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The Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton, T.D. visited Tallaght today (Friday, 22nd March 2013) where she officially opened the latest of the Department’s INTREO offices at the Square. The Minister also officially opened the new premises for Tallaght...

The Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton T.D. has today (21st March) launched the Department’s redesigned website, www.welfare.ie, and published the Department’s Customer Charter and Action Plan. Visits to the welfare.ie website have risen...

Social Protection Minister Joan Burton today published details of how savings of €669 million were achieved in 2012 through a broad range of control measures across Department of Social Protection schemes. The savings exceeded the target originally...

The Minister for Social Protection welcomed the publication today by the European Commission of its ‘Social Investment Package’. The Package sets out a framework for policy reforms to enhance social protection, invest in people’s...

Following the publication last month of the policy review of the Employment Support Schemes provided by her Department to jobseekers, the Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton TD today (Monday, 18th February 2013) conducted a consultation on...

The Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton TD, has welcomed the publication today (13th February, 2013) of the Survey on Income and Living Conditions 2011 by the Central Statistics Office...

08 February, DUBLIN - The Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton TD, has welcomed further progress made on the EU Youth Guarantee which would form a key part of the response to the youth unemployment crisis...

The Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton TD, this evening (Monday 4th February 2013) addressed the conference Vulnerable families – What can Ireland do? organised by COFACE (the Confederation of Family Organisations of the...

As the Committee Stage of the Social Welfare Bill 2012 is discussed in Dáil Éireann today (Wednesday, 12th December, 2012), Minister Joan Burton, T.D. said that the measures of the Social Welfare element of the Budget...

Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton, T.D. today (Wednesday, 5th December) said that the focus of the Social Welfare Budget 2013...