Results 741-760 of 6,255 for speaker:Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Apr 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 155. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of a €1 increase in each of the social insurance schemes, social assistance schemes, other weekly schemes and other scheme payments, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15916/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Apr 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 156. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the current young jobseeker’s rate of €129.70 by €1 per week. [15917/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Apr 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 157. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of introducing a child benefit double payment. [15918/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Apr 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 158. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of extending child benefit to 18-year-olds still in secondary school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15919/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Apr 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 159. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost to the Exchequer of the JobPath scheme. [15920/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Apr 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 160. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of including the working family payment as a qualifying payment for fuel allowance. [15921/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Apr 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 161. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the annual carer’s support grant by €1. [15922/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Apr 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 162. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the qualified child increase by €1 for children under the age of 12 years and €1 for children over the age of 12 years, respectively. [15923/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Apr 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 163. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of extending carer’s benefit to the self-employed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15924/24]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on State Pension and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the witnesses. This is a very interesting topic. The Parliamentary Budget Office made a presentation this morning. I do not have many questions because I am at the stage of absorbing information. This is a vast area. During our meeting this morning, I made the point that there is both politics and policy in this. We are trying to design a policy that is the most effective, while...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on State Pension and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I wonder whether any of our guests have encountered a case that concerns means-testing for medical cards. I can say the means-testing on the social protection side is okay and fairly recently, the fair deal scheme was changed to allow people to rent out their homes. Recently I encountered a case where a woman was availing of the rightsizing scheme, which is a very beneficial scheme for both...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on State Pension and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It is both. Even if one increased things it would not necessarily address that whereas to be fair, the State pension side has looked at circumstances like that and accounted for it.
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (9 Apr 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 758. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the earnings disregard for disability allowance was last increased; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14263/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (9 Apr 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 759. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the capital disregard for disability allowance was last increased; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14264/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Contracts (9 Apr 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 760. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what the remaining length of time is in respect of the Department's contract for JobPath and when the contractual obligations with Seetec and Turas Nua expire; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14265/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (9 Apr 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 1078. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of places that have been provided in designated accommodation centres for the purposes of the temporary protection directive. [13895/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (9 Apr 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 1081. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether there were any persons residing in the designated accommodations centres prior to their designation; if they are going to remain there; and if not, where they will be accommodated subsequently. [13898/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (9 Apr 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 1082. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the duration that such designated accommodation centres are expected to serve a person, by location if the dates in question are different. [13899/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (9 Apr 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 1079. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if it remains the policy of his Department that those in 'designated accommodation centres' for the purposes of the temporary protection directive and the Social Welfare Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2024, shall only be newly arrived beneficiaries of the directive, and that no persons will be accommodated in...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (9 Apr 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 1080. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is any intention to open further designated accommodation centres; and how many places he intends to provide in this category of accommodation. [13897/24]