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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Climate Action Plan (12 Feb 2025)

Dara Calleary: The Department of Social Protection adheres to Circular 01/2020 which relates to the procedures for offsetting greenhouse gas emissions associated with official air travel. The Circular provides that the Department, and other relevant bodies, make a payment to the statutory Climate Action Fund related to these emissions for the preceding year. In this context and to inform the Deputy on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Feb 2025)

Dara Calleary: Carer's Allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. An application for CA was received from the person concerned on 27 March 2024. It is a condition for receipt of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Feb 2025)

Dara Calleary: My Department received an application for Illness Benefit from the person concerned on 13th January 2025. Unfortunately, they did not qualify for payment of Illness Benefit as they did not satisfy the PRSI conditions. In order to qualify for Illness Benefit, a person must have at least 39 reckonable PRSI contributions paid or credited in the relevant tax year, or 26 contributions paid...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Feb 2025)

Dara Calleary: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 6th...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Feb 2025)

Dara Calleary: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. An application for CA was received from the person concerned on 21 November 2024. CA was awarded on 10 February...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (12 Feb 2025)

Dara Calleary: The Living Alone Allowance is a payment for people aged 66 years or over who are in receipt of certain social welfare payments, including State Pension (Contributory), State Pension (Non-Contributory), Widow's, Widower's or Surviving Civil Partner's (Contributory) Pension, Widow's, Pension under the Occupational Injuries Benefit Scheme, Incapacity Supplement under the Occupational Injuries...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Climate Action Plan (12 Feb 2025)

Dara Calleary: The information requested by the Deputy relating to payments to the Climate Action Fund (as per Circular 01/2020) by my Department is provided in the tables below: Year Flight Total passengers’ CO2/journey (KG) Total passengers’ CO2/journey (Tonne) Charge Rate per tonne Charge per flight 2020 ...

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

Dara Calleary: Carer's Benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce or reduce their working hours to care for a child or an adult in need of full-time care and attention. To qualify, the Carer must satisfy PRSI conditions; employment conditions; show that they are providing full-time care and attention; and must show that the care recipient requires full-time care and...

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

Dara Calleary: Assessments for partial capacity benefit scheme are undertaken by my department’s medical assessors, who are experienced doctor’s with various sub-specialty qualifications, all hold full registration with the Irish medical council. Each application is assessed on its own merits and based on the submitted medical evidence, relevant medical and clinical factors are taken into...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (13 Feb 2025)

Dara Calleary: The objective of the School Meals Programme is to provide regular, nutritious food to children to support them in taking full advantage of the education provided to them. The programme is an important component of policies to encourage school attendance and extra educational achievement. In Budget 2025, it was announced that the Hot School Meals Scheme will be extended to all remaining...

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

Dara Calleary: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. Once claims are in payment, the Department periodically reviews them to ensure that there is continued entitlement. In...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (13 Feb 2025)

Dara Calleary: As you may be aware the UK and Ireland state pension systems each operate under their respective rules and requirements as set out in national legislation and the systems are coordinated through the EU-UK Trade & Cooperation agreement to ensure that:Irish citizens living in Ireland can still benefit from social insurance contributions made while working in the UK, and vice versaEU...

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

Dara Calleary: The Fuel Allowance is a payment of €33 per week for 28 weeks (a total of €924 each year) from late September to April, at an estimated cost of €400 million in 2025. The purpose of this payment is to assist these households with their energy costs. Only one allowance is paid per household. It is important to note that people who are resident in Ireland and in receipt...

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

Dara Calleary: Under the Supplementary Welfare Allowance (SWA) scheme, my Department may make an ANP to help meet essential expenditure which an eligible person could not reasonably be expected to meet from their weekly income. The ANP scheme is means tested and administered by Designated Persons (DPs) in the Community Welfare Service, taking into account the requirements of the legislation and all the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Weather Events (13 Feb 2025)

Dara Calleary: The Humanitarian Assistance Scheme, administered by my department through the local Community Welfare Service, was activated on the 23rd January 2025 to assist householders across the country affected by Storm Éowyn. The purpose of the Humanitarian Assistance Scheme is to provide financial support to people whose homes are damaged and who are not able to meet costs for essential...

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

Dara Calleary: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer, having fully considered all of the available evidence,...

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

Dara Calleary: My Department provides a suite of income supports for those unable to work due to illness or disability. These include insurance-based schemes based on Pay Related Social Insurance (PRSI) contributions and means-tested social assistance schemes. The primary social assistance scheme for people who are blind or visually impaired is the Blind Pension, which is a means-tested payment payable...

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

Dara Calleary: Disability Allowance (DA) is a weekly allowance paid to people with a specified disability who are aged 16 or over and under the age of 66. This disability must be expected to last for at least one year and the allowance is subject to a medical assessment, a means test and the habitual residency conditions. Correspondence was received from the person concerned on 14 January 2025 with...

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

Dara Calleary: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. I am advised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office that an Appeals Officer, having fully considered all of the available evidence,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (13 Feb 2025)

Dara Calleary: The objective of the School Meals Programme is to provide regular, nutritious food to children to support them in taking full advantage of the education provided to them. The programme is an important component of policies to encourage school attendance and extra educational achievement. A specific standard was set for School Meals under the Nutritional Standards for School Meals and...