Department of Social Protection
FOI Requests — 761 records (page 5 of 16)
- Received 22 July 2019Decided 16 August 2019GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
• A copy of the the protocols used in the selection of people for the JobPath service • The minimum time period after finishing a year on JobPath before a person can then be invited to re-attend JobPath. • If the length of this minimum period has changed since the inception of Jobpath, then a copy of previous minimum periods and when the changes came into effect.
- Received 18 July 2019Decided 16 August 2019GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
The total amount of expenses claimed by all civil servants in the Department in the following years: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and so far in 2019. Please provide the breakdown by grade and category of expense claimed.
- Received 23 July 2019Decided 14 August 2019GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
All records relating to meetings/phone calls between Deliveroo representatives and the Minister or the Department's senior officials from January 2019 to date.
- Received 12 August 2019Decided 14 August 2019RefusedDepartment of Social Protection
From September 2018 to August 2019 inclusive, please provide any correspondence/memos/letters issued to staff at the Department's offices on Store St in Dublin in relation to personal hygiene/bathroom etiquette.
- Received 12 July 2019Decided 12 August 2019GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
Copy of submissions and representations made to the Department or Minister in relation to plans to introduce legislation to regulate practices around tips and gratuities.
- Received 15 July 2019Decided 9 August 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
Copies of all internal audit reports carried out by or on behalf of the Department from 1 January 2019 to date.
- Received 10 July 2019Decided 2 August 2019GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
All the legislation underpinning the Public Service Card.
- Received 12 July 2019Decided 2 August 2019RefusedDepartment of Social Protection
Any instructions, manuals or similar that are used in relation to the processing of new applicants for PSC and SAFE II. Any training materials used to train Department/Intreo frontline staff in handling new applications for the PSC and SAFE II
- Received 12 July 2019Decided 2 August 2019GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
An electronic copy of RSU circular 74/14.
- Received 3 July 2019Decided 31 July 2019GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
1. The total number of staff working at the Department, broken down by building. 2. The total number car parking spaces and their type (over ground carpark, under ground car park, street parking etc). 3. Any costs in terms of upkeep of parking spaces (cleaning, staffing etc) .
- Received 10 July 2019Decided 31 July 2019RefusedDepartment of Social Protection
All the legislation in relation to Jobpath
- Received 12 June 2019Decided 30 July 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
In relation to the Provision of Continuous Print Stationary Forms for use by the Department in its Con Colbert Facility, please supply copy of the Technical Response of the winning tenderer for Lots 1, 2 and 4.
- Received 2 July 2019Decided 30 July 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
Copies of minutes of the monthly meetings between the Department and the JobPath companies, Turas Nua and Seetetc, from June 2018 to present.
- Received 4 July 2019Decided 30 July 2019GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
All expressions of interest from schools to the Hot School Meals pilot scheme for September 2019, the deadline for which was 12 June, to include any correspondence and grounds for inclusion in the scheme.
- Received 15 July 2019Decided 30 July 2019GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
1. Copy of the JB Guidelines which are available on the DAO website 2. Current version of the running consolidation of the SW Consolidation Act 2005 3. Current version of the running consolidation of SI 142/07
- Received 8 July 2019Decided 26 July 2019GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
Details of the following grades (PO, AP, HEO, SO/EO and CO) serving in the Salaries Section (Dundalk) at 31 December 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.
- Received 19 June 2019Decided 16 July 2019RefusedDepartment of Social Protection
A list of all gifts presented to and received by Minister Doherty in the past 12 months. A corresponding list of who presented which gift.
- Received 17 June 2019Decided 16 July 2019GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
All payments (or fees charged) made directly to the National Shared Services Office for financial years ending - 31 December 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 in respect of services provided to the Department for the processing of Annual Leave, Pensions or Worksharing arrangements for staff employed by the Department.
- Received 10 June 2019Decided 5 July 2019GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
• A copy of any ‘Record of Processing Activity’ or ‘Register of Processing Activity’ which your organisation maintains. • Any previous versions of this document.
- Received 7 June 2019Decided 3 July 2019GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
• Any instructions, manuals or similar that are used in relation to the processing of new applicants for social welfare benefits. • Any training materials used to train Department/Intreo frontline staff in handling new applications for social welfare, in particular training in relation to section 241 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 and identity verification generally.
- Received 5 June 2019Decided 26 June 2019GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
All records relating to this entry in the lobbying database: https://www.lobbying.ie/return/47732/irish-congress-of-trade-unions
- Received 18 June 2019Decided 25 June 2019GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
All records held by the General Register Office relating to adoption of children from the Children’s Home in Tuam Co. Galway between 22 February 1946 and the commencement of the Adoption Act 1952 on 1 January 1953.
- Received 28 May 2019Decided 18 June 2019GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
Department and ministerial discussions relating to the introduction of paid parental leave and extending this beyond the first year of a child’s life.
- Received 21 May 2019Decided 17 June 2019GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
A list of medical practices and/or practitioners and the cumulative payments made to each of them for the provision of medical certificates for social welfare applications in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. (A list of the top 100 earners (identifying the practice/practitioner) and the cumulative amount paid to them in each year will suffice).
- Received 15 May 2019Decided 7 June 2019GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
1. All correspondence, internal or external, generated or reviewed as part of the process required to consider, research and reply to the written questions to the Minister on 27 September 2017, and recorded in the Dail record for the day under reference number 40865/17 and 40866/17. https://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2017-09- 27a.459&s=abintegro#g462.r 2. Internal memoranda and correspondence between officials in the Department, for the period of October, November and December 2017, specifically relating to the CV builder used by Seetec in the course of delivering the JobPath programme. 3. Correspondence between officials in the Department and Seetec, for the period of October, November and December 2017, which specifically related to the CV builder used by Seetec.
- Received 27 May 2019Decided 7 June 2019RefusedDepartment of Social Protection
A copy of the regulatory impact assessments prepared for the Gender Recognition (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Gender Recognition Act 2015.
- Received 23 April 2019Decided 21 May 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
• The number of persons that are in debt to the Department due to welfare fraud where the value of the debit is between €5,000 and €10,000, between €10,000 and €20,000, between €20,000 and €50,000, over €50,000 but under €100,000 and over €100,000 in the years 2017, 2018 and to-date in 2019 in tabular form. • If known the percentage of persons that are in debt by social welfare payment in each of the years in question in tabular form • The financial penalties that are available to the Department in order to recoup the debt outstanding • The gender and grade of staff within the Department who are working within the Special Investigation Unit in each of the years in question in tabular form.
- Received 1 May 2019Decided 21 May 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
Documents generated in preparation, during and after a meeting with Minister Doherty and representatives of the Irish Film Workers Association, held in April 2019, to include • briefing notes, notifications or documents created in preparation for the meeting • All notes, digital or handwritten created during the meeting • The minutes of the meeting • Correspondence or documents created as a result of the meeting, or following up on any issues raised at the meeting.
- Received 19 March 2019Decided 20 May 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
In relation to engagements between the Minister, Ministers of State or Department staff and Ruhama or its representatives from 2010 to present, please provide -• Correspondence (postal correspondence, emails, etc.) • Minutes from any meetings • Any briefing notes or other relevant documentation.
- Received 23 April 2019Decided 20 May 2019RefusedDepartment of Social Protection
Copies of records in the Department, in relation to the following – • Audit Committee Minutes of its April 2019 Meeting; including setting out on the full discussion held; on the contributions from various Audit Committee Members; on any dissenting voices; on courses of action etc. • Notes taken by Secretary to the Audit Committee of its April 2019 Meeting; including setting out on the full discussion held; on the contributions from various Audit Committee Members; on any dissenting voices; on courses of action etc.
- Received 19 March 2019Decided 17 May 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
Copies of any records held referring to or relating to the Community Employment and Tús Information Event that was due to take place in Minister Doherty's constituency on March 14 2019. Searches of any relevant private email addresses and/or messaging services should be considered when processing this request.
- Received 16 April 2019Decided 16 May 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
For the past ten years – 1. The Number of applications made by employees or by persons competent to act in respect of an occupational pension scheme (e.g. receivers, liquidators, trustees, etc) for payments of unpaid contributions on the employer's own account under Section 7 of 1984 Act. 2. Of those applications referred to in paragraph 1: • The number of applications which related to a defined benefit (DB) occupational pension scheme; • The number applications of which related to a defined contribution (DC) occupational pension scheme; • The number of DB Scheme and DC Scheme applications respectively, which were allowed; • The number of DB Scheme and DC Scheme applications respectively, which were disallowed; 3. The amount of all payments, broken down by individual occupational pension scheme, made into the assets of any DB Scheme in accordance with Section 7(3)(a) of the 1984 Act; and • Whether in any case payments made to any DB Scheme were in respect of or included the payment of a "contribution demand;" and • Whether in any case payments made to any DB Scheme were in respect of or included the payment of the scheme deficit, i.e. "the amount certified by an actuary to be necessary for the purposes of meeting the liability of the Scheme on dissolution to pay the benefits provided by the Scheme", as described in Section 7(3)(b) of the 1984 Act. 4. Particulars of claims settled, whether through negotiation, mediation, arbitration or on foot of a legal action (actual or threatened) where an employee or a person competent to act in respect of a DB Scheme sought payment of relevant contributions which comprised or included a "contribution demand" in accordance with Section 7(3)(a) of the 1984 Act.
- Received 3 April 2019Decided 3 May 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
During the period 1 August 2018 to date – • Copies of any correspondence between the DPC and the Department relating to whether or not a draft report on the PSC would or could be published by either public body. • Copies of any submissions/briefings or other such documents prepared for Minister Doherty relating to the above matter.
- Received 1 April 2019Decided 1 May 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
Any correspondence from the Minister or Junior Minister at the Department to the Football Association of Ireland requesting tickets to any games involving men's, women's and underage Republic of Ireland soccer teams, or any UEFA or World Cup games, since 2016.
- Received 18 April 2019Decided 1 May 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
All Inspection Reports compiled by the Department on foot of inspections of the JobPath Contractors, Seetec and Turas Nua, from 13 June 2018 to date.
- Received 9 April 2019Decided 30 April 2019RefusedDepartment of Social Protection
From 1 October 2018 to date – • All correspondence, including any attachments, between Ministerial offices or Department officials (Principal Officer level and above) and Facebook representatives. • Any briefing notes, agendas, meeting minutes or presentations relating to meetings or phone calls between Facebook representatives and either Ministers, Departmental officials (Principal Officer level and above).
- Received 19 March 2019Decided 26 April 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
All correspondence, minutes of meetings, records and documents, from August 2017 to March 2018 inclusive, held by the Department in relation to the ‘Satisfaction with JobPath service providers’ Customer Satisfaction Survey conducted in October 2017.
- Received 7 February 2019Decided 17 April 2019RefusedDepartment of Social Protection
All records between 1 September 2018 and 9.55am on 7 February 2019 in electronic or paper format of any communications between Michelle O’Donnell, Tim Duggan, Kathleen Stack, Philip Cox, John O'Toole , Joan McMahon and the Secretary General of the Department regarding the ongoing Public Services Card investigation by the Data Protection Commission (the DPC). For clarity, this request does not seek copies of any communications from the Department to the Data Protection Commission but does cover internal communications with the department which included information referencing or quoting communication from the DPC.
- Received 28 March 2019Decided 17 April 2019GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
A list of medical practices and/or practitioners and the cumulative payments made to each of them for the provision of medical certificates for social welfare applications in 2016, 2017 and 2018. A list of the top 100 earners (identifying the practice/practitioner) and the cumulative amount paid to them in each year would suffice.
- Received 8 April 2019Decided 17 April 2019RefusedDepartment of Social Protection
The statistics of unemployed people with the so called unlucky number in their PPS Number
- Received 25 March 2019Decided 15 April 2019GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
Details of Treatment Benefit payments to all optometrist contracts in the State for 2018.
- Received 19 March 2019Decided 12 April 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
• Internal documentation, communications, policy papers, circulars or other material which outlines the Department's efforts to re-fomulate the social welfare acts to comply with the outcome of the 34th Amendment of the Constitution in May of 2015; • A list of any Acts or Statutory Instruments adopted to carry out such changes.
- Received 13 March 2019Decided 11 April 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
All inspection reports by the Department of Seetec and Turas Nua offices since the start of 2016.
- Received 27 March 2019Decided 11 April 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
Copies of any submissions, reports, memoranda, or other such review or explanatory documents referring to or relating to an increase in the rate of allowance paid to residents of direct provision centres. For avoidance of doubt, this is the new rate that has come into effect this month.
- Received 25 March 2019Decided 10 April 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
Where a debt is owed to the Department please provide a copy of the process for collecting monies.
- Received 13 March 2019Decided 8 April 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
With regard to the 'JobsIreland portal', copy of the actual contract – which shows the amount being contractually paid to the preferred provider and the list of commitments entered into as part of the contract agreement. If there is a Service Level Agreement agreed, I would like to see a copy of same- contract agreed between BDO and the Department.
- Received 13 March 2019Decided 8 April 2019RefusedDepartment of Social Protection
All correspondence sent or received by the Minister in relation to Illness Benefit payments since 1 January 2018.This should include – • all correspondence including letters, emails, memos etc. • correspondence from official representations. C63
- Received 11 March 2019Decided 5 April 2019RefusedDepartment of Social Protection
The number of people in receipt of Carer's Payments (Respite Care Grant, Carer's Allowance/Benefit, Constant Care Allowance) but also in respect of whom a Carer's type payment is being made.
- Received 7 February 2019Decided 4 April 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
• Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIAs) Screening and full RIAs in respect of the Implementation of the IORP II Directive • Copies of the Impact Assessment carried out by the European Council / European Parliament used in completing the above RIAs. • Copies of all drafts and accompanying information note(s) provided to both Houses of the Member of Oireachtas under the terms of the EU Scrutiny Act 2002. • Copies of all documentation issued to the European Scrutiny Sub-committee for consideration. • Details of all documentation issued to any Sectoral Committee for consideration.• The name(s) of the EU Co-ordinator(s) in the DEASP and Lead office in respect of the implementation of the IORP II Directive. • The name(s) of the individuals in the Department of Taoiseach / Business, Enterprise & Innovation / Foreign Affairs / any other Departments involved in the transposition / implementation process. • Copies of all documentation issued to Department of Taoiseach / Business, Enterprise & Innovation / Foreign Affairs / any other Departments involved in the transposition / implementation process. • Copies of all documentation issued to EU Commission involved in the transposition / implementation process. • Copies of any Early Warning documentation issued on an interdepartmental basis
- Received 7 February 2019Decided 3 April 2019RefusedDepartment of Social Protection
Any letters, memos communications, file notes etc relating to the Department's perspective on the IORP II Directive and their communications with EU institutions and personnel on same.