De Rossa, Prionsias

Tuesday, 17 December 1996

Dáil Éireann Debate
Vol. 473 No. 1

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Written Answers. - Overpayment of Pension.

Was asked: if he will waive any responsibility that a person (details supplied) in County Mayo is deemed to have subsequent to an overpayment of an old age pension to his mother in view of the fact that the fami...More Button

The late mother of the person concerned was in receipt of an old age non-contributory pension which is a means-tested payment. When assessing a person's means for pension purposes the Department must...More Button

Written Answers. - Eligibility for Christmas Bonus.

Was asked: if he will award a Christmas bonus, free fuel and butter vouchers to a person (details supplied) in County Cork.More Button

The person concerned completed a community employment scheme placement in October 1996. While on that scheme he availed of an option to pay full-rate social insurance contributions which made him eli...More Button

Written Answers. - Equal Treatment Arrears.

Was asked: the date on which a person (details supplied) in County Meath applied for equal treatment arrears; the names and ages of the children applied for on that date; the amounts of arrears paid by his Depar...More Button

On 2 September 1992 the person concerned applied for equal treatment arrears on her unemployment benefit and disability benefit claims for herself and her four children. She was subsequently paid £8,...More Button

Written Answers. - Publication of Green Paper.

Was asked: whether he proposes to publish the Green Paper on the role of the voluntary and communities sector and its relationship with the statutory sector; if so, when; and if he will make a statement on the m...More Button

I indicated the position with regard to the publication of the Green Paper in my reply to Parliamentary Question No. 45 on 16 October 1996.More Button

Written Answers. - National Lottery Funding.

Was asked: the total amount of national lottery moneys received to date by his Department; if he will give details of the allocation of such moneys to projects; if there are any commitments in regard to future d...More Button

Table 1 sets out the amount of lottery funding disbursed by my Department under the various grants of support for voluntary and community organisations for each of the years 1988 to 1995 and the alloc...More Button

Written Answers. - Social Welfare Benefits.

Was asked: the projected cost of extending the payment of double child benefit to multiple births involving two children or more.More Button

Was asked: whether he proposes extending double child benefit to multiple births of twins as well as multiple births involving three or more children; and if he will make a statement on the matter.More Button

Was asked: if he will review his position in relation to the payment of child benefit to the parents of twins in a like manner to the parents of other multiple births as previously promised by him prior to takin...More Button

It is proposed to take Questions Nos. 287, 288 and 290 together. I refer the Deputies to my reply to Question No. 199 on Tuesday, 5 November 1996, in which I indicated that the cost of paying double ...More Button

Was asked: the total number on non-contributory old age pensioners; and the number in receipt of this pension at the full rate.More Button

At the end of October 1996 there were 101, 290 old age non-contributory pensioners, of whom 65, 441, 64.6 per cent, were on full rate pensions.More Button

Written Answers. - Departmental Staff.

Was asked: whether an investigation officer has been attached to two employment exchanges (details supplied) in Dublin for a period of more than a year up to a recent date; if not, whether a number of requests w...More Button

The deployment of staff resources, including the filling of staff vacancies where they occur, is a matter for management in my Department, operating within the overall resources available and in the c...More Button

Written Answers. - Community Support Scheme.

Was asked: the number of successful applications by region under the community support scheme for the elderly; and the plans, if any, he has to extend the scheme.More Button

The information sought by the Deputy in relation to the number of successful applications by region under the scheme of community support for elderly people is set out in the following table. Some gr...More Button


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