Desmond, BarryWednesday, 9 November 1983 |
Dáil Eireann Debate
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Private Members' Business. - Bantry Maternity Hospital Facilities: Motion (Resumed).
Dr. Baker agrees with me.
Dr. Baker fully shares my view.
I spoke to him at length last Friday night.
Written Answers. - County Wexford Sub-Contractor.
The question relates to upgrading works carried out directly by the South Eastern Health Board. There was no departmental involvement because of the minor nature of the work. I am informed that the h...
Written Answers. - Christmas Payments to Handicapped.
I would refer the Deputy to my reply of 20 October 1983 to a similar question from Deputy Flynn (Official Report, 20 October, col. 416, Question No. 223). A final decision in this matter has not yet ...
Written Answers. - Social Welfare Benefits.
Extensive inquiries had to be made to ascertain whether the person concerned was genuinely seeking suitable employment before his entitlement to unemployment assistance could be determined. The invest...
The person concerned applied for a review of the means assessed against him for the purposes of his unemployment assistance claim and his case was referred to a social welfare officer for investigatio...
The person concerned claimed disability benefit from 16 August 1982 and payment of benefit was issued to 13 August 1983. Due to an administrative error payment was suspended from 15 August 1983. The...
The lower figures referred to by the Deputy did not result from any changes made in the way in which the statistics were compiled. The qualifying conditions for the benefits concerned are laid down i...
The information requested is as follows:
The entitlement of an applicant to unemployment benefit is subject to the condition that the applicant is fully available for work and a person who limits the availability to reduced working periods c...
The person concerned claimed disability benefit from 16 June 1983 but submitted medical certificates in respect of his incapacity for work from only 27 June 1983 to 9 July 1983. He was certified fit ...
Following a review of his case the person concerned has been assessed with nil means from the commencement of his unemployment assistance claim on 22 August 1983. He is accordingly entitled to the ma...
The old age pension claim of the person concerned was received on 12 October 1983 and is currently under investigation. On completion of inquiries, the claim will be referred to the local pension com...
The entitlement of the person concerned to unemployment assistance could not be determined until all inquiries about his means had been completed. The investigations by a social welfare officer were o...
The person concerned, whose claim was received on 22 August 1983, has been awarded a widow's non-contributory pension at the rate of £89.70 per week with effect from 10 June 1983, the day following he...
There is no record in the Department of receipt of an application for free telephone rental allowance from the person concerned. An application form has been issued to him and on receipt of the comp...
In order to qualify for a free telephone rental allowance an applicant must be living entirely alone, or only with persons who are so permanently incapacitated as to be unable to summon aid in an emer...
The person concerned does not fulfil the contribution conditions for entitlement to unemployment benefit because his record for the relevant governing contribution period 6 April 1981 to 5 April 1982 ...
The person concerned is a postal applicant for unemployment benefit and arrangements are being made to issue him an order for encashment at his local post office paying all arrears of flat-rate unempl...
The person concerned claimed disability benefit from 1 October 1982 and was paid to 3 October 1983. Payment ceased at that date as he had fewer than 156 contributions paid on his behalf since his entr...
The person concerned does not satisfy the contribution condition of having at least 26 contributions paid or credited during the governing contribution period 6 April 1981 to 5 April 1982 and accordi...
The nearest date to 14 October 1983 for which the statistics sought are available is 28 October 1983 and the corresponding date for last year is 29 October 1982. The details are as follows:
The unemployment assistance claim of the person concerned from 1 October 1982 was disallowed on the grounds that his means exceeded the statutory limit. He appealed against this decision but on 1 Jun...
The person concerned appealed against the assessment of means at £13.00 weekly which reduced his rate of unemployment assistance during the period 25 May 1983 to 24 September 1983. In the light of hi...
The person concerned reached retirement pension age of 65 on 18 March 1983. One of the conditions for receipt of retirement pension under the Social Welfare Acts requires him to have had contribution...
Following the award of a British retirement pension to the person concerned and her husband a question for reduction of her old age pension was referred to the local pension committee for decision. Pe...
The person concerned is being paid disability benefit at regular weekly intervals and payment has been made to date.
The person concerned is not entitled to unemployment assistance. His weekly means were assessed at £33.00 and as this amount exceeds the maximum rate of unemployment assistance payable to him, his cl...
The details of the proposal are still under consideration and a final decision has not yet being taken.
The person concerned is in receipt of disability benefit and I understand from the Eastern Health Board, which administers the national fuel scheme in the Dublin area, that his application for a fuel ...
Funds will not be available to my Department in 1984 from which a grant to the Coolock Community Law Centre could be provided. Funds are, however, being provided in 1984 for the establishment of an a...
The person concerned made a claim for old age pension on 4 July 1983 and following the investigation of the claim payment of pension on a provisional basis at the maximum rate of £38.60 per week has b...
One of the qualifying conditions for receipt of widow's contributory pension is that there must be at least 156 contribution weeks of insurable employment, for which the appropriate contributions hav...
Arising from a ruling of the High Court that the PLV system was unconstitutional the continued use of the notional method of assessment of means for unemployment assistance purposes is no longer regar...
A total of 113 appeals against decisions to reduce or discontinue unemployment assistance payments to small holders in County Kerry following factual assessment of their means are at present under con...
The person concerned is a landholder and extensive inquiries had to be made to establish that he fulfilled the conditions of being unemployed before his entitlement to unemployment benefit could be de...
The unemployment assistance claim of the person concerned was disallowed on the grounds that by reason of his failure to furnish information about his means he failed to show that his means do not exc...
Following notification to the Department on 1 September 1983, that the person concerned had lost his free travel pass, an application form for a replacement pass was issued to him on 5 September 1983....
The person concerned claimed occupational injury benefit on 13 July 1983 in respect of an incapacity resulting from an accident at work on 27 June 1983. Pending the completion of investigations arisin...
Payment of benefit to the person concerned was disallowed from 27 September 1983 following her examination by a medical referee of the Department who considered her to be capable of work. She appealed...
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