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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (15 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 254. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware of a person (details supplied) who has been waiting eight months for a decision to be made in respect of his appeal of a rejected application for the working family payment; if he is aware of the undue hardship and distress this causes the appellant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24990/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (15 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 255. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of working family payment applications received; the number of working family payment applications awarded; the number of working family payment applications withdrawn; the average time in weeks from date of application submission to award in the first instance; the number of working family payment applications...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (15 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 261. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 292 of 10 April 2025 and 1418 of 29 April 2025, without mentioning or outlining “child benefit”, whether all parents or guardians of newly adopted children under 18 are eligible for the new baby grant, regardless of the child’s age on date of placement; if there...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (15 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 262. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to publish internal documents specifying particular protocols used by deciding officers to award applications for social welfare income payment beyond just the publicly available operational guidelines; in particular if he could publish the ‘homeless protocol’; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (13 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 798. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is any plan to implement recommendation No. 12 from the Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development, and the Islands, Report on Means Testing in the Social Welfare System in Ireland, October 2024 (details supplied);; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23744/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 800. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide a breakdown of the average processing time, average appeal processing times, the number of applications that were successful, the number of applications rejected, the number of rejected applications appealed, the number of appeals granted, and the average length of time from application to final decision,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Meals-on-Wheels Services (13 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 994. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that due to delays in funding approval for certain service users, an organisation (details supplied) must pay out of pocket to provide meals and that there is no mechanism by which the organisation can back-date funding once approval comes through; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23983/25]

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Business of Joint Committee (20 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Apologies have been received from Deputy David Maxwell. Before we proceed, I have a few housekeeping matters to go through. The first is that I make the following declaration. I do solemnly declare that I will duly and faithfully engage and, to the best of my knowledge and ability, execute the office of Cathaoirleach of the Joint Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen without...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: There has to be a change.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: The Taoiseach has failed those children.

Assessment of Need: Motion [Private Members] (20 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I want to welcome Cara Darmody and her dad, Mark, to the Gallery. It is unfortunate they are here. I would draw their attention to the fact that the Government has circulated its response to this debate already so no matter what is said here on the floor of the Dáil, its script is already written. It has already decided what it is going to say. It has made it very clear it has no...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (20 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 346. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated first year and full year cost of increasing the home carer tax credit to €2,000. [25922/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (20 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 604. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware that entitlement to survivor's pensions was expanded to included divorced people as part of a suite of measures in the mid-1990s to ensure that "no spouse would lose out in terms of his or her social welfare entitlements on becoming divorced" (details supplied); if he still supports that policy position; the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (20 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 605. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware that people who suffer the loss of a second spouse or civil partner may access their original survivor's pension or rate of pension pursuant to section 124(4) of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005; if he is aware that the original policy rationale behind this provision was to ensure that the "pension...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (20 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 606. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware that divorced and separated people whose former partner dies after the enactment of the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025 (as currently drafted) will no longer have an entitlement to a survivor's pension; if his Department has undertaken any risk assessment or poverty-proofing process...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (20 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 607. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department has undertaken any human rights and equality impact assessment concerning the proposals to reduce the social welfare entitlements of divorced and separated people whose former partner has died in the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025; if he is aware that undertaking such an assessment...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (20 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 610. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline any estimates or projections available to his Department concerning the annual cost to his Department, the Exchequer and the Social Insurance Fund of expanding the scope of widows, widower's or surviving civil partner's (contributory) pension schemes to include qualified cohabitants (as per the Social Welfare...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (20 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 611. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline any estimates or projections available to his Department concerning the annual savings to his Department, the Exchequer and the Social Insurance Fund of reducing the scope of widows, widower's or surviving civil partner's (contributory) pension schemes to exclude divorced people, separated people and people who...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (20 May 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 608. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people who were divorced or separated from their former spouse or civil partner at the time of their death who then began receiving a widows, widower's or surviving civil partner's (contributory) pension in each of the years 2019 to 2024; the number of those claims included an increase in respect of a...