Department of Social Protection
FOI Requests — 1,804 records (page 9 of 37)
- Received 18 January 2021Decided 10 February 2021GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
1. Number of engineering staff in your organisation who were paid or reimbursed, either in part or full, their annual membership fees for Engineers Ireland for the years 2018 and 2019. 2. A list of all and any other professional subscriptions or membership fees (broken down by name of institution, and staff grade and number of each separately) either paid or reimbursed, partly or fully, during 2018 and 2019.
- Received 15 January 2021Decided 9 February 2021Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
A copy of all audits completed by the internal audit division in 2020.
- Received 11 January 2021Decided 8 February 2021Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
Written communications, records of meetings (whether in person, online or by phone) and all other records of communication between Aer Lingus and Department officials, staff and/or Minister’s office relating to Aer Lingus’ staff applying for Jobseeker’s Benefit during the period (2020-2021) of the employer’s use of TWSS and use of EWSS.*
- Received 12 January 2021Decided 4 February 2021Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
Access to the minutes of monthly meetings that took place from January 2016 to June 2018 between the Department and two JobPath contractors.
- Received 3 February 2021Decided 3 February 2021GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
Number of recorded suicide deaths of the public across the country from March to the end of December 2020.
- Received 4 January 2021Decided 25 January 2021RefusedDepartment of Social Protection
All records held by the Department as they relate to the provision of contracts for ‘public relations’ or ‘crisis management’ or ‘press work’ in 2020. These records should include the nature and scope of contract provided, the values of the contracts, named parties to the contract and the tender references and documentation associated with the aforementioned contracts, all correspondence between Departmental officials and the applicants for the contracts to include emails, text messages and WhatsApp messages.
- Received 27 November 2019Decided 28 January 2020RefusedDepartment of Social Protection
• The number of men and women employed by the Department in each of the following salary bands. • State how many workers in each category are part-time. Employees will be assumed to be full time otherwise. €0-24,999 €25,000-49,999 €50,000-74,999 €75,000-99,999 €100,000-124,999 €125,000-149,999 €150,000-174,999 €175,000-199,999 €200,000-€224,999 €225,000- 249,999 €250,000-274,999 €275,000-€299,999 €300,000 and above
- Received 30 December 2019Decided 28 January 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
All correspondence from 1 January 2019 to 24 December 2019 between the Department and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on the contents of the forthcoming National Social Inclusion (i.e. anti-poverty) Strategy and any concerns about when or whether it should be published,. The correspondence should include emails and their attachments, letters, memos, telephone conversation minutes and meetings’ minutes.
- Received 23 December 2019Decided 23 January 2020RefusedDepartment of Social Protection
Is there facial recognition technology used on surveillance cameras in waiting zones of the Department for every person entering the premises ?
- Received 19 December 2019Decided 22 January 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
All official correspondence (signed letters) between Minister Doherty and the Minister for Finance/Public Expenditure and Reform from 15 August 2019 to date.
- Received 22 November 2019Decided 20 January 2020GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
1. A list of all payments made on behalf of the Department to any supplier in a currency other than the Euro, for the first three quarters of this calendar year. Showing the currency paid, the amount paid, a brief description of what was being procured, the bank/FX payment provider who processed the transaction, the cost of the transaction (the cost of the foreign currency in Euro), the cost of any additional bank charges. 2. A list of all receipts in a foreign currency other than the Euro, charged by the Department to any customer.
- Received 9 December 2019Decided 15 January 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
All correspondence, minutes of meetings and notes relating to legal advice in producing Minister Doherty's published Report on the Review of the Gender Recognition Act (29 November 2019).
- Received 13 December 2019Decided 15 January 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
1. Copies of minutes of the monthly meetings between the Department and the JobPath companies, Turas Nua and Seetec, from June 2019 to the most recent available. 2. Copies of all inspection reports into the two JobPath companies from May 2019 to date.
- Received 13 November 2019Decided 10 January 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
All briefing material prepared for Department Secretary General John McKeon for his appearance before the Dáil's Public Accounts Committee on Thursday 7 November 2019.
- Received 3 December 2019Decided 3 January 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
All correspondence, email and otherwise, between the Department and Minister Doherty and/or her Office regarding the report on the impact of the reduced rates for Jobseekers Allowance recipients aged 18-25 years (as committed to in Pathways to Work 2016-2020) from 2017 to date.
- Received 21 November 2019Decided 19 December 2019GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
All invoices in relation to spending on make-up, cosmetics and hair styling (to include both products and services) by the Department in 2019.
- Received 21 November 2019Decided 19 December 2019GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
All invoices associated with official entertainment and promotional events hosted by the Department (such as policy launches, media briefings, receptions by the Minister) in 2019 including but not limited to: catering, entertainment, flowers, transport, audio- visual services, printed materials, drinks, and room hire.
- Received 21 November 2019Decided 19 December 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
• Copies of the actual mileage claim forms submitted by each Minister, Minister of State at the Department for the calendar year 2019. • A spreadsheet/table indicating how much was paid in mileage to each Minister and Minister of State at the Department for the calendar year 2019.
- Received 5 November 2019Decided 17 December 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
All material, in written, digital, text and any other format, related to any audits, either external or internal, that were carried out on the Communications Unit in the Department from May 2016 to date. This should include, both correspondence relating to these audits and the audits themselves.
- Received 14 November 2019Decided 12 December 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
Correspondence and records since the publication of the Strawman Consultation Paper in August 2018 involving the Minister and senior Department staff (from Principal level up) relating to decisions made by Government in October 2019 on the design of the auto-enrolment scheme, including contribution levels and their timeframe.
- Received 21 November 2019Decided 12 December 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
All invoices related to spending by the Department from 1 January 2019 to date on – 1. advertisement in the print media, national radio stations, local radio stations and national TV; 2. advertisement in print media, on television stations or national radio stations that are located outside of the country; and 3. advertisement on social media platforms.
- Received 25 November 2019Decided 10 December 2019RefusedDepartment of Social Protection
All memorandums for government submitted to the government by the Minister for the period 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017 inclusive.
- Received 15 November 2019Decided 10 December 2019RefusedDepartment of Social Protection
Policy that would allow the Department to potentially break an agency from a next of kin who was appointed under Department guidelines, in favour of sending the pension funds to another person who does not have ward of court authority. Please provide this information/legal process, that guided the Department's decision in this case.
- Received 26 November 2019Decided 10 December 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
Copies of all representations made to the Department by Independent TD Noel Grealish and the Department's responses to these representations since January 2019.
- Received 11 November 2019Decided 6 December 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
Copies of all records held referring or relating to increase in the fuel allowance announced in Budget 2020. This request to cover the period 1 September 2019 to 30 October 2019.
- Received 4 November 2019Decided 5 December 2019RefusedDepartment of Social Protection
Copies of all records (including correspondence, letters, emails, internal memos, legal advice, briefing materials, submissions, and proposal documents) held by the Department concerning; • developing or using technology, based on computer algorithms/ artificial intelligence/ predictive analytics / machine learning, to automate decision making in the processing of claims, or • checking claims for fraud, with minimum human intervention, or • autonomously carrying out tasks without human intervention.
- Received 25 November 2019Decided 5 December 2019GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
• The total number of people signing on to receive social welfare payment as they are unemployed in the Castlebar intreo Office as of 31 September 2019. • The current rates of Jobseekers Benefits payments for members of the traveling community which are now an ethnic minority in Ireland.
- Received 21 November 2019Decided 4 December 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
• All invoices in relation to spending on social media training and social media services provided to the Minister and Ministerial staff in 2019. • All invoices in relation to spending on social media training and social media services provided to the Department in 2019.
- Received 21 November 2019Decided 4 December 2019GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
All final policy submissions made by the Department to the Departments of Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform relating to Budget 2020.
- Received 5 November 2019Decided 3 December 2019GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
A list of submissions submitted to the Minister through the e-submission channel from 1 October 2019 to 4 November 2019.
- Received 5 November 2019Decided 2 December 2019GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
• Records regarding claims and complaints (such as, but not limited to, incidents, accidents, threats and assaults) made to members of staff of the Department by members of the public between 1 January 2018 and 31 December 2018. • Please include details of the reporting procedure in place.
- Received 4 November 2019Decided 28 November 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
All correspondence to/from the Department/Ministers and the following politicians between June 14, 2017 and November 4, 2019: • Former Taoiseach Enda Kenny • Former Finance Minister Michael Noonan The correspondence could include letters/emails directly to ministers or the Department Secretary General as well as representations made on behalf of constituents.
- Received 30 October 2019Decided 26 November 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
• All formal questions delivered to the Attorney General from the Department regarding the legal basis for the Public Services Card and MyGov ID, dated between 15 August 2019 and 17 September 2019. • The date and time on which the questions were sent, authors of the delivered message(s), and the date and time of their receipt. • All meta-properties of any and all Microsoft Office files created in the drafting of those questions (e.g. creator, author, amendments, changes log etc).
- Received 31 October 2019Decided 26 November 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
Copies of all records referring or relating to an incident where a sticker with the phrase 'Jobpath Macht Frei' was placed at a Department Office in Cork.
- Received 29 October 2019Decided 22 November 2019RefusedDepartment of Social Protection
Any discussions/documentation that occurred within the Department from 1 January 2019 to Budget Day, (including with other Government departments), as regards proposals for raising direct provision allowance/ daily expenses allowance for international protection applicants (asylum seekers) for Budget 2020.
- Received 7 October 2019Decided 15 November 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
1. Minutes of the Department's Management Board for 2018 and to date in 2019. 2. Minutes of the meetings between the Management Board and the Senior Management Team for the same period.
- Received 31 October 2019Decided 15 November 2019GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
All correspondence between DPER and the Department regarding the appointment and determination of the salary for the special adviser to the Minister between the period 1 July 2018 and 31 December 2018 inclusive.
- Received 5 November 2019Decided 14 November 2019RefusedDepartment of Social Protection
Warrant of Appointment signed and sealed by President Higgins and Minister Doherty.
- Received 31 October 2019Decided 13 November 2019RefusedDepartment of Social Protection
• A copy of the pre-budget submission from the Department to the Department of Finance ahead of Budget 2020. • A copy of any cover, explanatory or accompanying letters sent by the Minister or Secretary General of the Department along with the pre-budget submission.
- Received 11 October 2019Decided 11 November 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
Correspondence from/to the Secretary General and his immediate direct reports and the Office of the Data Protection Commission between 5 September 2019 and 17 September 2019.
- Received 10 October 2019Decided 8 November 2019GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
The record or records which formally designate the Department's current Data Protection Officer.
- Received 21 October 2019Decided 8 November 2019RefusedDepartment of Social Protection
All memorandums for government submitted to the government by the Minister within the last five years up to and including the date of this request email.
- Received 11 October 2019Decided 7 November 2019RefusedDepartment of Social Protection
A statistical/numerical count of the number of communications between the Department and the Office of the Data Protection Commission between the 5 September 2019 and 12 September 2019.
- Received 11 October 2019Decided 7 November 2019RefusedDepartment of Social Protection
• Request for correspondence from/to Data Protection Officer and the Office of the Data Protection Commission between 5 September 2019 and 17 September 2019. • Request for correspondence from/to the BISU Unit of the Department and the Office of the Data Protection Commission between 5 September 2019 and 17 September 2019.
- Received 10 October 2019Decided 7 November 2019GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
The text that was published on Department’s site in 2016 or dated pre-2017, coming under the chapter on the entitlements to a widows contributory pension under the headline remarriage and divorce
- Received 10 September 2019Decided 6 November 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
• All correspondence (both digital and other) / minutes of meetings between Department officials of level Assistant Principal and higher regarding the Data Protection Commissioner's report on the Public Services Card • All briefing materials prepared for the Minister concerning the Data Protection Commissioner's report on the Public Services Card .. dated between 30 August 2019 and the current date.
- Received 11 October 2019Decided 6 November 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
1. All communications between Department officials, Ministers of State, the Minister, in the lead up to the announced increases to child and adult direct provision allowances announced on 14 June 2017. This should include communications between the Department and Department of Justice. This request relates to how this change of monetary allowances emerged. 2. Any lobbying/letters/emails etc. that would have been sent to/from the Children's Rights Alliance that related to these increases in direct provision allowance
- Received 11 October 2019Decided 5 November 2019RefusedDepartment of Social Protection
Correspondence from/to Corporate Services Section and the Office of the Data Protection Commission between 5 September 2019 and 17 September 2019.
- Received 23 October 2019Decided 5 November 2019GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
From July 2018 to October 2018 – • The percentage of applicants who are refused Jobseekers Allowance and • the reasons for the refusal.
- Received 6 September 2019Decided 4 November 2019Part-GrantedDepartment of Social Protection
Records relating to the consultation referred to in section 19 of the Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Act 2018.