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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 431. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress that has been made to date on the determination of an application for an invalidity pension in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59277/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 441. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which documentation, including medical evidence, has been furnished to her Department in connection with the disability allowance and or possible invalidity pension application in the name of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59349/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 464. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which oral hearings in respect of appeals against disallowance for various payments are up-to-date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59538/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 465. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of persons currently in receipt of unemployment assistance on a short or long-term basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59539/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (29 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 466. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she and her Department continue to meet the requirements of persons with insufficient income to meet their ongoing requirements including cost-of-living requirements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59540/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 467. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the degree to which social welfare appeals by applicants can be expedited in order to ensure that hardship does not occur; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59541/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (29 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 468. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the return of funeral and bereavement grant might be envisaged other than by way of the exceptional needs' payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59542/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (29 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 469. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which self-employed or other contributions in respect of State pension applications to her Department have been refused on the grounds of an insufficiency of contributions in each of the past five years to date; if any consideration has been given to the awarding of pensions in such cases on a pro-rata basis,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (29 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 470. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of pension applications for the contributory-related State pension received in each of the past three years to date; the number granted, refused and or pending; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59544/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (29 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 471. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of situations in respect of which applications for the State Pension (Contributory) were refused during the past five years to date due to insufficiency of contributions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59545/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (29 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 472. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which the waiting time for decision in respect of applications for various social welfare payments has been shortened; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59546/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (29 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 473. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which waiting times for payments in respect of means-tested applications compare with contribution related payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59547/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (29 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 474. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that a carer's support grant and a respite grant has not been paid in the case of a person (details supplied) who had previously received same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59550/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (29 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 475. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if eligibility for a carer's allowance will be re-examined in the case of a person (details supplied) who had previously received same in view of Budget 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59549/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (29 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 544. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the adjudication of residency status and citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) will be expedited given the severe condition of their health and lack of housing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58705/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (29 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 545. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress that has been made to date in the determination of an application as part of the recent undocumented scheme in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58706/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (29 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 547. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 103 of 9 November 2022, the options now available to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58721/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Law Cases (29 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 549. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if copies of reports, prepared pursuant to the family law area, are being routinely made available to all parties to the relevant proceedings, without exception, with particular reference to ensuring due process and fair procedures and the ability to challenge inaccuracies contained in same; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (29 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 696. To ask the Minister for Health when sacituzumab-govitecan will be approved for use by the HSE to urgently assist patients with cancer treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59319/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) Bill 2022: Department of Health (23 Nov 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their advice. I am a bit concerned about this legislation. Can we be certain that the proposals before us are adequate to deal with situations that have been brought to our attention in the past, whether in respect of older people, people with disabilities or other vulnerable people? Can we be assured that it is adequate to safeguard their...