Written answers

Thursday, 23 June 2016

  • Child Benefit Payments
    155. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on proposals to link child benefit payments to school attendance rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17708/16]
  • School Meals Programme
    156. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of schools at primary and post-primary level who currently avail of the school meals programme; the number of these that are under the...
  • Redundancy Payments
    159. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position of an employee, whose employment was terminated due to the business not being able to discharge wages due, and where this business has...
  • Rent Supplement Scheme
    160. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of a query by a person (details supplied) regarding how the misuse of rent allowance payments is prevented. [17834/16]
  • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
    161. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to ensure that his Department releases the rent supplement for a person (details supplied). [17655/16]
  • Job Initiatives
    162. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the jobseekers who are referred to JobPath and also found to be eligible for the EmployAbility service, due to illness, injury, mental ill health...
  • Illness Benefit Payments
    163. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the rate of illness benefit being paid to a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17669/16]
  • Family Income Supplement Eligibility
    164. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for a refusal of payment for a person (details supplied) under the family income supplement scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Back to Work Allowance Applications
    165. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application by a person (details supplied) under the back to work enterprise allowance scheme; and if he will...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    166. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to reintroduce the telephone allowance for old age pensioner’s which was reduced in 2014. [17678/16]
  • Public Sector Allowances
    167. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of reintroducing public sector allowances for public sector workers in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
    168. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of ensuring that public sector workers recruited in his Department post-2011 are paid on the pre-2011 rate; and if he will make a statement...
  • Carer's Benefit Payments
    169. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if half-rate carer's payment will be restored, as a matter of urgency, in the case of a person (details supplied) on a full-time basis; and if he...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    170. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to increase the top-up allowance paid to participants on JobBridge, Tús and community employment schemes; if no increase is planned,...
  • Child Benefit Administration
    171. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of increasing the age at which child benefit is paid to cover children in full-time education up to 19, 20, 21 and 22 years of age...
  • Family Income Supplement
    172. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of increasing the weekly family income thresholds by €5 and €10, respectively, per child for each income band; and if he will...
  • Child Benefit Payments
    173. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of cases before the High Court in which the payment of child benefit is being contested on equality grounds; the implications of these...
  • Social Welfare Fraud Data
    174. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount recovered through Operation DIRT in 2014 and 2015; the amount recovered by Operation DIRT since its inception; his views on the...
  • Departmental Schemes
    177. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of claims under the dental treatment services scheme in each of the years 2011 to 2015, in tabular form; the annual cost of the scheme;...
  • Social Welfare Benefits Data
    178. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of claims under the optical treatment benefit scheme in each of the years 2011 to 2015, in tabular form; the annual cost of the scheme;...
  • Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times
    179. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the time it takes to receive a decision from the medical review and assessment section, for certain payments (details supplied) as of 14 June 2016...
  • Labour Activation Measures
    180. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he is aware of the anomalies in the Gateway scheme that exist for families in respect of the number of children; if he is examining a review of...
  • Social Welfare Code Reform
    181. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the innovations being made to engage those prior participants of the one-parent family payment scheme whose children are now older in preparation...
  • Rent Supplement Scheme
    182. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the measures he will put in place, following the recommendations of the report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness launched on 17 June...
  • Education and Training Boards Staff
    183. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the sick leave entitlements of an employee of an education and training board in the event of a workplace accident; if the education and training...
  • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
    184. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when arrears of jobseeker's allowance will be paid in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17871/16]
  • Carer's Allowance Appeals
    185. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if, given the medical evidence available in the case of a person (details supplied) a review and or appeal will take into account the up-to-date...
  • Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility
    186. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to indicate, notwithstanding the replies to previous parliamentary questions on the matter, whether the proceeds of a family home arising from a...
  • Carer's Allowance Appeals
    187. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to indicate, notwithstanding replies to previous parliamentary questions in the case, if he is aware of the hardship currently being suffered by a...
  • Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
    188. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when rent support in line with current rent of €900 per month will be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied); if any...
  • Disability Allowance Payments
    189. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the disability allowance claim in the case of a person (details supplied) will be backdated to the date the person applied for invalidity...
  • Social Insurance
    190. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the outcome of an investigation into the employment of a person (details supplied). [17904/16]

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