Results 2,021-2,040 of 12,619 for speaker:Willie O'Dea

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (25 Oct 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 340. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a payment will issue for an application by a person (details supplied) for illness benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44262/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans (23 Oct 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 150. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to address the long outpatient waiting times in University Hospital Limerick in which 5,360 persons are waiting more than 18 months for an appointment. [43568/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Data (23 Oct 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 636. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that were designated self-employed that have been restored to employee status as a result of an investigation by her Department in 2017 and to date in 2018 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43427/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (23 Oct 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 654. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue on a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43787/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (23 Oct 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 658. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by persons who are receiving or applying for illness benefit; if her attention has been further drawn to the fact that in some cases the illness benefit is arbitrarily reduced, paid intermittently and in some cases stopped entirely; if her attention has...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (23 Oct 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 659. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) who has not received an illness benefit payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43811/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (23 Oct 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 660. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when payment will issue regarding an application by a person (details supplied) for illness benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43813/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (23 Oct 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 661. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when payment will issue for an illness benefit application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43817/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (23 Oct 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 665. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when full payment will issue regarding an illness benefit claim in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43902/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (23 Oct 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 666. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is receiving partial payment of illness benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43903/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (23 Oct 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 671. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when funding will be made available to an association (details supplied) in order that it can commence refurbishments to properties and property purchasing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43160/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Eligibility (18 Oct 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 314. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of extending eligibility for carer's benefit to the self-employed, taking into account increases announced in budget 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42782/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Eligibility (18 Oct 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 315. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of extending the free travel scheme to children in receipt of the domiciliary care allowance, taking into account increases announced in budget 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42783/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (18 Oct 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 316. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the income disregard for carer's allowance from €332.50 to €665, single, and from €450 to €900, taking into account increases announced in budget 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42784/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes Expenditure (18 Oct 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 317. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing all carer payments by €20, taking into account increases announced in budget 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42785/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes Expenditure (18 Oct 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 320. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing all social insurance payments by €5, €10, €15, €20, €25 and €30, respectively, taking into account increases announced in budget 2019 by the name of each payment in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42788/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes Expenditure (18 Oct 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 321. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing all social assistance payments by €5, €10, €15, €20, €25 and €30, respectively, taking into account increases announced in budget 2019 by the name of each payment, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42789/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (18 Oct 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 318. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has examined the position of full-time carers who due to their full-time duties as a carer may not qualify for a State pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42786/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (18 Oct 2018)

Willie O'Dea: 319. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered the impact increasing the national minimum wage has on income disregards to qualify for payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42787/18]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Oct 2018)

Willie O'Dea: Among the many wonderful things promised in the programme for Government is, at page 7, improved delivery of services. In that context, is the Government aware of the plight of people who are either in receipt of, or applying for, illness benefit at present? Many of those people have had their illness benefit suddenly reduced. I got a text in the last five minutes from somebody who got...