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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (25 Apr 2024)

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Flood Relief Schemes (25 Apr 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 2. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications made under the humanitarian aid scheme for uninsured householders in 2023, particularly on flooding, segmented by county; and the number of successful and unsuccessful applications, in tabular form, with the total amount issued. [18232/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Food Poverty (25 Apr 2024)

Gary Gannon: 4. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to seek more sustained, long-term solutions to support families experiencing food poverty during school holidays, given the Children’s Rights Alliance food provision scheme received applications totalling over €350,000 - six times its capacity, in the run up to the Christmas holidays in 2023....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Apr 2024)

Robert Troy: 7. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider abolishing the punitive means test for the carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18203/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reports (25 Apr 2024)

James O'Connor: 10. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the Social Protection annual report for 2023 will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18434/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Equal Opportunities Employment (25 Apr 2024)

James O'Connor: 13. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of organisations in receipt of the workplace equipment adaptation grant in 2023 in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18435/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 18. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline, further to the recent scrapping of the green paper on disability reform, her plans to introduce a cost of disability payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18376/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (25 Apr 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 19. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff, including total WTE positions and grade breakdowns, working in the Department's scope section; if the section is adequately staffed to undertake the work required of it in relation to examining bogus self-employment in large organisations such as RTÉ; how long she expects the RTÉ scope...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (25 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 20. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered any options to improve the speed with which applications for disability allowance or similar means-tested payments are processed thus eliminating hardship for people who may be vulnerable; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18337/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (25 Apr 2024)

Robert Troy: 21. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her assessment of the impact of the Supreme Court's recent decision to award a pension to a widower who was not married but had children with his former partner; if this will have an impact on other retrospective and future cases; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18202/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 23. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on her examination of the issues facing kinship carers who receive nominal contributions from birth parents and who may then be prevented from receiving guardianship allowance. [18470/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (25 Apr 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 24. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to provide a State pension for those currently in receipt of the increase for qualified adult under their partner’s pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18366/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (25 Apr 2024)

Niamh Smyth: 25. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the specifics regarding the pension entitlements being worked on for carers by her Department presently; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18134/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (25 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: 26. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount that was allocated in 2019 to 2023 to companies engaged by her Department in providing labour activation programmes; the number of clients they assisted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17614/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (25 Apr 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 27. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to allow for caring periods under 20 years to be included for long-term caring contributions for the purposes of the State pension (contributory); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18355/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (25 Apr 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 28. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what threshold needs to be cleared for an appeal to be granted by her Department’s appeals office in respect of challenges to decisions by her Department's scope section against employers in relation to findings on bogus self-employment; if applications for appeal are scrutinised, what percentage of appeal...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Data (25 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: 29. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware that one in five (19.7%) people unable to work due to disability live in consistent poverty, that this is almost four times higher than the national average (5.3%); what measures will she take to lift people with disabilities out of poverty; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9513/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Apr 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 30. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans in respect of the means test for the carer's allowance; how she plans on ensuring that more carers can avail of the payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18269/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Parental Leave (25 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: 32. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will allocate funding to extend paid parental benefit to cover at least the first year of a child’s life; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18330/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (25 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 33. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether she is aware of the substantial discrepancies that exist between initial applications for domiciliary care and the level of success of appeals with regard to same; and what she intends to do to address this. [18473/24]