Written answers
Thursday, 5 March 2020
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Civil Registration Documentation
1109. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans in respect of the stillbirth register and stillbirth certification to be replaced with a birth certificate and... - Direct Provision Data
1110. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount paid annually through the daily expenses allowance since 2000, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement... - Community Employment Schemes Supervisors
1111. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures being taken to implement a Labour Court recommendation issued in 2008 that a pension scheme be put in place for... - State Pensions Payments
1112. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the State pension, contributory; the amount received; the number of persons in receipt... - Carer's Allowance Appeals
1113. 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.... - State Pension (Non-Contributory)
1114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the non-contributory pension of a person (details supplied) was reduced from €184 to €152 per week;... - Carer's Allowance Appeals
1115. 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.... - Disability Allowance Appeals
1116. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a disability allowance appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Carer's Allowance Applications
1117. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer’s allowance for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
1118. 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... - Widow's Pension Eligibility
1119. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a life pension awarded to coal miners who suffered loss of faculty passes to the spouse after their death as in the case... - Social Welfare Eligibility
1120. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the entitlements for persons between 66 and 67 years of age in view of the increase in the retirement age (details... - Departmental Staff Data
1121. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff employed at a location (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2637/20] - Carer's Allowance Applications
1122. 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... - Disablement Benefit
1124. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to ensure the cuts to the disablement pension made during the recession are reversed at the next possible... - Carer's Allowance Applications
1125. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance application appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the... - State Pension (Contributory) Appeals
1126. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rate of pension a person (details supplied) is in receipt of; if her attention has been drawn to correspondence in... - State Pension (Non-Contributory)
1127. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person in receipt of the disability allowance and who due to their age is transferred to the State pension... - Public Services Card
1128. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actions she has taken to comply with the Data Protection Commissioner regarding public services cards in view of the... - Social Welfare Fraud Data
1129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 681 of 17 December 2019, if any of the 31 suspect cases that have been concluded with... - Disability Allowance Applications
1130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a disability payment will issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2746/20] - Carer's Support Grant
1131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in Cork City has been denied a carer’s support grant; and if she will make a... - Community Employment Schemes Operation
1132. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the career and job pathways for persons who complete community employment schemes; and if she will make a statement on the... - Carer's Allowance Data
1134. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the waiting times for the processing of the applications for carer's allowance and carer's benefit; the number of... - Carer's Allowance Applications
1135. 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... - Working Family Payment Appeals
1136. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an appeal lodged in July 2019 will be expedited for a person (details supplied); the status of the matter; and if she... - Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times
1137. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average waiting period by county or district for oral hearings to be held and final decisions to be made in respect of... - Pension Provisions
1138. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an independent review group will be established within her Department to assess the level and impact of cuts suffered by... - State Pensions
1139. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to establish a stakeholder forum on the State pension age and reform of same in the coming months; and if she will... - Pension Provisions
1140. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of voluntary contributions by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2964/20] - Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
1141. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application for a domiciliary care allowance by a person (details supplied); the reason... - Social Welfare Appeals Status
1142. 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. [3000/20] - Personal Public Service Numbers
1143. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a PPS number will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) who is the holder of a stamp 4 visa and requires a... - Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
1145. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) qualifies for the adult dependent allowance in respect of that person's spouse; and if she... - Jobseeker's Allowance Applications
1146. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the basis on which it is proposed to refuse jobseeker's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); if reference... - State Pension (Non-Contributory) Applications
1147. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied). [3066/20] - Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
1148. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to change the qualification criteria for the telephone allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Carer's Allowance Eligibility
1150. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which entitlement to carer’s allowance in respect of two children has been determined in a case... - Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
1151. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding a domiciliary care allowance appeal in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make... - Social Welfare Overpayments
1152. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which it transpired that a person (details supplied) who is deemed to have incurred an overpayment from her... - Back to Education Allowance
1153. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) has an ongoing entitlement to the back to education allowance; and if she will make a... - Disability Allowance
1154. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the appropriate illness or disability payment in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement... - Domiciliary Care Allowance
1155. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position in regard to domiciliary care allowance in respect of two children in the case of a person (details supplied);... - Social Welfare Overpayments
1156. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the circumstances in which it is assumed that an overpayment of jobseeker's allowance had taken place in the case of a... - Carer's Benefit Applications
1157. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for carer's benefit in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry;... - Treatment Benefit Scheme Eligibility
1158. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which a person (details supplied) qualified for the optical benefit and hearing aids under the treatment benefit... - Illness Benefit Payments
1159. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a backdated illness benefit for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Carer's Benefit Applications
1160. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application will be expedited for carer's benefit by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will... - Pensions Legislation
1161. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to reduce the age at which the State pension can be paid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3302/20] - Exceptional Needs Payments
1162. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of expenditure incurred each year since 2008 on exceptional needs payments; the reason for the decline in these... - Pension Provisions
1163. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce legislation restoring the pre-2008 situation by which pensioners of semi-State companies had their... - Domiciliary Care Allowance
1165. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a domiciliary care allowance for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Invalidity Pension
1166. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an invalidity person for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3350/20] - Humanitarian Assistance Scheme
1167. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of paid out by the humanitarian assistance scheme in each of the years 2010 to 2019 and to date in 2020, in... - Public Services Card
1169. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is a delay with the reissuing of public services cards and free travel cards in view of the importance of free... - Carer's Benefit Applications
1170. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's benefit application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal
1171. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if payments to victims from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal is exempt from being calculated as earnings in terms... - Coronavirus Outbreak
1174. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding persons that have to take time off work including those that are told to self-quarantine and those... - Pensions Data
1175. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a matter regarding pension contributions for a person (details supplied) will be addressed. [3741/20] - Health Services Staff Remuneration
1176. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will make contact with the HSE regarding the situation of a day care centre (details supplied) in County Wexford in... - Disability Allowance Applications
1177. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a disability application by a person (details supplied) will be expedited and backdated to the date of the accident. [3767/20] - Community Employment Schemes Operation
1178. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an instruction will be issued to encourage flexibility to sponsors of community employment schemes in particular for... - Exceptional Needs Payments
1179. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if arrangements to facilitate the exceptional needs or emergency payment can be made in the case of a person (details... - Invalidity Pension Eligibility
1180. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an invalidity pension is payable in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the... - Disability Allowance Payments
1182. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3809/20] - Invalidity Pension Appeals
1183. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an appeal has been made in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3819/20]
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