Written answers
Wednesday, 27 May 2020
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Domestic Violence Services
907. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to a response during Leaders' Questions on 30 April 2020, if short-term emergency rent supplement will be progressed... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
908. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to assist bereaved families of persons who passed away from Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the... - Covid-19 Pandemic
910. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the legal and regulatory arrangement in force during the period of the Covid-19 crisis regarding redundancy; the legal and... - Free Travel Scheme
915. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide the details of road passenger transport operators that received payments in respect of the acceptance of... - Maternity Benefit
916. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding maternity benefit [7587/20] - Covid-19 Pandemic
917. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered strengthening Covid-19 emergency legislation in order that an employer will not be allowed to make an... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
918. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if Covid-19 payments will be extended to specific industries in relation to the timeframe in which they are permitted to... - Covid-19 Pandemic
922. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there will be legal implications arising from fathers not being able to be added to the birth certificate of their... - Employment Rights
923. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department examined proposals aimed at giving a better protection to employees affected by insolvency situations as... - Covid-19 Pandemic
925. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to challenges being experienced by couples attending the public registry offices for... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
926. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the provisions in place or which will be put into place to continue the pandemic unemployment payment for those workers... - Legislative Measures
928. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when sections 19, 24, 25 and 26 of the Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Act 2018 will come into effect; and if... - Public Services Card
929. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the public services card in addition to the action of the Data Protection Commissioner on same; and if she will... - Community Employment Schemes
930. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the interdepartmental review into community employment schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
932. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if employees (details supplied) qualify for the pandemic unemployment payment in view of the fact they are being forced to... - Redundancy Payments
933. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports available to help workers (details supplied) in south western areas of Dublin that are facing redundancy; and if... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
934. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to provide supports for those returning here from working abroad due to the Covid-19 pandemic due to... - International Students
937. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the PPSN applications of international students that have recently arrived here will be expedited (details supplied); and... - Social Welfare Appeals
939. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an appeal by a person (details supplied) in respect of a pension will be finalised; and if she will make a statement on... - Child Benefit
944. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to extending the eligibility for the child benefit scheme to persons over 18 years of age that... - Covid-19 Pandemic
945. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if guidelines have been developed in relation to the temporary lay-offs due to Covid-19; if there is a time limit on the... - Disability Allowance
946. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has had their award of disability allowance reduced; and if she will... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
947. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a review of the pandemic unemployment payment will be carried out; if the review will consider persons that were working... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
948. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a Covid-19 payment for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7481/20] - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
950. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the specific measures she is considering to support those under 25 years of age that have been disproportionately affected by... - Social Welfare Payments Waiting Times
951. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason there are significant delays in processing applications such as the disability allowance; and if she will make a... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
952. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person can be transferred to the pandemic unemployment payment in order to be in a position to pay bills, rent and so on... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
953. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to access EU funding relating to the support to mitigate unemployment risks in an emergency scheme; if so, the... - Covid-19 Pandemic
954. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has undertaken an analysis to match skills shortages in sectors affected by Covid-19 with those with... - Domiciliary Care Allowance
957. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a domiciliary care allowance appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a... - Social Welfare Payments Administration
959. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of pensions, disability allowance, jobseeker's allowance and benefit that do not have access... - Pension Provisions
960. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 248 of 21 November 2019, if she will provide a further update on the proposed changes... - Social Welfare Appeals
961. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a social welfare payment reduction appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on... - Invalidity Pension
962. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a review of an invalidity pension application by a person (details supplied); and if she will... - Social Welfare Payments Administration
967. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she plans to revert to social welfare weekly payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7716/20] - Blind Person's Pension
968. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason, in circumstances in which persons become blind and receive illness benefit and the blind person's pension, and... - Disability Allowance
969. 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.... - Invalidity Pension
970. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an invalidity pension application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the... - Disability Allowance
972. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the processing times for disability allowance applications. [7761/20] - Social Welfare Benefits
973. 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. [7781/20] - Social Welfare Appeals
974. 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. [7782/20] - Social Welfare Benefits
975. 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. [7783/20] - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
977. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the pandemic unemployment payment will be extended to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the... - Disability Allowance
978. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the terms governing the disability allowance to allow the recipient's pensions to be treated the same as... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
979. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the entitlements students that had signed contracts for summer internships which have now been cancelled have in terms of... - Supplementary Welfare Allowance
981. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a weekly court ordered maintenance payment received by a person from a former spouse is regarded as means for the purposes... - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
983. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the social protection assistance available to a person (details supplied) who lives in Northern Ireland but runs a business... - Covid-19 Pandemic
985. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of social protection offices which have been closed and sanitised due to the presentation of Covid-19 positive... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
988. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when arrears payments relating to the pandemic unemployment payment will be made to applicants; and if she will make a... - Legislative Measures
991. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the legislation under the remit of her Department that is due to expire or lapse in the next three months and needs to be... - Carer's Allowance
992. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a carer's allowance appeal lodged by a person (details supplied) within 21 days of a decision of a review request... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
993. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the status of being on maternity leave prior to being put on lay-off from employment renders a worker ineligible for... - Covid-19 Pandemic
994. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the protections in place to ensure the health and safety and terms and conditions of employment of construction workers... - Working Family Payment
997. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will amend the requirement for 38 hours or more per fortnight for those eligible for the working family payment in... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
998. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if provision is being made for the pandemic unemployment payment to be extended for students with a high-risk health status... - Company Liquidations
1001. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the decision of the owners of a company (details supplied) to transfer valuable assets to... - Employment Support Services
1002. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if supports or grants are available for the employment of a person to provide assistance to a self-employed person with a... - Social Welfare Appeals
1003. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason there is no response in relation to social welfare appeals some of which are dating back to the middle of 2019;... - Public Services Card
1004. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is possible for the purposes of receiving assistance from the Department of Children and Youth Affairs to supply a PPS... - Jobseeker's Payments
1005. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when jobseeker's allowance will issue to a person (details supplied); if an exceptional needs payment can be arranged in the... - Public Services Card
1006. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated timeframe for the reopening of the appointment service for allocating the public services card; the... - State Pension (Contributory)
1007. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) meets the criteria to receive a State pension (contributory); and if she will make a... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
1009. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for stopping the Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment to residents in direct provision centres who lost their... - Company Closures
1010. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actions she plans to take regarding the closure of a business (details supplied); and if changes in legislation are... - Redundancy Payments
1011. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to amend the law suspending the right of workers to claim redundancy payments to exclude from the law workers... - Domiciliary Care Allowance
1012. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications from counties Longford and Westmeath for the domiciliary care allowance in 2019 and to date in... - Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme
1013. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if those in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment will be entitled to the back to school clothing and footwear... - Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
1014. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a Covid-19 payment will be made available to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.... - Covid-19 Pandemic
1018. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which a person that requires a verified MyGovID account can set one up during the current Covid-19 emergency in... - Rent Supplement Scheme
1019. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the uptake of rent supplement; the number of claims received; the speed with which claims are being processed; the level of... - Housing Assistance Payment
1021. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of deposits issued in respect of HAP tenancies since the commencement of the Covid-19 crisis. [8231/20] - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1022. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the provisions that have been made for self-employed persons experiencing reductions in their gross income that are now... - Covid-19 Pandemic
1023. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the breakdown by profession of working age persons diagnosed with Covid-19. [8235/20] - Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
1024. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to temporary extensions for those on social welfare payments other than the pandemic... - Disability Allowance
1025. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the decision in relation to an application for disability allowance by a person (details supplied); and...
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