Written answers
Monday, 11 September 2017
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Civil Registration Legislation
1767. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to enable members of an organisation (details supplied) to act as solemnisers for marriage ceremonies in view of... - Death Certificates
1768. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was unable to obtain a death certificate; and if she will make a statement on the... - Central Bank of Ireland Data
1769. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the Central Bank’s new metric, the non-employment index, and the finding that 888,708 persons of working... - Invalidity Pension Appeals
1770. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal for invalidity pension by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the... - State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
1771. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the entitlements of persons to a State pension (contributory) whose insurance contributions records were... - Child Benefit Expenditure
1772. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of restoring child benefit to 2008 levels; and the estimated cost of restoring the higher rates of child... - Labour Activation Measures
1773. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider introducing new labour activation supports for unemployed persons that do not quality for a basic... - Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
1774. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for delays in processing applications for domiciliary care allowance; and the reason for the delay in the case of... - Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
1775. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person that is 18 years of age and has finished second level education cannot receive social protection... - Disability Allowance Eligibility
1776. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider an exemption for wards of court funds from the calculation of disability allowance for persons in... - Carer's Allowance Appeals
1777. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) regarding carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the... - Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
1778. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the grounds upon which an appeal for jobseeker's allowance was refused following oral hearing in the case of a person... - Departmental Staff Data
1780. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of political staff employed in her Department, including parliamentary assistants, secretarial assistants,... - Living Alone Allowance
1781. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated yearly cost of increasing the living alone allowance from €9 to €15 per week; her views on the... - Illness Benefit Reform
1782. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there will be changes to sick pay in the next budget; if she will examine the case of a person (details supplied); and if... - Disability Allowance Applications
1783. 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... - Disability Allowance Appeals
1784. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a disability allowance appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Carer's Allowance Applications
1786. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for carer's allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the... - Community Services Programme
1787. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount allocated to the community services programme support fund in 2016 and 2017; the number of applications made to... - Domiciliary Care Allowance Data
1788. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of domiciliary care applications received, approved and rejected, respectively, in each of the years 2014 to... - Disability Allowance Applications
1789. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for a disability allowance in the case of a person (details... - Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
1790. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which a person (details supplied) was entitled to a jobseeker's allowance during the period for which they... - State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
1791. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the situation that applies when assessing the old age pension entitlement of persons that have during their lifetime spent a... - International Agreements
1792. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the agreement between Ireland and South Korea concerning pensions, which results in a person being unable... - Social Welfare Appeals
1793. 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. [37355/17] - Carer's Allowance Applications
1794. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Payments Administration
1796. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of back money in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37358/17] - Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
1797. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a domiciliary care allowance for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure
1798. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated amount it would cost the State to exclude maintenance payments from means assessment for social welfare... - Back to Work Allowance Eligibility
1799. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if back to work allowance can be reconsidered in the case of a person (details supplied); if their eligibility can be... - Invalidity Pension Payments
1800. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an invalidity pension will be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on... - JobPath Implementation
1801. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if release from the Jobpath programme can be reconsidered in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Carer's Allowance Applications
1802. 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... - State Pensions Payments
1803. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to reinstate the State transition pension; her further plans to prevent persons forced to retire at 65 years of... - Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
1804. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal for domiciliary care allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on... - Social Welfare Overpayments
1805. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the grounds upon which overpayment has been registered against a person (details supplied); if same can be reviewed with... - Social Welfare Appeals
1806. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in respect of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
1807. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for domiciliary carer's allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Disability Allowance Appeals
1808. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) regarding disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on... - Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme Administration
1809. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the partial capacity scheme for public sector workers that wish to work part time; and if she will make... - Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
1810. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a domiciliary care allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Carer's Allowance Applications
1811. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied)... - Medical Card Administration
1812. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if community welfare officers are responsible for monitoring the deaths of medical card holders against the names on general... - Paternity Leave Data
1813. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications that have been made for paternity leave by county since the allowance was introduced; and if she... - Carer's Allowance Applications
1814. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a half carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the... - Departmental Banking
1815. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost her department incurred in each of the past five years due to debit and credit card payment services and banking... - Departmental Staff Data
1816. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of men and women, respectively, in her Department who hold posts (details supplied). [37399/17] - Child Benefit Eligibility
1818. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to review the rule that parents of those that are 18 years of age and over do not receive child benefit even if... - Child Benefit Waiting Times
1819. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will increase resources for the assessment of carer's allowance payments in order that the processing time is... - Community Services Programme
1820. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to accept applications for new projects under the community service programme in 2017; when she plans to put out a... - Invalidity Pension Eligibility
1821. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a new scheme (details supplied) for self-employed persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - JobPath Implementation
1822. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will amend the current Jobpath scheme to enable those that may be on Jobpath to consider a back to education course... - Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
1823. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application for a domiciliary care allowance by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if she will make... - Fuel Allowance Eligibility
1824. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will make free fuel payments available to social welfare recipients who are also in receipt of disability benefit;... - Social Welfare Appeals
1825. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a review for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37542/17] - Jobseeker's Benefit Payments
1826. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason persons (details supplied) on certain work schemes which are seasonal receive a reduced rate of jobseeker's... - Question Heading for question(s) 1827,1839,1840,1842,1847,1868,1871,1896
1827. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of social protection payment recipients that have a public services card in 2016 and in 2017; the number of... - Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure
1828. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of introducing a weekly €20 "cost of disability" payment to those under 18 years of age and over... - Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
1829. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the eligibility criteria for persons wishing to participate in community employment schemes; if persons are only deemed... - Housing Assistance Payments Data
1831. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if housing assistance payment will eventually replace the longterm rent supplement scheme; if these two schemes are still in... - Public Services Card
1832. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the implementation of the public services card across the country; if it will become mandatory across all... - Services for People with Disabilities
1833. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the types of job schemes that are or will be available for young persons with disabilities in the Cavan, Monaghan and north... - Child Benefit Payments
1836. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the costs of reversing all cuts and changes to child benefit since 2008. [37748/17] - Maternity Benefit
1837. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of extending paid maternity leave to 42 weeks or 52 weeks. [37749/17] - Invalidity Pension Appeals
1841. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an appeal (details supplied) for an invalidity pension will be finalised. [37764/17] - Humanitarian Assistance Scheme
1843. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of funding provided as part of the humanitarian assistance scheme activated after unprecedented flooding occurred... - Carer's Allowance Applications
1844. 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... - Carer's Allowance Eligibility
1845. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal to a decision on a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a... - State Pensions
1846. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will respond to the Citizens Assembly recommendations regarding a mandatory pension scheme to supplement the State... - Departmental Staff Data
1848. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the staff costs to date in 2017, based on her Department’s request for 200 additional staff over a four year period... - Public Services Card
1849. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of helpdesk staff in her Department and the costs associated with calls from customers to request activation of... - JobPath Data
1853. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that have been referred to Jobpath since its introduction; and if she will make a statement on the... - Community Employment Schemes Data
1854. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of places available on community employment schemes; the number of persons participating in community employment... - JobPath Implementation
1855. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider amending the criteria in order to enable those referred to Jobpath take up a place on a community... - Community Employment Schemes Places
1856. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that community employment schemes are reporting that they are unable to fill... - Disability Allowance Appeals
1858. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal to a decision on disability allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Brexit Staff
1859. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is a senior official with designated responsibility for Brexit matters in her Department; if so, the grade of the... - Departmental Reports
1861. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the drafting, completion and publication of the report investigating bogus self employment; and if... - Disability Allowance Appeals
1862. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) regarding disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on... - Community Employment Schemes Data
1864. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of community employment schemes that have an assistant supervisor in place as well as the supervisor; the number... - Departmental Expenditure
1866. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount her Department's new name change will cost in rebranding of logos and the amount of stationary to be replaced;... - Treatment Benefit Scheme Eligibility
1869. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) regarding the treatment benefit scheme; and if she will make a... - Public Services Card
1870. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if non State agencies or bodies have access to the information contained on the public services card; her plans to make this... - Living Alone Allowance
1872. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reviews or analysis that have been carried out to assess the adequacy or otherwise of the living alone allowance; if... - Supreme Court Rulings
1874. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce legislation or amend legislation in view of a recent Supreme Court case challenging the... - Pension Provisions
1875. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to establish a mandatory pension scheme with auto-enrolment; the consultations that have taken place to date on... - Carer's Allowance Applications
1876. 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... - Carer's Allowance Appeals
1878. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal of a refusal to grant carer's allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Carer's Allowance Applications
1880. 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 Appeals
1882. 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. [38275/17] - Disability Allowance Applications
1883. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on... - Carer's Benefit Applications
1884. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's benefit application by a person (details supplied). [38286/17] - Carer's Allowance Applications
1885. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the... - Social Insurance Rates
1887. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to the Exchequer of a proposal (details supplied) in tabular form. [38310/17] - Disability Allowance Data
1888. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of disability allowance applications received on a monthly basis by county in 2016 and for the first six months... - Labour Court Recommendations
1889. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether Labour Court recommendations should be adhered to; and the circumstances in which in her view it is... - State Bodies Data
1890. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the annual percentage of non-commercial State-sponsored bodies staff under the remit of her Department who were women in... - Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
1891. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue regarding a domiciliary care allowance for persons (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Departmental Staff Data
1892. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the annual percentage of public service staff who were women under the remit of her Department in each of the years 2010 to... - Training Support Grant
1893. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the technical employment support grant is paid by SOLAS or by the service provider to persons on JobPath (details... - Carer's Allowance Applications
1894. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision on a carer's allowance will issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the... - Public Services Card
1895. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if social protection payments to persons who refused to take up or present a public services card are accruing; if their... - Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme Eligibility
1897. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason foster parents are not entitled to claim the back-to-school clothing and footwear allowance; if there are... - Invalidity Pension Appeals
1898. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal for an invalidity pension by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Appeals Status
1899. 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. [38564/17] - Disability Allowance Payments
1900. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a disability allowance payment will issue to a person (details supplied); the date the payment was awarded; the amount... - Jobseeker's Allowance Data
1902. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of welfare recipients who have been subject to sanctions for non-engagement in each of the years 2012 to 2016 and... - Exceptional Needs Payment Data
1903. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have applied for an exceptional needs payment in each of the years 2012 to 2016 and to date in... - Departmental Reports
1904. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the report that was to be prepared by her Department within three months of the passing of the Social Welfare... - Poverty Data
1905. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rate of severe material deprivation for lone parents here; the way in which this compares with the EUROSTAT average; and... - Social Welfare Payments Waiting Times
1907. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average waiting times for decisions on all social welfare payments from her Department; the number of persons awaiting... - Jobseeker's Payments
1908. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of jobseeker's payments in the Dublin South-West constituency, in tabular form; and if she... - Social Insurance Yield
1909. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated additional revenue that would be generated if the higher rate of PRSI of 10.75% was increased to 12.75% for... - Carer's Allowance Applications
1910. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding an application for carer’s allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Invalidity Pension Appeals
1912. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal of a decision to refuse an invalidity pension by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Brexit Issues
1913. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the development of sectorial response plans to Brexit, the publication date of these plans; and if she will... - Budget 2018
1924. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the expenditure savings that are earmarked for her Department for 2018 that are not accounted for in the mid-year... - Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
1925. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding a domiciliary care grant for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare. [38916/17] - Fuel Allowance Payments
1926. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason participants on community employment schemes are not allowed to draw down the fuel allowance in two lump-sum... - Invalidity Pension Payments
1927. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will issue a certificate of earnings for 2015 and 2016 from the invalidity section to a person (details supplied); and... - Family Income Supplement Eligibility
1928. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the payment of family income supplement to persons who are on community employment project schemes;... - State Pension (Non-Contributory) Eligibility
1929. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding a State pension, non-contributory, for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare. [38971/17] - Public Services Card
1932. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the terms of the contract to supply the public services card; the changes to this contract over time; the date for renewal... - Departmental Communications
1934. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will direct her Department to ensure that all inquiry telephone numbers are freefone or lo-call for those calling her...
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