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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (23 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I understand what happened. What I do not understand is the rationale for why it happened. There could be two couples living next door to each, number 3 and number 4 on Connolly or Pearse Road or whatever you want to call it. Those two elderly people could have individual payments and their neighbours, one as an adult dependant, and neither would have ever anticipated they might lose out...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (23 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 74. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the fact that adult dependants were excluded from the recent €200 cost-of-living bonus payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24661/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (23 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: A week or two after the recent cost-of-living bonus payment was made to families, I started getting calls, primarily from pensioners, who were shocked and surprised that they had not received the €200 cost-of-living payment. These people are adult dependants on a social welfare payment. This seems grossly unfair because they were given to believe they would qualify as they get the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (23 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the Minister for what was a very substantial and excellent answer to a different question. It certainly did not answer mine, which related to dependants who did not receive the cost-of-living bonus payment. She offered nothing regarding her views on that or the rationale for the decision. The precedent in respect of bonus payments, insofar as there are any, relates to the Christmas...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (23 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 72. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on her Department's review of the extension of the free travel scheme to people with epilepsy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24660/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (23 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: This week is national epilepsy week. I am raising a very important issue which matters to people with epilepsy, namely, improved access to the free travel scheme for people with epilepsy. As the Minister will be aware, epilepsy is a complex individual condition. People living with it face a wide range of challenges. We are awaiting a final report from the Department on proposals Epilepsy...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (23 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: We could do with a little more information. As the Minister will be aware, there are 40,000 people living with epilepsy in Ireland. With the right treatment regime, 70% of people diagnosed with epilepsy can become seizure free but for 30%, their condition will be more challenging due to the nature and impact of uncontrolled seizures. Almost all diagnoses of epilepsy in adults come with...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (23 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I take the Minister's point but in the majority of the examples that one could give of people with other conditions, the individuals in question will already have a qualifying payment. Many people will be on disability allowance or invalidity allowance because of their condition and will be entitled to free travel in any event. I am not sure we are talking about a large number of additional...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (23 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Or the NTPF.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (23 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will raise a few issues. I appreciate that people have been in contact with the Minister, and I hope she has responded and given them whatever reassurance she can. Nobody is looking for a new mechanism. I am not seeking to negotiate this with the Minister of State in the Chamber; I know that is not realistic or the way things work. As I understand it, the way this works is that the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (23 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I am not asking the Minister of State to advocate but to ask the NTPF to come back to the table.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (23 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: At the heart of this matter are 73 families who are extremely worried at this point in time. They do not know what the future holds for their loved ones. They do not know how they can possibly afford to pay for their care at Beaumont Residential Care without the fair deal scheme and they do not know where else they can find a place in a nursing home. As the Minister of State is aware, as...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (23 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 103. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on a State pension solution for long-term family carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24663/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (23 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 512. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the annual budget for the JobsPlus scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25015/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Consultations (23 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 119. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the consultation process as part of her Department's work on addressing the cost of disability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24664/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 120. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the proposed legislation on child maintenance system changes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24665/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (23 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 128. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will advise on her Department's review of means testing for carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24667/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (23 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 136. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will ensure that households that have accumulated significant debts, including arrears on bills and on pre-payment meters, have access to sufficient support to avoid a long-term legacy of indebtedness and reduced financial resilience; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24666/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Domestic Violence (23 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 442. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether his Department has issued guidance on assessing credit time for an applicant for social housing, who may have, in fleeing domestic violence, left one local authority for another area, and in so doing lost credit time built up within that local authority; and if he agrees that if this person is an applicant in the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (23 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 476. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the percentage increase she prescribed by which the preserved benefit of occupational pension schemes should have been adjusted each year since 2013 under Section 33(4) of the Pensions Act, 1990/the Occupational Pension Schemes (Revaluation) Regulations; for schemes exempted under Section 37(1) of the Act on the basis that...