Dáil debates

Thursday, 30 April 2026

  • Social Welfare Benefits (6 speeches)
    5. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm that consideration will be given to an automatic entitlement to the fuel allowance where a member of the household...
  • Child Poverty (7 speeches)
    6. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on child poverty figures and the effectiveness of his Department's measures to reduce child poverty. [31238/26]
  • Social Welfare Benefits (7 speeches)
    7. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for urgent needs payments in Cork in the first three months of each of the years 2019, 2025 and 2026...
  • Social Welfare Benefits (6 speeches)
    8. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will report on the introduction of pay-related benefit in March 2025 linking unemployment payments to previous earnings;...
  • Social Welfare Appeals (9 speeches)
    9. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number and percentage of disability allowance decisions that are appealed; the number and percentage of decisions that are...
  • Pensions Reform (5 speeches)
    10. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the required additional funding has been provided to social welfare branch managers to pay for pension auto enrolment costs...
  • Social Welfare Schemes (6 speeches)
    11. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of paying carers who care for two or more people, based on a full carer’s allowance in...
  • Pension Provisions (6 speeches)
    13. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will increase his departmental budget allocation in budget 2027 to those in receipt of the State pension, in response to...
  • Parental Leave (7 speeches)
    14. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in the context of the programme for Government commitment to examine the extension of parents’ leave and benefit,...