Written answers
Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Code
579. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has proposals to enable artists with disabilities to practice their creativity without losing their disability... - School Meals Programme
580. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the schools at all levels in Dublin south west that avail of the school meals programme. [37622/22] - Social Welfare Code
581. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to disregarding grant and project-based funding as means-tested income for the disability... - Social Welfare Eligibility
582. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a child who is in receipt of the disability allowance and who is still in full-time secondary education will qualify for... - Social Welfare Schemes
584. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications that her Department received for disability-related social welfare payments in 2021 and 2022; the... - Social Welfare Payments
585. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of providing an additional €10 per week payment to all recipients of disability-related... - Social Welfare Eligibility
586. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be granted a payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Employment Schemes
587. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the development of a new model for employment services; the engagement that had taken place with existing... - Social Welfare Benefits
588. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of extending child benefit to 18-year-olds who are still in secondary school; and if she will... - Public Services Card
589. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the consideration that was given to facilitating persons with disabilities who may have issues with getting their photograph... - Social Welfare Benefits
590. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports that are available for self-employed persons who become ill and cannot continue to work or claim illness... - Disability Services
592. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of job coaches employed to support disabled jobseekers as a way of improving access to the labour market; the... - Social Welfare Schemes
594. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients by each core social protection scheme, disaggregated by payment type. [37150/22] - State Pensions
595. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of reintroducing the State pension transition payment at the weekly standard state pension rate... - Social Welfare Benefits
596. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 294 of 19 May 2022, the estimated cost of including the working family payment as a... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
597. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on the application for enhanced illness benefit for Covid-19 absence for the period 26 May 2022... - Departmental Reviews
598. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has expanded her scope section review in respect of persons working for and or at a broadcaster (details supplied) who... - Community Employment Schemes
599. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if any consideration will be given to community employment scheme supervisors who retired prior to the 2008 reference year in... - Social Welfare Benefits
600. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applicants in receipt of child benefit; the number of applicants audited each year; the way that applicants are... - Social Welfare Eligibility
602. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on her Department’s consideration of proposals regarding extending free travel... - State Bodies
604. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the vacancies that are currently available on State boards (details supplied); the way that these vacancies will be filled;... - Social Welfare Appeals
605. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that a carer's allowance appeal by a person (details supplied) was withdrawn by the carer's allowance section... - Social Welfare Payments
606. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to reduce the delays being experienced by school term workers such as school bus drivers who have to sign on during... - Departmental Contracts
607. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department and bodies under the aegis of her Department have engaged the services of two organisations (details... - Social Welfare Payments
608. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the dates that back-to-school clothing and footwear allowances will be paid. [37309/22] - State Pensions
610. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the State pension (contributory) and the State pension (non-contributory) by €10,... - Social Welfare Payments
611. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of introducing a second band of fuel allowance for persons on fixed incomes. [37312/22] - Social Welfare Schemes
613. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of introducing free travel to students who hold a public services card. [37315/22] - Social Welfare Eligibility
614. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing eligibility thresholds for supplementary welfare allowance by €10%, 20% and 30%... - Social Welfare Offices
617. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an Intreo centre at Navan Road, Cabra West, Dublin 7 will reopen to the public upon the completion of refurbishment works.... - Social Welfare Rates
619. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost if the disability allowance increased by €12.50 per week. [37358/22] - Social Welfare Eligibility
620. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider making amendments to the fuel allowance threshold; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37553/22] - State Pensions
622. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total annual cost of State old age pension payments; the total cost of full-rate payments; the number of recipients of... - Social Welfare Eligibility
623. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will extend the child dependent cut off-age to 24 years in cases in which the child is still attending a third level... - State Pensions
624. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that a person (details supplied) is not in receipt of a full State pension (contributory); and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Eligibility
625. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will extend the eligibility for the back-to-school clothing and footwear allowance to foster children; and if she will... - Social Welfare Payments
627. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current length of time that it takes to process and approve a range of payments (details supplied); and if she will... - Social Welfare Eligibility
628. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether low to middle-income families that are not in receipt of social welfare payments could qualify for the... - Cost of Living Issues
629. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase the total house income criteria for additional needs payment applications due to the rising... - Social Welfare Appeals
631. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that an error made by her Department should impact on a person (details supplied); if this claim will be fully... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
632. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if with regard to Covid 19 enhanced illness benefit a positive Covid-19 test is still sufficient to prove that a person has... - Social Welfare Eligibility
633. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of fuel allowance applicants in 2020, 2021 and 2022, who were €100 or less over the qualifying means test... - Employment Support Services
635. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will advise with regard to the forthcoming changes to national employment services how and when the termination of... - Social Welfare Eligibility
641. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will expedite a decision on an application for the carer's benefit for a person (details supplied) given that the... - School Meals Programme
644. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the revised additional cost of providing hot meals free of charge to all children attending DEIS primary schools for a... - Social Welfare Benefits
649. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application for the supplementary welfare allowance will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County... - Social Welfare Payments
650. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a disability allowance payment will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she... - Departmental Policies
652. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has given consideration to allowing a sliding scale back-to-school allowance to allow families that are just above the... - Social Welfare Payments
653. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing each social welfare payment by €1 disaggregated by payment type from 27 September to...
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