Written answers
Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Payments
51. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in light of the recent Government decision to grant payments of child benefit, she will work with her counterpart, the... - Social Welfare Benefits
54. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her current policy regarding the carer’s allowance (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Fuel Poverty
62. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on her Department's work on combating energy poverty. [7892/24] - Pension Provisions
64. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the work that remains in the process of introducing the auto-enrolment pension scheme. [7893/24] - Social Welfare Rates
66. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether the domiciliary care allowance payment of €340 per month is sufficient to care for a child with a... - Departmental Schemes
67. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will extend the free travel scheme to all social welfare recipients; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Poverty Impact Assessment
68. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a poverty impact assessment was carried out into extending child benefit to 18 year-olds in full-time education or training... - Departmental Schemes
69. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the work to operationalise the recommendations in the review of the reasonable accommodation... - Social Welfare Schemes
70. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to add additional schemes to those currently deemed non-assessable income with regard to farm assist; and if... - Social Welfare Benefits
71. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will extend child benefit to 16, 17 and 18 year-olds not in full-time education or training; and if she will make a... - State Pensions
72. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline the changes to the State contributory pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7876/24] - Departmental Reviews
73. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the Green Paper on Reform of Disability Payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7802/24] - Social Welfare Benefits
74. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to consider increasing the weekly earnings disregard for disability allowance recipients as when using the benefit of work... - Departmental Schemes
79. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the Irish Sign Language Act voucher scheme is to be suspended. [7906/24] - Community Employment Schemes
81. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to expand and develop the community employment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7805/24] - Social Welfare Eligibility
82. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider undertaking a pilot to inviting people to check if they are getting their full entitlements and targeting... - Departmental Data
83. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of families in Cork city and county that have benefited from the double child benefit payment in December 2023, and... - Social Welfare Benefits
84. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the changes to child benefit for 18 year-olds. [7883/24] - Social Welfare Eligibility
85. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered whether illness benefit can be extended to self-employed persons. [7913/24] - Social Welfare Schemes
86. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline her plans to expand and develop the Tús initiative; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7806/24] - Legislative Programme
87. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the legislative programme. [3501/24] - Social Welfare Code
88. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether she has considered the situation of those providing kinship care, and the discrepancy between the financial supports... - Medical Aids and Appliances
89. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider allowing children suffering hair loss to avail of the grants for wigs based on their parents PRSI... - Pension Provisions
91. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the specifics regarding the pension entitlements being worked on for carers by her Department presently;... - Social Welfare Benefits
92. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) who claimed jobseeker's benefit for self-employed and exhausted that benefit, is... - Pension Provisions
93. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in light of recent court judgments, she intends to provide State pension entitlements to the long-term non-married... - Poverty Impact Assessment
94. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will carry out a poverty impact assessment of extending child benefit to 16, 17 and 18 year-olds not in full-time... - Departmental Reviews
95. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when it is intended to introduce changes to means testing based on the report being prepared by her Department on means... - Social Welfare Eligibility
97. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the fact that standard disregards for maintenance that apply in the means testing of other payments do not... - Poverty Data
98. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what measures will be taken to respond adequately to the report carried out by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission,... - State Pensions
99. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she might review cases where a contributory State pension was refused on the grounds of insufficient... - Departmental Strategies
100. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the Government’s ‘Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020-2025’; and if she will make... - Departmental Bodies
101. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to report on the latest meeting of the Smart Energy Steering Group; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7856/24] - Social Welfare Code
102. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide details on the steps her Department is taking in addressing the 'cliff-edges' in welfare systems; as she is aware... - Departmental Data
105. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated amount her Department spent on the farm assist payment in Cork east in 2023; the total number of recipients in... - State Pensions
106. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider including adult dependant recipients who are 80 years and over for increase of payment which presently... - Departmental Data
109. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications received by her Department under the humanitarian assistance scheme in respect of Galway city and... - Industrial Disputes
110. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 115 of 7 December 2023, for a status update on his Department's engagement with... - Social Welfare Benefits
111. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the supports provided to family carers. [7887/24]
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