Written answers
Tuesday, 20 March 2018
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Disability Definitions
921. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if endometriosis is recognised by her Department as a medical condition that may result in some form of disability; and if... - Social Insurance Data
922. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated amount which would be raised if employer PRSI was increased by 0.5%. [12858/18] - Departmental Banking
924. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost to her Department of negative interest rates on deposits held; the details of same for agencies under her aegis; and... - Departmental Advertising Expenditure
925. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent by her Department on third party public relations advice, communications advice, online advertising and... - Training Support Grant
926. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the situations in which training courses are funded (details supplied); the follow through that is done with the insurance... - Legislative Measures
927. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the Social Welfare Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017 will proceed to Committee Stage. [11806/18] - State Pension (Contributory)
928. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the new procedure for calculation of the State pension (contributory) entitlement with particular reference to self employed... - Working Family Payment Applications
929. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for family income supplement by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on... - Public Services Card Authentication
930. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the criteria when applying for a social services card (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Departmental Staff Data
931. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons holding Civil Service positions above clerical officer grade in her Department who entered the Civil... - Public Sector Staff Remuneration
932. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the directions provided to the payment of staff in the public sector and Civil Service who fall under the direction of her... - Disability Allowance Applications
933. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a payment of benefit has been approved in the case of a person (details supplied). [11886/18] - Court Judgments
934. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the outcome of the High Court case which found her Department to be acting illegally in sanctioning persons for... - Defined Benefit Pension Schemes
935. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the closure of a company's (details supplied) defined benefit pension scheme; her plans to take action on same;... - Housing Assistance Payment
937. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the location from which a HAP applicant can redeem the full cost of rent which they have had to borrow in order to pay the... - Living Alone Allowance
938. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application for a living alone allowance by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if she will make a... - Public Services Card Data
939. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce public services cards with the ability to store biometric data; and if so, the legislation... - Carer's Allowance Applications
940. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Payments Administration
941. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of post offices that did not have sufficient funds to make payments to social welfare recipients during Storm... - Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
942. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding supports for carers; and if she will make a statement on the... - Sick Pay Scheme
943. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an employee who is on sick leave and under their contract of employment is entitled to full pay for six months; if an... - Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme Applications
944. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on the review of the rate of partial capacity benefit awarded to a person (details supplied) in... - Work Permits Eligibility
945. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the attention of all staff in Intreo offices will be drawn to the fact that spouses of critical skills work permit holders... - Citizen Information Services
946. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the reorganisation of MABS and CIS; her further views on whether the concerns of those that have expressed grave... - Departmental Bodies
947. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason her Department is refusing to negotiate with an organisation (details supplied) in view of her Department's... - Illness Benefit Applications
948. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties persons are having making contact with the illness benefit section of her... - Exceptional Needs Payment Applications
949. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the outcome of the review in respect of eligibility for an exceptional needs payment in the case of a person (details... - Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
950. 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. [12248/18] - Illness Benefit Applications
951. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person's (details supplied) certificates were not submitted; if the case will be reviewed; the benefits the... - Social Welfare Schemes Data
952. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for widow's, widower's, survivor's contributory and non-contributory pension that have been... - Carer's Allowance Applications
953. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied) will be approved; and if she will make a statement on the... - Community Employment Schemes Supervisors
955. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to bring forward a pension scheme for community employment scheme supervisors; the actions that have been taken to... - Community Employment Schemes Review
956. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the review of older persons that are 62 years of age and over participating in community employment schemes will be... - JobPath Programme
957. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person has a right to refuse a place on JobPath in favour of a place on a community employment scheme; if there is a... - Community Employment Schemes Data
958. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that have participated in community employment schemes in each of the years 2012 to 2017 and to date in... - Social Welfare Benefits
959. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) who worked for Coillte and made stamp D contributions qualifies for the dental benefits... - Jobseeker's Payments
960. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if additional supports for persons that have completed training (details supplied) will be provided; and if she will make a... - Fuel Allowance Payments
961. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the additional fuel allowance payment for the recent period of heavy snow is available to those that receive their fuel... - Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
962. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in respect of a domiciliary care allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if... - Departmental Staff Recruitment
963. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have been hired by her Department from the Public Appointments Service panels in counties Sligo and... - State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
968. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a review of a pension entitlement in the case of a person (details supplied) will be carried out; and if she will make a... - JobPath Programme
969. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the contract to run the JobPath programme by Seetec will cease; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12566/18] - Child Benefit Data
970. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of qualified child increases by scheme type for those aged 18 to 22 years in full-time education; and if she will... - Social Welfare Benefits Data
971. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of one-parent family payment and the related number of children who are also in receipt of... - Public Services Card Data
972. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 544 of 8 March 2018, the way in which and with whom a person might authenticate his or... - Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
974. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a rent supplement payment will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Appeals
975. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an oral hearing can be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Benefits
976. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is an alternative in place for those who would seek financial support under mortgage interest supplement but can no... - Unemployment Levels
977. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures she has taken to address the above average unemployment levels that persist in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and... - Social Welfare Benefits Data
978. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of adult dependants in receipt of a social welfare claim by county in tabular form; and if she will make a... - Labour Activation Programmes Data
979. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of adult dependants on a social welfare labour activation scheme by county in tabular form; and if she will make a... - JobPath Data
980. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons on JobPath in counties Cavan and Monaghan as of 1 February 2018; the number of persons who were on... - Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
981. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the correct rate of jobseeker's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); the reason for a deduction in the... - Activation and Family Support Programme
982. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department's internal audit into the activation and family support programme will be published; if not, the reason... - Activation and Family Support Programme Data
985. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications made under the activation and family support programme since its introduction; the percentage of... - State Pension (Non-Contributory) Data
986. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 602 of 8 March 2018, the number of persons in receipt of the State pension... - Labour Activation Programmes Data
987. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons directed from Intreo to the community employment, Tús and JobPath schemes in the past 12 months;... - Supplementary Welfare Allowance
988. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the financial assistance that will be given to older persons who are not in receipt of fuel allowance to help towards the... - State Pension (Contributory)
989. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason contributions made in good faith from 2002 and 2004 towards a pension were returned and not used for the purposes... - Carer's Allowance Appeals
990. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the... - New Communities Unit
991. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of homeless non-Irish citizens from the European Economic Area or a country outside Europe that have been... - Disability Allowance Payments
992. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which an overpayment will be recouped in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement... - Tús Programme
993. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 572 and 580 of 8 March 2018, if she will address the specific issue on whether her... - State Pension (Contributory)
994. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the correct level of State pension payable in the case of persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the... - Legislative Reviews
995. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the review of the Gender Recognition Act 2015. [12865/18] - Carer's Allowance Applications
996. 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 matter.... - Carer's Allowance Payments
997. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that persons in receipt of carer's allowance who were self-employed at the time... - JobPath Programme
998. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to emails from a person (details supplied) regarding JobPath and a sanction applied to their... - National Development Plan Data
999. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the projects mentioned in the national development plan 2018 to 2027 that come under her Department's remit or bodies under...
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