Written answers
Tuesday, 24 October 2023
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Schemes
56. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the changes she is making to her Department’s free travel scheme to support people with epilepsy and other medical... - Social Welfare Eligibility
59. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason lone parents working on CE schemes are excluded from receiving the €400 cost of living payment, given the... - Budget 2024
63. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she agrees with an organisation (details supplied) that Budget 2024 is regressive because temporary changes like one-off... - State Pensions
64. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department is undertaking a review of the criteria for qualification for the State pension; and if she will make a... - Departmental Reviews
66. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made on the review of means testing rules of social welfare schemes; whether it is still intended to complete the... - Departmental Communications
68. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of any engagement between her Department and disabled persons organisations and disability organisations in the... - Departmental Data
69. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the ‘best of both’ calculation was undertaken for the period 2020 to 2023; how many State pension... - Social Welfare Rates
70. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she considers that the €4 increase in the qualified child payment will make a significant impact on child poverty;... - Poverty Levels
71. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she anticipates poverty in this country will be ended; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46429/23] - Departmental Data
72. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in County Clare who availed of an additional need's payment since 1 January 2023, in tabular form; and... - Social Welfare Schemes
73. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the key aspects of the proposed three-tiered personal support payment for people with disabilities. [46391/23] - State Pensions
74. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider allowing pro-rata pensions on the basis of the proportion of contributions made by the pensioner relative... - Social Welfare Eligibility
75. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that after forty-five years of working, a person (details supplied) has no entitlement to anything between the... - Disability Services
76. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what engagement she has had with disability groups in relation to the recent green paper on disability supports. [46394/23] - Community Welfare Services
78. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the location in County Laois where face-to-face meetings with a community welfare officer takes place; and the procedure to... - Social Welfare Schemes
79. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider an increase in the top-up payments to the CE, TUS and RSS schemes in line with the national minimum wage;... - Budget 2024
80. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the changes to child benefit arising from Budget 2024; when these changes will take effect; and if she... - Social Welfare Rates
81. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for aligning people’s unemployment benefits with their previous earnings. [46382/23] - Social Welfare Benefits
82. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if time spent acting as a carer can be applied when calculating illness benefit; if time spent caring for children can be... - Public Services Card
83. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an online system will be made available for application for the public services card; and if she will make a statement on... - Departmental Data
85. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons currently in receipt of the carer’s allowance; and the number who were in receipt of the... - Social Welfare Eligibility
86. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has received any reports on the onerous nature of applying for the domiciliary care allowance; and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Appeals
87. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) regarding their entitlement to partial capacity benefit; and if she... - Social Welfare Schemes
88. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to tackle the introduction of booking fees of between €2-€10 by private transport companies for... - Social Welfare Application Forms
89. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if personal assistants, who work with those with disabilities at third-level institutes and who have to sign on for... - Budget 2024
91. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason no additional one-off payment of one-parent family payment was included in Budget 2024; and if she will make a... - Employment Support Services
92. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way her Department supports the National Employability Service; the outcomes of any such supports; and if she will make a... - State Pensions
93. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she agrees with the principle of restoring the State pension to its 2020 spending power; and if she will commit to doing... - Employment Support Services
94. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps that are being taken, in conjunction with other Departments, to address the issue of unemployment blackspots across... - Budget 2024
96. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the qualified child payment only saw an increase of €2 in Budget 2023 and €4 in Budget 2024, despite... - Departmental Data
97. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number and percentage of lone parents in receipt of the working family payment from the beginning of 2018 until the end of... - Social Welfare Benefits
100. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address the current backlog in processing applications for child benefit. [46180/23] - State Pensions
102. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware of persons who were allowed to remain long-term on illness benefit when restricted duration was first... - Social Welfare Eligibility
103. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider expanding the illness benefit payment to self-employed persons (details supplied); and if she will make... - Social Welfare Benefits
105. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the current processing times for disability allowance, carers allowance and social welfare appeals; if... - Poverty Levels
106. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she anticipates that poverty among people with disabilities in this country will be ended; and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Schemes
108. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how many people availed of the Activation and Family Support Programme in 2022 to fund the cost of training supports and... - Social Welfare Code
111. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered introducing a permanent cost-of-living payment for disabled people; and if she will make a statement on... - Budget 2024
112. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will publish the Budget 2024 input document for the State pension process in October, given that Ireland is the only... - Social Welfare Schemes
113. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has examined the provision of a statutory bereavement leave, and the costs associated with this; and if she... - Departmental Data
115. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons currently in receipt of the disability allowance; and the number who were in receipt of the allowance...
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