Written answers

Thursday, 14 December 2017

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

 
  • Employment Data
    686. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of if-and-when contracts in the labour market as defined by the UL study into low-hours contracts; and the number...
  • Social Welfare Code
    687. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of progress towards the programme for Government commitment to review the fish assist scheme in recognition of the...
  • Social Insurance Payments
    688. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons in receipt of farm assist payments are eligible to pay PRSI; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53511/17]
  • Departmental Staff Data
    690. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of departmental staff, by departmental premises, and within statutory bodies under her remit and their grades who...
  • Invalidity Pension Eligibility
    691. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason self-employed persons who became disabled and as a result were unable to work in the past number of years are not...
  • Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility
    692. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the entitlements of persons qualifying for the long-term illness scheme; her plans to make provision for persons within this...
  • Illness Benefit Applications
    693. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if illness benefit will be paid to a person (details supplied). [53558/17]
  • Commencement of Legislation
    694. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the Acts, or parts of Acts, awaiting commencement within her area of statutory responsibility; the reason for the delay in...
  • Unemployment Levels
    695. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of progress on the programme for Government commitment to implement the pathways to work five-year strategy which...
  • State Pension (Contributory) Applications
    696. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for a State pension (contributory) by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a...
  • Youth Unemployment Measures
    697. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of progress on pathways to work 2016-2020 to reduce the ratio between youth and overall unemployment from 2.2:1 to...
  • Exceptional Needs Payment Applications
    698. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reconsider refusal of an exceptional needs payment in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will...
  • Jobseeker's Allowance Applications
    699. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a jobseeker’s allowance application will be approved in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will...
  • Exceptional Needs Payment Applications
    700. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to previous parliamentary questions in the case of a person (details supplied), if an exceptional needs payment will...
  • Social Insurance Fund
    701. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to previous parliamentary questions in respect of a preferential claim against a person (details supplied), if this...
  • Carer's Allowance Applications
    702. 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...
  • Disability Allowance Applications
    703. 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...
  • Community Employment Schemes Operation
    704. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if managers of local community employment schemes are permitted to request financial contributions from community groups to...
  • Departmental Schemes
    705. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the in-work training and upskilling schemes funded by her Department, in tabular form; the number of persons in each such...
  • Labour Activation Measures
    706. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the labour market activation measures and schemes by her Department that are being deployed to reduce long-term unemployment,...
  • National Internship Scheme Data
    707. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in nationally accredited internships; the number of internships in the public and private sectors; the...
  • Youth Unemployment Data
    708. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rate of youth unemployment here; the way in which this compares with the EU average, in tabular form; and if she will...
  • Unemployment Levels
    709. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rate of unemployment for persons with a disability here; the way in which this compares with the EU average in tabular...
  • Child Poverty
    710. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the Government's child poverty target; the likelihood of this target being reached within the timeframe set; and if she will...
  • Poverty Data
    711. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the national social target for poverty reduction; the likelihood of this target being reached within the timeframe set; and...
  • Rent Supplement Scheme Data
    712. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of households in each county in the years 2012 to 2017 in receipt of rent supplement; the number of households in...
  • Jobseeker's Payments
    713. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons aged 65 years and over in receipt of a jobseeker's payment; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Ministerial Travel
    715. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the use her Department has made of the Government jet since coming into office in tabular form; and if she will make a...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    717. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the photography costs for her Department in each year since March 2011 inclusive of costs incurred from use of the...
  • Public Relations Contracts Data
    718. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the use of external public relations firms employed by her Department in each year since March 2011; the list of uses of the...
  • Consultancy Contracts Data
    719. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the external consultant reports commissioned by her Department since March 2011; the costs per report; the company involved;...
  • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
    720. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the level of expenditure by her Department from 1 January 2017 to date in 2017 on advertising of Government information...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    721. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the level of expenditure by her Department or organisations under the aegis of her Department from 1 January 2017 to date in...
  • Maternity Benefit
    722. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Question No. 490 of 5 December 2017, if a reduced benefit will be made available to premature babies born prior to...

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