Written answers

Tuesday, 13 December 2016

  • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
    267. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Donegal was refused domiciliary care allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Domiciliary Care Allowance Review
    268. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
    269. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Departmental Staff Redeployment
    270. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to the re-recentralisation of the information section of the Department of Social Protection, the costs associated with such a move in terms...
  • Disability Allowance Applications
    272. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for a disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Disability Allowance Payments
    273. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will prioritise the case of a person (details supplied) in order that they will receive payment in time for Christmas. [39393/16]
  • Disability Allowance Eligibility
    274. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of a disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39397/16]
  • Family Income Supplement
    275. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review a family income supplement payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39407/16]
  • Disability Allowance Applications
    276. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for a disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Rural Social Scheme
    277. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on concerns by the IFA regarding changes made to the rural social scheme in budget 2017, including the three-year time limit and the...
  • Disability Allowance Applications
    278. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of a disability allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39429/16]
  • Invalidity Pension Payments
    279. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to an application for an invalidity pension by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
  • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
    280. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an appeal for a jobseeker's allowance will be prioritised for a person (detail supplied); and if a decision will issue before Christmas 2016....
  • Carer's Allowance Applications
    281. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on a review of a carer's allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will...
  • Disability Allowance Applications
    282. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will expedite a disability allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Domiciliary Care Allowance
    284. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will expedite an application in respect of a person (details supplied) in view of the medical circumstances of the person. [39452/16]
  • Departmental Expenditure
    285. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total photography costs for his Department per annum since March 2011 inclusive of costs incurred from use of the ministerial allowance in...
  • Consultancy Contracts Data
    286. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the external consultant reports commissioned by his Department since March 2011 per annum, in tabular form; the costs per report; the company...
  • Public Relations Contracts Data
    287. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the details of the use of external public relations firms employed by his Department per annum since March 2011 in tabular form; the list of uses of...
  • Community Employment Schemes Review
    288. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many useful community and socio-economic functions have lost community employment workers that have...
  • Community Employment Schemes Data
    289. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of community employment places provided in each of the years from 2013 to date in 2016; the number of these that were unfilled for...
  • Defined Benefit Pension Schemes
    291. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of defined benefit pension schemes being administered here; the number of these that are in deficit; the total of the combined deficit;...
  • Social Welfare Overpayments
    292. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in 2016 to date that have been subject to sanctions by his Department; the savings made by his Department in 2016 to date due...
  • Debt Collection
    293. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if debt can be deferred in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39544/16]
  • Ministerial Correspondence
    294. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he has used any private unsecured e-mail accounts for official business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39590/16]
  • School Meals Programme
    295. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the school canteen is closed in a school (details supplied) and that hot meals are no longer being...
  • Dietary Allowance Administration
    296. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the documentation that a recipient of dietary supplement is required to provide when a review is being carried out; and if he will make a statement...
  • Dietary Allowance Applications
    297. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the documentation that is outstanding from the review of a dietary supplement which has been suspended in respect of a person (details supplied);...
  • Carer's Allowance Payments
    300. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when payment of carer's allowance will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39616/16]
  • Local Employment Service
    301. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 153 of 29 September 2016, the way in which figures on referrals to the local employment service provided for...
  • Carer's Allowance Applications
    302. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if carer's allowance will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied). [39627/16]
  • Illness Benefit Appeals
    304. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an illness benefit appeal in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39630/16]
  • Community Employment Schemes Data
    305. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progression figures by region of community employment, Tús and JobPath, in 2016; the budgets allocated for each of these schemes in tabular...
  • State Pension (Contributory)
    306. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) does not qualify for maximum rate pension despite having 1,690 reckonable paid and credited contributions;...
  • Carer's Allowance Applications
    307. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will expedite an application for carer's allowance for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39713/16]
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    308. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the Christmas bonus will be extended to families that receive the family income supplement in view of the fact the Christmas period is a...
  • Invalidity Pension Applications
    309. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the review of an invalidity pension application by a person (details supplied) will be complete in view of the fact that it has been ongoing...
  • Disability Allowance Appeals
    312. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal for disability allowance by a person (details supplied). [39752/16]
  • Pensions Data (1 comment)
    313. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of a secondary UK state pension as notified to his Department by the UK's Department for Work and Pensions in each...
  • Traveller Accommodation
    316. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount of the funding allocated for the Cork County Council Traveller accommodation programme that has been drawn down in 2016; and if his...
  • Rural Social Scheme Eligibility
    317. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a son cannot nominate his father to use their herd number, even though that herd number was passed from his father to him for the...
  • Pensions Reform
    319. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to introduce new rules whereby solvent companies have to cover pension deficits as in the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement...
  • Departmental Legal Cases
    320. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if his Department has been involved in any court proceedings that involved non-disclosure agreements in the past five years; and if so, if the...
  • Farm Assist Scheme Applications
    321. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare for farm assist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39891/16]
  • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
    322. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will expedite an application for domiciliary care allowance for a person (details supplied) who urgently requires this payment; and if he will...
  • Disability Allowance Applications
    324. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39919/16]
  • Disability Allowance Payments
    325. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if arrears due from a disability allowance claim will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39954/16]
  • Disability Allowance Applications
    326. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on a disability allowance application will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Invalidity Pension Applications
    328. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review a decision taken on an application for an invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied). [39959/16]
  • JobPath Implementation
    329. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if it is a requirement of the JobPath scheme that participants must attend JobPath offices in order to do job searches; if this is the case for...
  • Departmental Properties
    330. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if, commencing on 11 December 2016, a security company will be responsible for opening and closing Government buildings in the Millennium Centre,...
  • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Data
    331. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons currently in receipt of the supplementary welfare allowance, jobseeker's allowance and jobseeker's benefit, broken down by the...
  • Social Welfare Benefits Data
    332. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who have availed of education courses, training programs and labour activation programmes, such as Tús and Gateway, who...
  • JobPath Data
    333. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total amounts paid to the companies administering the JobPath programme on behalf of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Credit Union Services
    336. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to the limits that individual credit unions are placing on the it makes sense scheme, which is designed to drive...
  • Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times
    337. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the waiting time for processing applications for payments (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40035/16]
  • Disability Allowance Applications
    338. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when he expects a decision with regard to an application for disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
  • Carer's Allowance Applications
    339. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on a carer's allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Legislative Programme
    341. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the name and number of Bills in preparation in his Department and published by his Department since May 2016; the Stage each Bill is at in the...
  • Carer's Benefit Applications
    342. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on a review of a decision on a carer's benefit application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry;...

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