Written answers
Wednesday, 26 July 2017
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Dental Services
1469. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of introducing an annual scale and polish under the DTBS, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the... - Flood Relief Schemes Funding
1470. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the funding available for repairs of private property damaged by flooding; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Social Insurance Yield
1471. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount that would be collected if both current bands of employers' PRSI were increased by 2%. [36309/17] - Household Benefits Scheme (2 comments)
1473. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated yearly cost of restoring the full telephone allowance under the household benefits package to the 2012 level... - Bereavement Grant
1474. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated yearly cost of restoring the bereavement grant of €850; her views on whether the grant was a major... - Social Welfare Benefits Data
1475. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated yearly cost of restoring the fuel allowance to payment over 32 weeks rather than the current 26 weeks; her... - Labour Activation Measures
1476. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the job activation supports available to long-term unemployed persons who do not qualify for means tested social protection... - Carer's Allowance Applications
1477. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a carer's allowance claim by a person (details supplied). [34929/17] - Fuel Allowance Data
1478. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of families in receipt of assistance payments for fuel in their home; her views on the prevalence of fuel poverty... - Disability Allowance Appeals
1479. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a decision has not been made in respect of a disability allowance appeal lodged by a person (details supplied) in... - JobPath Implementation
1480. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has set the criteria, training programmes or guidelines for staff that deliver the JobPath scheme via... - Carer's Allowance Appeals
1485. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will investigate the delay regarding a carer's allowance appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times
1486. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
1487. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the grounds upon which an appeal for jobseeker's allowance was refused following an oral hearing in the case of a person... - Social Welfare Benefits Data
1488. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 452 of 12 July 2017 and the revised projected inflation figure for 2018 included in... - Labour Activation Measures
1489. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the analysis that has been carried out on the level of activity in each Intreo office in respect of the number and... - Carer's Allowance Applications
1490. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a clerical error made in respect of a carer's allowance application granted on appeal to a person... - Departmental Contracts Data
1493. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if all security and contract cleaning companies that have obtained contracts from her Department and agencies under the... - Personal Public Service Numbers
1494. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which families can access the PPS number of a sibling that has been in residential care for that person's... - Jobseeker's Allowance Data
1495. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons aged 65 and over in receipt of a jobseeker's payment, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make... - Labour Activation Measures
1496. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on extending the eligibility for the community employment scheme to those who are long-term unemployed but not in... - Domiciliary Care Allowance Payments
1497. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will allow children that are in hospital long term and their parents that are staying with them to receive a payment... - Carer's Allowance Applications
1498. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review applications for carer's allowance (details supplied). [35286/17] - Carer's Allowance Payments
1499. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will increase the earnings for carer's allowance (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
1500. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that have been deemed ineligible for jobseeker's allowance on the grounds that they are not capable... - Carer's Allowance Data
1501. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in counties Cavan and Monaghan in receipt of carer's allowance, carer's benefit and the respite grant... - Carer's Allowance Waiting Times
1502. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current waiting times for carer's allowance applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35425/17] - Paternity Benefit
1503. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current waiting times for paternity benefit applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35426/17] - Maternity Benefit Data
1504. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current waiting times for maternity benefit applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35427/17] - Jobseeker's Allowance Data
1505. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current waiting times for jobseeker's applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35453/17] - Rent Supplement Scheme Data
1506. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of households in receipt of rent supplement in locations (details supplied). [35458/17] - Domiciliary Care Allowance Data
1507. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average processing times in respect of applications for the domiciliary carer's allowance payment; the number of all... - Departmental Expenditure
1508. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent by her Department on taxi and or limousine fares in the past two years to date by year and amount; and if... - JobPath Implementation
1510. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the policy change which has led to the new entrants into the jobseeker's allowance scheme to be referred to JobPath for a... - Data Protection
1517. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason, under the Data Protection Act, information from her Department was provided to Turas Nua as in the case of a... - Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
1518. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person is deemed unavailable for work for the entire month rather than two days and a jobseeker's payment... - Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
1519. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the case of persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35735/17] - Jobseeker's Benefit
1520. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will issue guidelines that would allow staff members, such as classroom assistants and cleaners who work in schools... - National Internship Scheme
1524. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the net saving of closing JobBridge to new applicants from 1 January 2018. [35827/17] - Departmental Expenditure
1525. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the net saving if the Gateway scheme were abolished on 1 January 2018. [35828/17] - JobsPlus Scheme
1526. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated saving to her Department of moving an additional 5,000 long-term unemployed into employment via JobsPlus in... - Direct Provision System
1527. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will change the current social welfare payment arrangements applying to residents of direct provision who have... - Pension Provisions
1528. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which the Government will resolve the impact the new retirement age of 68 years of age will have on persons and... - Invalidity Pension Reviews
1529. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason an invalidity pension was refused to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Carer's Allowance Applications
1530. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Benefits
1531. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to provide for a Christmas bonus in 2017 to long-term social welfare recipients; the rate of same; and if she will... - Labour Activation Programmes Data
1532. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have partaken or who are participating in each job activation scheme or employment support scheme... - Labour Activation Programmes Expenditure
1533. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent on each job activation scheme or employment support scheme in each of the years 2013 to 2016, and to date... - JobsPlus Scheme
1535. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent on indirect job support initiatives, such as JobsPlus, in each of the years 2013 to 2016, and to date in... - Departmental Budgets
1536. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the budget for her Department in each of the years 2013 to 2016, and to date in 2017, in tabular form; and if she will make... - Departmental Expenditure
1537. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the expenditure of her Department in each of the years 2013 to 2016, and to date in 2017, in tabular form; and if she will... - Social Welfare Benefits Data
1541. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons by age and gender in receipt of each form of social protection payment and or partaking on a job... - Domiciliary Care Allowance Payments
1542. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the delay in processing a domiciliary care allowance application by a person (details supplied) in County... - Community Employment Schemes Data
1543. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of community employment schemes and the overall number of places allocated to community employment by county in... - Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
1544. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 446 of 12 July 2017 if a person between 21 and 24 years of age currently on the... - Family Income Supplement Data
1545. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of beneficiaries and the spending on the family income supplement scheme in each of the years 2012 to 2016 and to... - Labour Activation Programmes
1548. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase the number of persons on community employment, Tús and the rural social scheme; and if she will... - Household Benefits Scheme
1549. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount paid by her Department in each of the years 2008 to 2016, and to date in 2017, for free television licences for... - Departmental Funding
1551. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of each body or organisation that is scheduled to receive in excess of €1 million from her Department's... - Supplementary Welfare Allowance Payments
1552. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a supplementary welfare allowance can be backdated to the date of an accident in the case of a person (details supplied);... - Social Insurance
1553. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding Irish persons that live in South Korea, in which there is no reciprocal agreement between it and... - State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
1554. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to amend the legislation and regulations for eligibility for the State pension (contributory) (details supplied);... - Social Insurance Fund
1555. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the independent actuarial review of the Social Insurance Fund will commence; the likely timeframe for a public... - Disability Allowance Appeals
1556. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has been denied a disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the... - Housing Assistance Payments Data
1557. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount that was paid out annually in rent allowance in each of the years 2013 to 2016; and the projected amount in 2017... - Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure
1559. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full year cost for measures (details supplied). [36365/17] - State Pensions Payments
1561. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount it would cost to extend the home-makers scheme for pensioners to cover those that were full-time home-makers... - Labour Activation Programmes Expenditure
1562. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount it would cost to remove the qualifying time periods and allow immediate access for all qualifying payments for... - Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure
1563. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount it would cost to restore the income disregard to the OPFP and JST payments to €146.50. [36401/17] - Child Benefit Expenditure
1566. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount it would cost to increase children's allowance by €47 for children over the age of 12. [36404/17] - Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure
1568. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount it would cost to disregard the maintenance payments when assessing social welfare payment. [36406/17] - Jobseeker's Allowance Expenditure
1570. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount it would cost to fully restore all cuts to jobseeker's allowance for those under 25 years of age. [36408/17] - Maternity Leave
1571. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount it would cost to pay all elected councillors maternity leave. [36409/17] - Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
1572. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the application of social welfare payments for persons that work part time over a seven day period due to... - Child Benefit Eligibility
1574. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the options open to parents of children of 18 years of age plus who are still in secondary school but no longer eligible for... - Social Welfare Appeals
1575. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36499/17] - Disability Allowance Applications
1576. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Appeals Status
1579. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an oral hearing for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36537/17] - Departmental Budgets
1580. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the latest profiles in value and outruns forecasted in her Department for the end of December 2017 and any variances that... - Carer's Benefit Applications
1581. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's benefit application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Money Advice and Budgeting Service
1582. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the cost benefit analysis of the restructuring of MABS and CIS will commence; the expected date for completion and... - National Minimum Wage
1583. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of increasing funding to the community service programme in line with the recommendation to increase the national... - Public Services Card
1586. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have been issued a public services card in each year since first introduced; the waiting time to... - Family Income Supplement
1587. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the new working family payment that her Department is planning to introduce; the way in which this payment... - One-Parent Family Payment
1588. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she will take following the report by her Department on lone parents and the impact that changes to the one parent... - Social Insurance Fund
1589. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to further extend benefits available to the self-employed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36598/17] - Brexit Issues
1590. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has started contingency planning in the event that the common travel area and the reciprocal arrangements... - Invalidity Pension Applications
1591. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for invalidity pension by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the... - State Pension (Contributory)
1593. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the impact of the 2012 band changes to the calculation of the contributory State pension; if her attention has... - Farm Assist Scheme
1594. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the 2017 budget allocation for farm assist; the amount expended to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Rural Social Scheme
1595. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the 2016 expenditure on the rural social scheme; the 2017 budget allocation for same; the amount expended to date in 2017;... - Farm Assist Scheme
1596. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to the Exchequer of a proposal by an organisation (details supplied). [36702/17] - Social Insurance Yield
1598. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the approximate reduction in the social insurance yield in a calendar year if the pay related social insurance employers... - Child Poverty
1600. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her targets for poverty including child poverty; if these targets are being met; and if she will make a statement on the... - Departmental Staff Data
1601. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff in her Department that are suspended from work on full pay; the reason in each case; the time in each... - Protected Disclosures Data
1603. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of protected disclosures received from staff in her Department in 2016 and to date in 2017; the details of same;... - Social Welfare Appeals Status
1604. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36502/17] - Departmental Staff Data
1605. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of actuaries working in the Civil Service under the aegis of her Department; and if she will make a statement on...
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