Department of Social Protection
FOI Requests — 507 requests
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All records and briefing documents about the risk and discovery of fraud in the PUP scheme since it was established that have been provided to the Minister for Social Protection and the Secretary General of the Department.
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Details of the companies being investigated by the Employment Status Inspection Unit for dubious self employment practices, to include all data from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2020.
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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 2020. A list of the top 100 earners (identifying the practice/practitioner) and the cumulative amount paid to them in each year will suffice.
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Number of the recorded suicide deaths of the public across the country from March till the end of December 2019 and 2018.
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All internal audits conducted by or for the Department from 1 January 2021 to date.
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Copies of any briefings, memos, reports, submissions, or other such review/overview documents prepared for either the minister or the secretary general regarding changes made surrounding pension/social welfare payments for those aged over 65. This request to cover the period 1 September 2020 to date of receipt of the request.
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Request relates to the provisions of the Disabled Persons Maintenance Allowance and its successor the Disability Allowance. • Any internal communicaons or documents which related to the assessment of potenal liabilities for the Department / the State arising from the named court cases. This should include any documents which related to the work which would have to be undertaken to assess the liability - for instance contacting residential facilities to review numbers impacted. • Any internal communicaon or documents which were generated in responding to any parliamentary questions related to this case or where either of these case were cited in the question received by the Department. • The details of any selements which were made in other cases which dealt with the same issue as this settlement. • Any communicaon with the Department of Health on this issue from 2008, 2009 or 2010. • Any memo brought to Cabinet arising from the issues raised in this.
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1. The number of PhD students who have received, since the new regulation came into place in September 2020, both the full rate and partial rates of Disability Allowance (please provide separate numbers for each category). 2. Of the students mentioned above, I request the proportion (percentage) of them who provided confirmation that they were not getting their fees and research costs covered (i.e. the percentage of students now receiving both the full rate and partial rate of Disability Allowance who provided documentation stating they were receiving €0 fees and €0 research costs). Please provide separate percentages for the two categories of Disability Allowance (i.e. for both full and partial rate categories). 3. Of the students mentioned in Point 1 (above), I request the percentage of them who provided confirmation that they were getting their fees and research costs covered. Please provide separate percentages for the two categories of Disability Allowance (i.e. for both full and partial rate categories). 4. Of the students mentioned in Point 1 (above), I request the percentage of them who provided no documentation whatsoever relating to whether their fees and research project costs were covered. Please provide separate percentages for the two categories of Disability Allowance (i.e. for both full and partial rate categories).
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Breakdown of details of promotion competitions for individual grades from Internal competitions within the Department of Social Protection for the periods 2005-2010, 2010-2015 and 2015-2020. The five Administrative grades for which I request this data are Staff Officer (when the staff officer grade was still available as a promotion), Executive Officer; Higher Executive Officer; Assistant Principal; Principal Officer. (Include Higher Scales) Please indicate if where there are relative or equivalent grades that may be considered Technical or Specialist grades. For each competition, please supply the following: • Number applied; • Number shortlisted by shortlisng board (where applicable); • Number of informal reviews sought on decision not to be shortlisted; • Number of successful informal reviews on decision not to be shortlisted; • Number of formal reviews sought on decision not to be shortlisted under the CPSA Code of Practice; Number of successful formal reviews on decision not to be shortlisted under CPSA Code of Practice; Number interviewed; • N umber of informal reviews sought on decision not to be placed on panel; • Number of successful informal reviews on decision not to be placed on panel; • N umber of formal reviews sought on decision not to be placed on a panel under the CPSA Code of Practice; • Number of successful formal reviews on decision not to be placed on panel under CPSA code of practice; • Number placed on panel If a second or subsequent short-listing stage(s) was/were employed in competitions for any of the grades listed then I request the above information for each stage. What the % male to female that were in the Department in 1973 when the marriage ban was lifted and in the grade Staff Officer (when the staff officer grade was still available as a promotion); Executive Officer; Higher Executive Officer; Assistant Principal; Principal Officer.
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All documents, briefing notes, emails and internal discussion documents in relation to the preparation of the Gender Recognition Act 2015 Annual Report 2019 including: • any material related to the delay in publication of the report • any material related to the report concerning the issues highlighted in 2019 by a written question raised by Peadar Toibin TD (ref https://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2019-09-06a.1517) and referred to by Robert Purcell chair of the Law Society Criminal Law Committee in the Law Society Gazette (ref: https://www.lawsociety.ie/gazette/top-stories/male-bodied-transgender-inmate- housed-with-women-prisoners/).
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1. Page 10 of the Department’s Compliance and Anti-Fraud Strategy 2019-2023 states that “quarterly updates on control-related activities” will be provided to the Department’s Management Board for consideration. I request a copy of any such updates provided during the period of January 2019 to February 2021. 2. Page 10 of the Department’s Compliance and Anti-Fraud Strategy 2019-2023 also states “that control-related work across the Department is overseen and monitored by the Control Programme Board”. I request a copy of any minutes of any meetings of the Control Programme Board held during the period of January 2019 to February 2021. 3. Page 18 of the Department’s Compliance and Anti-Fraud Strategy 2019-2023: Annual Report 2019 and Annual Target Statement 2020 (attached) states that “at the end of 2019, there were predictive models in operation for OFP, DA, SPC and Widows and Surviving Civil Partners Contributory Pension (WSCPCP) schemes”. I hereby request access to those predictive models and any record indicative of the nature of the data analysed by those models, how those models score/analyse cases on the basis of that data, and the risk factors identified by those models. 4. Page 18 of Department’s Compliance and Anti-Fraud Strategy 2019-2023: Annual Report 2019 and Annual Target Statement 2020 also states that the Department “has also developed a business rules model for JA”. I hereby request a copy of that business rules model. 5. Page 18 of the Department’s Compliance and Anti-Fraud Strategy 2014-2018: Annual Report 2017 and Annual Target Statement 2018 (available at: https://www.gov.ie/pdf/?file=https://assets.gov.ie/74863/87a99f62-ac20-4165-8016- d11129e8c86f.pdf#page=null ) states that a “specific analytics database for the SIU has also been developed, through which cohorts of Member of the Publics are identified for investigation”. I request access to any record indicative of the nature of the data held on that database and how that data is analysed to identify cohorts of Member of the Publics for investigation.
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Copies of correspondence/briefing notes/emails etc, from June 2016 to April 2017, in relation to the private members Bill proposed amendment to the GRA introduced in March 2017.
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Copies of the memo which accompanied the draft of the Gender Recognitition Bill as the legislation progressed and prior to its introduction.
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