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Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Systems Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (22 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I support all that Deputy Sherlock said. It is vitally important we ensure no room for manoeuvre exists for people who will look to exploit the system, or will look to not give some categories of workers their full entitlements, and that we work to avoid that. The points were well made. I welcome Deputy Ó Cathasaigh's amendments and commend him on them. I also commend the Minister on...

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Systems Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (22 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I have said my piece on the legislation in general. I commend the work that has gone into it. The whole area of auto-enrolment is vitally important. We have significant reservations about the management of the funds. That will be discussed further in the Seanad, but I recognise the work that has gone into the Bill. In principle, auto-enrolment is certainly a big piece of the jigsaw. As...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 379. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of increasing each weekly social welfare payment to meet the minimum essential standard of living for 2024 as detailed by an organisation (details supplied) in tabular form. [22436/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 380. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of increasing each weekly social welfare payment to meet the minimum essential standard of living for 2025 as detailed by an organisation (details supplied) in tabular form. [22437/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Funding (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 388. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the breakdown of the funding allocation made available under the free travel scheme to all private transport operators. [22570/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 397. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current number of recipients for each social welfare scheme. [22796/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 398. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average, median, maximum and minimum number of recipients for each social welfare scheme in 2023. [22797/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 399. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline, with regard to the jobseeker’s benefit pay related scheme, noting the revised estimates, what the full-year cost of the proposed scheme will be. [22798/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 400. 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. [22799/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 401. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of a €1 increase in each of the social insurance schemes, social assistance schemes, other weekly schemes and other scheme payments, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22800/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 402. 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. [22801/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 403. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of introducing a child benefit double payment. [22802/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 404. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost to the Exchequer of the JobPath scheme for the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. [22803/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 405. 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. [22804/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 406. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the annual carer’s support grant by €1. [22805/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 407. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of extending carer’s benefit to the self-employed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22806/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 412. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of social welfare recipients, by social welfare type in 2023; and the projected number of social welfare recipients by social welfare type in 2024, disaggregated by social welfare type, in tabular form. [22908/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 413. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the maximum weekly rates of social welfare payments, by social welfare type, in 2023 and to date in 2024; and the average payment received, by social welfare type in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [22909/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 539. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if any expressions of interest have been received for the purchase or leasing of turnkey properties in accordance with the comprehensive accommodation strategy; the number of submissions received; the average accommodation capacity; and the average cost per unit of properties contained in the EOIs received, in...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 540. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of State-owned reception centres currently in operation; the number of units delivered, by year; and the average capacity and the average capital cost of units delivered in each of the years 2021 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [22995/24]