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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]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (9 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 1575. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on whether a primary health care centre is planned for the Douglas area in Cork. [15138/24]

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Being able to access a GP is like having money in the bank. The security it offers a family is hard to overestimate. However, it is too often the case that people trying to find a new practice, perhaps having come to a new area, find it nigh on impossible to do so. Even if you are on a GP's books, it can be difficult to get an appointment. While it was not mentioned much in the Minister...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (20 Mar 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: More than 13,000 children are among the 31,000 people killed in Gaza in a little over five months, with 72,000 people injured. Having completely exhausted food supplies and coping capacities, more than 1 million people are struggling with catastrophic hunger and starvation. Famine is imminent. In the past number of days Israel has denied UNRWA Commissioner-General Lazzarini entrance to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Offices (20 Mar 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Before last weekend, 130 asylum applicants were living in an inhumane condition in Dublin without on-site hygiene facilities, toilets accessible at night or washing facilities. In an attempt to hide Government failure on asylum accommodation, they were put on a bus and moved to the outskirts of Dublin to the site of a former nursing home at Crooksling. The conditions there were so bad that...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (20 Mar 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I wish the Taoiseach all the best personally. I know it is not an easy day for him but I wish him the best for the future. In the programme for Government, the Government committed to reducing waiting times for assessments of need under the Disability Act 2005 by using the standard operating procedure the former Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, introduced in January 2020. However,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Implications of Means Testing: Department of Social Protection (20 Mar 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: As I was speaking, it occurred to me that it is related to a means test but is probably not strictly speaking a means test issue. The Minister is not here and Mr. Egan cannot commit on her behalf, but my main request is to have a meeting on this with the Minister. Kinship carers are entitled to the guardian's payment, non-contributory, on the basis that there is parental abandonment. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Implications of Means Testing: Department of Social Protection (20 Mar 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank Mr. Egan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Implications of Means Testing: Department of Social Protection (20 Mar 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I have a few general observations. I welcome that the means test is being reviewed. On a slightly separate point, in general I like universal programmes and am philosophically of the view that if a taxation system is adequately progressive and people pay according to their means, everyone should be in a position to benefit. If a welfare state is only for the poor, then it will be a poor...