Written answers
Wednesday, 25 September 2019
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- State Pensions
13. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of single persons living alone who are in receipt of the State pension (contributory) and the State pension... - Departmental Reports
15. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the cost of disability research being undertaken by her Department; when she expects the research to be... - Public Services Card
16. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the recent report by the Data Protection Commission into the use of the public services card. [38845/19] - Carer's Allowance Review
17. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if increasing the financial thresholds for carer’s allowance will be investigated; if the introduction of discretionary... - Carer's Allowance Waiting Times
18. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she plans to take to shorten the period taken to process applications for various social welfare payments such as... - Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
21. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to review capital assessment for entitlement to social welfare payments; and if she will make a statement on the... - Social Welfare Benefits Payments
22. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered that not increasing social welfare payments is in effect reducing the payments; and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
24. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the work ongoing in her Department to provide additional supports for self-employed persons who may experience difficulties in... - JobPath Programme
25. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if contracts for the provision of the JobPath programme will be renewed; and when a decision on the matter will be made. [38806/19] - Child Maintenance Payments
27. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the work her Department is undertaking regarding a statutory maintenance agency; and if she will make a statement on the... - State Pension (Contributory) Data
28. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the outcome of the review of pension entitlements for persons who were affected by changes in 2012 to the State pension... - Proposed Legislation
29. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she plans to initiate her amendment to the Payment of Wages Act 1991 to deal with the issue of tip theft. [38796/19] - Gender Equality
30. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which she will reduce the gender pension gap; her target for eliminating the gap completely; and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Schemes
31. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports made available to workers in the beef processing factories who have been made redundant or laid off temporarily;... - Departmental Strategies
35. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she plans to publish a new action plan for social inclusion; the reason it was not published in 2018 as envisaged; and if... - Unemployment Benefits Data
36. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of childcare workers that claim unemployment benefit or assistance throughout the months of June, July and August;... - Public Services Card
38. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the public services card will not expire on a particular date after it has been issued and reapplied for by a person. [38804/19] - JobPath Implementation
41. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the JobPath provider Seetec is issuing notices to jobseekers detailing its policy on tackling radicalism; if... - Community Employment Schemes Supervisors
43. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the community employment scheme (details supplied); if further discussions have taken place with unions on this... - Public Services Card
45. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to proceed with the second generation of the public services card in view of the recent report by the Data... - Treatment Benefit Scheme Applications
46. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if measures are being put in place to reduce long waiting times for applications to be processed. [38820/19] - Social Insurance Data
47. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount recouped by her Department from money lost in PRSI through bogus self-employment practices being identified in the... - Social Welfare Payments Waiting Times
48. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the applications for various social welfare payments currently taking the longest time to process; the cause or causes of such... - Employment Rights
50. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to put the code of practice on bogus self-employment on a statutory footing; if a timeframe has been identified for...
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