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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (8 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 355. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of children who applied for the disability allowance at the age of 16 when their domiciliary care allowance finished over the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22970/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (8 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 356. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of children who applied for the disability allowance at the age of 16 when their domiciliary care allowance finished; the number who did not qualify for disability allowance; the number over the past three years per year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22971/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Inquiries (8 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 357. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he has any plans to extend the domiciliary care allowance from 16 to 18 years of age; if he has a timeframe on this introduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22972/25]

Childcare: Motion (7 May 2025)

Mark Wall: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion on behalf of the Labour Party. I thank Deputy Kerrane and her Sinn Féin colleagues for bringing it forward. Like many Deputies, I have been contacted by parents struggling to either find or afford a childcare place. I have also spoken to a number of providers in Kildare who are struggling either due to low funding or an inability to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (7 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 286. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if child maintenance payments are disregarded from secondary social welfare entitlements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22282/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Gender Recognition (7 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 404. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether the Department has made a decision on publishing its jointly commissioned research into gender recognition for young people aged under 16 years of age, and her views on the rationale behind the several-year-long delay in publication. [22684/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 554. To ask the Minister for Health the means by which patients and the parents/carers of young trans people will be consulted by the HSE on the new clinical model for the Gender Healthcare Programme; whether patient and civil society representatives will be invited to join the relevant working group for the new model of care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22683/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (7 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 586. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if child maintenance payments are disregarded under the assessment for the SUSI grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22283/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pension Provisions (1 May 2025)

Mark Wall: I thank the Minister. We have spoken about this already today, as the Minister rightly said. It is encouraging to see the number of people who have been rewarded. We have spoke about women and their contribution. That is reflected in the numbers the Minister has presented. They are the ones that unfortunately had to stay at home in many cases to look after children. They get their due...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pension Provisions (1 May 2025)

Mark Wall: The Minister is 100% right. One of the main questions I get in my clinics when people come in to fill out applications for a State pension is about the qualifying contributions and so on. It is important that we all broadcast this and put it on our social media and everywhere else we can, as the figures are low. It is a start but we need to encourage more people to avail of it and to get...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pension Provisions (1 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 103. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people that have been added to the family carer register under the long-term carers contribution scheme; the number awarded the full-rate State pension under the scheme; the number of whom have been awarded a reduced rate, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21715/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pension Provisions (1 May 2025)

Mark Wall: I wish to ask the Minister the number of people who have been added to the family carers register under the long-term carers contribution scheme, the number that have been awarded the full-rate State pension, and the number that have been awarded a reduced rate.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disabilities Assessments (1 May 2025)

Mark Wall: I thank the Minister. Reference has been made to the work programme for the social protection committee. I am sure, along with others in the House, that this is something that we would love to have included in the work programme. It is very important for many people when they are looking at an additional €30,000 that they have to scrape for to find. This is a substantial amount....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disabilities Assessments (1 May 2025)

Mark Wall: As part of the work of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Autism, we had a number of presentations on the cost of disability to families. One of the most recent reports I have seen shows there is an additional €30,000 per annum cost for a family with a disability or a loved one with a disability. That is obviously substantial and causes hardship. A lot of that hardship is ongoing....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disabilities Assessments (1 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 84. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will update the Dáil on the work his Department has carried out in designing a cost of disability payment, as outlined in the programme for Government; the expected date of introduction of such a payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21989/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disabilities Assessments (1 May 2025)

Mark Wall: Will the Minister update the House on the work his Department has carried out to date on designing a cost of disability payment, as outlined in the programme for Government, the expected date of such a payment and the amount involved?