Written answers
Tuesday, 24 October 2023
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Benefits
349. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated annual, total first and full-year cost to increase equally the guardian payment by 100% over three years; and... - Public Services Card
350. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to examine the current difficulties being experienced by a person (details supplied) trying to renew their public services... - Social Welfare Appeals
351. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the decision on a treatment benefit medical appliances application will be reviewed in respect of a person (details... - Social Welfare Eligibility
354. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the fuel allowance payment is available to those on long-term illness benefit; and if she will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Benefits
355. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to increase the income limits for people on disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Eligibility
356. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person who was forced to stop working 20 years ago, now aged 61 years and in receipt of a local authority pension of... - School Meals Programme
357. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the expansion of the hot school meals programme to non-DEIS primary schools; how schools can register... - Departmental Legal Cases
359. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to the publication of the litigation management report on 7 February 2023, what further actions are required; if... - Social Welfare Payments
361. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will bring forward changes to the means test for carer's allowance to January 2024 rather than June 2024, given the... - Social Welfare Benefits
364. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a matter in relation to illness benefit will be examined (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Payments
366. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person’s disability allowance was cut off (details supplied); the reason there is no record of their... - State Pensions
367. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision can be made on the contributory pension for a person (details supplied) based on the information already... - Commissions of Investigation
368. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of tribunals, public investigations and commissions of investigations in process; the length of time each has been... - State Pensions
369. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person aged over 66 years can continue to work and pay PRSI contributions and have them counted for the purposes of... - Social Welfare Payments
370. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people in receipt of fuel allowance for 2023; and if she intends to expand the qualifying criteria. [32064/23] - Social Welfare Appeals
371. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an appeal for carer’s allowance will be processed and a decision made (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Benefits
372. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider providing additional funding next year to the treatment benefit scheme, to increase optical benefit... - State Bodies
373. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide details of all agencies and bodies under the aegis of her Department; if a dedicated Oireachtas email address is... - Social Welfare Payments
374. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on a domiciliary care allowance appeal (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - State Pensions
375. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a query in relation to entitlement to the State pension will be expedited (details supplied). [46574/23] - Local Government Reform
376. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in the context of the Local Government Reform Act 2014, if she will provide a schedule of functions of her Department that... - Social Welfare Benefits
377. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will take steps to ensure that the household package, including the free fuel scheme, is paid to a person (details... - Social Welfare Payments
378. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will give a commitment to processing humanitarian assistance scheme applications as expeditiously as possible... - Employment Support Services
380. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the local employability service in south Dublin which has been supporting community since 2004 has been advised... - Social Welfare Eligibility
381. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which means and other tests for carer's allowance continue to be cognisant of the person’s... - Social Welfare Payments
382. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients of carer’s allowance whose payment has been reviewed in recent times; and if she will make a... - State Pensions
383. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of persons in receipt of means-tested, non-contributory State pension in each of the past five years to... - Social Welfare Code
384. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which a longer-term payment might be made available to applicants who ordinarily would qualify for benefit... - Social Welfare Benefits
385. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full extent of payments, entitlements and benefits available on a means-tested basis; the extent to which these have been... - Budget 2024
386. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the benefits accruing to families as a result of Budget 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46741/23] - Social Welfare Benefits
387. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which it is possible to seamlessly transfer suitable applicants from domiciliary care allowance to disability... - Medical Cards
388. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to indicate the degree to which dental benefit is available through the GMS system; and if she will make a statement on the... - Budget 2024
389. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which applicants for working family payment have received an increase in Budget 2024; and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Eligibility
390. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which social welfare payment of an urgent nature can be made available to a wider variety of people now living...
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