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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (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 received a request on 10th January 2025 from Arthur Cox Solicitors, for a review of the decision...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Sector Pensions (12 Feb 2025)

Dara Calleary: Requests for decision have been received in the Scope insurability section of the Department from employees of the employer referred to by the Deputy. Insurability decisions are made on a case-by-case basis having carefully considered all of the facts and circumstances of the engagement. The Department is actively engaging with the employer in relation to these cases and decisions will be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (12 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 condition. Assessments of medical eligibility for Disability Allowance is based on...

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

Dara Calleary: I note the recent announcement of redundancies at the company referred to, which I know means significant uncertainty for the employees concerned and their families. My Department provides a comprehensive system of income supports and employment services to assist at this time. When my Department receives a notification of collective redundancy from the company concerned, the Employer...

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 ...

Response to Storm Éowyn: Motion [Private Members] (11 Feb 2025)

Dara Calleary: Gabhaim buíochas le gach Teachta as a gcuid óráidí inniu. I thank Deputies who have spoken for their engagement in recent weeks on direct cases. That engagement will continue. We are now in the stage where we can look back at the storm and learn lessons from it. Many Deputies have put forward good suggestions this evening, which will be taken on board because,...

Response to Storm Éowyn: Motion [Private Members] (11 Feb 2025)

Dara Calleary: I hear his concerns with regard to farming and small businesses in particular. With regard to the humanitarian assistance scheme, to date, the community welfare service of the Department of Social Protection has issued more than 5,000 stage 1 payments, totalling almost €1 million, to people who at the time their application was approved did not have any power or water supply...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (11 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...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (11 Feb 2025)

Dara Calleary: My colleague the Minister for Health has lead responsibility for the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024. This complex and far-reaching legislation encompasses the regulation for the first time of a wide range of practices undertaken in this jurisdiction, including domestic altruistic surrogacy, but also provides for the regulation of future surrogacy arrangements undertaken by...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (11 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 the evidence, disallowed...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (11 Feb 2025)

Dara Calleary: Following an analysis, it has been established that the first PPSN was issued to the person concerned by the Revenue Commissioners. At that time the number was not registered with my Department to record against the person concerned. As no link existed on my Department's systems with the person concerned, the PPSN was considered available for allocation and was subsequently allocated to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Feb 2025)

Dara Calleary: The Department of Social Protection is available to provide income supports to employees who lose their employment. At present, the main social welfare schemes for jobseekers are the social insurance based Jobseeker's Benefit and the means-tested Jobseeker's Allowance. In circumstances where a person has lost days of employment, these schemes provide that a person can work up to 3 days per...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (11 Feb 2025)

Dara Calleary: My Department has tried to make contact with your office to establish the correct PPSN. They were unable to trace the customer accurately without the PPSN. Should you wish to re-submit this question with the correct PPSN we can provide you with an answer.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (11 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. My department has an oversight role in relation to the School Meals Programme and conducts regular...