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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (28 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...policies to encourage school attendance and extra educational achievement. Following the expansion of the programme in recent years, some 2,600 schools and organisations, covering 443,000 children are now eligible for funding. The Hot School Meal option of the programme was introduced in 2019 and is currently solely available to primary schools. Since my appointment as Minister for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (28 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that there is no record of any appeal by the person concerned having been...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (28 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 1...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (28 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ..., dependent on satisfying the eligibility conditions. Additional payments may be made in respect of a qualified adult and qualifying children. The two main long-term disability income support payments are invalidity pension and disability allowance. Invalidity pension is a social insurance scheme paid from the Social Insurance Fund. Eligibility is based on PRSI contributions and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (28 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that there is no record of any appeal by the person concerned having been...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (28 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Report of the Child Maintenance Review Group was published in November 2022 and the Government accepted the Group's recommendations regarding the social welfare system. These changes include decoupling child maintenance and social welfare and represent significant reforms, which will be of great benefit to lone parents. Amendments to both primary and secondary legislation as well...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (28 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Insurance Fund (SIF) fully funds payments on a wide range of schemes relating to pensions, working age income supports, illness, disability and carers schemes, child related schemes and some supplementary payment schemes such as telephone support allowance. A small number of schemes such as fuel allowance and household benefits are funded through both the SIF and Vote 37. ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (28 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...x2019;s social insurance record to issue to them. If they consider that they have additional contributions or credits that have not been recorded, it is open to them to forward documentary evidence to Social Welfare Services office, College Road, Sligo, F91 T384 and their pension entitlement can be reviewed. My Department introduced a number of reforms to the state pension...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (28 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on the...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Planning Issues (28 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...however the actual operation of burial grounds (cemeteries) is the responsibility of the local authorities. Under the Local Government (Sanitary Services) Acts, 1878 to 2001, local authorities are deemed to be burial boards for their respective functional areas. Acting in their capacity as burial boards, local authorities are responsible for the management, regulation and control of...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (28 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 510 and 511 together. My Department operates a range of programmes and schemes that support economic and community development in urban and rural areas throughout the country, including the towns of Nenagh and Clonmel. The targeted investments and supports which my Department provides to regional, rural and local communities promote social inclusion, rural...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (28 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The 2024 CLÁR programme was launched on the 12th April last with a total budget of €8.7 million. The measures being funded under CLÁR 2024 are: measure 1 Developing Community Facilities & Amenities; measure 2 Mobility, Cancer Care, First Responder and Meals on Wheels Transport; and, measure 3: Our Islands Since the programme was relaunched in 2016, CLÁR has...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (28 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...2023 scheme. This was in addition to 50 projects with funding of €2.3 million approved last year through the Project Development Measure under ORIS 2023. Applications submitted under measures 2 and 3 of the 2023 scheme are currently being assessed. I expect to be in a position to make a further announcement very shortly on the successful projects under these measures. It is my...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (28 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...support communities, on March 15th last I announced a further €50 million in funding under the Community Recognition Fund. The additional funding is specifically targeted at projects that are located in cities, towns and villages that are hosting the Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection and/or International Protection Applicants. Under this new round of funding,...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (28 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: My Department provides a range of supports which are available to Men's and Women’s Sheds. Since 2018, under the Community Enhancement Programme (CEP), over 1,300 Men’s Shed projects have received funding of over €2.2 million, and almost 120 Women’s Shed projects received almost €145,000 in funding. I was delighted to launch the Local Enhancement...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Regeneration Projects (28 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...to our national economic, social, cultural and environmental wellbeing and development. A key aim of both of these policies is addressing vacancy and dereliction and ensuring that schemes are in place to directly address and tackle these issues in our rural towns and villages. This also complements other national policies such as Housing for All and the National Planning Framework...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (28 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...CLÁR programme was launched on the 12th April last with a total budget of €8.7 million. This was an increase of €900,000 on the 2023 allocation. The measures being funded under CLÁR 2024 are: Measure 1: Developing Community Facilities & Amenities (funding up to €50,000) Measure 2: Mobility, Cancer Care, First Responder and Meals on Wheels...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (23 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The person concerned is in receipt of state pension (contributory) (SPC) at the maximum weekly rate of €277.70. They are also in receipt of an increase for a qualified adult (IQA) in respect of their spouse at the weekly rate of €70.00. The person concerned has weekly deductions of €41.60 from their SPC for the recovery of an overpayment totalling €95,152.52...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (23 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...not qualify for a State pension contributory, or who only qualify for a reduced rate contributory pension based on their social insurance record. Recipients of state pension non-contributory are obliged to notify the Department of any changes in their circumstances that may affect their pension entitlement. A list of the reportable changes of circumstance is included in the initial...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (23 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...to have 520 full rate contributions. As the person concerned paid modified contributions, they were considered for a mixed insurance state pension (contributory). To qualify for this pension, 520 employment contributions are required, of which at least 260 must be full-rate contributions with the remainder made up of modified contributions. Since their full-rate contributions fall...