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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (19 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: My Department is committed to ensuring that only those people who are eligible receive welfare and other payments. Our overriding objective is to ensure that we pay the right people, the right amount, through the right scheme/programme, at the right time. All schemes, including Carers Allowance, are subject to periodic control reviews and continuing eligibility checks to ensure that...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (19 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that, as a result, they require that level of care. My Department is committed to ensuring that only those people who are eligible receive welfare and other payments....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (19 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. When eligibility has been established for CA and claims are in payment, my Department undertakes periodic reviews of CA...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (19 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. An application for CA was received from the person concerned on 1 November 2024. As part of the decision process, the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (19 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1074 and 1075 together. The Humanitarian Assistance Scheme (HAS), administered by my department through the Community Welfare Service, was activated on the 23rd January 2025 to assist householders affected across the country by Storm Éowyn. Humanitarian assistance is available in three stages. Stage 1 of the HAS is available to people while they are...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (19 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: The Humanitarian Assistance Scheme, administered by my department through the local Community Welfare Service, was activated on the 23rd January 2025 to assist householders affected across the country by Storm Éowyn. Up to 13th March 2025, just under 22,900 claims have been awarded with a total of over €5.2 million being paid in respect of Storm Éowyn related claims. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reviews (19 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: My Department is committed to providing a quality service to all of its customers. This includes ensuring that applications are processed and that decisions on entitlement are made as quickly as possible. Eligibility for DCA is not based entirely on the child's disability or diagnosis, but primarily on the impact of the disability/diagnosis in terms of the associated care and attention...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (19 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: Supports under the Humanitarian Assistance Scheme (HAS) are available under 3 separate stages. I refer to person’s application for HAS stage 1 following Storm Éowyn. The HAS stage 1 is in place to address immediate hardship in the aftermath of the storm and provides emergency support payments to cover food and other essential costs in the immediate aftermath of the event only....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Gender Recognition (19 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1079 to 1081, inclusive, together. Section 7 of the Gender Recognition Act 2015 (GRA 2015) provides that the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection commences a review of the Act within 2 years of its coming into operation, and thereafter, to report to the Oireachtas within 12 months of the commencement of the review. The report of the Review...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (19 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: My Department is not in a position to provide the estimated amount of both employer PRSI contributions and employee PRSI contributions owed to the Social Insurance Fund, by company size.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (19 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: Supports under the Humanitarian Assistance Scheme (HAS) are available under 3 separate stages. I refer to person’s application for HAS stage 1 following Storm Éowyn. The HAS stage 1 is in place to address immediate hardship in the aftermath of the storm. Stage 1 of the HAS scheme provides emergency support payments to cover food and other essential costs in the immediate...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Artificial Intelligence (19 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: My Department is currently examining the potential future use of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) technologies. This has involved active participation in several stakeholder groups, such as, the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment's working group on the implementation of EU AI Act. An A.I. Chatbot on the MyGovID platform is currently in use, providing real-time advice to customers...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Sector Staff (19 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: Public sector sick leave policies are a matter for my colleague, the Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (19 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: The Carer's Allowance is the main scheme by which my department provides income support to carers in the community. Carer's Allowance is a means tested social assistance payment awarded to those carers who are caring for certain people whose disability is such that they require full-time care and attention. The two principal conditions for receipt of Carer's Allowance are that full time...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (19 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: The CLÁR Programme provides funding under a number of different measures for small-scale infrastructural projects in designated rural areas that have experienced significant levels of depopulation over a defined period. The Programme for Government makes a commitment to carry out a comprehensive review of the eligibility criteria of CLÁR within 6 months with a view to expanding...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Animal Welfare (19 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: My Department has policy responsibility for the Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010. The Dog Breeding Establishments Act provides a regulatory framework for the licensing, monitoring and inspection of dog breeding establishments by local authorities and, where a serious and immediate threat exists to public health or animal health and welfare, for the closure of such establishments. Local...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Road Projects (19 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1937 to 1941, inclusive, together. The Local Improvement Scheme (LIS) supports improving non-public rural roads and laneways not usually maintained by local authorities. Since its establishment in 2017, almost €170 million has been provided by the Government to local authorities for LIS. In April 2024, €40 million in funding was announced...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Control of Dogs (19 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: As I advised the Deputy in my response to his previous question on this matter (Dáil question number 871) on 18 February 2025, I believe it is important for dog owners to be aware of their responsibilities - not just to the general public but also to their dogs. In November 2023, new regulations increased ‘on-the-spot’ fines for a range of offences under the Control of...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (19 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: The CLÁR programme provides targeted investment for small scale infrastructural projects in defined rural areas. In recent years Measure 1 of the programme has funded the development of community facilities and amenities, with €11.4 million approved last year for over 260 projects. The focus of the 2025 scheme is currently being reviewed by my officials and I expect to launch...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (19 Mar 2025)

Dara Calleary: The Town and Village Renewal Scheme (TVRS) was introduced in 2016 and is one of a number of measures designed to rejuvenate rural towns and villages throughout Ireland. Since the launch of the scheme over €177 million has been allocated to almost 1,800 projects. The scheme targets funding primarily at towns and villages outside of city metropolitan areas, and with populations of less...