Ahern, DermotTuesday, 1 May 2001 |
Dáil Eireann Debate
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Written Answers - Social Welfare Appeals.
Was asked: when an appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in relation to an application for a carer's allowance will be finalised.
The person concerned applied for a carer's allowance on 22 August 2000. The principal conditions for receipt of the allowance are that full-time care and attention is required and being provided and t...
Written Answers - Social Welfare Payments.
Was asked: the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo was refused a fuel allowance.
One of the conditions for receipt of the fuel allowance is that the claimant and members of his/her household must not have a combined income of more than £30 per week above the maximum rate of old ag...
Written Answers - Summer Jobs Scheme.
Was asked: the total number of students who avail of the summer job scheme; if he has considered amending the scheme in order to take into consideration all of the financial circumstances of a family before dete...
Last year 5,883 students participated in the students summer job scheme. Participation levels have been dropping over the past few years due, no doubt, to the wider availability of well paid summer jo...
Written Answers - Voluntary and Community Groups Funding.
Was asked: if he will approve the maximum grant possible under the scheme for funding for voluntary and community groups for a group (details supplied) in County Mayo.
My Department has, for a number of years, operated a range of grants schemes and community development support programmes which concentrate on a wide range of support for local self-help groups, commu...
Written Answers - Pension Provisions.
Was asked: when progress will be made on the issue of extending the pro-rata pension to offer full pro rata pensions to persons who have paid six, seven, eight and nine years of contributions.
One of the commitments made prior to the 1997 general election was to address the issue of people who narrowly failed to qualify for a pension, including self-employed people who were already over 56 ...
Written Answers - Foundation for Investing in Communities.
Was asked: if he will report on progress since the establishment of the found ation for investing in communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
The foundation for investing in communities was established in November 1998 as a joint venture between Government and the major employer bodies to provide additional support, through finance and reso...
Written Answers - Social Welfare Provision.
Was asked: if he will reverse the decision to close the social welfare office in Crumlin, Dublin 12, in view of the concerns of many residents (details supplied).
It is proposed to relocate the Social Welfare inspectors who are currently based at Sundrive Road, Crumlin, to a new local office and regional headquarters, now under construction at a site between Bi...
Written Answers - Social Welfare Payments.
Was asked: the situations where a person in receipt of a long-term social welfare payment can claim child dependent allowance for a child over 18 years of age and in full-time education; the situations where chi...
Where a parent is receiving a pension or other long-term payment from my Department, child dependent allowances – CDAs – are payable up to the age of 22 years or up to the end of the academic year aft...
Written Answers - EU Summits.
Was asked: if, in respect of commitments made at the Lisbon Summit 2000 concerning economic reform in order to make the European Union the most competitive economic area by 2010, he will list the number of measu...
The European Council in Lisbon (March 2000) set itself a new strategic goal for the next decade “to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge based economy in the world, capable of sustainable...
Written Answers - Social Welfare Payments.
Was asked: if he will give a commitment to review the perceived unfair treatment in relation to payments to parents of twins by comparison with the level of payment afforded to multiple birth parents; if he will...
I have set out the position on the issue of child benefit entitlements and multiple births on a number of occasions to this House in the recent past. Briefly, the position is that prior to the introdu...
Written Answers - Local Authority Housing.
Was asked: if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by local authority housing applicants in need of accommodation whereby one of the applicants, in the case of couples, working with...
As the Deputy may be aware, the Government has decided, in principle, to introduce a new scheme of private sector rent assistance to be operated by the local authorities. One of the objectives of the ...
Written Answers - Social Welfare Provision.
Was asked: if he will provide a social welfare office in Swords, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
The provision of a social welfare office in Swords has been under consideration for some time. Officials of my Department are currently consulting the Fingal County Development Board and local communi...
Written Answers - Social Welfare Payments.
Was asked: if he will direct that repayment of assessed overpayment of rent allowance will not be sought from a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 and that rent subsidy will continue to be paid in this case.
The supplementary welfare allowance – SWA – scheme is administered on behalf of my Department by the health boards. Neither I nor my Department has any function in deciding entitlement, nor how overpa...
Was asked: his views on the need to extend maternity benefit to women who have paid a B class PRSI contribution; the number of applicants who have applied for maternity benefit through his Department but have be...
Permanent and pensionable civil servants employed before April, 1995 are liable for PRSI class B contributions. This is a modified rate of PRSI, i.e. the combined employer and employee contribution ra...
Was asked: when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be awarded the carer's allowance for providing full time care for her mother, in view of the fact that medical letters have been submitted three ti...
The person concerned applied for a carer's allowance on 20 September 2000, in respect of both her parents. Carer's allowance was awarded with effect from 21 September 2000, at the maximum weekly perso...
Was asked: when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be approved and paid the carer's allowance.
The person concerned applied for a carer's allowance on 28 February 2001. However, the medical details submitted in the application were insufficient and a more comprehensive medical report form was s...
Written Answers - Social Welfare Schemes.
Was asked: if there is an eight to ten week delay in processing applications for the free schemes; the staffing measures he intends to put in place to alleviate this delay; and if he will make a statement on the...
Was asked: if there is a 12 week delay in processing one parent family payment applications in his Department; the staffing measures he intends to put in place to alleviate this delay; and if he will make a stat...
I propose to take Questions Nos. 457 and 458 together. Claims under the one-parent family payment scheme and the free schemes are processed from my Departments office in Sligo which also administers a...
Written Answers - Social Welfare Provision.
Was asked: the number of staff currently working in the Finglas social welfare office; the plans he has for the use of these premises in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
The number of staff currently working in the Finglas social welfare office is 57. The office will continue to house local office staff who deal with unemployment claims and provide an information serv...
Written Answers - Official Engagements.
Was asked: if he will state, in respect of himself and each Minister of State in his Department, the planned official trips abroad between 1 May 2001 and the end of 2001.
At present I have three official trips abroad planned for the period from 1 May, 2001 to the end of the year. The details are as follows:
Written Answers - Social Welfare Payments.
Was asked: if he will examine the discrepancy in the qualifying rules for maternity benefit highlighted in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11; and if he will bring forward measures to deal with...
Permanent and pensionable civil servants employed before April 1995 are liable for PRSI class B contributions. This is a modified rate of PRSI, i.e. the combined employer and employee contribution rat...
Was asked: when an unemployment benefit payment will be made to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
The person concerned made a claim for unemployment benefit on 17 April 2001. A standard questionnaire issued to him on 19 April 2001 requesting details of his efforts in seeking employment and other ...
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