Written answers
Tuesday, 19 June 2018
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Departmental Strategies
46. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress she is making with regard to the implementation of the 33 actions of the Comprehensive Employment Strategy for... - Social Welfare Code
47. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has had discussions with representatives of organisations representing persons with sight difficulties in... - State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
48. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which progress has been made in addressing the circumstances of women deprived of contributory pensions having... - Rent Supplement Scheme
49. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which the attention of her Department has been drawn to dependency on rent support for persons on lower incomes... - Departmental Schemes
50. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of vacancies on the rural social, Tús and community employment schemes, respectively; the steps she will take... - Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
51. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to change the way in which capital is assessed for all means tested payments and bring it in line with the way in... - Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme Payments
52. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase the back to school clothing and footwear allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - JobPath Programme
53. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce flexibility into the JobPath programme to allow persons to transfer between JobPath and community... - One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility
54. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the rules regarding access to lone parent payments for long-term foster carers of children will be examined to ensure... - Brexit Issues
55. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the work under way in her Department to prepare for a hard Brexit. [26566/18] - Legislative Programme
56. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she will bring forward the Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017, which was due to be considered by... - JobPath Programme
57. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the personal information of JobPath participants that is shared between her Department and a company (details supplied); and... - Defined Benefit Pension Schemes
58. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if legislation to prevent employers from unilaterally downgrading their employees' pension schemes from defined benefit to... - Child Benefit Reform
59. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for reforms to child benefit; her further plans to introduce means testing; her plans to increase it in budget 2019;... - Disability Allowance Payments
60. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the requirement that the parents of some persons in receipt of disability allowance have to keep a full... - Redundancy Rebates
61. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to reintroduce the redundancy rebate payable to employers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26436/18] - Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme
62. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the operation of the partial capacity benefit scheme will be reviewed to allow a person engage in part-time or casual work... - Defined Benefit Pension Schemes
63. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address issues in relation to defined benefit pensions; if her plans will deal with the situation being currently... - One-Parent Family Payment
64. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address the severe poverty and deprivation being experienced by lone parent households, particularly in the... - Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme
65. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to resource and implement the national action plan for social inclusion to work towards eliminating poverty; and if... - Employment Rights
66. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the proposals she will bring forward to solve the problems and issues surrounding seasonal and part-time workers' rights in... - Jobseeker's Benefit
67. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person claiming jobseeker's benefit or allowance that is 62 years of age or over is required to engage with the... - Youth Employment Initiative
68. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures she is taking to address the youth unemployment rate of 11.9%; if the rate of jobseeker's payments for persons of... - Citizens Information Board
69. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Comptroller and Auditor General signed off on the Citizen Information Board's accounts for 2017; and if so, when... - Public Procurement Contracts
70. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to the tender seeking the supply of facial image matching software to improve the... - Community Employment Schemes Supervisors
71. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to provide a pension scheme to community employment scheme supervisors; the number of supervisors affected in County... - Departmental Advertising Campaigns
73. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the projected cost of the campaign on false self-employment; the number of cases that had been ongoing in advance of the... - Employment Data
76. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an assessment of the increase of agency work and short-term contracts as opposed to full-time contracts across the economy... - Family Support Services
78. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures she plans to implement towards supporting stay at home parents; and the funding proposed to be allocated in... - Farm Assist Scheme Data
79. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the level of bureaucracy involved in the annual forms that applicants for farm assist are required to fill... - Employment Rights
80. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered the report into seasonal and part-time workers' rights and entitlements to social welfare payments... - Departmental Reviews
81. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department's review into the current maintenance and liable relative procedures for lone parents has been finalised;... - Birth Certificates
82. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department is examining the issue of the falsification of birth certificates; if so, the action she plans to take; and...
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