Written answers

Tuesday, 13 June 2023

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

 
  • Employment Schemes
    790. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on removing means testing of a spouse's income for applicants to the rural social scheme; and if she will make a...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    792. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify if there is a limit on the amount of savings a person can have if they are to be successful in obtaining...
  • Social Welfare Payments
    804. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an exceptional needs payment will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    805. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if all relevant information in respect of an application for a working family payment in the case of a person (details...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    806. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the entitlement for a qualified adult dependent on a partner’s State pension (details supplied)....
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    807. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify the situation regarding the possibility of further consideration of a case (details supplied) for partial...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    808. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has not been paid the social welfare spring bonus. [27492/23]
  • Community Employment Schemes
    809. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if clarification will be provided on a matter regarding a CE supervisor scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a...
  • Community Welfare Services
    810. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the weekly service of community welfare officers visiting towns has not been resumed in Cavan since Covid (details...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    811. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of domiciliary care allowance applications; the number of refusals on first application; the number of appeals;...
  • Departmental Communications
    812. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the percentage of social media videos posted on each of her Departmental social media accounts, or the social media accounts...
  • Departmental Policies
    813. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department, and public bodies and agencies under her remit, have an anti-racism policy which can be accessed by the...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    815. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for child benefit in the case of a person (details supplied); and if...
  • Employment Support Services
    817. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the number of people who are on the live register in each town in County Cork; the number of...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    818. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when her Department will process an application for a free travel companion pass (details supplied); if there is currently a...
  • State Pensions
    820. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to indicate in the case of a person (details supplied) the income that he is deemed to received from his ARF which deemed him...
  • Social Welfare Schemes
    821. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current rate of pay for the job initiative scheme; if there are plans to increase this; and the measures she will take to...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    822. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will look at creating a childhood and adolescent and young-adult cancer-care allowance; and if she will...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    825. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total spend on consulting services and on ‘business-as-usual’ outsourcing, as differentiated under the Code...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    826. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an appeal by a person (details supplied) will be dealt with; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27984/23]
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    827. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the carer’s allowance payment to include an additional option for the allowance to be paid based on...
  • Departmental Staff
    828. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of employees of her Department who were Class B PRSI contributors between October 2011 and December 2015;...
  • Social Welfare Application Forms
    830. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the freepost instruction was removed from social welfare child benefit review forms (details supplied); and if she...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    831. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28088/23]
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    832. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reasons the May cost-of-living payment was not paid to qualified adults on a contributory pension in their own right; if...
  • Departmental Data
    835. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff seconded to her Department from a company (details supplied) in the past ten years to date; the title...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    838. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will give due consideration to expanding the criteria for the household benefits package to include all cancer...
  • Cost of Living Issues
    840. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 106 of 23 May 2023, the reason those on non-contributory pensions were omitted from the...
  • Departmental Correspondence
    841. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a reply will issue from her Department to an email received on 31 May from a person (details supplied); and if she will...
  • Departmental Data
    842. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of medical assessors assigned to examining applications for domiciliary care allowance and the number of medical...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    844. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the claim of a person (details supplied) to determine if they are in receipt of the correct benefit at the...
  • Community Employment Schemes
    849. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to expand the eligible non-profit bodies which can access CE scheme workers; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility
    850. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to extend eligibility for child benefit for a child aged 18 years or older who is still in post-primary education; and if she...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    851. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the children’s allowance has not been extended to the parents of 18-year-olds who are still in full-time...
  • Data Protection
    852. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the security protections in place for remote workers within civil and public service organisations to safeguard against...

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