Written answers
Tuesday, 7 November 2023
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Payments
694. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the guardians payment for 2021 and 2022, in tabular form; the cost to increase the... - Social Welfare Appeals
695. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to review the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47247/23] - Social Welfare Benefits
696. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current status of the invalidity pension application for a person (details supplied); when they can expect to receive a... - Social Welfare Payments
697. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current average waiting time and longest waiting time for social welfare claims, and separately, for claim appeals; the... - Social Welfare Eligibility
698. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if contributions will be allocated to farmers who were in receipt of farm assist between the years 1999 and 2025, in view of... - Social Welfare Benefits
699. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of farmers who have been in receipt of farm assist in each of the years 1999 to 2022 and to date in 2023, in... - Equal Opportunities Employment
702. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has undertaken research on the barriers people on disability payments face with finding and entering... - Social Welfare Eligibility
703. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how much weight is given to the person's own account of the impact of their condition on their capacity to work in the... - Equal Opportunities Employment
704. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures she and her Department are taking to improve the employment supports available to people with disabilities.... - Social Welfare Eligibility
705. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if those who receive a half-rate Increase for a qualified child payment will get the full €100 bonus announced in... - Artificial Intelligence
706. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to detail any ongoing or previous use of artificial intelligence within her Department. [47343/23] - Social Welfare Benefits
707. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm that a person (details supplied) will be awarded the full rate of disability allowance; and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Eligibility
708. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the entitlements for an Irish citizen who has been living and working in the USA for a number of years and wishes to return... - Social Welfare Appeals
709. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if precautions are in place to ensure that a person who decides to decline a payment to an applicant is not the person who... - State Pensions
710. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware of an issue (details supplied); if she will ask her officials to review the situation; and if she will make a... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
711. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Government has any plans to recognise Covid-19 as an occupational disease for frontline health care workers; and if... - Social Insurance
712. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the consideration being given to the recommendations of the Tax Strategy Group's paper in relation to pay related social... - Social Welfare Eligibility
713. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) has an entitlement to a payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47477/23] - Social Welfare Benefits
714. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will intervene to ensure a fuel allowance payment is awarded to a person (details supplied). [47520/23] - Social Welfare Code
715. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she would consider changing the means test for benefit payments so that other household incomes are disregarded,... - Social Welfare Benefits
716. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current average length of time between an initial application for jobseeker's allowance and jobseeker's benefit and the... - Social Welfare Eligibility
718. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm whether a person who resumes paid employment after applying for jobseekers, but before their application is... - Social Welfare Appeals
719. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal submitted (details supplied) on foot of the suspension of a guardians' payment; if an oral hearing is... - Social Welfare Eligibility
720. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the qualifying criteria for people with epilepsy and other medical conditions who cannot drive but are not in receipt of a... - State Pensions
721. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide details of PRSI contributions by a person (details supplied) in Count Cork; when payment of self-employed... - Social Welfare Code
722. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a timeline for the implementation of each of the nine recommendations outlined in the Review of the... - State Pensions
723. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide details of PRSI contributions by a person (details supplied) in County Cork; when payment of... - Ministerial Staff
724. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of statements of interests for the purposes of section 19 filed by her special advisers in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to... - Social Welfare Eligibility
725. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will expedite a review for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47717/23] - Departmental Advertising
726. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a breakdown of the advertising spend of her Department and agencies under the remit of her Department, by national... - Weather Events
727. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will give details of the humanitarian assistance schemes in place for those affected by flooding; if a householder in... - Social Welfare Eligibility
728. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on the review requested on behalf of a person (details supplied) who is in receipt of a State... - Official Engagements
729. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the engagements her Department, or any agency or body under her direction, has had with the Government of Israel, any state... - Data Protection
731. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way her Department would handle personal data disclosed during the Green Paper on Disability Reform: A Public... - Social Welfare Eligibility
732. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to clarify if persons in receipt of illness benefit are entitled to any 'bonus payments' that may be issued from her... - Social Insurance
735. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to respond to concerns and proposals (details supplied) relating directly to the introduction of a temporary abolition of... - Social Welfare Eligibility
736. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in respect of a disability allowance application (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Departmental Contracts
737. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department engages a company (details supplied); if so, the duration and nature of the work; the cost of same to the... - Social Welfare Benefits
738. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider bringing in child benefit payments for those over 18 years in full-time secondary education in 2023,... - Corporate Governance
740. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of complaints she has filed to the Corporate Enforcement Agency, CEA, since the establishment of the CEA and-or An... - Social Welfare Payments
741. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48094/23] - Social Welfare Appeals
742. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a domiciliary care allowance application in the name of a person (details supplied) will be re-examined and approved as a... - Social Insurance
743. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48119/23] - Social Welfare Appeals
744. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an appeal for a disability allowance for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Eligibility
745. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is entitled to a living alone allowance. [48155/23] - Primary Medical Certificates
746. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in regard to the announced expansion of the free travel pass to support people medically certified as unable to drive, if... - Departmental Consultations
747. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to detail the consultations which took place within her Department in the formation of the green paper on disability... - Social Welfare Benefits
750. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications received for disability allowance; the number of applications refused; and the number of... - Social Welfare Eligibility
751. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide details on the proposed structure of means testing under the green paper on disability allowance; how cohabitating... - School Meals Programme
754. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the name of each company contracted to provide the hot school meals programme, in tabular form; the total cost and duration... - Social Welfare Appeals
755. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an appeal emailed to the welfare appeals office on 17 September 2023 (details supplied) will be registered; if the backlog... - Social Welfare Benefits
756. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a jobseeker’s allowance application from a person in County Kerry (details supplied);... - Social Welfare Appeals
757. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether it is appropriate for the independent Social Welfare Appeals Office to be holding oral hearings in... - Social Welfare Eligibility
758. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine the qualifying conditions for the fuel allowance (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on... - State Pensions
760. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number, by each €10-per-week income band, of State pension (contributory) qualified adults in receipt of the total... - Departmental Contracts
763. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number and details of contracts currently held by her Department with a company (details supplied); and if she will make... - Social Welfare Appeals
764. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an appeal decision for a person (details supplied) will issue. [48378/23] - Social Welfare Benefits
765. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the fuel allowance will be awarded to an applicant in County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on... - Social Welfare Eligibility
767. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what benefits or social welfare payments an individual who paid class M PRSI contributions can qualify for; and if she will... - Social Welfare Benefits
768. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the introduction of pay-related unemployment benefits; and if she will make a statement on the... - Disability Services
775. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on a proposal (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48561/23] - Social Welfare Benefits
776. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 72 of 24 October 2023, the number of applications her Department received and were... - Social Welfare Payments
777. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she can clarify the current position with respect to the situation whereby homeless individuals can collect social welfare... - Social Welfare Benefits
778. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider a free travel card for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Departmental Contracts
780. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number and details of contracts currently held by her Department with a company (details supplied); and if she will make... - Social Welfare Eligibility
783. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the extension of child benefit payment to 18-year-olds who are still in school will apply to those whose 18th birthday... - Social Welfare Appeals
784. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a carer's allowance appeal by a person in County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will... - Social Welfare Eligibility
785. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what action her Department is taking to ensure that women engaged in full-time agricultural activities have access to social...
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