Written answers
Tuesday, 19 February 2019
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Illness Benefit Payments
55. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to review the impact of the six-day waiting period for employees to access social payments in view of the fact that... - Social Welfare Benefits Payments
56. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department is withholding payments in circumstances in which a person entitled to same declines to register for a... - Pensions Reform
57. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce an auto-enrolment scheme in view of the fact that the proposals put forward by her Department were... - National Carers' Strategy
58. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she has taken to ensure that all family carers can avail of access to adequate support services for respite,... - Community Employment Schemes Supervisors
59. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which she plans to avert further strike action by community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors; and... - Social Insurance
60. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will request an independent review of the decisions with regard to the errors in the historic PRSI classification of a... - Community Employment Schemes Operation
61. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the opportunities given to locally based community employment social inclusion schemes to participate in the review by the... - Live Register Data
62. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the fall in the number of persons on the live register in County Carlow since January 2018; and if she will make a statement... - Rural Social Scheme Eligibility
64. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the means test applicable to participation on the rural social scheme will be amended (details supplied); her views on... - State Pension (Contributory)
65. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the review of pensions affected by the 2012 contributory pensions changes; and if she will make a statement on... - Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
66. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the further changes she plans to make to alleviate the difficulties part-time and seasonal workers have accessing social... - Social Welfare Offices
68. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether there is a need for more social welfare offices in County Meath. [7946/19] - Child Benefit Payments
69. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the child benefit payment to children who turn 18 years of age and are in full-time secondary school... - Arts and Culture Capital Scheme Eligibility
70. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the arts scheme is open to actors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8045/19] - School Meals Programme
71. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the hot school meals pilot scheme; if it will be rolled out nationally; if so, the expected benefits of same;... - Farm Assist Scheme Administration
72. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the level of bureaucracy involved in the annual forms that applicants for farm assist are required to fill out and return... - Treatment Benefit Scheme Data
73. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that availed of optical benefit through the treatment benefit scheme in since its extension to the... - Rural Social Scheme
74. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to amend the conditions applicable to the rural social scheme with particular reference to the need to remove the... - State Pension (Contributory)
75. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on the final design of the total contributions approach to be introduced in 2020; and if not, the... - Parental Leave
76. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the introduction of a new social insurance parental benefit payment to be paid for two weeks to each parent; and... - State Pension (Contributory)
77. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she expects paper forms to be available for use by those in receipt of reduced contributory pensions post-2012 who have... - Social Welfare Benefits
79. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on Intreo offices having the right to make recipients of social welfare payments take up employment outside of their... - Defined Benefit Pension Schemes
80. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the protections in place for members of defined benefit pension schemes in cases in which an employer seeks to move away from... - Local Employment Service
81. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on a report (details supplied) commissioned by her Department which found value for money in local employment... - Departmental Strategies
82. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the new national action plan for social inclusion 2018 to 2021 will be published; the reason it has not been published to... - Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times
83. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average time required to process means tested applications for various social welfare entitlements; and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
84. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce changes to the means testing in the social welfare system; and if she will make a statement on the... - JobPath Programme
85. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to continue contracts with JobPath providers in view of the recent Dáil Éireann motion in relation to the... - Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
86. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of her plans to extend jobseeker's benefit to the self-employed; if illness benefit will be extended to the... - Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
87. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the report into the impact of reduced jobseeker's payments for those under 26 years of age will be published; and if she... - State Pension (Contributory) Data
88. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that carried out their post-2012 contributory pension reviews online; the number that commenced an... - State Pension (Contributory)
89. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made to date with the introduction of the new TCA method of assessment for the State pension (contributory) for... - Paternity Benefit
90. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that availed of paternity benefit since its introduction in September 2016; and if she will make a... - Treatment Benefit Scheme Data
92. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that availed of aural benefit through the treatment benefit scheme since its extension to the... - Carer's Allowance Data
93. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for carer’s allowance that were refused on application, referred to appeal and granted or... - State Pension (Contributory)
94. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if all pensioners affected by the reduced rates of entitlement in budget 2012 have now been contacted; the number contacted to... - Public Services Card
95. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the publication of the report by the Data Protection Commissioner into the public services card; and if she will... - State Pension (Contributory)
96. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of her plans to re-examine the situation that relates to women who were in the workforce and left in earlier years... - Treatment Benefit Scheme Data
101. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that availed of dental benefit through the treatment benefit scheme nationally and in County Clare... - Carer's Allowance Delays
102. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps being taken to fast-track applications for payment of a carer's allowance to new applicants in view of the fact... - Telephone Support Allowance
105. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the operation of the telephone allowance will be reviewed in view of the fact that pensioners in need of the allowance who... - Pension Provisions
106. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider allowing social welfare supports for widows to be awarded in cases in which the surviving partner was...
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