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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (14 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 361. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of raising the earnings disregard for the one parent family payment by €1. [55961/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (14 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 362. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of raising the earnings disregard for the jobseeker’s transitional payment by €1. [55962/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (14 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 363. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost to the exchequer of the JobPath scheme. [55963/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (14 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 364. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of reintroducing the State pension for 65-year-olds who choose to retire. [55965/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 365. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost to the Exchequer of the benefit payment for 65-year-olds. [55966/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 366. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of increasing the qualified child increase by €1 for children under the age of 12 years and €1 for children over the age of 12 years, respectively. [55967/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 367. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of increasing the current young jobseeker’s rate of €129.70 by €1 per week. [55968/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 368. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of including the working family payment as a qualifying payment for fuel allowance. [55970/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 369. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of increasing the annual carers support grant by €1. [55971/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 370. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of increasing child benefit by €1. [55972/23]

Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I have heard more full-blooded defences of the Government’s housing policy. It is no wonder because the Government knows it is very much on the wrong side of this issue. Weekly, if not daily, I talk to people who are trying to buy their first home. I am sure the Minister of State does so too. When you talk to them, noting the sacrifices they have to make and the work they have to...

Social Welfare (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Second Stage (18 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Cuirim fáilte roimh an mBille seo. Tréaslaím leis an Aire agus leis an Teachta Kerrane in éineacht leis na hoifigigh sa Roinn. Is reachtaíocht fhíorthábhachtach é seo a dhéanfaidh an-difríocht do thuismitheoirí aonair agus do dhaoine atá ag comhoibriú ó thaobh tuismitheoireachta. Ní raibh na forálacha faoi mar...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I would also like to be associated with the expression of condolences to Paul. This is a very good session. It is very timely and important. When one is knocking on doors and seeing the different types of poverty that exist, often energy poverty is the most visible. We would be talking to people at the door and one could nearly feel the cold. They bring us inside and they point out the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I am sorry, but I did not get the upper range figure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The reason I asked, and it is the fault of nobody in this room, is that, increasingly, I have heard from more than one local authority that the money they get from the State does not pay and they have reduced the amount of retrofitting they are doing directly because of the increase in building costs and all the rest of it. It is much less achievable for them to reach the targets than it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Are there challenges generally with areas of architectural protection?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That might be a conversation I will take up directly with the SEAI. There might be scope to have a conversation in the locality I am thinking of. On the fully funded scheme, according to the SEAI's website, fully funded energy upgrades are available to people who receive the following welfare payments: fuel allowance as part of the national fuel scheme; those on jobseeker's allowance for...