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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (5 Feb 2025)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 676, 683 and 689 together. 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 2023, this Department published an...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (5 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 2023, this Department published an independent evidence-based Evaluation of the School Meals...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Ministerial Responsibilities (5 Feb 2025)

Dara Calleary: In my first week as Minister, I received a comprehensive Ministerial brief on the many areas for which I am responsible in the Department of Social Protection. As has been the policy of the Department, it is intended that the briefing material will be published in the coming weeks.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (5 Feb 2025)

Dara Calleary: Invalidity Pension (IP) is a payment for people who are permanently incapable of work because of illness or incapacity and for no other reason and who satisfy the pay related social insurance (PRSI) contribution conditions. My Department received an application for IP from the person concerned on 10 January 2025. Based on the information supplied, the application was refused on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (5 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 affected across the country 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 needs,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (5 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 Appeals Officer, having fully considered all of the available evidence,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (5 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 2023, this Department published an independent evidence-based Evaluation of the School Meals...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (5 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 30th...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (5 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 Schemes (5 Feb 2025)

Dara Calleary: Under the Supplementary Welfare Allowance scheme, my department may make Additional Needs Payments to help meet essential expenses that a person cannot pay from their weekly income or other personal and household resources. The scheme is demand led and payments are made at the discretion of the officers administering the scheme, taking into account the requirements of the legislation and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Ministerial Staff (5 Feb 2025)

Dara Calleary: As of the 29th January 2025, I have no special advisor assigned to me.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (5 Feb 2025)

Dara Calleary: Under the Make Work Pay initiative, persons whose disability related social protection payment ceases due to taking up employment, may retain their entitlement to Free Travel for a period of 5 years after their disability payment has ceased. The entitlement of the person concerned to Free Travel was linked to their former entitlement to Disability Allowance, which ceased in November 2019. As...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (5 Feb 2025)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 692 and 740 together, The number of recipients of Farm Assist in County Clare for each of the years 2020 - 2024 are shown below. - 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Farm Assist 230 239 194 176 158 The Deputy may also be interested to know that the the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (5 Feb 2025)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 693, 698, 741 and 746 together. Both Fish Assist and Jobseeker’s for Professional Artists are administered under the Jobseeker’s Allowance scheme. As such, county breakdowns are not separately available for these forms of Jobseeker’s Allowance. The table below details the number of recipients of Jobseeker’s Allowance for county...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (5 Feb 2025)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take questions Nos. 693, 698, 741 and 746 together. The number of recipients of Jobseeker's Allowance and Jobseeker's Transitional Payment in County Clare for each of the years 2020 - 2024 are shown below. - 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Jobseeker's Allowance 3144 2925 4290 3906 2995 ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (5 Feb 2025)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 695, 696, 719, 739, 743, 744 together. The number of recipients of Jobseeker's Benefit in County Clare for each of the years 2020 - 2024 are shown below. Note that Jobseeker's Benefit for the Self-Employed and Benefit Payment for 65-year-olds are administered as part of the Jobseeker's Benefit scheme. As such, county breakdowns are not separately available for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (5 Feb 2025)

Dara Calleary: The number of recipients of Supplementary Welfare Allowance in County Clare for each of the years 2020 - 2024 are shown below. - 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Supplementary Welfare Allowance 109 106 189 168 188

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (5 Feb 2025)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 700 and 748 together. The number of recipients of Blind Pension in County Clare for each of the years 2020 - 2024 are shown below. - 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Blind Pension 10 12 17 14 15

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (5 Feb 2025)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 701, 702, 704, 705, 749, 750, 752, 753 together. The number of recipients of Disability Allowance, Carer's Allowance, Invalidity Pension, and Carer's Benefit in County Clare for each of the years 2020 - 2024 are shown below. - 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Disability Allowance 3658 ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (5 Feb 2025)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 703 and 751 together. Constant Attendance Allowance is an increase to Disablement Benefit for persons who lose their physical or mental ability due to an accident at work or a work-related illness, and as a result need daily care. The Department of Social Protection does not currently hold statistics on the number of recipients of the Constant Attendance...