Written answers
Tuesday, 15 January 2019
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Back to Education Allowance Payments
1035. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase the €198 back-to-education allowance in view of the fact that it is perceived as not being... - Commencement of Legislation
1036. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason Parts 2, 3 and 9 of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 have not been commenced; when these Parts will... - Registration of Births
1037. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she will take to amend the laws surrounding presumed legitimacy to simplify the process for women seeking a... - Disability Allowance Appeals
1038. 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. [54045/18] - Back to Education Allowance Payments
1039. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a back-to-education allowance for a person (details supplied) has been suspended since 4 December 2018; and if... - Proposed Legislation
1040. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Attorney General is satisfied with the defined benefit pensions provisions in the Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil... - Legislative Measures
1041. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to introducing a stand-alone amending Bill to provide for the necessary technical amendments... - Working Family Payment Applications
1042. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application by a person (details supplied) for a working family payment will be decided upon; and if she will make a... - Illness Benefit Appeals
1043. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an illness benefit appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Illness Benefit Payments
1044. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason an illness benefit payment for a person (details supplied) has ceased; when payment will recommence; and if she... - Illness Benefit Applications
1045. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason her Department repeatedly supplied incorrect information to a person (details supplied); and the steps she will... - One-Parent Family Payment Payments
1046. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a one-parent family allowance payment will be made available in the case of a person (details supplied); if a basic or... - Social Welfare Benefits Payments
1047. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when basic payment, one-parent family payment and-or child benefit will issue in the case of a person (details supplied);... - Invalidity Pension Payments
1048. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when payment will issue in respect of an invalidity pension in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make... - Supplementary Welfare Allowance Eligibility
1049. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 642 of 4 December 2018, if a case (details supplied) will be examined with a view to... - Social Welfare Benefits Applications
1050. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if both a carer's allowance payment and a domiciliary care allowance will be awarded to a person (details supplied)... - Carer's Allowance Appeals
1051. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Illness Benefit Eligibility
1052. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the alternate options available to persons if they do not... - Disability Allowance Payments
1053. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when arrears in respect of a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied) will issue; and if she will... - Illness Benefit Payments
1054. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a payment has not issued to a person (details supplied) in the past two weeks of December 2018; and if she will... - Departmental Expenditure
1055. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost incurred by her Department in 2018 for the use of taxi services; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Disability Allowance Applications
1056. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [54222/18] - Exceptional Needs Payment Data
1058. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for the exceptional needs payment each month in 2018; the number granted, refused and appealed,... - Carer's Allowance Eligibility
1059. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of eligibility for a carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied);... - Carer's Allowance Applications
1060. 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 Appeals
1061. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied) will be addressed; and if she will make a statement on the... - Invalidity Pension Payments
1062. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason an invalidity pension payment has not issued to a person (details supplied) despite the person being notified of... - Public Services Card
1063. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of valid public services cards issued. [54322/18] - State Pension (Contributory)
1064. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the new system of calculating PRSI contributions for the State pension (contributory) will be in place; and if years in... - Social Welfare Benefits
1065. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the financial supports available for non-medical costs for families of sick children; and if she will make a statement on... - Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
1066. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason an application by a person (details supplied) for a hearing aid was refused; and if she will make a statement on... - Social Welfare Inspections
1067. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the practice of some social welfare inspectors working on an investigation and also... - Brexit Issues
1068. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans in place regarding the continued payment of social security payments from the United Kingdom to persons living... - Departmental Expenditure
1069. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the budget and spend in her Department for marketing, media and social media in each of the years 2016 to 2018, inclusive;... - Departmental Staff Data
1070. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff in her Department employed to work on marketing, media and social media in 2018. [54480/18] - Social Insurance
1071. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the legal basis by which different groups that are listed within the various subsections of Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the... - Carer's Allowance Applications
1072. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (detail supplied) will receive a decision on an application for a carer's allowance. [54547/18] - Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
1073. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason there was a delay in receiving files from the domiciliary care allowance, DCA, section and for the appeal to be... - State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
1074. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the pension rights based on the total contributions approach of a person (details supplied) will be investigated; and if... - Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
1075. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a domiciliary care allowance claim by a person (details supplied) can be backdated; and if she will make a statement on... - Illness Benefit Payments
1076. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if outstanding illness benefit payments, including arrears due, will be paid to a person (details supplied); if these... - Legislative Reviews
1077. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 620 of 23 October 2018, if she will report on the implementation of the review of the... - Working Family Payment Applications
1078. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to an application for a working family payment by a person (details supplied); and... - Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
1079. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a domiciliary care allowance appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the... - Labour Activation Measures
1080. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the workers of a company (details supplied) will have the relevant State supports for upskilling and securing new jobs as... - Disability Allowance Payments
1081. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when arrears of a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied) will be awarded; and if she will make a... - Illness Benefit Payments
1082. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) did not receive all of their illness benefit; and if she will make a statement on the... - Working Family Payment Payments
1083. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a working family payment by a person (details supplied); and when they can expect a... - Social Welfare Appeals Status
1084. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) who was refused DC but has appealed it; and if she will make a... - Invalidity Pension Payments
1085. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for invalidity pension in the case of a person (details... - Departmental Staff Training
1086. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if all Intreo staff have received disability awareness training; the cost of training staff that have not undergone such... - Comprehensive Employment Strategy for People with Disabilities
1087. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports and activation schemes available to support persons with a disability into employment; and if she will make a... - Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme Eligibility
1088. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to extending the partial capacity benefit to those in receipt of the wage subsidy scheme;... - Disability Support Services Funding
1089. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the expenditure on the reasonable accommodation fund in each of the years 2016 to 2018, in tabular form; and if she will... - Occupational Injuries Benefit Payments
1090. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1170/19] - Redundancy Payments
1091. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which a person (details supplied) can advance an issue in view of the fact her Department has advised them to... - Departmental Agencies Data
1092. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent of the funding provided either directly or indirectly through agencies controlled by her Department for the... - Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
1093. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a primary payment, jobseeker's allowance was ceased in the case of a person (detail supplied); when payment will... - Job Initiatives
1094. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 538 of 19 December 2018, if her attention has been drawn to the fact that talks for... - Back to Education Allowance Applications
1095. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 271 of 6 December 2018, if the information provided or lack of appropriate information... - Domiciliary Care Allowance Review
1096. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of eligibility for a domiciliary carers allowance following a review request in... - Disability Allowance
1097. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of increasing disability allowance, disability benefit, blind pension, invalidity pension,... - Child Benefit Eligibility
1098. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the payment of child benefit to include those children that have reached 18 years of age but are still... - Invalidity Pension Applications
1099. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for invalidity pension will be expedited in the case of a person (details supplied). [1289/19] - Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme Payments
1100. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the full rate of payment of invalidity pension over the Christmas 2018 period and subsequent reduced payment of partial... - Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
1101. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when jobseeker's allowance will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); the documentation outstanding on their... - Working Family Payment Payments
1102. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1303/19] - Illness Benefit Payments
1103. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the new automated system for illness benefit payments is fully functioning and working without issues with payments; and... - Disability Allowance Payments
1105. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive arrears of disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the... - Public Services Card
1106. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she will take to allow the public services card to be used as identification for customers of credit unions who... - Social Insurance Data
1107. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons born in 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001 that had reckonable earnings for social insurance purposes within... - Parental Leave
1110. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she expects the Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017 to be presented in Dáil Éireann following its passing... - Carer's Allowance Applications
1111. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application by a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1525/19] - One-Parent Family Payment Applications
1112. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for one parent family payment in the case of a person (details... - Social Welfare Appeals Data
1113. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number and percentage of appeals that were upheld on re-examination by the social welfare appeals office in 2017 and... - State Pensions Payments
1114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the pension entitlements of a person (details supplied) under the new total contributions approach will be investigated;... - Disability Allowance Eligibility
1115. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of a request for a review of eligibility for a disability allowance in the case of... - Carer's Allowance Appeals
1116. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a carer's allowance appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will... - JobPath Programme
1117. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for JobPath once the current contract expires at the end of 2019; if she will re-tender for the service; and if... - Illness Benefit Applications
1118. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for an illness benefit by a person (details supplied). [1745/19] - Departmental Correspondence
1119. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the customer complaints received by her Department in each of the years since 2016; if the complaints are grouped into...
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