Written answers

Tuesday, 19 April 2005

Department of Social and Family Affairs

 
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 303: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the eligibility criteria for the low cost supplementary dietary allowance; his plans to change them; and if he will make a...
  • Social Insurance
    Question 307: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if workers brought here from a non-European country for the purpose of employment in the construction industry, as widely reported...
  • Departmental Transport
    Question 309: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has plans to encourage the use of public transport by officials in the course of departmental business; and if he will make...
  • Departmental Staff
    Question 310: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason it is necessary for him to use taxpayers' moneys to employ a press adviser and run a separate press office in his...
  • Social Inclusion Measures
    Question 311: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will report on the findings of the recent survey on income and living conditions (details supplied) collated by the Central...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 312: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the cost of increasing the cap on rent allowance by 50%. [11963/05]
  • Departmental Staff
    Question 322: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, further to Question No. 531 of 12 April 2005, if he will provide the requirements for establishment referred to. [12117/05]
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    Question 324: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the breakdown of the number of appeals being processed in relation to social welfare benefits; the number of appeals for each...
  • Departmental Staff
    Question 325: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of general practitioners employed to review disability claims; if there is a high turnover of general practitioners...
  • Social Welfare Code
    Question 326: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if, in view of the unfair anomaly whereby persons claiming disability benefit are not entitled to a Christmas bonus, he will...
  • Child Care Services
    Question 327: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will become more directly involved in the provision of sustainable and affordable child care for parents living in...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 329: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will consider introducing a voucher scheme to allow older persons entitled to free public transport to avail of private...
  • Social Welfare Code
    Question 330: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the extent to which he has examined the negative impact of sharply increased living costs on widows and widowers; his plans to...
  • Pension Provisions
    Question 331: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he intends to improve entitlement to pensions in respect of contributions made by self-employed persons; and if he will make a...
  • Social Welfare Code
    Question 332: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to reduce the qualifying age for receipt of old age pension, contributory and non-contributory; and if he will make a...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 335: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons currently on the disability allowance; the number who have been disallowed in the past four years; and if he...
  • Social Welfare Code
    Question 337: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps he will take to expedite the process of social welfare claims requiring calculation or contributions in more than one...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    Question 340: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount of savings accruing to his Department from the budget 2004; the groups of persons who became the victims of these cuts;...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    Question 341: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of recipients of family income supplement; the extent to which this number has fluctuated in the past three years; and...
  • Social Welfare Code
    Question 342: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason Irish citizens, who were forced to work abroad for over a two-year period, have to fulfil the habitual residence...
  • Pension Provisions
    Question 343: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will remove the anomaly whereby a person making voluntary contributions for pension purposes, and who enters insurable...

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