• Departmental Contingency Planning
  165. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he has implemented procedural changes in the workings of his Department to mitigate the chances that the issue of reported delays in maternity...
• Social Welfare Benefits
  166. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the entitlements available to persons returning to education other than the back to education allowance; and if he will make a statement on the...
• State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
  167. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will address an anomaly whereby a person (details supplied) who is living alone can be denied a living alone allowance in view of the fact...
• Social Welfare Code Reform
  168. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he has considered introducing a basic income along the lines of pilot schemes in the Netherlands, Italy and Finland; and if he will make a...
• Employment Support Services
  169. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the outsourcing of particular aspects of unemployment services here to private companies, for example, through the JobPath scheme; if...
• Industrial Relations
  170. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will address his recent comments regarding restricting the right to strike in essential services; his views on whether such a restriction...
• Departmental Staff Redeployment
  171. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which staff can be redeployed within his Department to deal expeditiously with the appeals backlog; and if he will make a statement on...
• State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
  172. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which he may review the current system used in the calculation to entitlement to a contributory old age pension to address the...
• Social Welfare Schemes Data
  173. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of women throughout the country that do not qualify for a contributory pension due to the marriage ban which forced them to retire from...
• Rent Supplement Scheme Administration
  174. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which his Department can assist those in danger of becoming homeless with particular reference to situations whereby a primary payment...
• Social Welfare Benefits Data
  175. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications received for contributory old age pension, jobseeker's allowance, non-contributory old age pension, disability allowance,...
• Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times
  176. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will ensure that appeals in respect of various decisions in regard to payments made by his Department are dealt with expeditiously or that...
• Exceptional Needs Payments
  177. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which community welfare services are readily available to meet the needs of those in society that may ordinarily have had no reason to...
• Youth Unemployment Data
  179. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent of youth unemployment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26249/17]
• Unemployment Data
  180. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent of long-term unemployment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26250/17]
• Social Welfare Benefits
  181. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he can ensure the availability of replacement income for those in receipt of one-parent family allowance whose allowance may have been reduced or...
• State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
  182. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if gaps in a person's contribution record in the assessment of entitlement to contributory old age pension, which now may entitle them to a lower...
• Social Welfare Benefits Data
  183. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of young persons under 26 years of age that are in receipt of jobseeker's allowance, jobseeker's benefit and signing for credits for 12...
• Jobseeker's Allowance Data
  185. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of young persons under 26 years of age that are in receipt of the €102.70, €147.80 and €193 rate, respectively, of...

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