Written answers

Tuesday, 3 December 2019

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

 
  • Pension Provisions
    556. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to honour the LRC recommendations in relation to pension rights for those in community employment; and if she will...
  • Community Employment Schemes Supervisors
    557. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of discussions on an agreed funding package for community employment supervisors in relation to the pension and...
  • Unemployment Benefits Eligibility
    558. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if special needs assistants are entitled to claim unemployment benefit in cases in which their hours are reduced. [50260/19]
  • Carer's Allowance Applications
    559. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application by a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if she will make...
  • Disability Allowance Applications
    560. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied) has been refused; and if she will make a...
  • Data Protection
    561. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the assurances that can be given to those jobseekers' assigned to a UK company (details supplied) which stores private data...
  • Social Welfare Benefits Payments
    562. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending the Christmas bonus to those in receipt of illness benefit; and if she will make a statement...
  • Respite Care Grant Data
    563. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the respite care allowance by county in tabular form; the criteria for same; and if she...
  • Disability Allowance Applications
    564. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision on a disability allowance claim by a person (details supplied) will be finalised. [49812/19]
  • Departmental Staff
    565. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the conclusions of the 1995 technical committee as reported on in 2007 regarding roles and duty definitions within her...
  • Child Maintenance Payments
    566. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the group charged with examining enforcement of child maintenance payments; when it will be set-up; the nature...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    567. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of a proposal (details supplied). [49827/19]
  • Social Welfare Benefits Data
    568. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of social protection payments made in respect of qualified adults by age cohort, gender and social protection...
  • Fuel Allowance Eligibility
    569. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kerry on disability allowance and who was in receipt of fuel allowance for...
  • Treatment Benefit Scheme Eligibility
    570. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason pensioners who have paid class K and M contributions in the relevant tax years cannot avail of the treatment...
  • Disability Allowance Appeals
    571. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a disability allowance appeal application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
  • Social Welfare Benefits Payments
    572. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of the Christmas bonus by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49880/19]
  • Departmental Reports
    573. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of external consultant reports commissioned by her Department in each year from March 2011 to 2018 and to date in...
  • Carer's Allowance Applications
    574. 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 Review
    575. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a review of a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
  • Pensions Data
    576. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the projected pension rate and total reckonable contributions for a person (details supplied) on their retirement in 2022...
  • Pension Provisions
    577. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive confirmation if a balance of payment is owing from their UK state pension made...
  • Departmental Staff Data
    578. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff employed in the partial capacity benefit section; and the average processing time for a partial capacity...
  • Food Poverty
    579. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the latest available data on food poverty; the way in which Ireland compares to the rest of the EU in this regard; and if she...
  • Disability Allowance Appeals
    580. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
  • Jobseeker's Allowance Applications
    581. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49999/19]
  • Social Welfare Benefits Data
    582. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for carer's allowance and carer’s benefit received to date in 2019; the number approved,...
  • Disability Allowance Applications
    583. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for a disability allowance for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be expedited in view of...
  • Illness Benefit Applications
    584. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an illness benefit payment in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Interdepartmental Committees Reports
    585. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the interdepartmental group review into the community employment, rural social scheme and Tús has been completed; if...
  • Community Employment Schemes Supervisors
    586. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding community employment pensions; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility
    588. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which income from renting a room is treated in a means test for the one-parent family payment (details supplied);...
  • Carer's Allowance Applications
    589. 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...
  • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
    590. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) regarding a domiciliary care allowance; and if she will make a...
  • Social Welfare Benefits Payments
    591. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when backdated partial capacity and invalidity pension payments will be issued to a person (details supplied); and if she...
  • Disability Allowance Payments
    592. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 478 of 26 November 2019, if the files will be further reviewed (details supplied); and...
  • Farm Assist Scheme Appeals
    593. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a farm assist appeal by persons (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
  • Nursing Home Subventions
    594. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a matter on the accumulation of funds in the bank account of a person (details supplied) will be investigated. [50281/19]
  • Fuel Allowance Eligibility
    595. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if qualifying applicants for the fuel allowance will be assured that they will continue to receive the payment in 2020 and...
  • Personal Public Service Numbers
    596. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the backlog that exists in processing applications for PPS numbers; the impact it is...
  • Invalidity Pension Payments
    597. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when arrears will issue to a person (details supplied) for an invalidity pension application; and if she will make a...
  • Pension Provisions
    598. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the impact on pension entitlements for carers who took time out of the workforce; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Legislative Measures
    599. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of Bills sponsored by her Department that have been enacted since November 2013, in tabular form. [50318/19]
  • State Pension (Contributory)
    600. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a contributory pension application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
  • JobPath Programme
    601. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rates paid to the companies for each person who is referred to them with regard to the various companies that run the...
  • Labour Activation Programmes
    602. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 628 of 22 October 2019, if the nature of clerical error is an isolated incident with...
  • Social Welfare Code
    604. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the circumstances in which her Department may request that a person hand up their passport and retain this passport for up to...

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