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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (29 Jul 2025)

Mark Wall: 1870. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing fuel allowance by €5 or €10 a week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44031/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (29 Jul 2025)

Mark Wall: 1871. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of extending the fuel allowance to 32 weeks at current rates; the estimated cost of increasing it by €5 or €10 a week at 32 weeks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44032/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (29 Jul 2025)

Mark Wall: 1872. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of introducing a €30 per week cost of disability payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44033/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (29 Jul 2025)

Mark Wall: 1873. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of every additional ten community welfare officers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44034/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (29 Jul 2025)

Mark Wall: 1874. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost to extend the JST to one-parent families in work, training or education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44035/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (29 Jul 2025)

Mark Wall: 1875. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to extend the entitlement to the living alone allowance and household benefits package to one-parent families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44036/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (29 Jul 2025)

Mark Wall: 1876. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost for every €1 increase in the living alone allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44037/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (29 Jul 2025)

Mark Wall: 1877. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the carer’s support grant by €150; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44038/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (29 Jul 2025)

Mark Wall: 1878. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the projected cost of increasing the working family payment thresholds by €20 or €50; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44039/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (29 Jul 2025)

Mark Wall: 1879. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the projected cost of paying child benefit in the month of birth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44040/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (29 Jul 2025)

Mark Wall: 1880. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of providing job seeker's payments to under-25s at the same adult rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44041/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (29 Jul 2025)

Mark Wall: 1882. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of providing the back to education grant to all BTEA applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44043/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (29 Jul 2025)

Mark Wall: 1883. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the disability allowance income disregard to €200 or €250, respectively, and increasing the upper income cap to €400 or €450, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44044/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (29 Jul 2025)

Mark Wall: 1884. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the one-parent family payment and JST income disregards to €200 or €250, respectively, and to provide a breakdown of the cost for each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44045/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (29 Jul 2025)

Mark Wall: 1885. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the projected cost of providing carer’s allowance to all those in receipt of the carer’s support grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44047/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (29 Jul 2025)

Mark Wall: 1886. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the projected cost of providing carer’s allowance at a full rate to those caring for two or more people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44048/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (29 Jul 2025)

Mark Wall: 1888. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of a €10 increase in the household benefits package for gas and electricity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44051/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Children in Care (29 Jul 2025)

Mark Wall: 2503. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated cost of increasing foster care allowance rates by €15 or €25, or alternatively index linking it to inflation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44052/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Children in Care (29 Jul 2025)

Mark Wall: 2504. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the estimated cost of increasing the aftercare allowance to the same rate as foster care allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44053/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (29 Jul 2025)

Mark Wall: 2505. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide a breakdown of the current funding streams for childcare; the breakdown of the additional funding provided in Budget 2025, in tabular form; the expected funding required in 2026 to maintain existing levels of service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44054/25]