Department of Social Protection
FOI Requests — 1,804 records (page 34 of 37)
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that they were temporarily leaving the state for the purpose of securing continued payments of social welfare.
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to 12", • On what date did the Department make the 'final decision' mentioned in the final line • Were the projected cost savings of €340K per year realised
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general. • The statutory provisions, regulations, operational guidelines applicable to assessing the gross income of self-employed persons who apply for Disability Allowance (DA). • Information regarding the number of self-employed persons who have applied for DA, the length of time taken to process their claims compared to the length of time taken to assess the claims of employees and unemployed persons. • The percentage of self-employed persons who, having applied for DA, have had an inspector appointed to decide or review their claim.
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the Covid-19 pandemic. • The correspondence can be limited to items to and from the following: ministers; unions from 1 August 2022 to 18 October 2022. • The records should include copies of any documents attached or enclosed with the correspondence and give details of the total number of staff employed by the Department as of 30 September 2022 and a breakdown of how many are working from home; working in the office; working in a hybrid arrangement. • Copies of any internal publications or reports on remote working and return to the office drawn up since 31 January 2022.
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• The number of men and women who receive Child Benefit. • The number of single fathers and single mothers who receive Child Benefit. • The number of men and women who receive Jobseekers Allowance without meeting the formal requirements.
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proposed marriages been deemed to be marriages of convenience by Superintendent Registrars pursuant to section 58(7) of the Civil Registration Act, 2004 (as amended). • How many of these cases were the subject of appeals to the Circuit Court in accordance with section 58(9) of the Civil Registration Act, 2004 (as amended). • What were the outcomes of these appeals.
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organisations in receipt of that funding from 1 January 2018 to date. • Any follow up correspondence and reports generated in each case.
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Heaney, Chair of Board, held on 13 September 2022. • Copies of any correspondence, including emails, after this meeting between the Minister and the two CIB officials. • Copies of any correspondence after the meeting from the Minister to the regional Citizens Information Service companies or any other parties relevant to the subject matter of the meeting of 13 September which was about the ending of the use of volunteers in Citizens Information Centres (CIC) and the reduction of face-to-face meetings in centres generally. • Copies of any requests for information from late August 2022 from Liveline and Joe Duffy to the Minister about the ending of the use of volunteers in CICs, and the replies to such requests.
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2022. If there is more than 1 company providing security personnel, please provide the name of each company and the amount that has been paid to each company for such services in tabular form. • The roles and duties that are expected to be undertaken by external security personnel that are deployed to INTREO offices eg. turning on and off Security alarms, handling post etc. • The frequency at which officials from the Department meet with senior management of security company to discuss performance related issues eg. every 6 months of contract and the grade of DSP officials normally present at these meetings. To be assistance what I am seeking eg Staff at the grade of APO and above would normally attend these meetings. • To date in 2022 has the Department withheld any funding from any external security company providing security personnel to INTREO offices due to breaches of the contract between the two parties. If so the amount of funding withheld.
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currently provides up to a maximum of €500 for a single aid, or up to €1,000 for a pair • Total paid by the Department for hearing aids in each of the years 2020 and 2021.
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• 9 Sept 22 draft Re Maternity Related issues • 11 Oct. 22 Note for information re autumn bonus • 17 Oct. 22 Re: two Pensions Council Reports on (i) the gender pensions gap and (ii) cost transparency • 9 Sept 22 draft re. Parent’s Benefit & Lone Parents
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landscape, as follows: • Does the Department use for WAN connectivity – MPLS, Internet Circuits or both? • The current provider of MPLS and Internet Circuits • When do current contracts expire for MPLS and Internet Circuits • Has the Department adopted or is it considering SD-WAN as a technology fully adopted, partially adopted • In light of Covid and the increase in home working, has the Department considered or adopted technologies such as SASE (secure access service edge) • How does Department currently provide remote access? i.e. VPN • What vendor does Department urrently use for VPN connectivity • When does current VPN contract (support/licences) expire • Does Department outsource current WAN infrastructure or mange this in-house • If outsourced, with whom is agreement and when does it end.
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interested in acquiring several documents (non-personal information) from the General Registrar Office under the Freedom of Information Act: • Copy of the most up-to-date organisation structure chart/similar document outlining the various units within the GRO responsible for handling material related to solemnisers/registration of weddings. • Minutes of the GRO Programme Board meetings for the last 5 years. • Copy of any forms a candidate religious group must fill out to apply to become a nominating body for solemnisers of weddings. • Any internal documents/training material that outline the procedure to be used when evaluating an application from a religious body to be accepted for the first time as a nominating body for solemnising marriages. Also any documents that outline which staff/units within the GRO are responsible for handling same. • Information on how long the last 10 submissions for new religious bodies to be accepted as nominating bodies for solemnisers have taken to be processed from the receipt of their application until final acceptance/rejection. • Copies of any emails, letters or other forms of communication to any entity outside the GRO (including but not limited to the HSE and/or Dept of Social Protection) to request further input/information on a religious organisation making an application to become a nominating body within the last 5 years. • The number of new religious bodies that were added to the register of nominating bodies for the last 5 years. • The names of any applicant groups that were rejected and any details as to why they were not accepted.
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intelligence software or services by the Department. • In the event that no AI has been or is currently used by the Department, I am seeking any communication by the Minister regarding plans to use or test AI in the future.
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• DSP HR Filing of Vacancies Policy
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delivered by same company . • All records in relation to the investigation are requested include any written or printed material which is in any form including any electronic device, any recordings on any social media format, any recordings on Teams or other platforms, visual or non-visual received by the Department from any persons excluding two named people.
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2017 – 2021 that the Department provide the following information in tabular form: From 2017 – 2021 - • The Total Number of FOIs received by the Department • A Breakdown of the number of Personal v Non-Personal v Mixed • The Number of FOIs per year that received a charge or had the applicant pay a cost • The Total charged each year for Search, Retrieval and Copying Charges
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2022 December reshuffle, or the draft prepared for possible change of minister but not delivered as minister wasn't changed.
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workers in Debenhams that was announced on Friday 4th September 2020. https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2020/0904/1163233-debenhams-reaches-deal-with- workers/. Any conversations that were had by the Minister and Ministers of State or any other senior official in relation to this matter during the reference period cited. I would appreciate any conversations between KPMG and this Department or between the senior officials/Minister within the Department.
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school year 2022 / 23, run by The Department of Social Protection to include the following: • School name, • Roll number, • No of children being funded • Amount of funding provided to each school
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appearance before the Dáil's Public Accounts committee on December 1 2022. https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/committee_of_public_accounts/2022-12- 01/6/
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obtaining full time work and removing themselves from social welfare supports.
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Forms each year from the Department
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granted full-service retirement of 40 years for compassionate/discretionary reasons when they retired on ill health grounds (on the advice of a medical advisor). • The number of recipients to whom full service has been awarded, even, if it was beyond their nearest potential service age for retirement of 60 or 65 (whichever is applicable to their status) i.e. despite 40 yrs being beyond their official retirement age they were not paid just to the nearest pensionable age but instead were awarded full pension. • The number of years granted to these retirees in these cases.
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decisions on Disability Allowance applications. Specifically detailed DSP procedures that specify what constitutes being "substantially restricted in undertaking work" or not. • Please also forward the thresholds and other framework(s) used for the means testing portion of the same application e.g. what asset limits are allowed, income threshold limits, partner's income, income that may cause a reduction in payment etc. • The same means testing criteria (as above) and/or framework for Supplementary Welfare Allowance payment as well as the Exceptional Needs payments.
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Unemployment Payment Scheme, the Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme and the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme during its operation. • How many cases of fraud were detected and brought to court and the results of the same. • Copies of all notes and briefing prepared for the relevant Ministers and the Secretary General of the Department concerning the above.
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related matters, prepared for the Minister and Ministers of State from 14 June 2007 to 7 May 2008.
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related matters, prepared for the Minister and Ministers of State from 7 May 2008 to 23 March 2010.
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related matters, prepared for the Minister and Ministers of State from 23 March 2010 to 9 March 2011.
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related matters, prepared for the Minister and Ministers of State from 9 March 2011 to 6 May 2016.
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related matters, prepared for the Minister and Ministers of State from 27 June 2020 to 1 February 2023.
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related matters, prepared for the Minister and Ministers of State from 14 June 2017 to 27 June 2020.
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related matters, prepared for the Minister and Ministers of State from 6 May 2016 to 14 June 2017.
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Department and the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel to the Government (OPC) in relation to the Gender Recognition Act 2015.
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details are requested per month (or year). • Please specify what are the criteria for selecting to which children/parents these requests are being sent.
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of them for the provision of medical certificates for social welfare applications in 2022. • List of the top 100 earners (identifying the practice/practitioner) and the cumulative amount paid to them in each year would suffice.
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BTEA can be applied for within a 30 day period only.
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1. Certificates for Retention of Departmental Records or Part(s) Thereof, pursuant to Section 8(2) of the National Archives Act, 1986. 2. Certificates for Retention or Withholding from Public Inspection of Departmental Records pursuant to Section 8(4) of the National Archives Act, 1986. Please note, I am seeking copies of the completed certificates, indicating whether the Consenting Officer of the Department of the Taoiseach has consented to the making of the certificates. 3. Schedules of records (if any) attached to the certificates specified at 1. and 2. above.
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scheme administered by the Department from 1 January 2018 to 1 February 2023. Correspondence with the relevant Minister and Irish Dental Association and/or its representatives should be included.
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Department, in c. 2013, in relation to the following, please: Responses (likely issued via email), from Scope Section, to a particular case-representation, involving proprietary Company Directors and their owned Company, that were received, in 2013, from An Taoiseach Enda Kenny, T.D. .... Similarly, regarding the same case, the like Scope Section (email) responses that were sent to the agents / accountants acting in this case; which responses at the time, both to An Taoiseach and to the case agents, set out on the significant reasons, in law, why certain Scope statutory Decisions were then suspended by the Department / Minister. Seeking the general explanation responses from the Department / Minister, concerning the serious matters of law which then underlay the suspension of statutory decisions for some thirty months.
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from the Department, without having full planning permission.
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has accepted in both 2022 and 2023.
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overview/discussion documents from 1 January 2022 to date, with regard to the impact of Long Covid on social welfare payments/budgets.
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• a copy of any procedure, policy, guidance note or similar document dealing with the administration of the Daily Expense Allowance scheme by the Department; • a copy of any procedure, policy, guidance note, correspondence or similar document on the processing by the Department of applications for the Daily Expense Allowance by applicants for international protection; • a copy of any guidance, information, correspondence or similar document issued to social welfare offices and/or units regarding the processing of applications for the Daily Expense Allowance by applicants for international protection who have no fixed address and/or who are homeless; • a copy of any guidance, information, correspondence or similar document issued to social welfare offices or units regarding the processing of applications for the Daily Expense Allowance by applicants for international protection who are residing at City West Transit Hub; and • a copy of correspondence exchanged by the Department with any other government Departments regarding Daily Expense Allowance applications and processing procedures.
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15910.
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March. I am specifically seeking the number of emails sent by the public containing the terms "trans", "transgender", "transgenderism", "gender", and "sexuality" (with a breakdown of the number of emails which mention each term). I also seek the number of emails sent by the public containing the terms "eviction", "eviction ban.
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claims.