Written answers
Tuesday, 2 May 2017
Department of Social Protection
- Mining Industry
514. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the compensation or grants available for miners that lose their hearing through their work in the mining industry; and if he will make a statement... - Redundancy Payments
515. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the timeframe that companies must adhere to while going through the process of voluntary liquidation in order for employees to be paid their... - Departmental Staff
516. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if consideration will be given to sanctioning permanent contracts for clerical officers employed on continuous temporary contracts for over five... - Local Authority Members' Remuneration
517. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person elected as a councillor that is already paying an S stamp will receive additional credits or benefits when they begin paying the new S... - Community Employment Schemes Operation
518. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will address concerns raised (details supplied) in relation to community employment schemes. [19147/17] - Social Welfare Appeals
519. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when departmental papers and the comments of the deciding officer regarding a State pension contributory claim by a person (details supplied) will... - Community Employment Schemes Supervisors
520. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will address issues with regard to pensions for community employment supervisors (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the... - Carer's Allowance Applications
522. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19296/17] - Employment Support Services
523. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the refusal of a turas nua extension in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19298/17] - Pension Provisions
524. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the 22 years spent working in the public sector by a person (details supplied) can be weighted to pension entitlement following commencement of... - Community Employment Schemes Data
525. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of community employment scheme placements in County Donegal that are currently vacant and waiting to be filled; the number of such... - Maternity Benefit Applications
527. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason maternity benefit was refused in the case of a person (details supplied); if time spent in full-time education and employment with a... - Fire Service Staff
528. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the rules that apply in relation to the eligibility of persons that are retained fire fighters for jobseeker's benefit and allowance; and if he will... - Family Income Supplement Applications
529. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for family income supplement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19395/17] - Social Welfare Appeals Status
530. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19473/17] - Rural Social Scheme
531. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if supervisors of the rural social scheme will be engaged with as part of the consultation process being undertaken by his Department on proposed... - Rural Social Scheme Eligibility
532. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason the spouse, partner, sibling or child of a fishing licence holder in receipt of fish assist is not allowed participate in the rural... - Social Welfare Benefits Data
533. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons currently in receipt of invalidity pension, invalidity benefit, disability allowance, blind pension, disablement benefit and... - UK Pension Benefits
535. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons resident here that are in receipt of a winter fuel payment from the UK. [19578/17] - Rural Social Scheme
536. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full-year additional cost of an additional 500 rural social scheme places, net of qualifying social welfare payments. [19579/17] - Community Employment Schemes Funding
537. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full year additional cost of an additional 4,000, 5,000 and 10,000 community employment scheme places respectively, net of qualifying... - Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure
538. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated net cost in respect of social welfare spending of reinstating the State pension transition payment in 2018 to 2022 respectively,... - Foster Care
541. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the suggestion that foster carers should be granted some acknowledgement under the social welfare benefit system; and if he will make a... - Disability Allowance Applications
542. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19679/17] - Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
543. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of a domiciliary care allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19682/17] - Community Employment Schemes Supervisors
545. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason community employment supervisors were treated differently from CDP workers that were employed by community projects in relation to their... - Social Welfare Fraud Investigations
546. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of the new special investigation unit for welfare fraud; if it will ultimately yield a cost savings; and if he will make a... - Social Welfare Overpayments
547. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of control related reviews undertaken in 2016; and the number of cases in which an overpayment was identified. [19750/17] - Disability Allowance Applications
554. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for disability allowance by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19765/17] - Departmental Expenditure
555. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of his anti-fraud publicity campaign. [19770/17] - Disability Allowance Applications
558. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for disability allowance by a person (details supplied); and if changes have been made to the means test to allow the... - Social Welfare Fraud Investigations
559. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of allegations of social welfare fraud recorded by his Department in each of the years from 2006 to 2016; the number of investigations... - Social Welfare Fraud
560. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of cases of persons using makeup in order to claim welfare payments illegally in each of the years 2006 to 2016 respectively, in tabular... - Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
563. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a domiciliary care allowance can be expedited for a person (details supplied). [19801/17] - Treatment Benefit Scheme
564. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a contribution towards the costs of a hearing aid under the treatment benefit scheme will be given to a person (details supplied) in County... - Social Welfare Payments Administration
566. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the legislation in place in 1984 regarding married women signing for credits. [19934/17] - Disability Allowance Applications
567. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied); and if he will expedite the response or provide an oral... - Social Welfare Appeals
569. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason the relevant papers requested for an appeal lodged on 22 November 2016 have not been forwarded to the appeals office despite numerous... - Social Welfare Fraud
572. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of fraud reports received by his Department in 2016; the number of these reports which resulted in social welfare payments being ceased;... - Social Welfare Appeals Status
573. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an appeal for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20013/17] - Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
574. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider changing the rules for participation in community employment schemes in order that persons 55 years of age may continue to... - Fuel Allowance Applications
575. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason his department failed to notify a person (details supplied) of the outcome of a review, submitted on 16 December 2016; if his attention... - One-Parent Family Payment Applications
576. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a one parent family payment can be restored in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20033/17] - Maternity Benefit
577. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a recently awarded maternity benefit payment includes a dependent allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a... - Social Welfare Appeals Status
578. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20072/17] - Illness Benefit Applications
579. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for illness benefit by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20080/17] - Invalidity Pension Applications
580. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for invalidity pension by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20081/17] - Disability Allowance Applications
581. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was refused disability allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20110/17] - Employment Support Services
582. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons by county currently on employment schemes (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20113/17] - Disability Allowance Applications
583. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for disability allowance by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20116/17] - Social Welfare Appeals
584. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an appeal date will be scheduled for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20123/17] - Maternity Benefit Applications
585. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the waiting times for maternity benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20143/17] - Invalidity Pension Appeals
586. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position in relation to a social welfare appeal by a person (details supplied) which was allowed in relation to an application for invalidity... - Social Welfare Appeals
587. 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. [20160/17] - Family Income Supplement Applications
588. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of a FIS application by a person (details supplied). [20161/17] - Social Insurance Fund
589. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the date a tender was published (details supplied); the name of the body which has been appointed to carry out the review; and the likely date of... - Pensions Reform
591. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he is in receipt of expert advice regarding the pension age; his plans to increase the pension age further than currently indicated; and if he... - State Pension (Contributory) Data
593. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons currently in receipt of the full rate of contributory State pension who have made total contributions or credits of under 900,... - Departmental Staff Recruitment
594. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the full complement of staff will be restored for County Cavan due to a vacancy arising from the retirement of a person (details supplied); if... - Community Employment Schemes Administration
595. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to increase the payments made to participants on community employment schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20378/17] - JobPath Implementation
596. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason unemployed persons in Cashel, County Tipperary are expected to travel up to 20 miles to meet with their Turas Nua personal adviser at... - Disability Allowance Applications
597. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in arranging an interview with a social welfare inspector for a person (details supplied) regarding their application for... - Community Employment Schemes Data
598. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of community employment projects currently in operation in each county, in tabular form; the number of community employment supervisors... - Departmental Records
601. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the way in which the ERIN recording system calculates data and its potential to record individual claims numerous times thereby... - Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
602. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the refusal of a domiciliary allowance application by a person (details supplied); if he will review this application; and if he will... - Family Income Supplement Applications
603. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for family income supplement by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20481/17] - Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
604. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an emergency payment can be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20488/17] - Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
605. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason not all rent arrears in respect of rent allowance payments for January, February and March 2017 were not paid in the case of a person... - Maternity Benefit
606. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of increasing the weekly maternity benefit payment by €20 for one year based on maternity leave uptake numbers in 2016. [20497/17] - Family Income Supplement Applications
607. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of a family income supplement, FIS, application by a person (details supplied). [20559/17] - Rent Supplement Scheme Appeals
608. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review upwards the rent allowance being paid to persons (details supplied); the reason the rent allowance was reduced from €112... - Carer's Allowance Applications
609. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance application for a person (details supplied). [20613/17] - Rural Social Scheme
610. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when his Department will appoint a supervisor for the Portumna and Woodford area of south Galway (details supplied); and if he will make a statement... - Employment Support Services
611. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person who goes out on Tús must do 19 hours work and a person who signs up with a company (details supplied) only has to complete... - JobPath Data
612. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount of new jobs which have been created by JobPath in east Galway in 2015 and 2016. [20671/17] - Disability Allowance Applications
617. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in processing a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal which was submitted in... - Social Welfare Benefits
618. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to have social welfare payments to be made through the post office and discourage receipt of social welfare payments by direct debit; and...
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