Written answers
Tuesday, 3 February 2015
Department of Social Protection
- Paternal Leave Costs
175. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost associated with allowing four weeks of paternity benefit to fathers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4328/15] - Disability Allowance Appeals
176. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on an appeal of a decision on a disability allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County... - Carer's Allowance Delays
179. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when all arrears in respect of a carer's allowance application will be paid in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who... - Labour Activation Measures
181. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a list of education, training and activation measures that are open to persons who are unemployed but who are not in receipt of... - Jobseeker's Allowance Data
182. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has estimates of the number of persons who are unemployed but who are not in receipt of a jobseeker's allowance by virtue of the... - Job Initiatives
184. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details of all library and archiving related JobBridge positions in publicly funded bodies since the establishment of the... - Work Placement Programmes
185. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on permitting persons on disability allowance to access Gateway and Tús schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4465/15] - Departmental Expenditure
186. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, for the years 2007 to 2010,inclusive, the total photography costs in her Department, including a list of which... - Public Relations Contracts Data
189. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form a list of all external public relations firms hired by her Department and associated costs incurred from 2007 to... - Carer's Allowance Appeals
190. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when an oral hearing in respect of a carer's allowance application will take place in the case of a person (details supplied) in County... - Domiciliary Care Allowance
192. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she... - Jobseeker's Allowance Data
193. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons under 25 years of age who are on an age-related social welfare payments, with a breakdown by the number in each year of age.... - Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
194. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the grounds on which a new rent supplement form is required in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a... - Living Alone Allowance
195. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason elderly persons living here who are in receipt of a United Kingdom pension are discriminated against by not being entitled to a... - Carer's Benefit Payments
196. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person in receipt of carer's benefit and working 15 hours per week, is entitled to be paid for public holidays under the Organisation of... - Disability Allowance
200. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if persons with cystic fibrosis in receipt of disability allowance are allowed an easing of means-testing if, in the event of marriage, there are... - Free Travel Scheme
201. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide assurance that there are no plans to abolish the free travel passes for companions of the elderly; and if she will make a... - Departmental Programmes
202. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons on the JobBridge programme as at 28 January 2015; the number of persons on community employment schemes, rural social schemes... - Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
203. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person aged over 55 years who commenced a community employment scheme in April 2013, having spent 156 weeks in receipt of a qualifying social... - Social Welfare Appeals Status
204. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Longford will receive notification from the social welfare appeals office regarding their current appeal;... - Registration of Births
205. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to IT difficulties being experienced in the Dublin office of the registrar of births; if these IT difficulties have... - Departmental Investigations
206. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status, for social welfare purposes, of ESB meter readers; if they are considered self-employed or sub-contractors by her Department; and if she... - Social Welfare Overpayments
208. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the weekly amount by which repayment of overpayment in the period January 2013 to May 2014 in the case of a person (details supplied) in County... - Community Employment Schemes Operation
209. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 184 of 4 November 2014 and in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 who was in dispute with the... - Social Insurance Payments
210. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to set out her views on the risk and if she will acknowledge the challenge in moving from unemployment to self-employment by considering an... - Rent Supplement Scheme Administration
211. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to set out the amount expended on rent allowance in each of the years 2008 to 2013, inclusive, for Dublin City, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal... - Social Insurance Refunds
214. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will report on the current one-year backlog for processing PRSI refunds; and the measures that will be put in place to ensure citizens... - Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
216. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to reports that the community employment and employment services programmes are now only accepting persons on... - Water Conservation Grant
217. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to set out the total anticipated cost of the water conservation grant to her Department including any additional administration requirements and so... - Community Employment Schemes Places
222. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there will there be an adequate training budget to meet the three-year training requirements for participants in health and social care services... - Public Services Card Provision
225. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 17 and 30 of 5 March 2014 the progress that has been made with the roll-out of the new public services card... - Community Welfare Services
226. To ask the Minister for Social Protection whether front-line services provided by her Department to the individual citizen have suffered dramatically, given that many urban centres are... - Family Income Supplement Data
227. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of public servants in receipt of family income supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47835/14] - Child Poverty
228. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has undertaken any impact analysis studies on the effect on children of the cut to the lone parent allowance; and if she will make... - Social Insurance Payments
229. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to alter the tax collection structure in a manner which would enable self-employed persons to make contributions that would provide income...
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