowance Appeals
    165. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will an update on the case of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and when the person may expect a decision on a carer's allowance...
  • Disability Allowance Applications
    166. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and when the person may expect a decision on a disability...
  • Invalidity Pension Applications
    168. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and when the person may expect a decision on an...
  • Carer's Allowance Applications
    169. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and when the person can expect a decision on a carer's...
  • Carer's Allowance Appeals
    170. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and when the person can expect a decision on a carer's...
  • Invalidity Pension Applications
    171. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and when the person may expect a decision on an...
  • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
    173. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a jobseeker's allowance appeal will be finalised for a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • One-Parent Family Payments
    175. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of children benefiting from the one-parent family payment scheme as of 30 June 2015; the associated cost to her Department; and if she...
  • Postal Codes
    177. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to include the new Eircode postcode in all schemes and administrative roles operated by her Department; and if she will make a statement...
  • Disability Allowance Applications
    178. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application by a person (details supplied) in County Mayo under the disability allowance scheme; if it will be expedited...
  • Social Welfare Fraud Investigations
    179. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 201 to 203, inclusive, of 23 June 2015, the number of cases investigated and concluded under Operation DIRT...
  • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
    180. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of restoring jobseeker's allowance rates for those under 26 years of age to the rate received by those over 26 years of age; and...
  • State Pensions Payments
    181. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the State pension non-contributory and the State pension contributory for each of the past ten years; and if she...
  • Back to Education Allowance Applications
    182. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will grant the back to education allowance to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24, in view of the fact that the person has made a case...
  • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
    183. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for a domiciliary care allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a...
  • Back to Work Family Dividend Scheme
    184. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding social welfare payment options for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28429/15]
  • Insolvency Payments Scheme Payments
    185. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 204 of 9 December 2014 regarding a review being under way in her Department on the enforcement of Labour...
  • Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
    186. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied); the reason this person's claim for a jobseeker's allowance has ceased since March...
  • Carer's Allowance Appeals
    187. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a social welfare appeal lodged by a person (details supplied) in mid-June 2015 for a carer's allowance as a matter of urgency,...
  • Free Travel Scheme Eligibility
    188. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a final response will issue further to correspondence (details supplied) regarding eligibility criteria under the free travel pass scheme; and...
  • Family Income Supplement Appeals
    190. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on an appeal under the family income supplement scheme; and if she will make...
  • Disability Allowance Applications
    191. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Carer's Allowance Applications
    192. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the eligibility for a carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare, with particular reference...
  • Pension Provisions
    193. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to increase the State pension and invalidity pension, given that there have been no increases in these since 2009, which is making it...
  • Disability Allowance Appeals
    194. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Illness Benefit Eligibility
    195. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure that a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan is awarded an Illness Benefit or an interim measure; and if she will make a...
  • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
    196. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a back payment to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28531/15]
  • Disability Allowance Applications Waiting Times
    197. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application by a person (details supplied) in County Clare under the disability allowance scheme; and if she will make a...
  • Disability Allowance Payments
    199. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when arrears of a disability allowance will be paid to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; the amount of same; and if she will make a...
  • Social Welfare Code
    200. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider a revision of the regulations relating to the back to work enterprise allowance to allow claimants of illness benefit to avail...
  • Departmental Properties
    202. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the planned use for the newly refurbished former social protection office (details supplied) in County Mayo; the cost of the refurbishment; the...
  • Jobseeker's Allowance Data
    203. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons, by administrative division and by age group, currently in receipt of jobseeker's allowance and who have not to date made any...
  • One-Parent Family Payments
    204. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in County Galway who were in receipt of a one-parent family payment in each month from January to June of 2015; the number of...
  • Youth Unemployment Measures
    206. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons, by county, who are 24 years of age or younger and in receipt of a jobseeker's benefit or a jobseeker's allowance, with the...
  • Social Welfare Benefits Data
    207. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, the numbers of persons, by payment, and by county, who, in January of each year from 2008 to 2015, were in...
  • Social Finance Foundation
    208. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans regarding the proposals around a micro-lending scheme announced recently; the number of pilots schemes that are intended; and if they will...
  • Money Advice and Budgeting Service
    209. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if, given the Lough payments that have been discontinued due to the passage of the replacement scheme that has been put in place, there has been any...
  • Disability Allowance Applications
    211. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will arrange to have a disability allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, processed and approved;...
  • Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
    212. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for rent allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 4; if it will be expedited; and if she will make...
  • Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
    213. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the options that are available to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who was on a community employment scheme and would like to return to...
  • Invalidity Pension Eligibility
    214. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for a qualified adult allowance by persons (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a...
  • Carer's Allowance Applications
    216. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for a carer's allowance will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford. [28744/15]
  • Disability Allowance Applications
    217. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application under the disability allowance scheme will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford. [28748/15]
  • Carer's Allowance Applications
    218. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for a carer's allowance will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford [28749/15]
  • Carer's Allowance Appeals
    219. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in hearing an appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Wexford under the carer's allowance scheme. [28750/15]
  • Jobseeker's Allowance Data
    220. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No.240 of 1 July 2014, the number of persons, by administrative division and by age group, who are currently in...
  • Social Insurance Yield
    221. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the yield from each of a 1%, 2% and 3% increase in employee pay related social insurance in the first year and full year. [28802/15]
  • Family Income Supplement Eligibility
    223. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to change the eligibility for family income supplement in order that persons working less than 19 hours per week can benefit from this...
  • Mortgage Interest Supplement Scheme Application Numbers
    224. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an oral hearing in relation to a refusal of mortgage support to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be facilitated; and if she...
  • Carer's Allowance Data
    225. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of a carer's allowance; and the number of these who are in receipt of a general practitioner card; the additional...
  • Guardian's Payment Appeals
    226. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 181 of 30 June 2015, the reason deductions are being made in respect of an allowed payment being received by...
  • Disability Allowance Appeals
    227. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on an appeal under the disability allowance scheme will be made in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22; and if she...
  • Disability Allowance Payments
    228. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway is on a reduced rate of disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Invalidity Pension Applications
    229. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an invalidity pension application will be finalised for a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme
    230. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the measures her Department is putting in place to assist parents struggling to meet the financial costs associated with back-to-school clothing and...
  • Social Welfare Application Forms
    231. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will withdraw all of the old versions of Social Welfare Forms when the new amended ones are issued; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Disability Allowance Applications
    232. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on...
  • JobsPlus Scheme
    234. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the purpose of the €10,000 bursary to employers employing those from the live register has impacted upon numbers on the live register; if...
  • Job Initiatives
    236. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of jobseekers, by region, who have been penalised with penalty rates for not engaging with the Pathways to Work programme; the number of...
  • Water Conservation Grant
    237. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who are homeowners, landlords, tenants, and separately, social housing tenants who have registered for the water conservation...
  • Rent Supplement Scheme Administration
    239. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to amend the limit of the rent supplement to reflect the market increase in rents; her views on recent reports published by homelessness...
  • Departmental Funding
    240. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she supports the work of a charity (details supplied); and if she will provide State funding to the charity; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Disability Allowance Eligibility
    241. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision will issue on an entitlement to disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, in view of the...
  • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
    242. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for a domiciliary care allowance to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
  • Job Assist Scheme Eligibility
    243. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to roll-out the Pathways to Work programme to include all jobseekers and lone parents who are transitioning on to the jobseeker;s...
  • Departmental Communications
    247. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the process and frequency of her Department's review of automated letters, which are sent to customers to ensure accuracy, both in terms of...
  • Carer's Allowance Appeals
    248. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision will be made on an appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry under the carer's allowance scheme; if she will expedite the...
  • Disability Allowance Applications
    249. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; if she will provide urgent approval...
  • Departmental Staff Data
    250. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current average age of permanent staff employed within her Department; and the agencies under her Department's remit; the way this varies from...

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