Results 11,421-11,440 of 13,254 for speaker:Seán Sherlock

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jul 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 344. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of expanding eligibility for cohabiting couples to all social welfare benefits on the same basis for married couples; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38376/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jul 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 345. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing all weekly social welfare payments by €10 or €20 per week respectively; if he will provide a breakdown by payment in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38377/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jul 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 346. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing all weekly social welfare payments by 10%; if he will provide a breakdown by payment in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38378/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jul 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 347. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of expanding child benefit to 18-year-olds in full-time education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38380/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jul 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 348. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing child benefit by €10 per month; the projected cost of providing a double payment of the existing rate in September 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38381/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jul 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 349. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of providing a double payment of each weekly social welfare payment in the first week of September 2022; if he will provide a breakdown of the costs by each weekly payment in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38382/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jul 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 350. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the qualified child payment for children aged under 12 years by €5 or €7, and for those aged over 12 years by €10 or €12; the current number of eligible children in each category; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38383/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (13 Jul 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 351. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current cost of the free travel scheme and the number of participants; the projected cost of introducing free travel to students, namely, those aged 18 to 24 years who hold a public service card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38384/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jul 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 352. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the dates that back-to-school clothing and footwear allowances will be paid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38385/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jul 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 353. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing eligibility thresholds for supplementary welfare allowance by 10%, 20%, 30% respectively, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38386/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jul 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 354. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of introducing a universal payment to all PAYE and self-employed workers who satisfy existing jobseeker’s benefit criteria of €200, €300, €400, €500 in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38387/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (13 Jul 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 355. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the State pension (contributory) and (non-contributory) by €10, €20, €30, €40 and €50 in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38389/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jul 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 356. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of introducing a second band, paid at half the current rate of fuel allowance for those on fixed incomes where their weekly means threshold is between €120 and €200; the number that would be eligible; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38390/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jul 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 358. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of expanding eligibility for the fuel allowance to all those on the working family payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38392/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jul 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 359. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of introducing a €20 per week cost of disability payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38393/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming (14 Jul 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 21. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends to devise a scheme for capital expenditure including for machinery purchase that would assist the organic sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34707/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)

Seán Sherlock: Hear, hear.

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Institutional Burials Act 2022 (Director of Authorised Intervention, Tuam) Order 2022: Motion (14 Sep 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I support the motion. Like my colleagues, I will raise the issue of the promised independent review of testimony. We have Elaine Loughlin and Conall Ó Fátharta of the Irish Examinerto thank for the report in that newspaper dated 29 August in which it was said that "A promised independent review of testimony given by mother and baby home survivors has now been abandoned by the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Advertising (14 Sep 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 52. To ask the Taoiseach the amount that his Department has spent on advertising on social media in 2021 and to date in 2022; the amount spent per platform; and the campaigns per platform in tabular form. [43367/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 Sep 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement that she has had with other Departments on the matter of school transport since June 2022; and if she will publish any correspondence shared on same. [43366/22]