Written answers

Tuesday, 7 November 2017

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

 
  • Rural Social Scheme
    59. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her policy on the rural social scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46339/17]
  • JobPath Data
    63. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of additional jobs created by the JobPath programme; the cost of the programme to date; and if she will make a...
  • Defined Benefit Pension Schemes
    67. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017 will be amended to provide protection for persons facing...
  • Public Services Card Data
    68. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the results of a cost benefit analysis that has been undertaken in respect of the public services card, PSC; the number of...
  • One-Parent Family Payment
    69. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on an independent review (details supplied) on the amendments to the one-parent family payment since 2012; and if...
  • Public Services Card Provision
    70. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has carried out a formal assessment regarding the risks of introducing a public services card; if her...
  • Maternity Leave
    71. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to examine the possibility of extending maternity leave and benefit to mothers of premature babies that were on...
  • Carer's Allowance Data
    73. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which applications for carer's allowance are approved or disallowed in the first instance; the extent to which...
  • Living Wage Introduction
    74. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to move to a policy of a living wage to ensure work pays for all those employed in view of the recent report on the...
  • Social Insurance Rates
    75. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department received correspondence (details supplied) in respect of the classification of PRSI of Coillte workers; the...
  • Social Insurance Yield
    76. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actions she is taking to tackle bogus self-employment in the interests of persons that are being left without basic...
  • insertheading
    77. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the legal basis for withholding social welfare payments in circumstances in which a person entitled to such payments fails to...
  • Defined Benefit Pension Schemes
    80. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the role of the Pension Authority with regard to the financial and non-financial assumptions employed for the purposes of the...
  • Job Creation
    81. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address the unemployment blackspots in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46720/17]
  • Telephone Support Allowance
    82. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to broaden the criteria for the new telephone support allowance by making it available to those persons in receipt...
  • Pensions Legislation
    83. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to limit the arbitrary powers of pension scheme corporate trustees; and if she will make a statement...
  • Social Welfare Benefits Data
    86. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that have chosen to receive their fuel allowance payment in a lump sum and weekly, respectively; her...

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