Written answers

Tuesday, 31 March 2015

  • Humanitarian Assistance Scheme
    191. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the assistance available to residents who cannot obtain flood insurance on their home; the updates that are available regarding same; and if she...
  • Home-makers Scheme
    192. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if persons who are caring for children with a disability, in cases where the domiciliary care allowance payment is being received but where they do...
  • Social Insurance Yield
    193. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the yield in 2014 from the 4.25% employers' pay-related social insurance rate, which applied to employees with weekly earnings of less than...
  • Employment Support Services
    195. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the training opportunities available to an unemployed person who has been refused participation on a community employment scheme and on SOLAS...
  • Exceptional Needs Payment Applications
    196. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which the exceptional needs payment to meet funeral costs in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare has been...
  • Citizen Information Services
    197. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will appoint a member of the Money Advice and Budgeting Service to the Citizens Information Board as it is appropriate and critical that this...
  • Exceptional Needs Payment Applications
    198. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which the exceptional needs payment granted is adequate to cover funeral costs in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
  • One-Parent Family Payments
    199. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent of payment and weekly amount that is likely to remain available to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare under the one-parent...
  • Child Benefit Payments
    200. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount and likely duration of child benefit payment in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
  • Homeless Persons Supports
    201. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 214 of 24 February 2015, 498 of 5 November 2013, 104 and 105 of 23 September 2014, and in view of the...
  • Universal Retirement Savings Group
    202. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will publish the minutes of meetings held between her Department and the Department of Finance pertaining to the Universal Retirement Savings...
  • Social Welfare Appeals
    203. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when appeals in respect of supplementary allowance and disability allowance in regard to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be...
  • Social Welfare Payments Administration
    204. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason participants in the Tús work placement initiative must have a bank account in their names when other social welfare payments can be...
  • Widow's Pension Eligibility
    205. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will indicate eligibility for a widow's pension in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; if eligibility for a widow's...
  • Mortgage Interest Relief Appeals
    206. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a decision on a review of a mortgage interest supplement in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cavan has been delayed; when...
  • Guardian Status
    207. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the delay in reinstating guardian’s allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10 in view of the fact that it has been...
  • Treatment Benefit Scheme Applications
    208. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry is eligible for a grant to obtain a hearing aid under the treatment benefit scheme; and if she will...
  • Public Services Card Provision
    211. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on whether it is reasonable for a citizen to be required to take a day off work to attend an appointment to obtain a new public services...
  • National Internship Scheme Data
    212. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 77 of 15 July 2014, since that reply issued, the number of investigations that have taken place following...
  • Labour Activation Measures
    213. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 73 of 1 May 2014, since that reply issued, the number of persons who have had their jobseeker's benefit or...
  • Youth Guarantee
    214. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 75 of 1 May 2014, since that reply issued, the number of persons who have had their jobseeker's benefit or...
  • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
    215. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 76 of 1 May 2014, since that reply issued, the number of persons who have had their jobseeker's benefit or...
  • Work Placement Programmes
    218. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who have taken part in the gateway scheme in the Fingal, South Dublin, Dún Laoghaire Rathdown, Dublin City,...
  • Social Welfare Overpayments
    219. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way an overpayment decision was determined, providing the details in tabular form for each year, in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
  • Social Welfare Payments Administration
    220. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department will cease contacting and encouraging social welfare recipients to utilise banks rather that post offices for direct electronic...
  • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
    222. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an appeal for jobseeker's allowance respect of a person (details supplied) in county Galway; and if she will make a...
  • One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility
    223. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 164 of 24 March 2015, if students in those situations will be facilitated in completing their courses with the...
  • One-Parent Family Payment Application Numbers
    224. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the one parent family payment in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13138/15]
  • Disability Allowance Data
    225. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of disability allowance in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13139/15]
  • Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
    226. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the conditions under which holders of a public service vehicle licence or plate licence qualify for jobseeker's allowance; and if she will make a...
  • Carer's Allowance Eligibility
    228. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will introduce a scheme of educational supports and training to assist full-time carers of children with disabilities and other special...
  • Carer's Allowance Appeals
    229. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress, to date, in determining an appeal to backdate a carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; if an...
  • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
    230. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an increase in rent support will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who has three dependent children and...
  • Rent Supplement Scheme Data
    231. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a breakdown of persons in receipt of rent supplement, and at each limit, per county. [13192/15]
  • School Meals Programme
    233. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details of schools in County Louth currently benefiting from school meals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13202/15]
  • State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
    234. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he is aware that persons are losing out on a significant portion of their contributory pension as a result of changes implemented by her...
  • Carer's Allowance Delays
    235. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the length of time reviews for carer's allowance are currently taking; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13209/15]
  • One-Parent Family Payment Applications
    236. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the correct level of one-parent family payment due in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
    237. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will approve an application for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a...
  • Disability Allowance Applications
    238. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in order to encourage persons with intellectual disabilities to take up opportunities of rehabilitative employment, if she will consider putting in...
  • Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
    239. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an increase in rent supplement will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement...
  • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
    240. To ask the Minister for Social Protection If she will expedite a decision on an application for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if...
  • State Pension (Contributory) Appeals
    241. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an application for a State pension (contributory) will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will...
  • Invalidity Pension Appeals
    242. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps she will take to expedite an application for an appeal to the chief appeals office by a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath, in...
  • Social Welfare Offices
    243. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the capital cost of recent improvement works to her Department facilities in County Louth, by location; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • School Meals Programme
    244. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of schools availing of funding from her Department for the provision of school meals that have run out of funding for this academic year...
  • Departmental Correspondence
    246. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 223, 227, 230 and 247 of 24 March 2015, if she will ensure that all pensioners contacted in the initial...
  • JobsPlus Scheme
    247. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if consideration will be provided to the extension of the JobsPlus scheme to incorporate apprenticeships; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility
    248. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 348 of 15 April 2014, if she will be reviewing policies regarding the domiciliary care allowance in view of...
  • Carer's Allowance Appeals
    249. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal in respect of a carer's allowance for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...

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