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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (4 Nov 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. I can confirm that the Department received an application for DA from the person...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Revenue Commissioners (4 Nov 2025)

Dara Calleary: The Department of Social Protection made a qualifying disclosure in 2023 for €160,471.73. The statutory bodies under the aegis of the Department did not have any tax settlements.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (4 Nov 2025)

Dara Calleary: The table below details the number of full-time equivalent employees in my department per year each year since 2015, by grade, up to the end of September 2025. Grade Dec-15 Dec-16 Dec-17 Dec-18 Dec-19 Dec-20 Dec-21 Dec-22 Dec-23 Dec-24 Sep-25 Secretary General 1.00 ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Bodies (4 Nov 2025)

Dara Calleary: The tables below detail the number of full-time equivalent employees, by grade in the Citizens Information Board and the Pensions Authority, two agencies under my department's remit, per year each year since 2015 up to the end September 2025. - Citizens Information Board ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (4 Nov 2025)

Dara Calleary: The Living Alone Increase (LAI) is a weekly payment, which is not means-tested. The LAI is an increased additional payment made each week to: • people aged 66 years or over who are in receipt of certain social welfare payments, including State pensions, and who are living alone; • people who are less than 66 years of age, living alone and in receipt of Disability Allowance,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (4 Nov 2025)

Dara Calleary: The Government recognises the significant additional costs that disabled people can face in their daily lives and is committed improving outcomes for disabled people. That is why the Programme for Government includes a range of commitments in this area. In particular, the Programme for Government commits to introducing a permanent Annual Cost of Disability Support Payment with a view to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (4 Nov 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. I can confirm that two applications for CA were received from the person concerned on 13 May 2025 in respect of two...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (4 Nov 2025)

Dara Calleary: The total number of Disability Allowance appeals for 2024 and previous years are available in the Social Welfare Appeals Office Annual Reports. These reports are available on the Social Welfare Appeals Office website: www.gov.ie/en/social-welfare-appeals-office/collections/news -and-publications-from-the-social-welfare-appeals-office/#an nual-reports The number of Disability Allowance...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (4 Nov 2025)

Dara Calleary: The total number of Carers Allowance appeals for 2024 and previous years are available in the Social Welfare Appeals Office Annual Reports. These reports are available on the Social Welfare Appeals Office website: www.gov.ie/en/social-welfare-appeals-office/collections/news -and-publications-from-the-social-welfare-appeals-office/#an nual-reports The number of Carers Allowance appeals...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (4 Nov 2025)

Dara Calleary: An interim decision letter issued to the person concerned on 23 February 2023 awarding State pension (contributory) with effect from 4 March 2023. The person concerned was advised in August 2023 that PRSI Class ‘M’ applied to their record from 4 March 2002 to 30 June 2023 as their employment with their spouse was not insurable. This resulted in a total of 473 paid...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (4 Nov 2025)

Dara Calleary: In order to qualify for Bereaved Partner’s Contributory Pension, a person must be a bereaved partner, that is a widow, widower, surviving civil partner, or since 21st July 2025, a surviving qualified cohabitant, subject to other qualifying conditions. A qualified cohabitant is one of 2 adults, who lived together as a couple, in an intimate and committed relationship, for a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (4 Nov 2025)

Dara Calleary: Treatment benefit is a PRSI-based scheme which provides free dental and optical services, along with assistance towards the provision of audiological appliances and hair replacement products, to people who satisfy certain qualifying conditions, and to their dependent spouses/partners. My Department is committed to regular reviews of the dental services under the treatment benefit scheme,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (4 Nov 2025)

Dara Calleary: Previously, the Social Welfare Appeals Office had the capacity to provide statistical information on Habitual Residence Condition as it was collated through a legacy IT system which was decommissioned and is no longer accessible. It was replaced by a new IT system which went live in November 2023. Appeals on the new IT system are classified by scheme. This meets our operational...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (4 Nov 2025)

Dara Calleary: Fuel Allowance is payable to people who satisfy the scheme conditions and who either live alone or only with certain qualified people. Entitlement to fuel allowance is based on a review of all people residing in the household regardless of their relationship to the customer. Following an initial disallowance of a Fuel Allowance application, the person concerned requested a review of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (4 Nov 2025)

Dara Calleary: Under the Supplementary Welfare Allowance (SWA) scheme, the Department may make an Additional Needs Payment (ANP) to help meet essential expenditure which an eligible person could not reasonably be expected to meet from their weekly income or household and personal resources. ANPs are administered by Designated Persons (DPs) in the Community Welfare Service (CWS), considering the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (4 Nov 2025)

Dara Calleary: The person concerned is currently in receipt of a Disablement Pension in respect of a workplace accident dated 4 July 1981. On 2 July 2018 an application for Disablement Benefit was received in respect of the prescribed disease of pneumoconiosis. Medical evidence was requested in support of his claim, however, no further medical evidence or correspondence was received from the person...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (4 Nov 2025)

Dara Calleary: A state pension (non-contributory) application form was received from the person concerned on 6 October 2025. The case is currently assigned to a Social Welfare Inspector to establish their means. The person concerned has been invited to meet with the inspector on 3 November 2025. On receipt of the Inspector’s report, the Deciding Officer will complete their decision and advise...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (4 Nov 2025)

Dara Calleary: My Department is focused on giving young people the best possible chance to participate in the labour market. Supporting and improving the capacity of young people to take up employment, education and training opportunities can enhance their employment prospects over time, as well as their ability to earn an adequate income to support themselves and their families into the future. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (4 Nov 2025)

Dara Calleary: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1206 to 1215, inclusive, together. I am advised that my Department collates statistics only at county level. Accordingly, the figures below represent a year-over-year comparison of Employment Supports uptake for all of Co. Kildare. Table 1 - Total Working Age Employment Supports in Co. Kildare, September 2025. Scheme September 2025...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (4 Nov 2025)

Dara Calleary: Child Benefit is a monthly payment to the parents or guardians of children under 16 years of age. Child Benefit can also be claimed for children aged 16,17, 18 and 19 if they are in full-time education or full-time training or have a disability and cannot support themselves. A Child Benefit claim was received from the person concerned on 9th September 2025 and was assigned to a deciding...